Best Night Ever

Let's just get it out in the open. I don't think many people actually read my blog, and I'm about to cut that following in half: I'm a Duke fan. Not only am I a fan of the Blue Devils, but I've actually been a fan longer than I have of Kansas State. I'm not saying I like Duke more than K-State, but not many people can stand Duke....I happen to be one of them.

Sometime in middle school, I started to love the Blue Devils. I got selected to be a part of the 'Duke Talent Search' (as I'm sure did many others), but from that point on I wanted nothing more than to go to Duke, so I became a huge fan. At some point in high school I realized there was no way I could afford to go there, so I had to choose where my new loyalty would lie - and it landed with the Cats.


March Madness was always fun choosing my brackets then. And if you ask my dad he'll tell you, that for the past ten-ish years, I would always pick Duke to when the whole thing, whether I thought they could do it or not. I never thought K-State versus Duke would happen, so last year everyone started asking me who I would cheer for. After a lot of thought (don't yell at me, I really had to think about it for awhile), I decided....I bleed purple. I had to cheer for my Cats.

So last year when I saw that K-State and Duke would be playing in the CBE classic in Kansas City, I knew I would be there. When the schedule was released, and K-State and Duke would only play on the second night, if at all, I bought my tickets. At the time, I had already made my decision to move to Denver, but I knew I would make it back somehow. I mean, how often will this game happen? I told my friend Erin about it and she was in! She is a die-hard Husker, but is also a huge Duke fan, and last year, became a K-State basketball fan. Don't say she jumped on the Cats bandwagon, it's not like that at all - but we knew this was the match-up we couldn't wait for!

Shortly into the game, I realized as much as I love Duke, there was no way I could cheer for them - everything I had was yelling for purple! It wasn't quite the competitive game we were hoping for, but we had amazing seats in the 6th row and got to see two of the best teams in the country, and two of the best COACHES in the country, play.....and what a night to remember. The only thing I can hope for is that we get to take another shot at Duke - in April.

Go Cats!!

We had amazing seats:

Happy because Duke won:

Sad because K-State lost. We'll get 'em next time!

It Never Hurts to Try

For the past nine years, I've been a Saturn owner and couldn't brag about them enough. In high school I had a little four-door purple Sedan (and some of you really think I'm ever going to convert to being a Husker?), and about three years ago, I bought a brand new silver Saturn Vue.

I think the Saturns are great quality cars - so I'm devastated that they're now out of business and I'll never get to buy one again. Weird, I know, I just have really loved my cars! They are (usually) always reliable and I've never had major problems with them.....

.....at least not many. My purple guy (who I called Willie) never had major repairs, but my new one seems to have the weirdest problems. There is of course the infamous windshield bash, when a lovely fake St. Patty's day fan thought it would be a great idea to throw a barrel trash can at my windshield. That was a great gift.

More recently, I dealt with a broken heater core. On a drive to Manhattan recently, my car stopped defrosting, which causes issues when it's late at night, driving across the state. When I got back to Castle Rock, I took my car in for repairs and found out it was going to cost me $1,400. Awesome. Not that I didn't have the money for it, I just don't like paying for anything. What do you expect - it's the financial planner in me.

Randomly driving along the road one day, I remembered that back in February I had to take my car in for a recall to prevent the heater core from breaking. Funny, that I get that fixed and six months later, the darn thing breaks anyway. 

After many hours on the phone, I was able to get a hold of the right people and lucky me - I'm getting half of the repairs reimbursed!! I'm not usually one to ask for the money back, but since it cost so much, and probably shouldn't have still broken - I figured it was worth a shot. 

So HUGE thank you to David at McCarthy Chevrolet in Olathe, Jim at General Motors, and Sean at MedVed Chevy in Castle Rock.

It never hurts to ask!!! The worst they can tell you is no - something is better than nothing!