Eventful Weekend, Sorta

What a weekend, I went to a poker game, bought a new car, and spent all day Sunday sick on the couch. Friday Night was a blast, I played poker with a few friends. We played very small limits which I really like because then nobody is worried about losing a lot of money. I won $12 and another guy lost $10 so it's more for bragging rights as opposed to monetary gain. I just enjoy hanging out with my friends, talking shit, and having a few beers as opposed to playing for a lot of money. Friday afternoon we looked at an Escalade that we really liked but it had some damage to the front bumper that they said they wouldn't fix so we decided to hold off and go to Longmont/Loveland area and look at a few up there on Saturday. I'm confused as to why they still call it a bumper? These new cars are made completely out of paper mache and so is the "bumper", it used to actually be made out of steel so if you bumped something it wouldn't damage it. Whereas now, if you so much as hit a gnat the bumper explodes into a thousand pieces on impact. Anyways, on Saturday morning the salesman call me at 8 in the morning and says that the bumper will be replaced at no additional charge. So we went back Saturday and test drove it and ended up buying it. This was a pretty tough decision for me because I really didn't want to have a car payment again but it was priced right and very low miles so hopefully this will last us for 10 years. We actually ended up pretty limited on the cars we looked at due to the features we wanted. First and foremost it had to be a V8, my wife and I both subscribe to the motto "drive it like you stole it". It's really stupid because I always leave way early if I'm going somewhere so I don't need to speed but I always seem to be in a hurry while driving. We also REALLY needed the third row seating for all the kids we don't have?!? We wanted something with low miles in the hopes that this will be the last car we buy for a loooonnnnggg time. And after looking at some other cars it made sense to us to pay only a couple thousand more and find a '05 or '06 Escalade with low miles and priced right as opposed to a Mercury Mountaineer. We got our '05 for well below blue book and sold our jeep for well over blue book so that really helped as well. I've still got a little buyers remorse going on but not because I'm not happy with what we got but because I really didn't want to have to buy a new car. Our P.O.S was falling apart though and I'm sure it was the correct decision.
Sunday sucked though, I was sick and watched tv on the couch all day. I did win a couple bucks on some bets I made but other than that it was awfully miserable. And I may or may not have, but definitely did crack my rib playing racquetball. It hurts like a son of a bitch when I do anything. I guess I could have ruptured my spleen or maybe I had a heart attack, I'm not real sure what's wrong but my chesty area hurts.
I will also be adding to my list of things that annoy me so check back with that.