YNKEEGRL Plates

I picked up my new car yesterday and ordered my new plates. It was the best day of all days for the most part!!!!!!

Picking up my car was too cool and so very exciting. I just love this car and the best part is when I got it there were only 9KM on it as opposed to the 223,000 I traded in with the Grand Prix. Driving in my new car is just the smoothest, quietest ride ever and the red colour doesn't hurt much either.

Ordering my personalized plates was an experience. I got the plates I most wanted YNKEEGRL. The woman working the counter was so cute when she was entering my personalized plates. She assumed, as most people do, that I am an American living in Canada. When I told her it was for the New York Yankees she told me I was too cute and must be a real hardcore fan. When I told her about my Yankee tattoo she was even more impressed or maybe she just thought I was crazier than she originally thought. The turnaround time for personalized plates is 4-6 weeks, but since the Christmas rush is over I can hope to expect them in 3-5 weeks.

There are many things for which I can thank you Cute Boy, and the gift of my personalized plates is one of them. The generosity and thoughtfullness of my gift is more than I expected and sooo very much appreciated. Materialistic gifts are great and I appreciate every one given, but know it is the simple things you do that mean more to me than you'll ever know. The greatest gift you've ever given me is the gift of YOU!

Personalized Plate Ideas

Today is the big day. I'm getting my new car today and couldn't be more excited. Cute Boy, the sweetie he is, bought me a gift certificate for personalized plates for Christmas. Now that the car has been bought it's time to figure out what to get on my plates.

Being the huge Yankee fan that I am, it will definetely be something pertaining to the Yankees. Here are some ideas Cute Boy and I came up with yesterday:

YNKEEGRL
YANKSGRL
YNKEEFAN
NYYNKEES
YNKEEFN2

I have to go the Ministry of Transportation after I pick up my car. I'm not sure which plate name will be available, but hopefully with the options I have something will be available. I'll let you know which plate I end up getting.

Revving Red Camry Coming Home

Look at my newest acquisition! Leave me unsupervised for any period of time and I can get myself into a world of trouble.

I just got off the phone with Dave (Cute Boy's brother-in-law) and the deal is a go. I'm now the proud lease owner of this adorable little gem.

Princess and I went in to see Dave yesterday, after much feet dragging on my part to put the wheels in motion to buy/lease a new vehicle. I decided to lease because the payments better fit my needs right now, as much as I'm not a huge fan of leasing. I know there are many pros and cons to leasing, and right now leasing works for me. My payments are more managable and that is what I need right now and the buyout is one that I'm comfortable with now and hopefully will be at the end of the lease period.

It has been many years since I've owned a new vehicle and never have I done it on my own, so this is a major scary and exciting step for me. I don't get to pick it up until Monday. What a long weekend it is going to be waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting...... a little impatient, eh?

I had the best time buying this car. Dealing with Dave was just sooo easy. I guess when a deal to buy a car starts out with a hug and ends with a hug good things will happen! The deal was put together and presented to Bruce, the operations manager, who knows Cute Boy from when he worked for Toyota. Bruce was supposed to take my car for a test drive, instead came in and handed my keys to me and said, if you're attatched to Cute Boy I don't need to drive your car and handed me back my keys. My car trade-in value was only $3.00, if you can imagine, but being 'family' according to Dave, I got $1000 off the price of the vehicle! Buying this car from Toyota was like being treated like 'family', not only by Dave, but by everyone I dealt with from beginning to end. When Bruce was leaving the office the first time, he took Princess' hat and propped it up on her head which in itself is hilarious because Princess is anal about her hair. She took the hat down at one point, Bruce, walking by the office, came back in and put it up again. It was this kind of friendliness that put me at ease in buying my car.

I had to deal with Laurie, a lady working in the finance department. She was too cute. We got to talking about things other than just buying and financing a car. Laurie was telling me about her grandson that is our city's New Year's baby. We also got to talking about The Relay for Life which she participated in for 2006, as well as a fundraiser for the Lung Association The Amazing Pace which is now something I want to look into doing. This whole car buying experience was just like being in the company of family.

All in all I'm scared and excited.... I'm more excited than anything right now. Bring on the weekend and lets get to Monday already.