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July 11, 2004
Parrell and danger lie ahead..
*in my best twilight zone narration voice*
As it turns out, I twist ALL my purl stiches. I made a whole HAT this way, a whole back of a sweater and a whole purse! ACK! No one TOLD ME!
So I went into S&S to purchase the rest of my baby cashmerino for the tank (as I have swatched and earned it!) and they took a look at my swatch and commented on how pretty the ribbing looked with a twisted stich and asked me which stich was a twisting. What?
So we identified it as the purl I am twising. Dang Nab It!! I wonder if that would make it any harder to knit or something? I hope maybe it explains why my sides are so wonky on my st st items..
So now I think I have to start over on the cable scarf... but I will continue the baby sweater with the twisted stich sence I made a whole back already.
They also helped me figure out me gauge so I am moving up a needle size to a 6 to reach the 4 inches, and no I'm not gonna test it I'm tired of it I'm going for it!
Hey guess what Jesse and I purchased yesterday? It was our first true purchase together with both our names on the loan (the house was more him them me really).
Except in silver, with real metal rims and HUGE tired and it can be washed out with a hose! I wanted the CR-V but Jesse really liked this and when you go into this car, it's hard to say no. I wanted this green but it had florecent green accents on the inside I don't think I could handle for more then 6 months.
We haggled the car dealer down and got a good price on it. I DID THE HAGGLING! Jesse is my support. I was so proud of myself. We also got a dang good rate. Afterwords the finance guy (we got along with very well) asked us what rate would we have been happy with.
We had written down everything before we went in like the MAX we would pay for anything. We where right on with the car, the trade in was about even and the interest rate was HALF what we thought it was. We think they gave us a fair rate because after we settled on the car I said to the guy.. if we walk in there and get a crappy rate we will not be purchasing this vehicle today. So we think he went and told the guy to give us a fair deal. Buying cars is sick and it's all about ripping you off so we are really proud we did good and got what we wanted! So I don't think we sould have been so honest with this guy, but hell we already had the deal we wanted so oh well. Helps them sell better I guess, but now we know what we can get for the future! Jesse said he will wait till my/his car gets good and old before he gets a new one (he's so good that way, i want a new car every 3 years) and it will be paid off in 2 years which is good.
Honda Carland in Alpharetta comes highly reccomended by Jesse and I. When pulled up this one dude was all over us I told him we just wanted to look so we crawled into some cars and waited till we spotted another salesmen that we liked better (he wasnt trying to stalk us) he was very polite, Jesse says I irritated him which Jesse says GOOD do it more! lol cause I want the numbers given to me straight and I dont want this Taxt/Tag/Title BS bitting us in the ass.
We bought the rate down some more by putting more down and we did a 4 year loan with a payment which is already $60 less the my car (which is now Jesse's car).
We are honda lovers! It's neat though the car was made in ohio, has very low smog stuff and most of the parts come from canada vs. Japan which is nice sence EVERYTHING is made in Japan.
I'll post pics of the car and me in it, and the tank cast on soon!
Posted by brandy at July 11, 2004 11:52 AM
Comments
Heh, I too used to twist my purl stitches! Re-learning that was a pain, but worth it... I purled that way for a couple months before somebody caught me.
And what a cool car! What type is it, exactly? I just bought my first car of my own two months ago, and love it - a 2002 Grand Am, my little baby. Congrats!
Posted by: Sandy at July 11, 2004 02:37 PM
What do twisted purl stitches look like? I hope I'm not doing that, too.
Love the new car - totally faboo! :)
Posted by: alysha at July 11, 2004 10:31 PM