Puzzles are fun..alternate title...how to fit a SUV into a suburban garage

The new car is a tad bit larger than the old car.  When I measured the garage before bringing the car home, we realized there wasn't going to be room on the side I usually park on.  Well, there would have been room, but we wouldn't be able to get out without crawling out the back end and then we'd have to go in through the front door because it was so tight.  A couple days before I brought the car home I re-arranged the garage and then IM helped me move the freezer (ok, he moved it), so now the car fits in the garage.  Barely.

First world problems....Winter should be interesting.

Funny Story?

I realized earlier today that I still haven't written a post "just" about the new car or posted a picture..

We've had the new car (2011 Acura MDX) for about two weeks now and yesterday was the first time we put both of the 3rd row seats up. The Boy has ridden in the 3rd row a couple times, but he just puts up his side (it is a split row).  IM, Grandude, and I were in the the other seats and both kids climbed in the back...to discover that the back seat is missing a headrest.  Weird.  So after all of us getting out of the car and looking all over...no headrest.  Weird.  I don't think it was in the car when we bought it!  D'oh!

Today I called "our" salesman and told him, "um, we're missing a headrest".  At first he was skeptical, but he said he'd "check around" and get back to me.  I figured that meant he'd call back in a few days with a price for ordering a headrest.  He actually called back in about an hour and said that he had good news and bad news...bad news?  He can't find an "extra" headrest around the shop.  Good news?  He is going to find one, even if he has to order it, at no cost to us, and will call me back.  He left another message a couple hours later...saying he called the previous owners who said they had "just found the headrest in the garage".  What? Um? Under what circumstances does one take the headrest out of the car and put it in the garage and then trade the car in?  Weird. In any case, the previous owners will bring the headrest to the dealer, who will call me when it gets there and that issue will be solved! Yay!

So I told that story to one of my friends and she said, "Well, all my headrests are out of my car...you have to move some of them now to put in carseats"...so mystery solved!

Too much, or not enough, to write about...

The other night I was suffering from writer's block and posted this on Facebook--here is the conversation that followed (and some commentary at the end)

"Ok, I need some noncontroversial blog post ideas again  Go ahead...make your suggestions...I might not take them...but go ahead      "

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   Friend R:  food is always good

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  Friend S:   the pros and cons to shaving your legs all summer long....

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• Me:  Are you implying that I cook? or shave? 

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• Me:  He, he..

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• Friend P:  Everything is controversial to someone!

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• My Mother:  shoot i just lost a whole list of silly ideas and lost them....should not type on my kindle.....i will try again but am sure these wont be as good.....classroom changes/no more erasers to pound..........the best gift you have received/given.......lesson learned from grandmother/grandfather.........my old math question what would you do with 1000000 sugar cubes that you won/where would you have the delivery man put them........you favorite childhood toy/book/Christmas decoration/bedroom etc........what would you do with $1000000.........a silly rule.........a needed rule/law...........your bucket list.........eight historic/famous or not people you would like to have at the dinner table with you.......the horrible clothes your mother made you wear as a child.....the great clothes she would not let you wear.......summer/summer vacation as a child compared with as a parent........what you would tell yourself to mark highschool/college better/easier/more fun.......how to prevent your mother from posting a silly list on FB........GOOD LUCK WITH IDEAS.....love you...........ahhh how about things my mother never found out that i did or still be grounded
• • Yesterday at 5:41am · Like · 1
  • My Mother: or how about.....if i could fly i would go to _______ .......the silliest item in my kitchen cupboard.......5 kitchen items that are most usefull........5 kitchen items that are useless.........the yet unused wedding gift.......the most used wedding gift........what to do with a new extra large box of crayons........unusual ways to recycle/use common items.........the items i hope my parents leave me/the items i hope my parent will to my brother.......the funniest place i have found my car keys......if i could time travel i would spend 24 hours at_______ ........the best bargain i ever found.........the silly things i have bought..........if i was granted 3 wishes they would be.........the most fun i have ever had.........i will dedicate my first book to........the best/worse teacher i e e r had............what if the world was black and white instead of in color........what value are pets.........life with dusty/howie/bobbie'...........what if i got a horse for Christmas when i asked for one
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  • Friend R: The end of summer...
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  • Me:True, P...just wait until I get started on my mom's list of suggestions  Or on R's end of summer post...not writing that one R, because I'm in denial 

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  • My Mom: Face it........you do not dare touch some of the ones on your mom's list....danger, danger, danger 

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  • Friend R: how long do you have to keep crayons and construction paper if your kids are in high school?
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    • Friend R: While sorting through old crap I found... for me it was 12 yr old receipts that we were too lazy to throw away.

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    • Me: I could do a whole story on the antiquated things I found in my desk drawer when we packed up for the remodel at school--a slide rule, chalk, several kinds of chalk holders, colored chalk,.....

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    • My Father-in-law: I am thinking of doing a nothing but controversy blog, lol

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    • My Mom:  how about a blog about the things you cleaned out of your car when you got the new one-----we still have a bag of stuff in the back room that came out of the old one

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    • Me:  I think I finally have all the stuff either put into the new car or thrown out--that would be a fun blog...
    • My Brother: You could tell about the time your child met a major head of state and Nobel Peace Prize winner, how could anyone have anything negative to say about that?:-)

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    • Me:  Oh, J , you're a week behind, The Girl already used my blog to tell about that!

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• So, um, there you go...I suppose you are all now looking forward to a post about "what my parents never found out about" or the yet unused wedding gift...but the answer to what my parents never found out is...um?  Nothing?  That I left my brother at the pool once?  No, wait...they knew about that.  That I had a Johnny Depp poster in my closet?  Pretty sure they knew about that and didn't care....Um, that once after a "slumber party" we all "went jogging" at 5 am and threw pebbles at our friend, J's window until he woke up? Nope, wait, already told about that...Sorry mom...no secrets here. Now,if we want to talk about my brother... (he, he...)
• And the wedding gifts?Gee...we've broken so many, I can't imagine there are any we haven't used...maybe I should post a list of what wedding gifts we need replacements for because we've worn them out....(dish towels, bath towels, bath mats....)  I'd be happy to send our address to anyone who has spare linens around... (see, Mom, that answers what I want left to me as well...sort of) Stay tuned...there are some good subjects on there for "vacation" blog posts...