I think I’m invisible today… or maybe I just want to be. Already having one of those days, rollover from the day before. Usually once I go to bed and wake up everything starts new and refreshed, unless it’s something major bothering me… but seriously, driving into work today people were acting like I wasn’t even there. They would switch lanes, cutting me off and almost running right into me, like I wasn’t there! I mean, people drive like maniacs down here, but I guess I just ran into too many of them all at once this morning and it kind of irritated me. i have a feeling it’s just going to be a “blah” day today… I hope no one bothers me! Too bad I can’t go back to bed.

sorry to be depressing today, probably not too exciting to read! but sometimes you just have to get things off your chest!…

And I almost forgot to post the pics of my new car!! How dare I!! It’s actually not a car, but a mini SUV. It’s a Ford Escape. YEA!

I am sooo excited because i actually have A/C that works now!! This is my first car with a sun roof, and keyless entry… Hell, it’s my very first NEW car!! I’ve only had 2 other cars in my life. My first was a 1990 ford escort (I got it in probably ‘98) a gift from my wonderful parents for my birthday. The 2nd car was my mom’s car, it was only about a year old. They gave it to me when I was worried about driving that old car 2 hours home from school. They didn’t like the idea of me not coming home, so they gave me my moms car and she got a new one! lol. like how i worked that one out?? And I drove that car ever since! now I’m 26 and finally have a new car all my own!

I haven’t been able to sleep well lately… the night before last both me and the hubby were up for some reason, so we were able to watch tv together at 3am before we finally both tired out so much and were able to go back to bed. Last night, it was only me! so I went in the other bedroom to not disturb him with my tossing and turning- and also it helps sometimes to just change locations. The spare room is in the front of the apartment, right next to the front door. I was up from approx. 1-330am before falling back asleep. 530 am I hear a pounding on the front door. Who the hell is pounding on my door so early in the morning?? I dont really know anyone who would live around us that would need us for an emergency so I try to just ignore it thinking they will go away. Nope, more pounding! So I get up and look out the peep hole and see a police officer. UH OH! So I open the door… my husband still soundly sleeping in the back bedroom mind you… “Sorry to disturb you in the middle of the night Mam’ but is that your car out there?” Um theres a whole parking lot full of cars out there and I have one out there so I’m assuming it is… but I say, “The Focus, that one is mine.” “Do you know what happened to the tags on that car?” (or something to that effect, I know he said “tags” a bunch of times instead of license plate so I dont know in my half asleep, exhausted state I knew what he was talking about!) I had taken the plate off the night before because I was supposed to get my new car and we were transferring the plate to the new car. I started to explain and I got to “I just took it off yesterday bec—” He stopped me there, “OK so you took the tag off?” “Yes.” “Ok so it’s not stolen?” “No” “Ok, just wanted to check and be sure it wasn’t stolen” “Nope, thanks”…. and thanks for waking my ass up on my DAY OFF! at 530 AM when I couldn’t sleep!!! GEEESH. Even if it was stolen what the hell would I do at 530 am? And come on, on a holiday when i usually am up at 530 but I actually get to sleep in you wake me up?? ERRRRR.

Then i was thinking… as I was desperately trying to go back to sleep… what if it really wasn’t a police officer, but he was just dressed up as a police officer? That wasn’t very safe for me to open the door by myself, but how can I not open it to a police officer, right? lol. Then when I told the hubby what happened (after he woke me by standing over the bed at 830 am just to check to see if I was ok…. gee thanks. Again, I’d rather sleep thanks!) he yelled at me (ok didnt yell but just sternly lectured and I took it as yelling in my exhausted state) “wake me up next time, don’t open the door. What if it was just someone dressed up as a policeman?” Haha, sometimes we thinking alike…

In Other News… I GOT MY NEW CAR TODAY!!!!! YEA! I have some pics but not uploaded yet. I’ll do that in another post later this week

Great way to start off a Monday…I had everything going for me too. I made lunches last night so I had more time to slink around this morning and not have to rush. I woke up actually feeling good for once (haven’t been feeling well lately), sleepy, but not TOO sleepy (I actually got enough rest this weekend!) I left for work ON TIME! (BIG accomplishment) and then I drove off to work….and my car GOT A FLAT TIRE!!! It knows i’m going to trade it in in a week! It just knows and is so mad! It not only got a hole in it, it was a BIG hole, too big to just patch! I had to buy a whole new tire for a car i’m trading in in a week!! How upsetting is that?? it cost 78$ for the new tire… and GET THIS… $30 for them to put the tire on my rim!! WHAT?? shouldn’t that be part of it? and how damn hard is it to put the tire on the rim? like you Really need to charge 30$$!! AAAHHHH.

But LUCKILY my husband is very good to me and instead of calling our car ins place for roadside assistance he came to my rescue and came to change my tire (oh yeah the spare was just about flat too, not enough air pressure-20 psi’s instead of 40 i found out when I went to go fill it up later -haha) then he took my flat into the tire store, bought the new one and came back to my work to put it on for me so I didn’t have to worry about a thing! the upside for him was he only had to work 1/2 a day because of this lol, so that was his reward

So YEA! for the hubby, but BOOO! for the car and my Monday!!

My poor little car… We’ve had some good memories together and she slowly falling apart! I got her my sophomore year of college, slightly used. She’s a gold 2000 Ford Focus. It was my mom’s car, but when I threatened that I wouldn’t be able to make as many trips home from college with my ‘96 Ford Escort, Big Red, they gave her to me in 2001 It was a nice upgrade at the time. Now with about 90,000 miles or so, I’ve had her in for service a few times. Of course there’s the normal tires, and brakes that need to be changed. But then the alignment has always been off even after they “fixed it.” My air went out twice now(just this summer), and it’s staying out as we’re going to trade it in soon and it cost more to fix it than my car is worth… (and its the summer… in Florida!!) my back window won’t roll down, I have to fill my tires with air every week because they are slowly losing air… and just today… she died. I was at the gas station and she wouldn’t start up. You turn the key and click-click-click-click she goes. Luckily it was just the battery and my hubby came and gave me a jump. She started up right away, just need the little shock to get her goin…

Of course I could have treated her a little better. Given more regular baths, rotated the tires more often, used premium gasoline instead of unleaded, given more frequent oil changes and not waiting til the last minute, found a place to live where I didn’t have to drive over a million speed bumps at least twice a day… and I didn’t even give her a name! What can you call a gold car anyway!? (think i’ll get too attached if i give her a proper name now? haha)There are lots of things I could have done better, if only I was more into cars and I had my own house to do things ourself so it wouldn’t cost us so much… but alas, I did not do those thing and now she is leaving me…

Now I have the burden of finding a new car- which i like And is affordable and practical, having a car payment! (yikes), and trading this girl in… I don’t even know where to start!