Introducing Our New-To-Us Car

Hopefully this is the final chapter to our car saga. For that matter, I hope it is the last messing about with cars we have to do in a very long time.

They finally got the cruise control installed, so yesterday evening we picked up the car. And here it is, our new-to-us 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt... ta da!

As you can see, it's a silver colored 4-door sedan.

Gee, it's silver from the other side too. . .

And even the back is the same color. What do you know, we have a mono-colored car!

It's a tad different inside though, with a couple different shades of gray. There is also more room in the interior of this car than there was in our old Focus.

And here's the back seat.

There you have it! Jess drove it to Tullahoma last night and likes it fine. Which is good, because we're likely have this car for a long time to come. Hopefully anyway! We'd just as soon it lasted a long time, be without problems, and be all-around easy to own and maintain.

I can dream, can't I?

CARnage

CARnage (noun) - Massive slaughter, as in war; a massacre.

Yep, that's it all right. My nerves have been massacred. For that matter, so have Jess's. And all that CARnage is caused by a CAR. Or right now, the lack of a car. Even more precisely, the hunting of a car.

Now some people enjoy hunting for a car. I am not one of them. Jess is not one of them. But that's just what we did yesterday, browsing the car lots to check out their Memorial Day sales.

We visited four different lots. We saw some possibilities, but nothing really grabbed us that was in the budget we'd set for ourselves.

After we got back home and rested a little, I went online and checked out what was available within a 50 mile radius. Then we went back out AGAIN and looked at a specific car we thought sounded interesting.

The outcome of all this CARnage is yet to be determined. We decided to buy the car and applied for a loan, but in these economic times and with Jess being self-employed, approval of the loan may not be forthcoming. We'll just have to see.

In the meantime, it's definite CARnage with massacred nerves.