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It all fit in my car

admin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:22:30 +0000

To day we had 13 boxes to take to the post office, one large box, and several medium box, and several smaller boxes. I managed to fit them all in my Kia Rio Cinco. I can’t believe it actually all fitted into it. I found out I can move the backseats down and only do one side or the other if I choose this will make our move a lot easier. Because Now I can put stuff on one side of the car, and put the tv and other stuff on the other side of the car. Pus I will be able to have the cat crate and dog still in the back with plenty of room. So much better then placing everything on the backseat next to dad because moving down one side will add more room or make it easier.
The post lady I told her would you believe I got this all in my kia, little car. She told me I would have through you had a truck. So I really have a lot of packing ability in that car. At least our new home will not require me to have a hd tv antennas because we can get Comcast for cheaper. Man I hope this experience goes better, them when I had them in St. Paul. At least this time they can’t try to kill my animals, eat my food, or break stuff, or steal stuff. Even though it was a contracted it still has lift a bad taste in my mouth with comcast as a company. I am hoping this will be a better experience because it lowers out internet, and TV by over 50 bucks. We will see. It seems like the guy in Portland from Comcast is very open to helping and working with us. I am hoping it a good experience.
Now lets see how much I can fit into my car on Sunday! I bet I might be able to fit in a lot more then I think possible.

Going over mountains

admin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:17:19 +0000

Boy I hope this move does not require a auto refinance for me because of anything going wrong. Lets see I have no loan on my car and hopefully nothing will go bad enough to require me to take a loan out to fix it. My car is running great, and if it wasn’t paid off I would maybe look at my options with a large move across country. I have a small car, and I like it. Now grant it it will not hold everything we want it to but it will hold everything we need it to. Cars are great little things and hey it’s cheaper to travel with the car then fly out, or rent a uhaul. We will need to replace a lot of stuff but I am okay with that. I am used to starting over I have done it a few times, so I know everything we own can be replaced.

I want my stuff back

admin — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 02:50:33 +0000

I am not sure if I should cry right now or be really pissed off. Maybe both options work good. Tonight my hubby and I went down to my car, and it was ransacked. My first comment was what the hell happened, my husband comment was it looks like your care exploded. I park my car in the garage and normally I haven’t had trouble but the time I make sure I lock my doors, someone robs me. Man I could cuss right now, I guess I am angry. At least they did not get the radio all the way out, that would have been sucky. They got my stupid Ipod adapter, I guess I do not get to play my music in the car when I want till I can replace it. The problem is I can’t simply replace it. My husband with out a job and all my earned money needs to support my family.
The damage to the car isn’t to bad, they spilled something in the front seat but that’s okay because I had already spilled something there.
I have to say I don’t feel as bad as I would, because while I was talking to the police another resident came up. He told us, I am glad your here with the police because I been broken into too, and asked to speak to the police man next. While we was talking the policemen evidently got another call about a car break in. Okay 2 cars in the same garage, are you kidding me, maybe even three cars. I feel bad for my neighbor because he lost stuff with more value, I only lost about 60 to 100 bucks worth of value, unless they use the check book that was in the car or the account number then potentially I could have serious issues. I am also worried about them stealing my insurance card that was in the car, hopefully they do not try to commit insurance fraud, which could be a real pain. I guess I have to worry about identity thief I am glad I did not leave my wallet down there like I tend to do.
A week ago, I went downstairs and my light was on in the car, I was surprised it was on for 18 hours because it should have drained my battery, maybe my car got marked a that day and I was to freaking stupid to know, my car was broke into. I am very trusting but the longer I live in Minnesota the more my trust gets broken, I know this is simply life stuff. I miss living in places where I could trust everyone and everyone knew eachother.
Tonight my husband said moving to Happy Valley Oregon, sounds like a good idea. I have to agree with him. I am so sick of winters and our apartment management. If we moved to Oregon this would
makemymothersring.com like never before. I know people can break into my car there too, but Minnesota have a lot of unpleasant things about it.
What really pissed me off is tonight one of our neighbors pulled into her slot and said nothing no concern, no nothing. She just hung her head and went. People in this building do not care about each other, and hey if it not me then who cares.
So a reminder to everyone keep your car locked up tight and if you can get a car alarm. Maybe I can rig my car with electric to send a nice shock but something tells me this could be illegal.

You had better stop

admin — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:22:37 +0000

Last night I was driving home from Shabbat service. It was good, Dad and I left to go home. Well I was driving and I got to a intersection. I am used to a few intersection where when the on coming traffic makes a left turn its time to go after. Well I almost ran a red light and realize just in time that I was gonna have one big casters on my car of another car.

At least I did not make it into the intersection and cause a big mess to have to deal with last night. Dad tried telling me he shouldn’t be talking, I said not you me I was thinking I was at a different intersection.

