Sharks Hockey game

This was on my bucket list and Ryan surprised me on Valentine's Day with tickets to the Sharks game.  We should have studied the game a little before we went because we had no idea 1/2 the time what was going on.  Thankfully, we had kind seat neighbors who were helpful!  That crowd was the most polite group I've ever experienced.  Instead of fighting over t-shirts that were thrown into the crowd, they offered them to others around who "went" for the shirt.  The game was super close and really exciting....went into overtime, but the outcome was disappointing for true Shark fans. 

New car!

I have wanted a Prius since Ryan had one for work several years ago.  The problem is that he didn't like it, so away it went.  My excuse was that Reggie would be driving soon and we needed to have another car, so there was lots of time over the winter break, so I started looking.  The plug in Prius's in our area are the same price as the regular Prius, so I thought, why not go that route?  In California, you get a carpool pass if the car is considered an EV vehicle, but those stickers are only good for 3 years, so people are regularly unloading these cars.  I found one that was a screaming deal, but guess what, we were in Washington, so I told the guy we'd like to drive it if it was still available when we got back.  The posting was deleted the next day, so I sent him a not and he said he had a potential buyer.  They got all they way to the end of the transaction and he didn't have the title because he paid off the car and it was in transit.  I guess that was enough to spook the other buyer, so it was still available when we got back. 
You can't insure a car without a title, so it wasn't going to work for anyone, but he was hopeful that someone would buy it without the title.  He had no takers and we were first in line, so lucky us, we got it for $12,500!  It has a lot of miles (76,000), but is a 2015, so is super clean and feels really new. 
It has been super fun to drive.  I like to see how far I can go and how many miles to the gallon I can get!  It was a bit all over the place in the beginning because it didn't like EV mode (the guys NEVER used it and it doesn't like when the heat or air is on), but once I refilled the tank and figured it out, it seems to be working much better.  It didn't start with a full tank so it was really hard for me to estimate what kind of mileage I was getting and I was a bit disappointed and frustrated when the gas tank kept going down and I was using electric only.  When it dropped to 1/2 tank I decided to just fill it up and start over....it took a whole 3.7 gallons!!!  So far, I've driven 450 miles on this tank of gas and I have a half a tank left.

Oakley house

I got a text on January 29th that asked what I wanted our renter to do with the house keys???  I was so confused, but after I thought about it, I realized they were moving out on Thursday!!!  Whoa....she sent me a text in October stating they would not renew their lease, but I took that to mean they would go month to month since they wanted to buy a house (and we had a discussion the prior year about month to month vs. signing a lease).  Apparently, that was not their intention, so let's just say we kicked it into high gear!  I guess it was a blessing in a way since we didn't stress about anything until we had to!  We went up there to assess the house on February 1st, made several trips to get it back in mint condition, although they left it pretty darn good.  They forgot to do a few things, so I gave them the opportunity to do them, which I was hoping they would do and they did, so that saved us a little time.  We had a few people drop in while we were getting the house ready and I made a trip up there to meet a family that wasn't able to make it to the open house on Saturday, the 9th and before the open house, we had two awesome possibilities.  We had so much interest from Zillow and Craigslist that I couldn't keep up with the responses (over 100!).  We were expecting a flood of people at the open house, but I guess when push comes to shove, people didn't want to make the effort to show up.  We did have lots of colorful people at the open house and many groups of people were planning to live together, hmmm.  I guess that is how people can afford to live here, kind of sad.  We also had a lot of single mothers which was also sad.  Everyone who came absolutely loved the house and they all signed up to fill out an application, probably 25 people in all.

It was very hard to make a decision, but we did and feel really good about who we chose and Ryan went up there to sign the lease with them on February 11th!  It was fast and furious and exhausting, so we are hoping to not have to go through this process again for a few years!!!