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My 60,000 miles are up and my job no longer comes with a company car. So, farewell to my beautiful Alfa. We have had our ups...
She was beautiful inside and out and to the ear
She was fantastic to drive - a real driver's car, happy to do 120+, few cars got in her way on the motorway, even fewer expected to pass her
Car sharing in her led to flirting, love and marriage to H
We spent a wonderful honeymoon putting the last miles on her around France, Italy and Switzerland
...and our downs...
She guzzled oil and petrol
Her clutch cracked
Her catalytic converter disintegrated
Her engine management system didn't
She blew bulbs frequently
Her radio never really worked properly
Her suspension creaked
Of course, being a company car, I never had to pay to fix any of her problems (although the petrol bill was all mine). Now I return to the real world, paying for services, tax and insurance on a second hand car. A Peugeot 406. Estate. Diesel.
Ciao bella.
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Sent from my Treo
my dream car- a beautiful box called Scion
On Friday night I was surprised by this in my driveway. I was jealous
of the "Friends of ours" to whom it belonged- then I realized that it
didn't belong to any friends of ours. We walked the dogs to Caribou and
came back to it in our driveway. I squealed with excitement. This is my
dream car- a Scion. A lovely box.
Then, I was told by DH that we were test-driving it overnight. So it
wasn't going to be mine, but it was still cool. We took it to my
parents' house, and my Mom burst out the front door, ready to
congratulate me for my new car. I had to tell her the truth- we were
borrowing it, not keeping it. Besides, it's not silver, like I would
get. Other than that it was perfect. It was super spacious in the front
and back seat, and we folded the back seats down to go to the drive-in
movie theatre. There we saw "Forty-year old Virgin" and "Wedding
Crashers" from the seats of the blue Scion.
The next night I went online to the Scion page, and designed my own.
Then I printed it out, just so I would know how I'd like my Scion to
turn out.
I asked DH if he knew what he had done, unleashed the Scion-desire in
me. So now that I've driven it, and it's everything I wanted it to be,
I have to wait...until the time comes...or when my Electric blue Neon
dies. But I wanna a Box now...
Watercolor sketch in an Aquabee Super Deluxe Sketch Book. Queen Ann's Lace, Chicory, and an unknown tall, yellow wildflower/weed with multiple dandelion like flowers
Vi spiser god indisk middag på nyåpnede New Dehli i de gamle lokalene til Pink Elephant på Tjuvholmen.
Vi spiser god middag på den georgiske restauranten Chinkalnia. Her får Katja smake grønn brus fra Georgia med estragonsmak som gir barndomsminner Ukraina.
Wow! One of my photos got posted in the Flickr blog, as part of the "Your Best Shot 2009" group!!!!!!
Many thanks to all that looked, faved, commented and added me as a contact!!!!
Check the group pool out, there are some amazing shots in there!
cheers!!
/V
The Photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/formalfallacy/3299709743/
The Blog post:
blog.flickr.net/en/2009/12/07/your-best-shot-2009-vanishi...
The Group Pool: