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STOP Waiting for Grandma to Die! 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra

Date: 2010-10-02, 12:12AM EDT

STOP Waiting for your Grandma to die so you can have her car! Buy this one and have a real old-lady car of your own. Let's go over some of the details about this fine auto, which STARTS, RUNS, and DRIVES.

*1987 Cutlass Sierra

* 30,248 Original MILES. I know you've heard it a million times, but this car has really only been driven to church and the grocery store, and the cemetery-- Old people LOVE to go to the cemetery. It is believed that this car traveled as far as West Seneca for a funeral once.

*As an old lady car, this Olds had the privilege of getting ROUTINE MAINTENANCE. Most recently the car got new tires (whitewalls out of course!) and a new battery. The new tires could possibly have 1000 miles on them, which means that they are pretty new. It's also up to date on its inspections, shots and vaccines.

*The body is in DECENT SHAPE for a car that has lived through 23 Buffalo winters. The color is Navy Blue. There is rust at all of the wheel wells; some worse than others. There are some BATTLE SCARS on the body from lost fights with a white vinyl sided home, mostly on the passenger side.

*Grandma is NOT A SMOKER, and had no friends that smoked. Lets be honest here, most of her friends are dead anyways, which brings me to my next point:

*The passenger seat and back bench seat are virtually untouched. I sat in the back seat once or twice, probably for a trip to the cemetery.

*The trunk is large enough for at least two bodies. Dark Body color is good for late night trips to Niagara River.

*This vehicle comes with a 100% working AM RADIO, and a motorized (working) antenna. Don't forget to lower your antenna for Delta Sonic!

*FREE SNOWBRUSH WITH PURCHASE. AND if it seals the deal, a vintage Buffalo Bisons sunshade for the windshield.

**Nitty Gritty Stuff** We will accept CASH ONLY. We are accepting other offers for this car.

>DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT OUR AD. BUT WE THINK IT'S HILARIOUS. (IT COULD BE OUR AD!)

KidS

We think it's fun to talk about our KidS...the plural-ness of it :)

Paige is a very sweet and doting big sister. Jace is an awesome baby. He is a super content little dude and hasn't kept me from getting decent sleep except for one night in the hospital. Oh the hospital...we delivered in Whitefish again - even after our horrible experience there with Paige. My doc assured me that it would be better this time. Long story short, she told the OB Director about our experience and the OB Director and I played phone tag - so we never got to chat. (Which I didn't really care about). Anyway, we found out that she had put a note on our chart and we received excellent treatment. I don't think it was anything above and beyond the normal care given, but I sure would have loved to see what that "note" was! I think all of the nurses were definitely on their best behavior and possibly felt like they were walking on egg shells. Is that the right expression? I don't know. Which is funny because we really aren't high maintenance, we just wanted to have things go a bit more smoothly from the point of admission. Anyway, we did have a great stay up there. And labor and delivery was honestly the best and easiest part of the whole 9 months! Thanks to a VERY good epidural and my doctor/midwife, who I totally love. That epidural let me (and Jesse) take a 2 hour nap while my contractions were doing their work; and at appx. 2:10 my doctor woke me up and said, "Do you want me to check you?" 1/2 hour later Jace was born.
The first words out of Jesse's mouth were, "Hey little buddy!" That's when I knew it was a boy :)

Paige's first response when Papa and Grandma asked her if she wanted to go to the hospital and meet her new baby brother: "No I need my baby sister first."
She is over that thankfully.

Jace was already 10 lbs+ at his 2 week appointment. He has already outgrown the newborn clothes that we received from generous friends and family. He is wearing size 2 diapers and filling them often. He likes his car seat, likes the swing, and sleeps most of the night in his crib. I won't make comparisons to Paige, because I love her just the same and we've moved on, but I now know for a fact that she was kind of a naughty baby ;)

Time to fold the laundry that I washed two days ago. Lots of things get started and...eventually finished.

Nesting?

2 things I've been super disappointed about with my pregnancies - (1) where is the weird craving? I've never craved a weird food. Like 1 thing that I just had to eat everyday. It would be 'fun' to actually be like, "Oh, man I need to have 4 pickles a day!" (2) That so-called boost of energy they call "nesting." I look around and just get overwhelmed. I make a to-do list and never do it...well maybe I do get around to checking off some to-do boxes but it's 5 weeks after I've written them down.

I get babycenter.com pregnancy updates. For those of you who don't know about it, you can sign up with your e-mail address, give them your due date, and you receive a weekly e-mail counting your week and telling you all about the development of your baby during that week, what size your baby is (in comparison to a certain food, weird), and then all sorts of other intersting memos.

This one caught my attention:
"Four Household Chores to Avoid during Pregnancy"
My first thought - Hmmm....what can I get out of doing and pass along to my husband? heehee.
According to the article, here are the 4 chores to avoid:
Here are four household chores to avoid during pregnancy:

1. Moving Furniture
2. Change your cat's litter box
3. Using Ant or Roach Spray
4. Hold off of Refinishing Furniture

Really? That is the list? Talk about a bunch of no-brainers. And a TOTAL let-down...I already do NONE of the above. What about cleaning toilets, scrubbing floors, doing dishes, and picking up toys? Those things really are NOT easy to do right now but they're not on the list so I guess I have to keep doing them. Booooo.

Speaking of picking up toys - Paige's latest:
Mommy: "Paige, before you get your snack you need to pick up your puzzle that you dumped out all over the floor right there."
Paige: "Ummm, how about Momma do it? I too little."

In the next conversation:
Mommy: "Paige, Mommy needs you to please throw you garbage in the garbage can."
Paige: "No, just Momma do it, my tummy too big."

And in another conversation:
Mommy: "Paige, please put your boots and coat on, it is really cold outside."
Paige: "I too fat."

I swear, I don't use the tummy too big/ fat excuse very often! In fact, only when I tell her that I can't pick her up and carry her anymore. She sure does catch on fast!

Paige's Bedroom

Paige's room was thrown together when we moved here a year ago...until recently she didn't even have a bedspread, just sheets and piles of blankets. And her room was decorated, kind of, but there was no design whatsoever. I had something in mind, and nothing in the stores or online quite matched up to my vision. So...I decided to make the stuff, only I didn't have time nor talent so....I delegated most of the tasks to the people most skillfully able to complete them. My dad built the dollhouse bookshelf and the white picket fence headboard. My mom made the bedspread with this fabulous array of fabric I ordered and she helped me construct the curtain. Basically ALL that I did was tell them what I wanted it to look like and bought the gerber daisies and glued them on the curtain, and stuck them behind the 'fence.' Oh and then I reorganized the room a little, but of course all of the heavy lifting and moving was done by Jesse. So you see, it was a total group effort. I'm totally happy with how it turned out, which is amazing acutally...and Paige loves it and loves to talk about who made what; and the changing table that had been serving as a bookshelf is now ready for baby #2! The only thing I would change if I could would be to not have the bed so close to the window, the curtain and the headboard are kind of busy next to each other, but this is the best arrangement we have with the space available. Before I post these pictures I have to say that my quick photo snaps do not serve justice to how the room turned out but you'll get a good idea I think.







What is it about a nice crisply made bed that makes a kid just HAVE to jump on it and rumple it all up? Oh well, again, you get the idea.
The big brown body pillow along the wall is kind of wierd, but it covers up a big cord that is plugged into the wall right there for our internet; the cord runs along the bottom of the floor, under the door, and around the corner to where I am sitting right now at my 'desk.' That's the way it is in above-the-shop-apartment living. But we're cozy and it all works just fine for now :)