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Hi, remember me? I am back from Hiatus #I-Lost-Count, with some exciting, yet slightly bittersweet news. My Bug, Lola, has a new owner. She was the surprise guest at a teenage girl’s Sweet 16 party, and Stuart finally got his way, and now I am driving a four-door car deemed suitable for future children:

But no dogs. This car is too nice for dogs. Actually – it might be too nice for children.

That’s right. It’s a Buick. But this is not your grandmother’s Buick! It’s a 2011 Buick Regal, and my very first brand new car ever. Also – my very first car payment.

It has all leather interior (black, although you can’t tell from this picture). Yes – I went with the black leather again. I obviously don’t learn. In that respect anyway….I am definitely staying away from drive-thrus with yellow poles, though!

It was assembled in Germany and drives like a German car….fast, smooth and luxurious. It definitely makes my commute much more tolerable, although I have to be careful to set the cruise control. It has XM radio and OnStar (or BigBrother, as I call it).

Using BigBrother is always quite the experience. You would think that by now, they would have voice recognition software that can actually distinguish words like “Stuart” from “Goodbye,” but no. And after continuing to ask if the number I said is one that I actually want to dial, even though I’d answered in the affirmative a million times, it’s finally started responding to “Yes, goddammit!”

I haven’t used the navigation feature much, because in order to get directions, you push the button and tell BigBrother what you’re looking for, and turn-by-turn directions are beamed right to your car. It comes in handy if you don’t know the address of the place you’re going and want them to look something up for you, but I still prefer my TomTom most of the time, because my TomTom doesn’t judge. I am seriously directionally challenged, and I feel like BigBrother will beam over my directions, and then make a bunch of snide comments like, “Seriously? These places are seven miles from her house – what’s wrong with her?” and “We’ve had to beam her these directions a million times, how long does it take her to learn?”

I am also not quite sure that they aren’t spying on me even when I haven’t pushed their talk button;  I like to sing loudly and off-key along to the XM radio in order to discourage this. And with the XM radio, I can always find something to sing along to, to their utter delight, I’m sure.

So while I am thoroughly enjoying my new car, I still felt a little pang of sadness when I watched Lola drive away. I didn’t even think to take a picture or hug her goodbye before she left!

But now that it’s bye-bye Bug, hello Buick – what do I call my blog?? LovesBuick just doesn’t have the same ring to it!

Also – the car needs a name.

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