My husband saw another side of me...

So yesterday, we headed out to look at a car we've been thinking about buying. We want a car with more room and w/the ability to tow a small boat (in about 3 years).

Anyway, we found one at a local dealership (even though in the past we have always bought private party for a better deal), this was a pretty good deal and we figured we would take it for a spin. We love how it drove, except when we were breaking and the wheel would shimmy just a bit. There were a few scrapes and dents and I'm under the impression that if I'm going to spend X amount on a car, I want it to look nice. So they "said" they could fix all of that.

We were thinking of trading my husbands car in on the deal. We knew before going in that in all actuality his car is worth more than the one we were looking at, just slightly, within about $1000.

After all was said and they came up with a price, they wanted his car +$5000!!! I about fell off my chair.

Me: Yeah sorry you're nowhere close to where we want you to be
Hubby: Can you do better?
{new} Salesmen: Let me go see, what would you like to see different
Me: First of all take the trade out of the deal because that's a terrible price
{new} Salesmen: What did you want to see?
Me: Well, you need to drop the price of the car about $1500 and give us an extra $3000 on the trade
{new} Salesmen: Um, let me go talk to my manager
Hubby to me: You need to give them a chance to do better
Me: He's already wasted my whole Monday night and I would have walked out after the initial price if you would have let me
Hubby: You have to be nicer to them to get them to drop it
Me: I don't NEED to buy a car, they NEED to sell a car

{new} Salesmen: Well, lowest we can go is $250.00 lower on the car
Me: Well, thank you for your time, you're still nowhere close, sorry.
{new} Salesmen: Well we said we'd fix everything you wanted fixed
Me: BEFORE I sign on the dotted line so that it's up to my standards?
{new} Salesmen: We would do it just how you like it after you sign
Me: Of course you would
{new} Salesmen: Well would you like to drive this other particular car
Me: No, I wanted that car and I want to look for another one
{new} Salesmen: Well they would drive the same
Me: That is not the car I want
Hubby: Ok then, she's ready to go (as he continues to argue about the difference between the car we test drove and the car the salesman is trying to get us to drive)

{new} Salesmen's Boss: Well you said you wanted it close to X price....
Me: No, I said I wanted it under X price, sorry.

As Hubby and I left he said, wow you're not very nice in car dealerships, I've never seen that in you.
Me: Well, they wasted my time on a Monday night and treated me like I was stupid, not a good idea.

So needless to say, they did NOT sell the car and I will NEVER purchase from that dealership if I can help it.

Happy days....

Today's Friday! I have the Happy day's theme song in my head now, great... Anyway this weekend we'll be:

Friday:
Going to see this movie, with my office-mate, Amber, and I'm very excited
Possibly going out to celebrate our friend James' birthday
(this is a rare occasion for us!)

Saturday:
Waking up early to head to my home town, 1.5h away
Spending a bit of time with our friends Nick & Katie (and wishing she'd have the darn baby already!!)
Going to a huge family reunion, then off to a corn boil (Yes, we live in Iowa!)
Spending time with my parents

Sunday:
Headed back home slightly early to get a few things done around the house
Relaxing and watching some movies with my hubby!

I'm pretty excited because this is the first Friday night we've gotten to say home in about 8 weeks! It's very very exciting actually! Next weekend we get to spend the ENTIRE weekend at home just the two of us and I am O SO excited! :-)

Any big plans for this weekend? I feel as though we are forever traveling!

In other news, we're looking at buying a new car {Read: New to us} I'm pretty excited, because it has a lot of room, I hated it at first because I thought it looked like Hurst, but it's growing on me! We shall see, hubby has big plans :-)

A Perfect gift

I am the proud new owner of this from A Simple Impression on ETSY
It was blogged about by another blogger that I follow, but unfortunately I cannot find the post! Please let me know if it was you! I want to give you credit for it!

