Though we did have a station wagon and sometimes got to fight over who sat in the "way back"...if there was room among the luggage/shopping/etc. I suspect that doesn't even exist anymore.

Our old family station wagon had two back-facing seats in the trunk that you could flip down if you needed that space for storage. I used to love sitting back there, even if in retrospect it was probably a death trap.

I cannot say enough good things about my Outback Sport. Nice and zippy and suprisingly roomy. I think I've mentioned I call it the Tardis because it feels bigger on the inside than it looks on the outside. If only it was blue like my stolen Civic, Illyria.

Yay, house for Dana!

The pizza pub near me has something called "white ketchup" on some of their pizzas. We finally had to ask and it is basically just Ranch.

You mean white ketchup isn't cream of mushroom soup?

I just cannot with the minivan. Crossover, yes. Station wagon, also yes. minivan, cannot.

I think my ultimate mom car would be some big ol' finned Caddy that's bench seats had been retrofitted with extra seat belts. You could easily sit four across the back of one of those suckers, three or four in the front, soccer gear and the odd kayak in the trunk...

Serious Eats did an amateur chemical analysis on halal cart "white sauce" once and determined that it's basically mayonnaise.

Aww, msbelle, thanks for linking to the DH!

I LOVE my Mazda 3.

Serious Eats did an amateur chemical analysis on halal cart "white sauce" once and determined that it's basically mayonnaise.

I would imagine it wouldn't take much chemical difference to taste very different. One of my dad's favorite stories from college is about the time they did spectroscopic analysis of good wine and bad wine to see if they could tell the difference - they could not.

(That's not really the point of the story as he tells it. When he went to the liquor store and explained what they were doing and asked for recommendations of wines to test, there was a lot of discussion about the good wines but no hesitation before Franzia was singled out for the bad)

Consuela,

I agree. Wait a bit to discuss it. If you are willing to move in a year or two, I wonder if a long-distance compromise can be made for several months while you get your ducks in a row.

I love my little Subaru Impreza Sport but I'm

GOOD JOB~MA for the phone interview!

Thank you! It did sound like a really interesting job, with more management responsibility and some pretty cool work. On the down side, the guy is hiring to have someone run the PDX office because he's moving back to the Twin Cities this summer. So it's kind of a no-go, although it was a very pleasant conversation.

But! The freaky thing is that he was particularly interested in my resume because he went to the same law school and undergrad school as me (and they are on opposite sides of the country!). And when he mentioned it, I said, "Yeah, I went to UMass, I grew up in Norfolk."

And he said, "No kidding! So did I!"

Yup. He grew up three miles away, went to the same high school, university, and law school. And he worked in the same place as a law clerk that I did when I was in law school.

So I think we'll probably keep in touch, even though I'm not going to go work for him right now. t grins

White ketchup is hilarious. Also, I do not want ranch sauce on my pizza.

Ah, well. Maybe I'll see Spanish sauce on a menu one day...

I am suddenly aware of my hunger, but it's not for either of those things.