So many repairs

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:10:29 +0000

My car broke down, not good. Since I picked a car that needs special repairs everything I need has to come from KIA. Okay Considering I have had the car for over a year and I have had trouble other then 3 things grant it expensive but nothing I can’t handle. Well I decided to go searching on line, and boy I wish briggs stratton had car parts. They have everything from vacuum cleaners, to Snow blower parts. The vacuum parts are pretty reasonable, I might be able to find my filter there because I need to change it and can’t find it at the store, so prefect website for finding something that might be harder to find.
You can return the parts for any reasons, most places don’t allow the any reason at all. This could make turning something in easier if the wrong part is gotten. For some repairs they even have videos of how to do the work. This might be a useful site for me. I will need to look more in depth later.

What’s that sound

admin — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:09:46 +0000

The other day I was pulling out of my space and my care made a horrible noise, I know it was not the brake rotors, but I do know the front ball joint needs to be replaced soon. I am wondering if that what the horrible noise was, when I bring it in for an oil change I have them look at it. I also know I need to get the rear tires replaced before the first snow flies. For a minute there I thought I might have hit something but I didn’t I was far enough away from the other cars not to have that as an issue. So I know it time to think about fixing it, before it becomes the kind of thing I wish I would have fixed.
At least my car is not breaking down once a month like the van. Tires and ball joint is easy to fix, and is pretty much just maintenance.

Time to renew Tabs

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:29:43 +0000

It’s time to renew my tabs on the car, and I don’t even want to open the envelop because I know it going to be expensive. I am glad I have a newer car, it great. I do not have to worry about breaking down often, or being nickel and dimed to death because the car decides now is a great time to break down. Since having the car, I have only broken down once, and that was the thermostat and had to replace the 2 front tires and will need to replace the back tires this month too. I might put it off until next month, or else I will do the tabs next omonth. I have until the 10th to pay it, as long as I do not go t0o far away from home or run into a policemen in a bad mood. Normally in MN they give a 10 day grace period. Honestly I much rather buy me a nice pair of
merrell shoes, or something and not pay for the tabs. The nice thing about the DMV office here I never have a long wait and they are always nice to deal with, I do not think I have ever ran into a unpleasant person there yet.
My 2 back tires are bad so I think for safety I might need to replace those, and not the tabs this month. At least my insurance is not to much more then on the old van. So this car has saved me a little money, and boy I really do like it. I think I will always be a Kia fan.

Car needs a bath

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:33:47 +0000

Man talk about some pot holes now since the snow is starting to melt and boy some of those potholes are bad. My car needs a bath badly I think once it gets drier outside I will probably take it in for a bath. So far I haven’t had any accident or anything happen to my car with the way people drive. Lets see the city I work in decided until April no parking on the even side of the road. I thought parking would be a lot worst but it actually been pretty good by work. I park in the garage at home, but my car is so dirty.
I am going to have to find a one a day vitamin because I been so tired lately for no reason. Well maybe I am staying up to late. One thing for sure with all the pot holes around it be hard to fall asleep while sleeping. It will be nice once these potholes are fixed because it can’t be good on the car to be hitting everything.

I still like my car

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:18:53 +0000

I remember when I started looking at getting a new car, and having to call my agent for a couple of auto insurance quote, even though I went with a different car then I got quoted I figured it wouldn’t be much different and was right.
My Kia Rio Cinco is big enough to carry a good amount of stuff in the back, but also small enough to park it in a smaller space. I don’t normally like green but I really like the color. Today I was very glad I had a small car, I was on the highway heading home, I wasn’t needed at work, and some idiot was in the middle line going about 30 miles an hour, so I decided I would speed up a little and move over, what I didn’t see is someone else had the same idea but was going closer to 90 miles an hour. I was able to get out of the way with out hitting the other person, and with out being hit myself, I hit the breaks and think goodness the car does what I command it and it wasn’t icy out side. After Mr or Ms I am driving way to fast past me up, I switch over and then the mr I am going to drive so slowly that I drive a sane person insane, was still going as slowly as they possibly could, it is fairly frustrating.

I like my Kia

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:27:00 +0000

I will tell you what, I like my new kia it’s been cold the last few days, and boy that car warms up quickly and throws out hot air like you wouldn’t believe. Kia seems to be growing in popularity or maybe it’s because I have one now it seems like I see more Kias. At least I will not have to replace anything in the car except for oil anytime soon not even a water filters. Most of the stuff was worked on already by the mechanic who I bought it from. I am getting on average 27 miles per gallon, now this is simply amazing because 3 night this week I got trapped in very ugly traffic and didn’t run out of gas or go under 27 mile per gallon on gas. My biggest complaint is that the tank isn’t very big so the max city driving I gotten is 230, hwy will probably be max of 350 because it depends on traffic how well the car does on gas.
I have a CD player so I was able to play a sound track today that I got with my new Persona game, I like the sound track so having it in the car was nice.
Lets see the biggest problem is my yellow thing expired and I still don’t have tabs I guess if I don’t get them by tomorrow I will call the dealer again and tell him he needs to give me another yellow thingy for the window, or pay for parking tickets if I get any. I probably wouldn’t do that but it would be funny if I did. I am hoping the dealer ship is right that I won’t get ticketed because police know sometimes dealers take a while. We’ll see, probably worried about nothing. I do have to say I like a car which heats up within 4 city blocks or 5 to 10 minutes. It’s great having a heater. I still would recommend kia to friends and family. Yep I am know a Kia fan.