Vroom Vroom Vroom!

After many long and arduous months of looking I have now purchased a new car.
This is my (semi) new 2005 Pontiac Vibe. It's everything I liked in the Matrix, because it's the same car only $4000 less due to the 25000 miles it has from the previous lease.

Who wants a ride?

Way back in my day...

This week has been my Daughter's first week of school. It's just the Head start program but for her it's getting up getting dressed and going to school. She's been so excited to go for the past several weeks that every morning when she would get up she would ask if she gets to go to school today. For weeks this has been her way to get us to count down the days. Today is her fourth day and she already has the morning routine down, when she gets there she has to hang up her jacket, move her name from a drawing of a house and move it to a drawing of a school and pin her name tag to her shirt, as of this morning she needed no one to assist. All I get to do is walk her to class and sign her in. As paranoid as I am when it comes to my kids it's nice to see that security steps being taken now days. When I was four I was just dropped off in front and had to find my way to class by myself, barefoot in three feet of snow up hill both ways...

Meanwhile my son has far exceeded the need for any help at all. Now that he is in the fourth grade he's an old hand at the school thing.

Seeing my kids off to school lately has made me feel very old, and I'm not even thirty yet.

A serious lack of labor in my Labor Day

For a lack of funds and the ungodly price of gas, I did as little as possible from Saturday to Monday. Mostly I watched CNN, Fox News and The Weather Channel for the off chance I might see Colton in the background of footage from the Astrodome, no such luck. After 168 hours of rescue scenes and serious government f#$% up, the depression started to get to me. The two people I really feel for, are Mike Meyers for standing next to Kayne West and Chris Tucker for being the person the cameras cut to trying to avoid any further statements. Now don't get me wrong, I feel Kayne west was completely just expressing his feelings, but the environment was changed from "please help those in need" to "Bush does not care about black people." I feel his statements would have received less criticism from an interview setting than a charity fund raiser.
On the lighter side, I bought a Printer/Scanner/Fax machine on Saturday. The pictures of my ass will be up later. I know every one is now really excited, especially Colton. Amy thinks I'm just lashing out for attention.