So I bought a car today!!!
Cue "Walkin' on Sunshine". It actually feels like my 16th birthday. My parents bought me a 1976 Grand Marquis Mercury as a gift, and surprised me with it at the licensing office. There are photos of me jumping up and down and my dad grinning from ear to ear. I wish I had a copy of that photo here.
Today's purchase was a wild adventure which I will dish on soon. Let's just say, when you answer a private ad for a car sale, you never know what you are getting into. Don't worry, it's nothing bad, in fact it was better than I could have ever anticipated. Just very, very, surreal.
Sadly, I have PBL in 12h and a metric tonne of work that needs to be done regarding the spine before that, so we'll have to save the post for tomorrow. Until then, I leave you with a photo of her beauty. I think I'm going to call her, Belle Bleu.
Cue "Walkin' on Sunshine". It actually feels like my 16th birthday. My parents bought me a 1976 Grand Marquis Mercury as a gift, and surprised me with it at the licensing office. There are photos of me jumping up and down and my dad grinning from ear to ear. I wish I had a copy of that photo here.
The sweet ride of yesteryear...
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| Yes, I could fit my entire volleyball team in the car, including 6'5" coach and obese water boy. |
Sadly, I have PBL in 12h and a metric tonne of work that needs to be done regarding the spine before that, so we'll have to save the post for tomorrow. Until then, I leave you with a photo of her beauty. I think I'm going to call her, Belle Bleu.
Little. Blue. Better.
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| I can fit my lip gloss and macbook in this one. |
15 comments:
Congrats! Yarises are truly awesome. Which year did you get?
My family's '07 Yaris (blue, I might add) has proved itself from the climbs towards Grouse Moutain to the cruises through snow-covered city streets.
(Btw, I've been following your blog for a while now and this is my first comment -- can readers not comment via link/URL?)
What a cute blue ride!
EWood-It's a 2000, but only has 50 000 miles on it, so I snapped it up. I've driven only Toyota's for the past 10 years so...and yes, never let me down on the Duffy or Rogers Pass! :)
Forgive my extremely pilgrim interweb skills but I don't understand your question about the comments...er...I don't know if readers can comment via link? (Eeek, she blushes with embarrassment).
ZE--Thanks! My thoughts exactly.
Oh and Ewood: GROUSE Mountain!!!!!!
Sigh.
Pang of homesickness.
I don't care what the press says about Toyoto, I swear by my 97 Camry (which has over 100000 km on)
IANH--Team Toyota!!
When I traded in my 1985 Tercel hatchback (the Mint Julep) it had over 250 000kms on it. Never had a problem with it. It was so wee. I loved it.
And it had an eyeball melting heater in it (key for Edmonton winters).
Congratulations, she's adorable! May she bring you many years of fun drives!
Awesome!!!
Good job! I need a car badly but can't justify at the moment. Mainly becuase I'm in your neck of the woods - well much closer compared to Canada. In lovely Glasgow... wishing for a car! :)
Hope you have fun drives with ZERO complications.
Oh very cute cute.
I'm jealous.
My 11 year old minivan is parked with an electrical problem.
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Cool car! Looks fun to drive.
The steering wheel is clearly on the wrong side in the picture though. :P haha!
Love it, the car looks happy :) I hope you have many happy miles in your sweet ride.
No worries about the extreme pilgrimage... I should have been clearer. You know where it says "Choose an identity" under the comment box? Currently the options are Google Account or OpenID, but I've seen Name/URL as an identity option on some other blogs (e.g., OMDG). It's not a big deal, though.
I get the feeling that you did not drive the Cosmic Valise across the Atlantic. I am shocked that it has limitations. I used to start humming Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, when you would post about CV.
Good luck with BB.
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