In one week my husband became the proud owner of two new toys—a 2003 Buell Firebolt 1000cc motorbike, and a 1974 Sunbeam Rapier Fastback. The bike was all his idea and he’s been doing his best to convince me of what a bargain it is, how it’s a great investment, and how hot he’ll look in black leather. Okay, I’ll give him the last one. Then there’s the car.
He spotted the classified for it on Trade Me (New Zealand’s version of eBay) while we were on our disastrous pick up run to collect the bike. This particular Sunbeam Rapier is the same car he sold twenty years ago, and he has regretted this decision for a long time. Apparently it’s a guy thing to hold onto a car—or in some bloke’s cases, many cars—until they disintegrate to a pile of rusty metal. So dear husband can’t blame me for selling it way back then in the 90’s, since I’d yet to come into the picture, but he can now thank me (or as he tells everyone, ‘blame my wife’) for telling him while he was going all gooey over it and panicking trying to get the sellers phone number, “Just hit the ‘Buy Now’ button for Pete’s sake.” After taking a brief looking at his new purchase, I was heard to quietly mutter a line of dialogue from ‘The Lion King’s’ Timon: “Talk about your fixer-upper.”
At least hubby now has some projects to keep him out of my hair. And I have a really good excuse to buy a lot more books. After all, if I calculate the cost of one bike, one car, and all the extra $$ it’ll take so that they’re play-worthy… Well. That’s a lot of books. I’m just saying…
Tracey
What I’m reading this week: “Serendipity” by Carly Phillips.
What I’m watching this week: Amazing Grace. An incredible story of how one man changed the slave trade in England.
This week’s favorite quote: “She told me to buy it.” – This from my dear husband who never listens to me at any other time...
Hot guy of the week: Charles Kelly from Lady Antebellum. Oh yeah. He can ‘Own the Night’ with me any night of the week…
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