We had fantastic experiences with Carmax, Emily. I won't buy a used car from anyone else after how smoothly it went. Drew bought his current car and one of his work trucks from them, and Sean recently bought his new car there. No haggling over the price (which may mean you pay a little more, but it so worth the lower stress), and the whole process goes very quickly.
None of it means a damn thing.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Pix - Feb 10, 2009 6:31:14 am PST #547 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Polter-Cow - Feb 10, 2009 6:34:20 am PST #548 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
PC, my mom has an Altima, and it has been the bane of her existence.
Ha, that's the first bad thing I've heard about it.
People do seem to love the Civic, but I test drove an '08 Civic, and it didn't do a lot for me. It sounded like a golf cart.
Emily - Feb 10, 2009 6:34:34 am PST #549 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
No-haggling = gold standard for Emily. And they seem to have some decent things near me, so okay. I just hate the idea of car payments, honestly. They go on for so long...* and then taking care of insurance!
I know this is everyday stuff, I just haven't had to do it in so long that it seems onerous.
(*though it occurs to me I might be able to family-finance it, if you will, which would at least cut down on the interest!)
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2009 7:02:44 am PST #550 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Hopefully not.
"Hopefully" is one of my grammatical bad habits that I keep trying to break, but I keep going back to it. Hopefully I'll be able to break it one day.
(See what I did there?)
Nora Deirdre - Feb 10, 2009 7:06:21 am PST #551 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Guys, I'm so excited! Planning is continuing apace for our trip to SF/NoCA in October! We have plane tickets, and hotel reservations in San Francisco and in Mendocino. We want to stay in Calistoga in between, but I am overwhelmed by the choices there (not to mention that beautiful eco-place in Napa that -t linked to yesterday.)
I also had to chart out on a spreadsheet where we (by which I mean *I*) want to eat while in SF. Sadly, the fun of spontaneous eating will not be part of this trip. The SF proper part, anyway.
So excited- it sucks that it's still 8 months away!
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2009 7:09:48 am PST #552 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
in Mendocino.
Oooh, where? The hardest part about staying in Mendocino was picking a hotel, because they all seemed awesome.
Nora Deirdre - Feb 10, 2009 7:15:40 am PST #553 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
We're staying at the MacCallum, in this teeny tiny cottage!
I must say, after being exposed to this property by you I didn't look anywhere else. Considering the agony of choice I'm going through in Calistoga, I think that was a good thing.
Connie Neil - Feb 10, 2009 7:15:46 am PST #554 of 30000
brillig
Is referring to California as Cali considered something rubes do? I've noticed it creeping into my conversations, and I'm afraid I may sound idiotic.
Steph L. - Feb 10, 2009 7:22:24 am PST #555 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
We're staying at the MacCallum, in this teeny tiny cottage!
That's adorable! The breakfast is un-fucking-believable (mimosas included). IIRC, they ask you to pick a time that you'll come to breakfast, because they're small and couldn't possibly seat everyone if they all showed up at 10:00.
If the weather is at all amenable, eat breakfast on the outside porch of the main property.
The "credit" they give you towards dinner/drinks/dessert doesn't really go very far, but it seems to work out better than some bed & breakfast's "wine hours," which have crappy wine and a handful of cookies.
There are a lot of good places to eat in Mendocino, but MacCallum's restaurant is hard to pass up, because it really is amazing. It looks like they still have the same chef that was there when we were there.
juliana - Feb 10, 2009 7:30:10 am PST #556 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
We want to stay in Calistoga in between, but I am overwhelmed by the choices there
I do not recommend the Silver Rose. Barb, debg, PixKristin and I stayed at Golden Haven (I think? Correct me if I'm wrong, women), and it was a nice-not-fancy motel-style place (still had a great spa, though). But the giant pool and hot tubs made up for the lack of fancy.