new addition

I am pleased to introduce to you, the newest addition to the Shachmut family - The 2008 Saturn Vue.  

We haven't decided on a name yet, but she comes home on Tuesday.  :-)

Kyle and I have spent a while now researching new cars, and spent the last 2 days driving, feeling, bargaining, walking away, walking back in, crunching numbers, and playing hard to get with the dealerships.  I'm absolutely exhausted.  (Kyle, by the way, is my hero for being so good at wrestling the lowest price out of these guys...he just doesn't give in)

However, at the end of the day, thanks to some really great pricing and incentives, we've got our new car, fully loaded with all the bells and whistles that nobody ever actually needs...but are, nonetheless, enticing to have.  We were able to keep our same payments, so our budget doesn't change at all.  This is a good thing.  

And for any of you, who, like me, have incredibly illogical emotional attachments to cars, (I cried my eyes out for 20 mins on the way down at the thought that this was my last highway drive with Zoie) I want you to know that Zoie is going to go to a good home.  She'll go to somebody who needs her more than I do and who will probably wash her and change her oil more than yearly.  She has been an excellent car.  But, as Kyle put it, she was my college car.  Now, we're getting a family car.  

So, I'm happy.