Jay’s Life

We spent some time looking at potential next vehicles as well. It would be really nice to have a small SUV, make life alot easier for traveling with the animals. My criteria included functionality, no minivan likeness, and the same or better fuel economy than what I drive now. The SUV that met all of those requirements was the Honda Element. I absolutely love them!! I love them even more every time someone mentions how much they hate them, they are so unusual.

I went into a Toyota dealership and looked at the Hybrid Highlander too. Its the stupidest design EVER! They’ve added a third row of seating that folds down into the trunk but it makes the floor too high up. We want the dog to be able to sit/lay down on the floor when we travel and its so unsafe if he’s going to be up so high. The element gives us the ability to put a dog bed on the floor right behind the front seats and clip his seatbelt harness to the floor. Super safe for him. We could even travel with both cats and the birds! we could actually go places! Its fantastic.

Going to go test drive one this week sometime to see if its actually any good to drive. I don’t want it to drive like a truck. Then I’ll get to dream about it for months….potentially years before I can actually afford one.

Staysea and I went down to the Auto Show on Saturday after a friend of mine gave us tickets. It was pretty cool. We saw a Maybach 62 S. If you’ve never heard of one, I’m not surprised, they are hand made, and the one we saw was $450,000 USD. At over 6 meters long and weighing 1.5 metric tones, it’s a beast. Couple it’s size and weight with a twin-turbo V12 at 612 HP and 738 lb-ft of torque, it will take off from 0 - 100 km/h in 5.2 seconds. Oh and it has reclining seats in the back with foot rests.

The Acura guys, had their concept car out that looks like a concept of the batmobile. Not very exciting at the Acura area now that they don’t make any sports cars, just sport sedans. Since I own 2 Acrua’s I was hoping for a little more excitement.

The exotics were there, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Rolls Royce, Austin Martin and Bentley.

There were 2 cars that really made me go ‘wow I want one” and they were the Audi R8 and this custom Holden, the pictures of the Holden do not do it justice. The paint on the car was even more stunning than the Lamborghini above.

Jason and I tend to treat our dog and our cats like little furry children. Thats not news to anyone. But today while browsing through the blogs I randomly came across this picture of Happie. The glazed look in his crossed eyes and the lolling tongue….definitely not taking responsibility for that!

Excitement and joy abounds in the Johnston-McLeod household, as my airmiles finally pay off for something super exciting, introducing the Bissel Powertrax Revolution, fun for all!

I feel that I may be old if I’m excited about a vacuum cleaner, but I am. And it was very satisfying to clean the carpets. It was even more exciting to see that it came with a little turbo brush do-hicky that cleaned my floor mats of Dog hair very, very well. Look at that clean right side! I can’t wait till the snow is gone again so I can put them back in my car.