I am an expert Haggeler

Rich with his future car (sort of)

This weekend i learned a little bit about haggling. We are getting a car for Richard and car dealers SCARE me. I read "Blink" and they talked about car dealer's instincts on who to give a good deal to. Well after reading about what they look for, I realized that I will always be given the higher price, just by virtue of being female. Not only that but I really don't know enough about cars to know what to ask about (just another reason that I will always get a higher price). Well this weekend we got to spend so time with Richard's parents. They took us out to look at cars. At the first place they did a lot of the talking just to show how it was done. Then we went to the next place and by that time we knew what we wanted and we already were armed with a pretty good quote from the other place. When the dealer talked to his general manager he said "these guys are no BS they just want our lowest quote." Can you believe that??? Wow...We are no BS. So now we are one step closer to getting a Subaru. Now Richmond dealers better look out, here we come.

Thanksgiving and such

Well I think its time for me to update the blog..."Richard's Thoughts" are getting old. SO Here is a run down of Thanksgiving. At work on Wednesday night we had a feast (I guess to stretch our stomachs in preparation for the next day.) Then Thursday morning we caught a ride with Jake and Marci and caravaned with Sara and Tommy to Richard's parents house for the big day. It was fantastic and my pants had enough give that it didn't hurt so much.
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I went back to Richmond with Jake and Marci, so that I could work on Friday. Work was not too bad(although there was definitely a higher percentage of people with chest pain). Then it was off to the Murder Mystery. This year the theme was that a movie filming company came to town then the murders started happening. One of the activities was to be the makeup artists. Here are Richard and I with our masterpiece make up

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I think I was talking.

Richard has his eyes closed, but you can see our zombies were quite scary.

Then there was a costume contest based off of a scary movie. Richard's mom came up with idea of us being Arsenic and Old Lace (everybody else seemed to get it, I didn't know what is was--now I know it is an old scary movie)

We didn't solve the mystery, but we had a great time. Unfortunately we had an accident on the way home.
So here is the story we got off the freeway, because my bladder is unbelievably weak sauce (and there was only a portapottie-a disgusting one at that, to add insult to injury). So after my rendezvous with the portapottie and my focus and attention back on the road, we went to get back on the freeway and I was coming down a hill toward the on ramp and the roads were slick, so when I pressed on the brakes they locked up and I couldn't stop. I even said, "Rich it won't stop." There were no cars in front of me so I thought it would be okay, but there was a truck with a horse trailer turning left. I cleared the truck, but the horse trailer swung into our lane and that was it. CRUNCH!! So Rich gets out of the car and apologizes. I got mad at him and said "it was not all my fault" Well apparently according to Rich, the lady I hit and our insurance company it was....DANG IT.

I guess it was a good thing Rich didn't get up for black Friday to get the TV we were going to get for Christmas because now that money is going to be used to fix my car. Bummer.

This is how we feel about that.