Busy fucking month... ironically, there has only been one show, and not much else to keep me occupied but my own work... but fuck has that been keeping me busy.
As well as work, my wife and I needed to buy a new (ish) car. It's been one hell of a search and it's finally over. This was especially a pain in my ass since I am not much of a car person, so I had no foundation on what I wanted to look for as others would start with an idea of getting a car they like. For me, if I was to get a car I simply was interested in, it would have been an electric car. But that is a bit out of our budget.
So I started with looking up what kind of pre-owned vehicles were worth buying. Unfortunately, if the car is worth buying, the value is much higher. Now I was looking at a car that was a bit out of our intended price range. The search continued from lot to lot until we came to the last place I bought a pre-owned car about a decade ago. As we looked through the many cars on the lot, we came upon a few that I actually had an interest in looking at, though the price was way over what we wished to spend. But, I have to say the my curiosity got the best of me and soon we were test driving a hybrid Toyota Prius.
We were originally looking at Toyota cars because of the reliability and such. As for the hybrid, well, it was a nice idea... but... Before I knew it, I had fallen in like with the car. My wife drove it and loved it. Seeing as it was to be her next car, not mine, I asked her what she thought. So with a heavy concern in my heart, I agreed to see what we could do to make payments for our new car. The first offer was instantly a "no way!" The second offer was really pushing it, and I said so. This time, they said they wouldn't be able to get another answer until the following bank day (Monday). They let us take the car home and said we could finalize everything on Monday.
Unfortunately, with the schedules my wife and I have, she would go in first thing in the AM, and I would finish signing later in the afternoon. When I went in, I signed papers agreeing to loan terms that were only just barely under what had been discussed.
Here I now sit, feeling the dread and fear of having yet another car loan. I haven't had a car payment since the last one that got repossessed about 2 years ago. I was okay with this. Now, with the memories of the stress trying to pay off my last car wrought on my soul, I have entered into another soul crushing agreement.
If you happen to be a fan on my work and have been contemplating buying some of my work to support me, now would be a grand time to do so... just saying.
