Our Prius is Coming! Our Prius is Coming! [View All]

Hubby sold his 21mpg gas guzzling G35. We still have my Toyota Highlander SUV (which gets believe it or not, 22-25mpg) for side use. After Monday it will be a secondary car completely.

We will have our Prius! We now carpool, cutting our 120 mile per day commute (80 miles for me, 40 for him) and combining them to make a 58 mile per day commute for us both (I now drive him up through the city, drop him off at his office, and my office is 5 miles past that).

The Prius needs to be here yesterday! For whatever reason, the gas prices in Charlotte are insane! Still, with our new routine we're conserving a lot of gas and soon will be conserving even more money.

I can't wait! It's a Tideland Pearl color, tricked out package 6 with nav system, everything. At $28k it's a bit more expensive than if we'd just bought a standard tricked out sedan, but it's not about saving money so much as it's about choosing to give that extra money to a car company instead of the Bush and Bin Ladin oil terrorist networks.

I'm so excited!

We've even picked out a name... The G35 we sold was named "Yoko" (she had an Asian lilt to her voice). My Highlander is named "Martha" (I got her the day Martha got out of jail). The Prius will be named "Yoda", for he is small, green, and wise...

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