05 Saturday Oct 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, Corolla, hand, seat, Technology, warmer, weather, widow
as the weather is getting cooler (in what seems to be) daily, I’m enjoying some of the great benefits that Indi provides…
instead of turning up the heat, I just turn on the seat warmer… a toasty bottom makes all of me feel warm, lol…
and I love the warmer on my steering wheel… don’t need my little gloves just yet;-)…
although I wish the entire wheel was warmed…
technology;-)…
05 Saturday Dec 2015
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big girl pants, Birchwood Toyota, car, Chevelle, Corolla, purple, Shadow, sunrise, weather
woke up very early and was able to enjoy the sunrise…
caught this out the upstairs window…
took this picture of the car as I was heading out this afternoon…
you can see the sun shining on the hood… there is very little snow on the ground and it was plus 4 as I drove away…
then I headed to Birchwood Toyota… signed lots of papers… sorry trees…
took a walk in the amazing warm weather… what a treat we have been enjoying…
got a new licence plate…
and drove away in my new Corolla…
her name is Shadow… she is blue crush metallic in colour and if she is in the shade, she looks kind of purple…
got a call just over a week ago from my car dealer wanting my vehicle… ended up with the 2016 model at thirty dollars less a month… pretty good deal…
after picking her up I ran a few errands and started getting used to her… heating system is a bit fancier and the big splurge was a car starter… not really sure I need that as the car is usually in the garage, but when I’m out it will be nice to start warming up before I get in…
felt a bit sad to leave the old car behind, as I’d only had it for two years, and it was the first car I got on my own…
as I was driving home I thought back to the first new car I drove off the lot…
it was forty-eight years ago and I drove a beautiful Chevelle home that day… I had bought it together with my dad… can remember the fear that I would drive into something or another car would drive into me… didn’t want to get the first scratch on it…
drove that car for over eleven great years…
another big girl pants kind of day… but it was more excitement than anything else today:-)…
28 Thursday Feb 2013
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went to Woodhaven Toyota a few weeks ago… they had sent out an email to owners of 2010 Corollas advising they needed them to sell and would give a great deal…
took my daughter and met with a young man who got us into the 2013 Corolla S, for a test drive… it was fine, but not that different from my current car…
their numbers weren’t that great, basically they were going to give $1500 towards a credit or new vehicle lease… the last time we were there, they were able to lower our payments and give us a newer vehicle… not so much this time… the other piece of information I learned was that my lease, which I thought was up this year, isn’t up until 2014…
he also advised that my car would be worth less because it had been in an accident – when George had his heart attack he drifted over the curb and into a fence… this piece of information kind of made me mad, because when I went in to have the lease changed from George’s name to mine, and I asked about it, the fellow I spoke with advised that the accident wouldn’t change the value of the car at all… they also didn’t seem to feel that the 16,000 mileage was a selling benefit…
stock shot of the car…
I thought about what they had to say and have decided they don’t really want my 2010 that bad, and I will keep it until the lease is up…
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