I got my current car at carmax. It was pretty hassle free.

I brought in an ad I'd found with a price I was willing to pay and just bought that. They were gentle with the add-on services, and were patient with me juggling payment methods to do the best for my credit history and rewards points.

I just sorted through my fanart to find out how much I could file under Cuddles + Hugs and now I have a folder 35 deep with all sorts of huggery.

I wondered if there's a thing I do, a well I keep going back to, and it's clearly people holding people.

Tangentially, one of the best things about fanart is the possibility of feedback from people whose work you adore. When one (or more) says they like my style, I have feels I haven't even processed yet. A year ago, I didn't have a style per se (sorry for keeping asking, Amy...) but now I think I do and it's a much better feeling. And I can tell from the comments too--people compliment not just the picture, but the style of the picture.

So many feels and flails and questions I just cannot process. I wouldn't even know where to start.

So I dealt with it all in a timely and useful manner and napped on the couch with the cats. But the upstairs is clean now.

So we just had Max's confirmation. (Max is my oldest son.) now I'm waiting for my sister's gf to finish cleaning up from the church dinner, while Mason (my youngest son) reads the Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover comic on my iPad. It doesn't seem that long ago when I was here for Max's baptism.

Congrats to Max, tommy.

Tom has won Geoguessr. Can I stop playing now. I suck at it.

I tend to go into car dealerships knowing what I want and ready to buy it. I've had the "invisible girl" feeling before, for sure. I usually find a salesman just to tell him that he lost a sale that day. I went to a dealership in a city 50 miles away to buy my current car, because I wanted THAT car.

Tom has won Geoguessr.

(My best score was five points higher than Tom's. Take that, Scola!)

Fiona has won Geoguessr! Probably. Maybe. Sorry, our previous report was premature; all the results were not in. This reporter now recuses herself from further, um, reporting. Carry on.

All these stories about car buying is why I bought my car on craigslist. I just can't deal with new-car issues. Give me a used car already depreciated any day.

For anyone who has USAA, they have some great online tools for choosing a car. I was able to take a printout to the dealer and say "I want this car for this price." That simplified things quite a bit.

Sorry, our previous report was premature; all the results were not in.

Ha! You know, I just need some sort of petty reassurance that the hours I've spent playing this game are not entirely wasted. (But I think they possibly still are).