Waiting to be transported

Wow, the wait is killing me, even though this is my 3rd MINI, this is the first one that I conceived and ordered. My 2 other MINIs were adopted, so I got instant gratification and was able to bring them home the same day. Well my new baby completed production on Feb 5th and is now at the port waiting to be transported by ship. (he's way too big for a stork) Once he gets on the ship, he'll be at sea for approx 21 days. Hopefully I'll get him before AMVIV but I think that is a longshot. Anyway, I'm so glad that MINI allows us to track our babies throughout the process, it makes the wait so much easier to know where he is everyday. Now I need to come up with a name...

Feb 4th Due Date

I just called ASK-MINI and found out that my baby will completed by Feb 4th. Then I have to wait the longest time for the stork to deliver him to me. I was really hoping he would get here before MINI's on the Dragon, but since he went into production much faster than I thought, now I hope he gets here before AMVIV, that would be awesome.

My BRG JCW was Born Today

Well, it happened faster than I thought it would, my British Racing Green JCW was Born Today. My Motoring Advisor Amanda from South Bay MINI in Ca just sent me his first baby ultrasound and this letter:

"Congrats

Guess what… its looks like you have a MINI delivery on the way our doctors at Plant Oxford sent this over for you!

Your MINI has started production as of today! Let me know if you have a name for it already or when you come up with one let me know!

Congrats again and thanks for ordering with me and South bay MINI! I will keep you updated as your MINI makes its moves through production.

Motor Safely

Amanda White
Motoring Advisor
South Bay MINI
310-939-7154"

Wow this is so exciting, my first two Mini's had already been delivered to their temporary homes before I adopted them. This is the first MINI that I configured and conceived from the very beginning. Boy this is going to be a long 2 months, I can't wait to get my new baby....

New Stuck On Minis Mobile

I finally heard back from the Lemon Law lawyer, Woodstock will be turned back to MINI USA in a couple of months. We've had some great times, but it's time to move on. I'll miss him, but it's not like we'll be MINIless, because I just placed my order for a 2010 BRG JCW Clubman. Hopefully it gets here before Minis on the Dragon, cuz we are driving out there to be vendor for Stuck On Minis. I guess the crazy tracking of my new baby begins tomorrow. I didn't have to track Woodstock because I bought him off the lot. It's going to be torture waiting for the updates on the MINIusa site. Oh well that's the fun of ordering a new MINI, watching his progress as he's born.

Being jobless sucks but not as bad as I thought

My contract with WB ended on Oct 31st. I remember it clearly, even though I knew it was coming and did my best to prepare for it, it still hit me pretty hard. I didn't quite freak out but it was close. I have always been defined by what I do and how I do it, so being jobless made me feel really worthless. I know that is pretty bad because there are more things to life then being a recovering workaholic, but that thought didn't make me any feel better. Luckily I have been preoccuppied with being in love with Bill, otherwise I think I might have gone slighlty crazy. I'm not suprised that I can't find a job, but I'm a little worried because for my whole life jobs have pretty much fallen in my lap and this time it hasn't.

I have never taken a vacation between new jobs, so this time I made up my mind that I would take a much needed vacation after my contract ended. I figured I would start seriously looking for a job at the beginning of the year. I made up my mind that I would put being jobless of out my mind for the 2 months before the new year. So far I have been pretty successful and have really enjoyed my time off and spending it with Bill. Since my last day in Oct, we have stayed at Disney for 2 weeks, went to Laughlin, Sedona and back to Disney. So even though I'm jobless, which sucks and I've let it come into my thoughts a few times in the last couple of months, I've really enjoyed the downtime and spending it with Bill. If I'm not careful I could get used to this, because being jobless isn't as bad as I thought it would be.

I have a good excuse, really I do

I know, I haven't updated my blog in more than 2 months, but I have a good excuse, really I do. It's not that me and Woodstock haven't had some excellent adventures, cuz we have. It's just that something totally unexpected happened to me in Oct. I fell in love... My life has taken a different path that I did not think was possible just 3 short months ago. I lived by myself for over 20 years and I liked it that way. I was free to do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I never wanted to, or thought of the possibility of getting married.

Well, my life has changed drastically and I can't believe I'm saying this, but I love my life even better now. I now have someone that I can share my life with and we can still do whatever we want whenever we want. Me and Bill got engaged Thanksgiving week and just set the wedding date for Oct 24th 2010. Wow, Love is a wonderful thing which I knew but somehow forgot about. Thanks Bill for reminding me that life without love is not worth living.

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.