I Heart My Honda

My Honda = black 2003 Honda Civic LX, 4 doors. Totally plain vanilla, but has served us well. Here are the top 5 reasons why I love this car.

5. If I hadn't bought it when I did in mid-2003, I doubt Alex and I would have moved to Las Vegas when we did (late 2003), or at all. We didn't own a car for most of the time that we lived in Boston. I finally bought one because I could, and because I hated feeling trapped in the city. Vegas has shitty public transportation, so we definitely needed a car to move here and I'm not sure we would have bought one just so we could move, but since we already had one, the decision was easy. And life is good here. Though if I'd known we were heading to the desert, I wouldn't have chosen a black car, that's for sure.

4. It's a standard and so I can do a lot of coasting in neutral therefore saving gas. Which I do.

3. The person who filled up at the gas pump before me the last time spent $80. I only spent $42. And I only have to fill it up about once every 2 weeks because...

2. I got 36.394 miles per gallon on my last tank of gas.

And the number one reason why I Heart My Honda....

1. It's paid off!

Rest in Peace, Tim Russert

 I just found out that NBC News' Washington Bureau chief and moderator of Meet the Press, Tim Russert, died today at age 58 after collapsing.  This makes me very sad, not just that he died at such a young age, but because I have enjoyed his political commentary for years now, on the Today show and elsewhere.  I started watching Meet the Press this year, during the primary season, and he was just like a kid in a candy store each Sunday, especially in light of all of the crazy stuff going on.  He loved politics more than any analyst I've ever seen and all in all, he truly seemed like a good guy.  I'd set our DVR to record all new episodes of Meet the Press starting in January and hadn't been watching them lately, I've just deleted them after about a week.  I still have the episode from this past Sunday saved though, I'm so glad since it turns out it will have been his last one.  In light of what will be an historic general election season for President, his voice, insight, knowledge and boundless enthusiasm will be sorely missed by me and millions of others, I'm sure.  I'm just so bummed that he won't get to see how it all plays out.  Rest in peace, Mr. Russert, and wherever you are now, I hope it's always an election year.

Can't you just picture it?

222 days and counting...

Does this count?

Caught an edition of the Unger Report on NPR the other day, called Finding a Way to Evolve: "Oprah Winfrey isn't changing — she's "evolving," the media mogul recently told a magazine. And our humorist Brian Unger is following suit as he examines the path of personal evolution."

It got me to thinking because I recently made what felt like a big change in my life. For the past 11 years, I have used the exact same toothbrush, no not the *exact* same one, but a clear, plain vanilla Oral B brush. I have no idea why I latched onto this particular model, but I would literally buy out a store's supply when I could thinking maybe I could use the same model forever. Very weird, but I prefer to think of it as quirky. Anyway, this model has been discontinued for about 3 years, or at least I could never find them, and I ran out of the soft bristle version in my stash about a year ago and the medium bristles are pretty rough, so I decided that maybe it was time to step out of my comfort zone, bite the bullet and try a new toothbrush. My husband is the King of the Bargain and gets free-after-rebate stuff all the time from drugstores, I don't think he's purchased a toothbrush, deodorant or shampoo in the 7 years that I've known him. One of the recent free toothbrushes was an Oral B Cross Action, Soft Compact Head with a bright pink handle and so the other night, I tossed the clear one and went for it. All I can say is that I am sure I have been missing out on some pretty innovative toothbrush technology over the years! The cross action bristles, the ergonomic handle that just fits so well in my hand! Thank you Oprah, for helping me to feel alright about celebrating this strange yet momentous change in my life. Odd? For sure. But an evolution nonetheless.

Huh?

I just read an interesting article about Barack Obama in this month's Esquire magazine called "The Cynic and Senator Obama" by Charles P. Pierce.  I enjoyed it and wanted to email it to my husband, so I used the "email this article" function on Esquire.com.  After I entered my email, my husband's email and hit send, this popped up:

Um, what?

Ready & Waiting!

I bought my ticket today and my friends and I are already planning on partaking in a few special cocktails here beforehand.  We've been waiting a long time for this and now that it's so close, it's that much harder to wait.  All I can say is that it better be good!

N wonder women have so many image issues