this was a very busy weekend. the geo is spoken for, and relatively clean. the girl who wants it has had one before and she really thinks she's getting a deal. which makes me happy, because she is. the one problem with uncle henry's (the buy sell or trade book the car was listed in) is that everyone wants something for nothing. a lot of the calls i got were from people trying to convince me that the car was worthless and they should get it for $500, or $10 or whatever so they can pimp it out and sell it for a profit. the tires and rims are worth $500 alone. but anyway, its sold to a nice girl who got a car loan to buy it. i feel very uneasy about that*, so we made a deal for $750. enough to pay for the work my dad has done to it and clear 500 for the belated purchase of the honda. and it'll be gone. GONE. and that is a beautiful thing.
the next beautiful thing is that i have pictures of grace in the dumbo costume. unbelievable adorable. she has learned to sind the "e i e i o" of old mac donalds farm and very sweetly says "thank you" for everything from picking her up when she falls down to handing her a goldfish cracker. very polite. since emily is due in early december, we did a bit of her christmas shopping this weekend. including matching christmas dresses for grace and the new baby.** and i took a picture of the cart elavator at target for matt's family who just can't believe that such a thing exists.

for the bloopers section of this broadcast i fell flat on my face for no apparent reason. emily was getting cash from the drive up atm. she didn't grab the money fast enough, so the machine just spit it out. in to the wind. since she's 8 months pregnant, i offered to run in to the wind after her 40 dollars. and i tripped on the god damn perfectly flat asphalt. i've never seen emily laugh so hard. the worst part is that it's captured for posterity on the bank security video. lets hope they don't routinely review them.
sunday morning my dad was clipping coupons for stretchmark removal services for emily. i'm pretty sure it was a joke, but i enjoyed it more than she did. the best part of the weekend was emily mouthing "help me" accross the table after reid pronounced that they'll need two highchairs when the baby comes. help indeed. she's praying for an early delivery.


* it hurts my heart that someone would be paying prime interest to own my 10 year-old prizm, but her boyfriend is going to put a choice stereo in it, so i guess it'll work out.
** if indeed it is a girl.