Here in my car

Today's Friday 5

1. If money were no concern and LOOKS the only consideration, what car would you get yourself? (pictures for questions like this are always nice!) Um, a silver Audi. The one pictured up there is so purty!
   
2. If money were no concern and YOUR LIFESTYLE the only consideration, what car would you get yourself? Minivan all the way. With the doors on both sides that open with a button on your keys. And lots of cupholders.
   
3. What is the best thing about your current car? If you do not own a car, what is the best thing about the car you most often ride in? My car is small. i'm terrible at parking, so it's nice that i have a tiny car because there is less chance of my bumping into something with it!
   
4. * If cars could be skinned the way cell phones, laptop computers, and iPods can, what would be a really cool skin for your car? Uh, i don't know. i actually don't really like the weird skins on ipods. i just like shiny, new-looking paint jobs.
   
5. If you were going to decorate a friend’s car with a custom-made skin as a practical joke, whose car would you skin and what would it be? i don't know. Maybe my mom's car...i'd get a skin that said "Vote Hillary!" It might clash with her "Garage Logic" bumper stickers though:)
   

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Now playing: Avalon - Winter Wonderland
via FoxyTunes

Best gift guide...ever!

i found this guide today. You gotta check it out.
i only have one other to add to it which i just made this morning:
Empty container with lid
(like a Pringles container. i used an empty Crystal Light container, which is the same shape but smaller.)
Add:
Rice
Nuts
Noodles
Whatever you got

Tape the lid on tightly. Bam. A whole morning's activity for my little manster. Gotta love it.

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Now playing: Trans-Siberian Orchestra - An Angel's Share
via FoxyTunes

Friday 5..again late

1. What’s your favorite song about growing up? "Brick" by Ben Folds
   
2. What’s your favorite song about cars or driving? "Life is a Highway" That song is a classic! i also specifically made a mix starting with that song the first time i ever drove my car myself.
   
3. What’s your favorite song whose title is a person’s name? Mandy. It constantly runs through my head. However, because i only know the one line "Mandy, you came and you gave without taking" i have to make up the rest of the words, hilarity surely ensuing.
   
4. What’s your favorite get-up-and-dance song? "What is love" from the Night at the Roxbury soundtrack. First of all, that movie is fabulous. A home run of an SNL movie. Who would win in a fight? Night at the Roxbury or Wayne's World? i don't know. i don't think i want to know.
   
5. What’s your favorite novelty song? i'm a person who is not inclined to like novelty music. However, a German polka featuring the vocal stylings of several drunk men singing "My Heart will go on" is my favorite.
   

You know where i got this.

Elmo and Andrea Bocelli

i saw this on tv and couldn't help but post it. Sorry, all of you who are either A. Music majors who are very upset about Elmo singing to a beloved new classic or B. Non music majors who don't understand why this is fantastic.

Hello

i just wanted to let you all know i'm still alive, just not feeling very blog-gy. Things have been happening, but something in me has not had a particle of desire to chronicle them. Things of note, though, for the past two weeks or so:
Kris and i did the Black Friday thing at Best Buy: my first year on the consumer side, instead of wearing out my voice saying "Sir, we sold out of that $15 bluetooth headset within 10 minutes of the store's opening". Anyway, we got GPS and the first two seasons of "The Office", a show i hadn't yet seen but am now addicted to. And GPS, wow. Pretty sure i didn't live without it. i was so constantly lost! And now i'm not. Was blind, but now i see.
David is like this real little boy. We took him for Christmas pictures at Target (crazy cheap with a coupon you can print right off the website) and we just got them back, and man are they adorable!
David met Santa last week for the first time. i'll have to blog about this, because it was silly.
It snowed a blizzard for the first time this year today, and wouldn't you know it, our garage door opener stopped working, so we had to go and get another, because parking outside just isn't an option with a baby in the snowy cold. It's a crappy time for us to have spent the money, but we've needed a new one for a while, and i'm pretty excited about it. Kris is in the garage right now installing it.
We also bought a hardwood floor at Lowe's black friday weekend for .68/square foot. i'm so excited about it! It's going to be a pretty major project to install it, but it will be a lot easier than the "faux-noleum" we've got going now. Our kitchen floor is made of this fake linoleum that is literally so thin (wallpaper thin, i'd say) that when you slide the kitchen chair on it, it rips holes into it. Very glad to get the new floor.
i love my new church more and more every week. People keep unfolding layers of themselves to me, and i'm finding out just how many really nice and sincere people go there. i'm very glad to share in that community. i pre-judged it: i'd thought that since it was in Eden Prairie it would be a bunch of people that thought they were better than i was: a judgement i'd pretty accurately taken up while visiting the high school. But the church is full of people that, while they do have a lot more money than i do, are still genuine and not self-righteous at all. i'm in the right place.
Speaking of church, i've gotta be there in 9 hours, so to bed i must go. i'll try to write more, but only if very inspired. If you have any topics that might be a jumping-off point for a more inspired post, please let me know.