On Friday, I went to court for the ticket I got after the accident.   I found it to be pretty irritating.  I was found guilty... no fun... but that's not what bothered me. The lights were green, I didnt have an arrow, I made a left hand turn, which resulted in an accident. Those were the facts, I cant argue that. If I saw the car coming, I never wouldve turned in the first place.  

The other lady is what irritated me. She ended up showing up to act as a witness which I totally didnt expect.  As part of her testimony, she told the judge that after the accident I told her it was her fault and then didnt say anything else to her after that. Which was total BS.    I didnt see her car until I looked up from the airbag and was in shock since it was the first accident I've EVER been in. My glasses had fallen off and the kids were crying so I spaced out for a hot second trying to figure out what to do and then all of a sudden she was at my window with her kid in her arms cursing me out and yelling at me and adding 'this is my only car!' All I said was, 'theres no reason to be yelling right now. This is my only car too"     She walked away and then I got out of the car to calm the kids down and figure out what to do next...

Not sure why she thought it was necessary to lie about that. And even if it were true, its not like it had anything to do with my ticket- which was for not yielding at a green light'.   I soo wanted to interupt her and correct her and add more when it came to my time to 'testify'. But it was just traffic court and I def didnt want to reenact a scene from Judge Joe Brown......  

Oh, and you know what else I find to be extremely irritating?   Court fees.  A $25 fine ended up costing me $90.  Way to swindle me out of Christmas money City of Norfolk....

So I went to Target and was looking for the pumpkin spice M&Ms I keep hearing about...  I've yet to find them- sad Face!   Like everyone else, I LOVE pumpkin things!

But I did see the caramel apple milky ways. I love caramel, but I'm usually not one for fruit flavored anything. I went ahead and got them. If I didnt like them, Josh would certainly eat them!   Well that was yeterday, and I havent told him about these little gems. The bag is still hiding in the diaper bag...  And the diaper bag is strategically placed on the table so I can eat them and Jake not see....   =P

I'm thinking I need to incorporate more pictures... cuz thats what makes blogs worth the read... 

 

so this is my attempt at decent food photography....  

 

the result is ehh....      I'm a baker, not much of a photographer- clearly....  =P

Small Car Dealerships are AMAZING

Why you may ask?   They dont hassle you, they dont keep you longer than needed, theyre pretty personable (they were jeans/short & tees, so you know theyre real..). and you can get a car for MUCH cheaper!

We got the first van for 9k plus the additional fees for title and processing and all that jazz.  We got it for so cheap since it had pretty high mileage- like I said before, it had EVERYTHING... but you know why i liked the car so much at first? It had built in sunshades! No need to worry about those suction cups that NEVER stay!!!          Turns out the car was worth like 12k or something..

This past weekend we attempted to go looking for cars sans kids. We only made it to one dealership- Hall Honda. The guy kept us there for nearly two hours! And we told him from the get go that we weren't looking to buy that day, we were just looking...    He showed us a 2004 Odyssey. It was relatively basic, cloth seats no gps, it did have a dvd player.  That sucker was listed at over 11k! They were 'able' to drop the price down to 8 something plus fees...

Josh then went to craigslist and found a 2005Odyssey listed for 10,900 or somethin like that- right at NADA (kinda like kelly blue book) value. This sucker had was more souped up than the 04- leather heated seats, dvd, SUNSHADES!-- no navigation or reverse camera.   This thing had more and was cheaper than the 04!  craziness...     AND after Josh called them they were quickly able to tell us the lowest price theyd let it go for- none of that "o letme go talk to my manager and disappear for like 5 minutes' bs.  

Can you guess which one we got?


so yay! after a month, I'm fianlly with Van again!!!   You wouldnt believe how much nicer it is to be driving that than the Golf...   Its WONDERFUL!