Hears Hoping Chiquita Finds a Loving Home!

I am officially a City Kid! I sold my car yesterday! And didn’t get a new one!!

I was wasting money on car payments, gas, and insurance every month, and I was going to just downsize to a cheapy cheap car, but then I decided I should just bite the bullet and go carless as long as I can.

So I went to Carmax, and sold my baby, Chiquita, my gorgeous yellow Xterra. It was my perfect car, in virtually every way, and I really didn’t want to let it go, but $500 a month won out over perfect. The biggest hurdle was that I owed money on my car. Because it is an SUV, and people aren’t buying SUVs like they used to, my car lost more money in the last year than I paid on it, and while I was ahead last September, I went upside down this summer. I wound up having to pay Carmax $1000 to buy my car. Crazy, right? But the writing I saw on the wall was the potential to lose a lot more than the equivalent of 2 months of car related bills, so paying a little to save a lot made weird sense.

I cried when I sold my car. I cried a lot. It was horrible. I kept seeing my car driving around the lot, driven by someone else, and it just made the tears come back. They were the type of tears that just roll out of your eyes entirely uncontrollably. I was in the middle of Carmax, and I didn’t care. It was really sad for me.

So now the Band-aid has been ripped off, and I am officially dependent on trains, cabs, buses, and my bike. I think of those modes of transportation, I will be using trains and my bike the most. At least until the winter!

Wish me luck in my carless life, and say a little car prayer that Chiquita’s next owner loves her as much as I do.

So long my beautiful, perfect car.

Blik is the Word

Remember my orange couch? I found something that goes with it! I was going to go back to Ikea and get the bland beige colored cover to make the couch work in my new apartment (that doesn’t come with gray carpet and gray trim) and just recover the couch in a more subtle shade…BUT, then I discovered my new favorite thing…Blik! Blik sells wall decals. But not just any old wall decal…These are removable, relatively inexpensive and based on amazing graphic designs, like Threadless T-Shirts! I found the one I want. I am thinking I might paint the wall behind my couch (a very large and very blank wall a nice beige, and then put this design on the wall. The decals come in pieces, so I think I will leave out the “love” talk bubble, but I love the birds!! Click on the pic to see more.

What do you think??

And We Have a Presumptive Nominee!

It is June 3rd…It is a day that will go down in history as producing the first African American presidential nominee. What a primary season! What a year for history!

Boy, am I glad it looks to finally be over! It was a hard fought race, but there was never a question in my mind that the energy this country needs is Obama’s, not Clinton’s.

Just 5 more months, and George Bush is outta there!

We’re really off to the races now…The gloves are OFF! Obama vs. McCain, Celebrity Death Match, here we come!