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Get together and cars
Well this week has pretty much SUCKED!!!! Like for realz yo! But I did have a few good moments. Last night was the Raleigh GTG. I met the girls up at Trali, a local Irish place. Dinner was good, but the company was quite nice. The knotties will have to do this more often.
While I was at dinner last night I got a little bit of better news. It looks as though our new car will be here in October instead of December. Our sales guy was able to change an order already in the system just for us! YAY! This means our new car will be built the week of the 26th. I am really excited about our new car. I say our because Matt will drive it for a while and once we have a baby it will become my car. WOO HOO! This also means the Jetta lease will hopefully be close to up so then Matt can trade that in and get a “fun” car since I will have the baby mobile. I’ve already told him he needs to take car of “MY” new car. 😉
TGIF!
~k
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It’s about that time
For a Raleigh get together! That’s right, tomorrow night I will meet several Raleigh knotties for dinner. We have a new knottie joining our group tomorrow. It should be really fun to see the girls again, have dinner and talk all things weddings, or houses, or anything else really. I will try to take some pics to post tomorrow.
~k
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Tuesday you suck!
Today sucked. You would think coming off a holiday today would have been good since it will be a short week but nooooooooooooooo. I wasn’t the only person who had issues with today. It seemed like everyone had tons of issues, not to mention a co-worker is out for the rest of the week and aside from the long ass list of stuff she left most of it was messed up. I spent over an hour working on one of her orders. I should add our system is a complete piece of shit. So what should have only taken a few minutes took almost an hour. Yeah.
Now Matt and I are sitting here waiting for a storm to come. It seems as though Tropical Storm Lee, it hit AL and LA this weekend, has spawned storms up to NC. They are saying we could have flash flooding and tornadoes. Fun stuff.
Let’s just hope the week gets better.
~k
ETA: we still don’t have an update on our car yet either! Grrrr!
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Car update
So Matt and I ran back to the Audi dealership yesterday to drive the car one more time and to place our order. After taking the car for another spin we went in to fill out the paperwork and guess what? Our exact car is headed for a dealership in Florida! HOLY CRAP! I’m sure you can tell I was not excited at all. Ha!
Anyway our dealership has a call in to the other place to see if they can trade one of theirs for this one. I mean how perfect would this be. Plus we would only have to wait a few more weeks instead of 3 whole months.
While we were there last night I took a few pics of what our car will look like.
Happy Friday!
~ k
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And the winner is….
The Audi Q5. The decision was made last night after we got a few more numbers in. Now we just need to pick a color. We are going to the Audi dealership tomorrow afternoon to put down our deposit and pick out our colors. We know we want the black interior but we haven’t decided between the Monsoon Grey or the Moonlight Blue. Either way it looks as though we will have to wait 3 WHOLE months to get our car. I’m not gonna lie, this is going to kill me and I won’t be driving it everyday.
The car will have to be built and shipped over from Germany. They are pretty popular right and there just aren’t a lot on the lots. Of course, we are being a bit pickier but for the price I guess we should. I’ve never ordered a car before so this whole process is new to me. The thought of having a car “custom” made just for you never really crossed my mind. I guess I always thought it would cost more but surprisingly it costs just the same. Huh!
That’s the Monsoon Grey. MMMM pretty!
~k
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It’s alive!
Do you guys see this? It’s a new leaf on my orchid. I really wasn’t sure how this thing was doing. Last night I pulled it down to water it and there it was, this tiny new leaf. Yay! I am really proud of myself. I’ve managed to keep it alive since February. Hopefully it will bloom again.
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Take that Irene!
Needless to say we survive hurricane Irene. Friday afternoon she started to roll in and the clouds looked pretty awesome. On Saturday there was just a lot of wind and rain but nothing really crazy. I went to my hair appointment and the power flickered a few times while I was there but it never went out.
