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I drive a 1999 Pontiac Sunfire, burgundy with tan cloth interior...but the best part is my AM/FM radio with no knobs. Yeah Baby! :clap2: Seriously, I love my car, it's very comfy and has been so reliable. Just normal maintenance and wear, nothing outrageous...but I haven't priced replacement radio knobs yet so who knows. :)

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AS you can see from my screen name, I do a lot of river trips. This bad boy carries two very large canoes and all the gear I need for a long weekend.

It's also a great shuttle vehicle. At the beginning of a river trip, after we unload all of our stuff at the 'put-in', or where we begin, everyone drives their car to the 'take-out', where we are going to end up after 3 days of paddling down the river. Everyone leaves their car at the take out, and we all pile into one 'shuttle' vehicle, for the ride back up to where we left all our stuff - hence the need for the quad cab!

And yeah, Baby - it's got a Hemi!

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I have a blue 2004 Jeep Liberty. The same exact blue one they show in the Jeep commercials. My husband drives a 2000 Chevy conversion van. We purchased both brand new. My husband would like to get a Chrysler 300 next. I told him it will be a long time away. I do not plan on us getting another car payment for at least 5 years.

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Haven't yet put any of the pic's of My Bug on my site yet, but yes .. this is what I drive during the daygeeksquad.gifAt night you can find me in a 2004 Saturn ION {and no, that is not a 10-N. Actually had some lady ask me that while at the dealership getting mine serviced. I was kind enough to correct her, and yes (truthfully and reluctantly I tell you SHE WAS BLONDE! - no, not bashing blondes, some of the smartest women I have known are blondes, and some of the dumbest <take my ex ......PLEASE, take my ex ... far away and strand her some where remote :clap2: :) >

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2003 Toyota Camry and a 2004 Chevy Trailblazer

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no pix - but i drive...deep breath...a chevy suburban...:) it wasn't MY idea) my husband got a jones for this damn car but when gas prices started to rise, i got the car cuz it's only 5 miles to where i work. now i drive The Beast. all my friends call it The Beast, my mom calls it The Beast even my husband now calls it The Beast. The Beast costs between $80-135 to fill up. Pray for me....

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My husband sold his Navigator to my Dad this weekend. He still has not ordered his Z4! He is driving my Daughter's Corolla until he gets his new car. When? Who knows?

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I drive a black 2004 Chrysler Pacifica. Gas kills me but I needed something I could get my ex's wheelchair in and out of. Other than the fuel costs I love it.

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IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED!!!!!

My husband ordered his BMW Z4! We fly to Spartanburg, SC to pick it up on September 29th! I can't wait because we are going to drive it to Charleston to see my Baby Brother before driving it back to Texas.

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I have a Red Mini:

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Hubby has a 2003 retro style Thunderbird:

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And our Target/Sam's car is an Explorer!

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Of course none of them look as clean as they do in these photos!!

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My DH recently traded his Impala for a 2006 Dodge Stratus. It gets better gas mileage and you can use the E85 gas. Yes, it's cheaper but the mileage really goes down when you use the E85. I'm not convinced it worth at this point.

This is what my DH uses to mow the grass......:(

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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