Anyway, I think this is a great item to purchase for a wedding shower or wedding gift! I love it and obviously ours has our name on it, but ours is in burgundy red to match the decor in our living room.

Thankful Thursdays

Today I'm thankful for:

• Lazy nights after work with my husband. We watched a movie last night and it was just what I needed.
• Sleeping in on Saturday mornings. I love me some sleep, especially cuddled up with my husband.
• Netflix. I don't know what I did without you; I can get fun mail every other day if we stay on schedule!
• Fall. I have missed you so much. I love opening the window's and letting the cool crisp air come flowing into the house.
• Semi-casual dress at work. I love coming in wearing capri's & flip-flops and jeans on Friday!
• Fridays. They make me so happy.
• Sundays. BY far my most favorite day of the week. I try to keep this day as simple as possible, especially in the fall/winter. It's saved for relaxing, football watching and cuddling up on the couch!

What are you thankful for?

Just as soon as I said it....

So the other day my co-workers and I were talking about having broken bones and all of that jazz. I've never had a broken bone in my life; I've had one sprained ankle and that's it.

UNTIL LAST NIGHT!!!

Recap: Ok, we had an exhaust fan in our bathroom that was VERY loud and by loud I mean that you never wanted to turn it on. Only thing is, it's tied into the light, so if you want the light on, you have to have the fan on...

Hubby thought it would be a QUICK fix to just change out the fan. Boy was he wrong.... It was a lot more work than he had anticipated. Instead of taking about an hour it took about 3! So, as I'm running back and forth trying to get things that he needs while he's in the attic, I manage to stub my toe on one of his tools. (A saws all or however you spell it) anyway, I didn't hit the sharp end but I think I kicked the crap out of the other end! I've stubbed my toe before but nothing has ever felt like this.

I knew it was broken! I had just broken my itty bitty little pinky toe... :-( Not fun. After my dramatic reaction, I got up and it was pretty numb so I couldn't feel it. Well, I woke up this morning and it was swollen and black & blue! So, I am no longer in the "I've never broken a bone club" :-( It's a sad day for the little piggy... I can only wear sandals, so it's a good thing I can wear flip-flops to work!

On a good note, our fan in the bathroom is now quieter :-)

Pampered Chef

Ok, so I'm hosting a pampered chef catalog party and I was wondering if any of you would want to be invited?!?!?

Let me know and I will e-mail you the e-invite! Leave your e-mail in a comment below. If you haven't tried their stuff, you must! I love everything I have ever ordered from Pampered Chef and I'm about to order more! :-) (P.S. It's great for Christmas gifts!!)

Edit: This is an online e-invite type party. Nobody needs to be present. I send you the invite, you shop online, and pay online and then the products are sent directly to you! It's that easy :-)

Quirky

Lucy Marie, over at Lucy's Life published a post about her quirky quirks. I've decided to post some of my quirky quirks, some of which I got from Lucy's post (she had a lot of good ones, so I had to use a few!)

I love sleeping under the covers. I hate being hot at night.
I love almonds in my salads. I hate nuts of any kind.
I love Coke. I don't like Pepsi
I love when the weather starts to change for winter. I hate winter.
I love chocolate. I hate anything chocolate flavored.
I love summer. I hate it when it's really hot.
I love bananas. I don't like anything banana flavored.
I love visiting family on the weekends. I hate being in the car for long periods of time.

I love being a student. I don't like being stressed out.
I love running. I hate sweating.
I love waffles. I hate pancakes.
I love my cell phone. I hate talking on the phone.
I love Talapia. I hate seafood.
I love reading outside in the sun. I don't like sweating.
I love sleeping in. I don't like wasting my mornings.
I love being lazy. I hate wasting time.
I love a clean house. I hate cleaning.
I love good smelling laundry. I hate doing laundry.
I love Mexican food. I don't like spicy things.
I love ice tea on a summer day. I hate the taste of tea.
I love hot tea on a winter day. I hate the taste of tea.

Do you have any quirks?