Mike's Journal

01/15/2008 22:43 #42905

Car Shopping

So it wasn't that long ago that I was posting about car shopping and trying to find a car. But alas I only had that car for like three months before it was smashed to pieces by a drunk driver. Well as i've said before and I'll say again, I hate car shopping.

I went with (e:maureen) on Saturday and first we went to Don Davis Honda on Niagara Falls Blvd becuase I really wanted to try a Honda Fit. THey only have new ones though cuz it just came out last year. The guy there was super nice. If I remembered him I would recommend him. He wasn't pushy and I test drove a Honda Fit and he told me all about maybe getting a used car instead and offered to look them over with me if i wanted to make an appointment to like go to the used lot and look around because that day was super windy and cold. Anywho I liked the HOnda Fit a lot but they only had new ones. He offered to teach me how to drive manual so I could get the cheaper manual one...

..but frankly if you know me, you know I don't need any more distractions on the road. I barely pay attention as it is now.

..so off to Northtown Dodge...eww....i hated it...i hated the worker who didn't know any of the answers to the questios I asked (remember I know nothing about cars so it would be like ummm is there windshield wipers?) and was just rying to sell me a car more than I wanted...

...so off to Northtown Toyota. I liked the guy there too. He was nice. I test drove a Camry and a Matrix. I really liked the Matrix , it is a sports wagon, like a hatchback. I have always loved station wagons and want one I am pretty sure. It was like $15,000 and was a 2005 with like 35,000 miles but it was like a good versio nwith lots of stuff and all wheel drive which I don't really need but might be nice to have. Plus I fugre I could barter him down a little right? That's what you do with used cars? I don't know, who knows maybe it has been sold isnce then since I haven't made up my mind..

...i can't deicde what to do . Like i could buy a car for $10,000 that I got from the insurance and have no payments but not love the car or I could get a car I love and have just little payments cuz I am only finandcying like 4-5000 dollars of it. Which would not be bad at all? But is that really necessary. But really i spend a lot of the time in the car cuz I just love driving around and stuff and I always drive when I go out wiht my friends cuz i Like too so isn't it worth it maybe? I don't know , that is what I really can't decide about. Is it worth the extra money to have a car i really like? I feel like it is kinda cuz like i had a car I really liked and it isn't my fault it is smashed to pieces and so why should i now have a car I don't like? BUt is it worht 5,000 more? GRRR That stupid drunk girl should have to pay enough money so i can have a car i love equally to the one i had. I tihnk i am gonna write her a mean letter soon because frnakly she is ruining my life in many ways!!!! GRRRRR

that is the car I want except the one i want is like a midnight blue!

libertad - 01/16/08 13:51
Where have you been (e:hodown)? Didn't you know that Mike is a soccer mom now?

The car looks nice, but I think that you haven't been looking long enough to justify financing an aditional 5,000 yet. Why put a bill on yourself you really don't need? It would be much better to put that in the stock market when it gets real low so that when we come out of the recession your money will go way up.

hodown - 01/16/08 10:04
Mike that car looks like a station wagon. Are you a mom of 3 young kids?

fellyconnelly - 01/16/08 06:59
oo new car smell! i want a new car!

mrdeadlier - 01/16/08 00:05
Don't let your bitterness get the best of you. Soon enough your smashed up car will be ancient history to you and you'll be stuck with something you settled for just because you were feeling pissy at the time. One man's opinion but I say finance the $5k and get something you'll love. There's no better feeling than tooling around in a car that you adore.

theecarey - 01/15/08 23:29
How was the Fit to drive? Thats the car I have my eye on right now, or maybe the Scion. I have yet to do any test-driving. I just love the look and options of the Honda Fit Sport. I have high expectations of it, although when I priced one with all that I want, it ran more than 18,000 I think. oy!

If you can swing it, go for what you really want. Why settle?

drew - 01/15/08 23:05
I like the Yaris

jenks - 01/15/08 22:58
uh oh!
brother fight!

paul - 01/15/08 22:57
How did you have no payments left on your old new car? Oh ya you don't pay for any rent or anything.

james - 01/15/08 22:55
When my last car died and I went shopping I wanted to get a fit as well. I had loved my Honda Civic before driving it into the side of a mountain, and the cars are tanks, they last forever. But, I was much poorer then than I am now. I got a Toyota Yaris instead. It is Toyota's version of the fit and it is such a fun car. with a much, much smaller price tag. 4-door automatic was 13k I believe.

