Living the American dream

We've finally caved and become a two-car household. So now we have two cars and two houses...I'd say that about covers the standard "American dream", right? I will say however, that one of our houses is not particularly livable, and the second car is only going to be driven a couple of days a week for no more than 7 miles each way. :) Do note, that I did not say this is our American dream. I would be much happier with only one car (I do like having the two houses--mostly because I like doing demolition and that's generally not a good idea in a house that you live in).

We bought a 1992 Nissan Sentra this past weekend for Mark to drive to work. Most days we can still carpool, but there are a couple of days that he doesn't go in until noon or 1pm, which makes it a little difficult to get both of us to work with one car. It's still doable, but it involves a lot of driving back and forth across St Louis for one of us. Amazingly enough, the car passed both safety and emissions inspections, and we'll get the license plates today (Mark got temporary tags for it on Tuesday).

Tonight is a birthday dinner for a friend and then "Grease" at the Muny. Hopefully it manages not to rain all evening. We've had pretty consistent rain for the past few days, but it's supposed to clear up tonight. As a consequence of lots of sunshine followed by lots of rain, we have a squash plant that is overtaking our garden. I think the only harvest we'll have this year is a lot of squash and a couple of watermelons!