Oh, msbelle. So hard!

The topic is actually one I've been thinking about since last year, because I AM trying to set myself (well, Gothic Charm School, and by extension, me) up as a Recognizable Brand. Which means there are some kind of 4th wall issues that I need to get over. Or else I need to stop reading the interwebs, and that's just crazy talk.

Was the person you found using an icon of you using a picture from one of your photo posts? Maybe it would be less weird if they used photos taken by a professional photographer? Those are the sorts of pictures of celebrities that normally get turned into icons, not random snapshots.

I'm wondering if there's a Mazda that would work for me.

I had some early issues with my Mazda6, but in general, I'm pretty happy with it.

Better yet, this link...

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That's a good site for researching fuel economy in general. I can't find a direct link to the Jetta, but they list it at 42 hwy for the automatic. The combined is in the 30s.

Natter 66: Someone on the Internet is Wrong!

For the win!!

And I agree with many of you on gin...it makes me think of pinesol. Which a friend of mine did a shot of freshman year of college (...yah, bad plan. he was dared. we were all really drunk already. Senior year, he offered to do it again, and when we amazedly, hesitantly, were like "...dude, really?" he was like "FUCK NO, I'm not that dumb anymore!")

Unrelatedly, we've (at work) just determined that the genesis of curling had to be alcohol-based.

That and caber-tossing! Which is totally my favorite "sport" ever.

Dark and stormys (stormies?) are delicious. The bar on the corner near me does them yummy, and rightly, with ginger beer. Mmmm.

I feel like my friends who've had VWs through the years were always having to get random little things fixed on them. It totally, possibly irrationally, has taken any VW off of my possible future car list.

I love my VW Jetta V6 to absolute pieces, but since they don't make it anymore I a) can't recommend it for purchase and b) will get it repaired every time.

My cousin and her husband really like their VW Passat TDI, but they might just put up with random little things to fix in exchange for the mileage. Don't know.

I feel like my friends who've had VWs through the years were always having to get random little things fixed on them. It totally, possibly irrationally, has taken any VW off of my possible future car list.

My boss has had a number of issues with her Rabbit in the last year, after only having had it for three or four years. It's to the point where she's thinking of selling it and getting something else, definitely not a VW.

Another good thing about that fuel economy site is that it gives the economy of everything using 2008 EPA ratings so you can compare apples vs. apples with used cars.

Oh, msbelle. I'm sorry you can't run away.