The Perfect Sunday

I know I haven't posted in over a month... What can I say? life is just so full these days that my blog has taken a back seat. I'm going to try and get back on track with the one post a day thing again though.

Yesterday was one long workday, I ended up working something like 17 hours straight, so needless to say, I'm beat. Sundays are usually my veg days, but lately a certain someone is not making that very easy, so I haven't vegged on a Sunday in a few months now. Well today, I'm going to veg, first of all cuz I'm really sleepy and have no engergy and second, I just don't feel like going anywhere. It turns out that this is the perfect day for vegging, it's one of those dark gloomy days where you can stay in your cozy bed all day and surf the web and fall asleep in between every once in awhile. Not sure I'll be able to do that cuz Bill is coming over, but hey you never know. So yeah today is going to be the perfect Sunday maybe curled up on the couch with Bill watching movies or something, who knows??? I just know that I'm spending the day with someone I really like and I'm not leaving the house for anything.

Woodstock is lonely

Well I finally did it, I sold my 2005 BMW 325Ci. Actually I sold it last month, but I was waiting for the title to come so that I could sign it over to it's new owner. Yesterday was the day, the new owner met me at the DMV where I signed the car over to her, can you believe they charged her $1500 in sales tax? This was the first time I ever sold a car and didn't know they charged sales tax on a car that I had already paid sales tax on when I bought it. What a scam...

Anyway, my friend who bought the car always drove old hand me down clunkers and this is her first nice car. I went over all the car's features, just like they do at the dealership and after all was said and done she left. I looked in the garage and poor Woodstock looked so little and lonely all by himself in there. Poor thing had to sleep by himself last night, he's always had big brother BMW next to him. I know both of us will eventually get over the loss. =o(

Lemon Law Process

As much as a love my cute little Woodstock, we've had some great times but we've also been to the shop 1 too many times, (over 65 days at the dealer for some major repairs). It was fine when I had 2 cars, but since I recently sold my BMW I don't have the luxury to have such an unreliable car. It's sad really cuz aside from the numerous problems he runs really good. I'm just worried that one of these days I'm going to be stranded somewhere. I contacted a Lemon Law lawyer who states that I have a pretty solid case. It will take around 6 months to complete, so we'll see how that goes. I really want another MINI, I just don't want to get another one and have the same kinds of issues. It seems like many people are having reocurring clutch, transmission, flywheel failures and MINI hasn't addressed these problems yet. So for now, I'm not sure what kind of car I'm going to get, it's a toss up between a MINI JCW or a BMW 135i so far I'm leaning towards the 135i

Back at work

Well after a last minute reprieve from joblessness on the 31st of July I'm back at work. I got to work but I have no access, so I decided to update my blog. Lets backtrack just a little. My last day was the 31st of July, I had already cleaned up my desk and was deleting all the stuff off of my computer when I was told that I got extended until Oct. Wow, was I surprised. I had already made plans to do the swap meets and take a break for a couple of months. This was great news, the only problem was even though they put in the paperwork for the extension, It had not been approved yet. So they told me to take a vacation for a week and come back today. Wow a 9 day vacation, boy did I use every min of that vacation to try and get caught up with my life. I got stocked up with tshirts for Stuck On Minis, sold my BMW, had lunch/dinner with friends and just a had a really nice relaxing 9 days off.

So I'm now back at work for at least another 2.5 months and hopefully the economy will get a little better by the end of Oct so I can find another job, or maybe they'll extend me again? At this poing who knows what the future will bring job wise, but at least for now I'm working which is a good thing.

09 Wine Country British & Euro Car Show 08/23/09

Just wanted to give you a heads up that Stuck On Minis will be a vendor at the REME (Redwood Empire Mini Enthusiasts) sponsored 2009 Wine Country British & European Car Show on 08/23/09 at 5525 Old Redwood Highway (Between Fulton & Shiloh Roads) Santa Rosa, Ca. A portion of the proceeds are to benefit the Safari West Wildlife Foundation
So far there are many MINI/Mini's, MG's, Rolls, etc signed up, it looks like it's going to be a really nice event.

Please come out and join us, it should be a great day with all the classic British Cars in attendance.

MINI's at the shooting range

I love to go to the range and shoot targets, I used to go at least once or twice a week. Ever since I got my MINI, I have been doing "MINI" stuff pretty much every weekend and my shooting activities have been sidelined. Well this weekend, me and my fellow Maniacs, some experienced, some newbies got together and went to the Oak Tree Gun club. We all had a blast, some of us shot trap and some of shot steel and paper targets. I'm so glad that I was able to share my other passion with my MINI friends. I hope we do it again soon.

MINI's at Mission Tiki Drive-In

SCMM had it's 4th annual MINI's at The Mission Tiki Drive-In on Sat to see Transformers 2. This was kind of a last min event so the usual amount of people could not attend. We did get a respectable showing of 24 MINI's including Tavis's classic mini, an Acura (Scott just sold his Classic MINI) and another non MINI.

Even though we didn't have the 80 cars that we had last year, we still had a really nice time. There was an original Hawaiian Shirt Contest and a raffle. Ontario BMW came out to promote their new MINI Dealership (it will open in Nov of this year) and they raffled off many cool MINI items. I won a nice MINI keychain and my sis won a t-shirt. They will also send an email to 3 lucky Ipod winners. I hope I win one...
Looking forward to next years event...

The countdown begins

There are only 21 days left in my work contract and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get extended. I've had a bunch of interviews but nothing has panned out. So I think if I don't get a job, I'm just going to hit the road with Woodstock and be a vendor with Stuck On Minis at some of the car show events and swap meets in California. I've always wanted to have my own business and I think this is the perfect opportunity. Who knows maybe if things work out I won't have to go back to a "real" job.

What are the odds???

Me and my niece signed up with 4 different emails each for the Michael Jackson Memorial and we didn't win one ticket. Her boyfriend who was with us when we were signing up wasn't even interested, but he signed up using a couple of his email addresses. Can you believe that out of approx 1.6 million entries he won twice, meaning he won 4 tickets!!! Geez, what are the odds, that is one lucky guy. Well, Ashley at this very moment is at the Staples Center with him. She's going to take lots of pictures for me.. I'm glad that one of us got to go.

Who registered for Michael Jackson's Memorial

Ok, I admit it, I was one of 1.6 million people who registered to try and win one of approx 17,500 tickets to see Michael Jackson's Memorial at Staples Center. I know the odds aren't that great, but you never know, maybe I'll get lucky.

If anyone wins one, please comment on this post, I'm really curious to know who you are and where you're from.

Good Luck everyone.