Great being able to chat with you all last night even if I joined late. I still never figured out who was buying a softsided hot tub or how the subject came up
. I did get the impression some might wake up with a headache. The east coasters closed the chat at 1A, Caroline was the ultimate closer as it appeared she forgot to sign out - did you Caroline? I hope the kids are doing better this evening. Tana rejoined us and we want to get her to rent the original Poseidon with Ernest B. Hey is anyone game for a large conference call?
Angie good luck with the grape mashing. I had a vivid image of the I Love Lucy episode and wondered whether you were tempted
that or an ad for shout it out.
Elaine - welcome back! Yes, I forgot that you had gone to WDW. I hope you all had a great trip. I am still behind reading - I'm still on Thursday/Friday I think. Yes, you are correct - no yard sale/bake sales for me. I don't have the patience. I wish I could.
Brandi bummer with the coal delivery - all of that work at the yard sale but at the same time - you were able to turn money you already spent into something for the future (even if it was gobbled back up). That is a cool thing.
Kim, DD starts skating this month. She is getting on my nerves asking about it every week. Is this the week? Is
this the week?!
April - WOW. Congrats.
Lisa - How is DD? I am crossing my fingers that no one else needs the bucket - least of all you. DD has been unusually whiny - so I am hoping that she doesn't come down with anything. I think I would need to run away if that happened.
John, the CRV - we did make it there at 9A! We went to Panera's after and then DH took DD to Karate at which point I crashed for 3 hours! Anyway re the CRV:
I like the inside much more than the old CRV. I was surprised I liked the outside because I thought the pictures were "ok". A lot of the new EX touches were much nicer. Two weird EX missing items were Honda not adding the dual climate and electric seat adjust but at least they got rid of that wheel turning adjustment - I really disliked it. I like the changes to the console and it does not feel closed in. We chose the Accord EX V6 3 yrs ago over the CRV or the Pilot so I was really curious what I would or would not like. By the way, I do like the mp3 auxillary - I will admit I love the idea of no more moving Monster cable from car to car
. Both DH and I drove it. I have long legs and he has a long torso so that is why we commented on the seat adjust. I am always moving the seat back while he moves it forward.
Overall it is a nice nice city drive the dilemna is the horses. They upped it a little and we live by a highway and anyone living in MA will tell you what its like trying to merge onto our highways. We are spoiled with the V6 because merge is a breeze. We went on the highway with the CRV and while we were able to merge and then pass you could really hear it working at it.
We previously drove the 2006 RAV4 and I must say I loved the power of that car. As DH said it really is an overkill of power but it was fun.
So many things to think about here.
We talked about the Acura - not crazy about the turbo and premium gas, same with the new Mazda. We'll probably drive them. We discussed getting another Accord and that is when I realized I really would like an SUV because I felt disappointed. I love our Accord - actually that is what we planned to replace until the Saturn let us know its 10 years had been good but were now going to cost money.
Okay - enough of my novelette. Still thinking and perusing...
