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March 18, 2006
top down car!
"top down car" is what my brothers called my stepfather's '67 galaxie 500 convertible when they were little kids. so now i always think of convertibles as top down cars.
i'm exhausted. christa drove me up to northern va to pick up the car today. we had lunch and hung out for a while with my friend steve, the original owner of the car, and then went down to ikea where we spent two hours and many dollars. and then i drove home, and now there are two beetles sitting in my driveway.
driving a gas-powered car again is very weird. it's too quiet, too smooth. driving a beetle other thans spacepod is very weird. spacepod and i are a team, you know? we've been so many places together.
it's supposed to be kinda cold this week, but steve said that with the windows up and the wind screen in place, you can drive with the top down in fairly cold weather and it's nice, there's basically no wind chill.
anyway. top down car!
Posted by lisa at March 18, 2006 11:52 PM
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Congrats! My sister has pretty much the exact same car! She got her's almost a year ago though. Anyway, so what's his/her name?!? :)
Posted by: Dan on March 19, 2006 12:19 AM
i'd say this car is definitely a GIRL. steve called her ovaltine, but i may call her something different. i like to refer to this color combination as "triple cream", so probably some kind of riff on cream or milk or something.
my mom suggested "tres leches" the other day, which is a type of mexican cake that contains "three milks". given that she was made in mexico, i am really liking that as a name right now. but we'll see!
Posted by: lisa on March 19, 2006 10:02 AM
I love that color - I always think of it as french vanilla or dulche de leche. Congrats on your new addition!
Posted by: pinky on March 20, 2006 08:58 AM
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