New Car

Wow! It's been a while. I'm not sure if anyone will even read this anymore, but here goes. I've just been crazy busy. I'm usually gone from the house from about 7am to between 4:30 and 5. This is obviously a huge change for me in the last 9 years or so. It's taken a little adjusting and we're still not quite there.

Anyway, we've had Stuart's car for probably about 5 years now and it was having a few problems. It was a 1998 Mazda 626. So we figured it was about time to get another car instead of fixing his. We had been meaning to go down to CarMax for the last few weekends, but have been really busy. So last Monday, I left school early and we went without the kids. We picked a car we liked and bought it! I know it seems somewhat impulsive, but we had been looking online for about a month. We got it home and thought about it and drove it, etc. and decided to take advantage of CarMax's 5-day return policy. So on Friday (when we were all off) we took it back. Seemed simple enough at the time. Unfortunately what was simple for CarMax wasn't as easy for our Credit Union where we had our loan.

So after going to CarMax where we returned the car and picked out another one, then to the credit union and back to CarMax (totalling about 3 hours) we went back home with no car. The CU needed to have more verification of the funds being returned by CarMax before we could close that loan and open a new one! What a pain!! But, I'm glad we did it because today we went by picked up our check and then got our new (to us) car all in about 30 minutes!

It's a 2008 Nissan Altima with only 17,000 miles. It's lovely. And we're very sure this time that we're keeping it!