Thanks, dickwad.

$307.33 to fix the dent some asshole left in my car.

I hope whoever (s)he is, that karma is a far bigger bitch than I ever could be, and pays them back tenfold.

You know, like blowing up the engine in *their* new car.  Or at the very least, allowing some small child who's mommy lets them take the shopping cart to the corral, ram into the side of it and leave a nice mark like what happened to mine.

(I don't know this for a fact but it's too low to be a door ding, so something had to be rammed into it, and since I was only at the grocery store and the nursing home Sunday, I'm guessing it wasn't dear old Mrs. Smith and her walker.).

Seriously, do you know what I could do with that $300?  I sure as shit wasn't planning to donate it to my friendly neighborhood body shop!

Sigh.

Oh well. Deep breath. Relax. Stop making the voodoo doll....

It's only money.

I. Am. Pissed.

Some asshole hit my new car this weekend.

Why do people do that? Damage your car and then take off and not bother to be accountable for it?

Now it will probably cost me several hundred dollars to fix it and it's not even my fault.

Arrrrgh. Fuckers.

In other news...

I got some cool shoes this weekend. Coach tennis shoes. Check 'em out. On sale at Nordstrom's for $69. (Regularly $110 or something)

I have a black Coach purse that matches. Coincedence? I think not.

The End Of An Error

Bye bye, 2006 Chrysler 300 SRT.

Yesterday I turned my leased vehicle in. Finally.

After 39 months, I am free.

Don't get me wrong, I loved this car.

It was sweet.

It had everything you could ever want in a vehicle and then some.

But it came with a hefty price tag....and not just financially.

It's a long story and one that I don't see any reason to recite the gory details here, but suffice it to say that the decision to lease this car three years ago wasn't the best decision I ever made.

At the time I let emotion cloud my judgment. And I put trust where trust had already been irreparably broken, thinking that I would not get burned again.

Boy was I wrong.

Oh well, the end result was good. The Chrysler people completely overlooked the scratches by the door handle, the spot on the back bumper where somebody hit my car with a shopping cart, the completely bald rear tire (at $350 each I was not going to replace it, just to turn it in), and the chip in the windshield where a rock hit it....three weeks after I'd had the entire windshield replaced after a rock hit that one.

They marked the car as completely unblemished, so all I will owe now is about $200 in over-mileage fees.

Yay!

It was weird to get a little misty, driving the car for the last time to the dealership. That car has been a blessing and a curse from day one. It was the true bane of my existence for the last 15 months that I've been paying that $702 lease payment by myself. I endured plenty of fights and drama over that car the last three years, but I also really, really loved driving it.

And now it's gone, and all that remains is my license plate.

Nice, eh?

Bye Bye, Chrysler 300 SRT. You were a great car, but I'm glad we have reached the end of an error.

PS: In case you forgot what I bought to replace this car, click HERE.

Look what I got myself for my son's birthday....

So you know I have a killer car, it's a 2006 Chrysler 300 SRT with a Hemi engine. Bad ass car. Expensive as fuck. $350 per tire to replace. Shitty gas mileage. But damn it's pretty...

It's also a leased vehicle and the lease is up January 17th.

Oh, and I just found out two weeks ago that I am already over my miles.

Anyway, I've been shopping for a car for a couple of weeks now, and finally found it yesterday.

So I bought myself a new car for my son's birthday.


Welcome to my new 2010 Nissan Altima!

(Clearly I have a thing for silver cars!)


My young trendy Nestie girls would call this a "push present", albeit 19 years late. LOL

I'm very happy with it. It has all the same bells and whistles that my 300 has except navigation and the Hemi engine. The nav came in handy during times when I'm showing houses but hell, I can buy a Garmin. And the Hemi was nice when idiots on the road in front of me were driving too slow and I wanted to zoom around them, but otherwise all it did was cause me to slide all over the freaking road in the snow and give me a whopping 15 miles to the gallon.

But the best part is that the car payment is half what the 300 was, and that makes me really, really happy.

Oh and it has a feature the other car didn't....a cool iPod interface in the nifty Bose stereo so I can listen to music on my iPhone when I'm driving!!! Yay! (This would be my son's favorite feature on the car, as you can imagine.)

So I'm all kinds of happy with my new car! And my 300 is parked in my back garage for the next month until I can turn it in on January 17th. Yay!