A few things I did not like: it felt flimsy, the passenger seat was nearly in my armpit, the back seat was teeeeeeensy, there was no proper space to put things. It had 2 cupholders, lots of shallow slots, an open area in front of the passenger seat that things slid back and forth and flew out of and the windshield was so far away that putting my phone on it with the suction cup thing to use as a GPS was impossible.
Shutting the rear hatch made the door feel like it was made from a couple of those disposable turkey pans stapled together.
What I did like-it had good clearance, long a complaint of mine with the van. It got slightly better gas mileage, though it had a wee little 11 gallon tank. It does me no good to get more MPG if I have to stop even sooner to refill than I do in the van. Though I did get my $22 fill up fantasy fulfilled.
Anyway, I have my van back and the Jeep is banished to Planet Enterprise. I have a LOT of travel decals on the van from places we have gone. I wasn't going to sticker it up like I did Nettlevan and held off for the better part of a year. Then I decided it's my freaking van. STICKERS! I was doing state flags on the back and that of course was hit. The body shop was able to take the rear window off the other lift gate and reuse it, so I got to keep half my stickers. I reordered what I needed to and I realized why the back looked so weird-it wasn't that it was blank, it was that it was BLANK. No Kia insignia! I immediately ordered Batman symbols to replace it. hahaahaha! When I went by the car shop to pick up the SIX PAGES of what they did to the van (ACK, it was $2500, it was nearly totaled out for a freaking lift gate!) they had the new SEDONA strip to put on. I said, "No way!" They gave it to me and it's on the changing table in the living room now.
The changing table was Matt's dad's when he was a baby. His dad's mom was freaky tall, so us mere mortals just use it as a cabinet, since the changing surface is about nipple-height. It's still called the changing table, though it has not seen a baby butt in over 60 years. I never used a changing table, just the foot of the bed. Which is another reason to make the bed the minute you get up. It is the platform for the rest of the day! Ben and I are bed makers. Jake and Chan are not. And who has the most luxurious hair and nails in the whole house? Nia, but Ben and I are close seconds. Coincidence? No. Because after you make the bed, you take your hair and nails gummy vitamin. It's called routine and it's lacking in 2/3 of the under-25 set around here.
Speaking of under 25, Jake will be 22 this year and Ben will be 18. It SEEMS like it's a long way off, but it's already mid-year already. I just need to be horrified a bit. Okay. Jake had a margarita last weekend. He didn't like it. But the fact that he can just go buy one is alarming.
Enjoy this pic of Murphy Jones
And this snake that was under the gate.