01/13/2008 19:17 #42872

Golden Globes : (

As anyone who knows me knows, the Golden Globes are prlly my favorite day of the year, if not , then they are a close second to my birthday. Anywho, like seiruosly I generally start watching at like 10am I satrt watching all the prewshows on E! then switch between the E! shows and the actual channel of the GOlden Globe preshows though E is usually way better. Then I watch the Golden Glose and then a good like 5 hours of post shows and interviews!

BUT ALAS!!!! This year there will be none. Because of the writers strike there is no Golden Globes and so I slept most of the day! And now I am wathcing this ridiculous like interveiw show on NBC that is replacing the Globes. NO FANCY DRESSSES! NO CRAZY INERVIEWERS ASKING INANE QUESTIONS! NO LIMOS! No anything good! Serio0usly, this sets up my year to be pretty bad as if it wasn't already heading that way! GRRRR!!! I hope the strike is over by the OScars but like the OScars are a whole different beast. Much more serious and not as fun and random as the Golden Globes. I WANT MY GLOBES!!! What is going to be in the magazines all week and on E and in my life! GRRR

lilho - 01/13/08 20:38
well, i am coming to town, that can be your one good thing. i have stories to tell...

01/12/2008 01:03 #42850

The Scariest Barber on Fleet Street Ever

OMG I did not realize Sweeney Todd would be so terrifying and gruesome. LIke i knew what it was about but I thought it would be more fun and heartwarming (not warming in the sense of your heart being baked in a pie). ok maybe nto heartwarming but I thought not sooo scary and disturbing! YEt it was really good and I really like it and form the back Johnny Depp looked like a man dressed as a cat , like in the musical cats, which is never a bad thing! But seriously wowser, disturbing. No redeemingness ever! But good! But scary, like i am kinda scared to go to bed? IS that ridiculous? It was a musical for heaven's sake. But scary!!! (e:jill) thought it would be lighthearted like I knew it wasn't a raucous good time but I didn't realize how dark and disturbing it was! wowser But good and i recommend it

james - 01/13/08 16:47
It was a lot like every other Tim Burton movie except Danny Elfman didn't do the score, rather it was redone by Sondheim. If Elfman did a Elfman version of the original I would have thrown up in the theater. But it was an alright movie.

metalpeter - 01/12/08 13:42
I thought there where two redeeming parts and that was that only the rich and Powerfull (mostly) got hurt and the part where they sing about the different people and how they would taste (yes gruesome but also very funny to me). Glad you liked it.

jenks - 01/12/08 12:33
I love tim burton, I love johnny depp, i love mike's review...

Now just to make it to the theater while it's still showing!

mrdeadlier - 01/12/08 08:33
I'm somewhat leery to take in ANOTHER Tim Burton flick; it always seems like the same recycled material (and actors, for that matter). But I guess this one seems kind of different... Based on your review, maybe I'll end up checking it out.

fellyconnelly - 01/12/08 07:47
haha mike this review rocks...
I can't wait to go see this movie... where did you see it?

01/11/2008 01:41 #42833

Wowser Work Is Slow

So like whoa, our store has been dead, and i mean pretty darn dead the last two days. Yesterday was super dead like i just cleaned all day and two people worked on training and it still seemed slow dead! And today was a little busier but like still super dead for a thursday. What is going on? Has everyone transfered out ? Like last week we were really busy? Where did everyone go? I don't want my store to close. Ok so it isn't anywhere close to that as of yet but still it makes me nervous since there is like 4 rite aids in kenmore, i don't want to be at the end of the list!

mrdeadlier - 01/11/08 15:33
Based on the number of drug stores that keeping popping up in Kenmore, I'm thinking you're store is probably safe. I mean, they just added 3 I can think of off the top of my head in the past year so we must not be at critical mass yet, right?

janelle - 01/11/08 08:49
I was wondering if you worked at the Rite Aid where I normally go, and I feel relieved that you don't. I hate the Rite Aid I go to (it's the one closest to where I live) and I would feel bad if I hated the place where you work. I feel pissed off every time I go to my Rite Aid to fill my scripts. Like really angry. Like I go home and vent to (e:drew). He thinks it's funny.

01/08/2008 22:23 #42797

Muppet Babies

when the world looks kinda weird,
and you wish that you weren't there,
just close your eyes and make believe,
and you can be anywhere

hodown - 01/09/08 09:14
Speaking of muppets. Do you guys still have the tape of you and Paulie singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow? That's a classic.

paul - 01/09/08 06:03
I think you mean happy days.

lilho - 01/08/08 22:50
MUuuuuppet babies!!!!! (e:terry) does a great impression of fozzie, i think i used to think his name was fonzie, like the guy from golden days or whateva.