Nope, no hindrances here.

I spent a lot of time on the internet last night and into this morning (oh, 2:30am or so) looking at cars online and revising my "list" based on what I did and did not see yesterday. And I actually found cars to look at that didn't involve driving hundreds of miles.. in fact they were in the next town over. But..

Four and a half hours of sleep plus 35 degree weather plus a completely zonked out toddler.. didn't lend well to car lot exploration this morning. But, that's fine.. plenty of time.

Or not.

Driving, driving. Without driving.

I drove around and looked at cars today. A lot of driving.. a few cars. It was pretty fun. Hmm.. no it actually was the opposite of that.

The first place didn't have the car I saw online. The second place was stupidly out of the way (and closed) so I didn't bother with it. (And I wasn't sure there wasn't an outrageous toll somewhere on the way.) The third place was overly complex and frustrating to get to. One of the cars didn't have what I thought it would (my fault) and the other one was actually a possibility, but I was cold and frustrated and hungry and totally not in the mood to deal with a salesperson. So I left and got something to eat instead.

Then I went to a fourth place that was supposed to be closed, but it wasn't. I wasn't going to get out of the car because I was still eating, buuuut it didn't even matter because there seemed to be no way to drive into the actual lot look at the cars for sale. And since it was even colder than it had been the hour before, I wasn't about to make a hike out of it- so I left.

The fifth place was closed, which was fine. But it was also gated. And that wasn't fine because there was nowhere else to park to even look at the cars.

There was no sixth place because I was tried of driving my own car at that point.. nevermind any cars that could potentially be mine. The end.

what we did

1. Noah has been getting into the crayons more and more lately. Very surprisingly he hasn't gone for the walls yet though.
2. More beans and tomatoes from the garden.
3. Early signs of autumn.
4. My favorite fall mushrooms. They look like candy corn when they first sprout up, turn all orange, and then eventually brown.
5 - 7. More and more tomatoes, beans, lettuce, and green onions from the garden. Even in October.
8. Sugar cookies made. They were from a package.. but heck, I still get credit for baking. Don't I?
9. Thought the garden was done? Nope. Even at the end of October and beginning of November I'm still getting tomatoes, beans, and green onions. It's now November 2 and there is still more to come.

in November

November? How is it November? I don't think that's right. It seems like summer was just starting and now I'm already being bombarded with Christmas. I don't like it.

My unofficial blogging goal for the year was that each month I would blog at least as much as the same month the previous year. And I did.. until last month. There was just too much going on. Recovering from Lily's birthday at the end of September, endless car nonsense, preparing for Halloween..

And I failed- with only 6 entries instead of at least 10. But, now that it's November (and NaBloPoMo) I have the challenge of attempting to blog every day of the month. Last year was the first year I succeeded with that.

The up side is that I write more. The down side is that it is clearly quantity over quality. Is it worth it?