... the 21st night of September?
I didn't. Not really. I realized that was last night only this morning when I got a feed in my instagram about a big play from the CU Buffaloes homecoming football game - [Earth, Wind, and Fire] providing the soundtrack. I don't really follow college (or any really) football, but it's where I live, so...
Anyway, happy fall! Flip your mattresses, change out your toothbrush heads!
Work on the screen room continues. We've got walls. Just need a roof, screens, and a couple doors.
This week got busy, and I'm catching up. I mentioned the P.E.O. thing earlier in the week, then the full work schedule, which included my turn on the Saturday rotation yesterday. So today is my 1-day weekend. Magnum and I did continue our car shopping adventures yesterday after work. We've almost got a new machine, not quite in house yet.
I worked with Mango yesterday, and we were talking of the car shopping adventure. I'm contemplating what we'll do with my little Toyota. It's a 2000 Echo that was my mom's. She gifted it to me 10 years ago after she was no longer driving - something that probably should've happened a few years sooner, TBH.
I'm grateful to have had the diminutive car. It has very little "get up and go" - so much I avoid the highway, doesn't do well in snow over an inch or so... off road? Just. No.
But for putzing around town in good weather, running errands, it's been great. Since I typically commute on my bicycle, the car spends a lot of time in the garage between errand missions.
All this to say that it's a 24-year-old car that has, honestly, less than 31,000 miles on it. No body damage, but it could probably use a new set of tires - not because the current ones are at all worn down, but because they are 10 years old.
We don't plan to trade it in, and I figured I'd probably sell it to Carmax. I mentioned this to Mango, and also confessed that I feel a little guilty getting rid of Mom's Car.
But Mango provided some good unbiased advice.
"This is a college town, you could probably get a good price for it - students love little beaters that are cheap to keep".
In regards to the guilt: "I dunno. Probably if your mom were to know of it, she'd say something like, 'What? You still have that thing?'"
Come to think of it, I could totally see/hear my mom saying that.
5 comments:
those little toyotas live forever! Well made, solid, dependable- we had a little green pick up and it was the best we ever had. Got rid of it because something new came to live with us. Anyway, good automobile!!
Linda Sue, Toyota's got it going on! My Echo is clearly not done.
I agree a student would benefit.
My young friend/semi-daughter bought a wee 2012 Toyota Yaris recently—her first car, for going back to college —and she loves it.
Fresca, Aha! The wee Yaris is what replaced the wee Echo in the Toyota line.
Small or Large Toyota's last forever. Mine is a 2007. the mechanic who does our tune ups etc always says he'll buy it from us when we wish to sell. It's been a great car for us.
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