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Archive for December, 2010

Dec 29
2010

2010 Quiz: Year in Review

(Quiz lifted from All & Sundry, an excellent blog I’ve been reading for years.  I have a secret mommyblog thing because…because.) Please feel free to copy/paste for yourself! If you do post this on your own blog, link to your entry in the comments here and we will all be best friends. 1. What did [...]


Dec 23
2010

The Airing of the Grievances

Grievance the First I am bummed that I’m not going to be home for Christmas this year.  Not bummed that I’m going to New Orleans, or that I don’t have to sleep on my mother’s three-season porch (despite my steady insistence that winter is, in fact, the fourth season during which the porch should not [...]


Dec 20
2010

It Was Christmas Eve Babe, In the Drunk Tank

(Aw, totally misleading blog title.  It refers to song number one.  Sorry.) I am feeling happy and sad as the year winds down.  Lots of good stuff happening, chief among them my love affair with my Jeep and the ability to play my music in it.  I have been listening to the songs below on [...]


Dec 13
2010

How Not to Buy a Used Car: A Single Girl's Guide

So you are ready to buy a used car.  Congratulations!  This is a very adult thing to do.  Consider what kind of mileage you need, and what size makes sense for your lifestyle.  Consider asking your father figure to come and shop with you, but reject that because you are a third-wave feminist.  Consider waiting [...]


Dec 07
2010

Christmas Cards from Ex-Boyfriends

(In case you missed it, Christmas Cards for Single People)          


Dec 06
2010

CAR-icature

I felt like T. and I were in agreement that we were both a little too good to be in this situation. The hyperactive “used car sales manger” leapt about like a deranged gazelle, shouting things like, Are YOU ready to buy TODAY? and This is T’s first day! I want him to make his [...]