Mom fail.
In my sweep of getting Liv off the internet, I failed to delete ONE 11 year old video of her as a toddler and she blew up at me over it last night.
I really do try to honor her wishes to be off the internet but I have a lot of accounts and trying to clean them all has been A CHORE.
And my cuddly oldest now doesn't like physical affection of any sort so I'm sort of just hanging in limbo until they move out and start to miss me again.
OY. It's a guilt buffet here. Something for everyone.
Aww, I love that, David.
I'm trying to find a car for my son so I don't kill myself with the commute. This is easier said than done. I texted 3 people yesterday with cars he liked. None of them replied. I've given the task over to DH since I really am not the car buyer in the family. 4 hours was taken from my day with the commute yesterday. Best I can hope for is 3. Ugh. Maybe I could enlist the help of my other son since he is super car guy. Part of the issue is that he wants it to be super cheap, which I get, but it is an 80 mile round trip a day and I don't want to head out at midnight to fetch him when if it breaks down either.
Used car buying is such a gamble. Part luck, part knowledge, part quantum physics in which all the different multi-verses align to find a cheap, reliable mode of transportation.
Another fail of the US in which we do not invest in convenient, useful mass transit to help support our economy.
Someone pissed in my cornflakes, obvs.
Aw, Cashmere, I'm sorry.
Yeah, that sounds hard, Laura. With that long of a commute investing reliability seems like a good idea - would he accept/would you be wiling to provide a subsidy to get something not quite as cheap but more likely to require you to come rescue?
Aw, Matilda helping out with Peanut is warm fuzzy sweetness
I pretty much have to help him with even a cheap car. Hopefully we come up with something very soon.
From my personal experience, my 2007 Ford Focus was very reliable and very cheap (had 270,000 miles on it by the end). I think 2005-2011 Focus are the good years. Both kids have used Honda Fits and they are proved reliable but those aren't easy to find and can be pricy compared to other brands. So far my Hyundai Elantra GT has proved reliable and wasn't very expensive but due to COVID reasons, I haven't put many miles on it.
I've seen a few of the Ford Focus years out there.
Had my first mandatory-mask-adorned outing today (requirement began at midnight), to get some groceries. i was happy to see that 100% of the other supermarket denizens were wearing their masks. Or thus it was until I was checking out and saw some naked-faced guy entering the store. And then walking back to the car, I passed another guy wearing a mask - on his forehead. And then grabbed the thing in his mitt, full contact, to put it over his face as he passed. (Which protects me, I guess?) And then two more guys who just didn't have masks at all.
Melbourne! You were
so close!
(Meanwhile, the foggy glasses thing was a bit of a nuisance, but aside from that it wasn't any great drama. fingers crossed this actually gets the outbreak under control.)
My 2005 Chevy Cobalt is still running smoothly at 208k miles (34+ mpg on the highway!) and has seen me safely through a couple of wrecks, so I'd recommend those as used cars. I still occasionally see Cavaliers (the 90s models the Cobalts replaced) on the road, so at least outliers of those are pretty hardy too. Mine crapped out at 175k miles though.
Toyotas have always had a really good rep for durability and being low maintenance. I'm not sure about their safety ratings though.
