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More Hyundai fun! Are you ready? 😡

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We bought the car 12/7. Two weeks post sale they hadn’t yet sent the registration transfer info to Michigan so they did it the next day (12/24). I called today to check on things and Michigan tells me we owe another $830 because the taxes were figured wrong!! So finance screwed that up.

They actually took out Illinois taxes (7%) vs. Michigan taxes (6%) so I figured fine, we’ll just register it in Illinois. Easy, right? No! Since Michigan is a reciprocal state they’ve already electronically deposited the funds… I imagine it will be a nightmare getting the money back from Michigan.

After talking more with the title lady, apparently she has to call the state of Michigan tomorrow to see what can be done because Finance says the deal is done (already funded) and would have to be fully redone from scratch?! 😳 That as far as they’re concerned the car is registered in Michigan… (Yes, even though they screwed it up?!) FFS.

So our temp Illinois tag expires today and we have no legal tag or registration–and they can’t extend it or give us another one. So they dragged their feet on things (Michigan is partly to blame, too) and we’re left hanging.

Since the title lady I’m talking to is nice I’ll wait for her call. Then it’s up the food chain at Hyundai because this is just insane.

Oh, and we go in Thursday for our actual car issue. I’m assuming that will be a nightmare, too.

Happy New Year from Living Lippy!

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If you’d told me on NYE 2017 that on NYE 2020 I’d be 2.5 years into a successful direct sales business, I would have laughed you out of my house (yes, we’d have been at my house since we have young kids and we’re both homebodies 😂).

I never EVER imagined I’d choose to do something that required sales, actively talking to people (strangers even!), live videos, and applying makeup…yet here we are! And I’m having a blast!

So as the new year begins I’d like to thank everyone who has supported me—I couldn’t have done it without you!

Gramma’s pics from Christmas in Grayling.

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I forgot my mom gave me her pics so now they’re out of order. But all these were from our trip.

Owen gave us a saxophone performance.

And some silliness…

Katie decided to go barefoot in the snow like cousin Anna did one year.

Owen in two of his presents.

The family picture.

Katie was being kinda a stinker and left this sad note for Santa.

Tubing with the fam!

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We all went tubing today at Hanson Hills!! I had never done it before but I am all about NOT having to walk up the hill!! I hadn’t been inside the building in probably 25 years…plus they’ve totally updated it…so how can it still smell exactly the same?!

Tubing was so much fun…but everyone else in Grayling had the same idea and there were too many people (IMO) so we only got three runs in! It only took about 10 minutes max to ride up and go down but they’re were so many people we were waiting 15 minutes in line. (The tow rope also broke for about 15 minutes—THANKS, MARIE!—so that didn’t help.)

Katie only went down twice—she got too freaked out that she was going to come out of the tube. I could actually understand—you really got going fast and I was initially a bit freaked out. I went down once with Owen, once with Tom, and then the last trip with Tom, Owen, Doug, and Robert!

Thanks to Gramma Jean for taking pics with my phone!!

Bitmoji iPad tech support

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So the iPad lessons have been continuing and tonight I was helping Mom setup Snapchat and Bitmoji because she wanted a fun Bitmoji.

We were having fun when Katie came in and wanted to help. It was funny. Gramma Jean was looking at the type of body to use and said “OH NO! I have to use the last one (plump)” and Katie spread her arms to the Heavens and said “No, make yourself skinny!” So damn cute. Mom and I laughed and laughed.

Here’s the first Bitmoji she published to Facebook!

A Tom and Doug project.

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As usual, we decided on a tech project halfway through our stay… Mom and David got a new TV! Which meant Tom had to pick it up in Traverse City (which was fine because he was headed that way to spend the day with Rob) and then get it all set up and hooked to the surround sound. Doug was tapped to help. The old TV went downstairs and that even older TV went to the the garage to be given away!

Gramma is funny.

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So I’d say my mom is somewhat computer literate but she hasn’t jumped into iOS at all (to give you an idea, they have a TracFone).

But this year she got her first iPad for Christmas from us kids…and I’ve been giving her small lessons. It’s a totally new experience for her but she’s doing well–I’ve been using iOS since 2009 so sometimes I forget how overwhelming it can all be.

So tonight a bunch of us were talking and she was standing by me when she took a photo and she asked if I wanted it so I told her to Airdrop it to me (something I taught her last night) and without hesitation she dropped the iPad into my lap.

The room never laughed so hard. #scoreoneformom #micdrop

Christmas Charlie

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Since we aren’t going to be here on Christmas morning and I didn’t want to haul all the presents to Grayling, we had our family Christmas this morning. The kids were absolutely thrilled with their four gifts (something they want, something they need, something to wear, something to read—plus I added a STEM gift)… but the best pictures I got were of Charlie and her new catnip house and in Owen’s game box. 😂

Let’s feed some kids!

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Owen’s scout pack was volunteering at Feed My Starving Children so we all went!

Owen on bags and Katie on the weigh station. Four separate scoops of vitamins, veggies, soy (protein), and rice go in the bag, then it’s weighed (it has to be between 380-400 grams), then it’s sealed (my station), and then 36 bags go in a box!

The kids switched to the scoop station!

After, I might have also done some personal and Christmas shopping (each gift provides a various number of meals) plus bought a year’s worth of meals for a child.

We enjoyed it so much we will likely go back with friends to do it again!!

Hair washing day!

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This morning was hair washing day. If you’re like me, it’s something you plan for. My hair is wavy but I like to wear it straight so I need to take things into consideration like the time it takes to air dry or if I have the energy to use a round brush and a hair dryer for 30 minutes.

Straightening my hair is a long process during which my arms get tired and I sweat (ha, my phone corrected that to swear and that’s sometimes true, too) and even then it’s hard to get the back or the roots straight. I would need a second set of arms plus at least another 15 minutes to really get it right. It’s exhausting.

But this morning? This morning was a delight. Today I tried the Dyson Airwrap and HOLY FORKING SHIRTBALLS it is a life changer!!

I let my hair air-dry for an hour then used the dryer attachment for like two minutes and then the hard brush attachment for less than 15 minutes. Straight hair, straight roots, no sweating, no sore arms. Sigh. 🥰

Tomorrow I throw away all my old styling implements and round brushes. Yippee!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

P.S. If you Google the Dyson Airwrap, prepare for a minor heart attack. I had a good friend let me use her company discount so I got it a bit cheaper.

P.P.S. I’m in Mojave. Big surprise. 😂