That afternoon Matt and I pretty much just vegged out since there wasn’t much to do. We only lost power once for maybe 2 minutes. What’s funny is it wasn’t really raining or even that windy when the power went out. Later that afternoon once things had calmed down, we walked around our neighborhood. This is when we got to see the damage.
Our street sign was knocked down. When, neither of us are sure.
Tree limbs from the neighbors tree.
As you can see it was really not bad at all here. We were right on the edge of the storm. Of course many places to the east of us did not fair so well. Lots of flooding and damage. Roads washed out, thousands are still without power. I’m sure the clean up effort from this storm will take a long time. But we can be thankful it wasn’t bad here.
~k
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Foto Friday = Car shopping
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. This week has been shittastic so yeah.
Hurricane Irene is quickly approaching so Matt and I took this opportunity to go and test drive a few cars this afternoon. Originally we had planned to only hit Kia since it’s right down the street. But the clouds were looking a little ominous and it was starting rain but over towards Capital it didn’t look quite as bad. Hmmm, what to do, stay by the house or check out the cars we were really interested in? Yeah we decided to drive over to Capital and check out Audi and Infinity. Audi was our first stop since Matt knows a few of the sales guys there. We drove the Q5 which is a really nice SUV and pretty similar to the A4 Matt currently has. Next we headed over to Infinity to test drive the EX35. I personally think this car is very luxurious, even more so then the Q5. But after driving both Matt and I agreed the Q5 was a nicer drive and ride. It is also a heftier payment.
We still have several more cars on our list to check out. The Ford Edge, the Kia SUV’s and the we already test drove the Acura RDX last weekend. I have a feeling some of our decision will be based on how much we get for the A4. If the money is right who knows what will happen, or what our decision will be. The goal is to get Matt a nice car for now and possibly something for me to drive once we have a kid.
Also I’m hoping to get some good pics of Irene this weekend. I’m currently charging my camera batteries. The clouds this afternoon were pretty awesome and I’m hoping to get some cool pics over the weekend.
~k
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Dry Eyes
I’m happy to report today was much better then yesterday. I’m still super ready for the weekend though. Even if {and hopefully} we sit around and do nothing but veg. I feel like I could use a complete veg fest. My brain needs to decompress for realz! I mean I was dreaming about work last night, not cool!
On a side note my eyes have been killing me lately. Like I’ll wake up in the middle of the night and feel like I can’t open my eyes because they are so dry. I know I’m wearing my contacts a lot more then I used to. I use to come home and take them out but now I wear them until I go to bed. Several nights I’ve almost forgotten to take them out. I used to not be so bothered by the blurriness when we’d sit around and just watch tv but now I have to have my glasses on or my contacts in. The other thing I realized is that we’ve been keeping some of the lights off at work. Specifically the ones over and around my desk. I wonder if sitting in the dark is making them feel drier? Any thoughts?
~k
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Dear Wednesday,
Eff off! Thx!
But seriously today SUCKED! Everything was messed up and that stuff kept me busy all day. It started with customer D-bag. First he’s complaining because the number we gave him wasn’t what he wanted. He said he asked for a certain area code so I found the area code and gave him the number. Another order comes through and I give him said area code but OHHHHH NOOO, “I don’t want an OH area code!” Seriously guy?!?!?! That’s what you freaking asked for. Honestly I’m pretty sure he is a complete and utter moron! Anyhoo that was just the start and end to my day. The middle sucked too.
The only good thing I did today was going to sit in my car at lunch to read. I’m almost half way the final Hunger Games book. I have to say I didn’t see some of this coming. I figure I will be finished by this weekend so I’m looking for a few more books to add to my kindle just in case hurricane Irene decides to turn more west and comes for Raleigh. Right now they are predicting she is going more east and I don’t think we will get a whole lot aside from rain. But at least we have candles and batteries. I wouldn’t too much mind a nice stormy weekend. As long a I can make my hair appointment on Saturday. I really need a haircut and my color has grown out a good bit.
~k
