A New House, A New Car ... but not all is good

It's been over a month now that we've moved into our new house. So we've been quite busy with house remodelling projects. We've gotten a designer in to help with the design aspect so am very excited to see what she comes up with. I have also recently purchased a car. An Audi A4 quattro. Finally we succumbed to the car loving american lifestyle. Tab & I have been sharing a car, but living in the bay area, one really needs a car to get around (public transportation is pretty crap here). So when a friend at work was relocating & was selling his car i guess it was time. Now i had a list of cars that i wanted to get. My criteria is very simple:- It had to be European, automatic, either silver, black or blue. The bonus was that this is an AWD, which is great for making those trips up to the mountains for skiing.

On to the sad news, our cat Fleur, that we've had for 17 years and relocated with us from Sydney, has sadly passed away on the 7th of Feb. Fleur was living with Esther in NY & was on her way to moving over here with us, when we heard that she was sick. We had to finally put her to sleep as it was the most humane thing to do. It was a very hard decision as she is part of my family. She has been with us for so long, I still can't believe she is gone. I thought she would live forever. I guess none of our pets liked the U.S...