Poor things.
I'd say I feel even more remorseful if I didn't know that Christ's ACTUAL birthday isn't really December 25th, anyway... but either way, we really aren't TRYING to confuse our children. It's just confusing times trying to get it all, somehow, worked into the schedule of life these days, ha!
Whatever the case, Christmas weekend (as I'll now call it) kicked off with a P-town trip with just Aaron and I--after we dropped the little men to be with Monga and Nana Z. in Eugene for a couple of days. Our time, pre-chemo, was LOVELY! Sunday gave us the opportunity to see some of our P-town friends--old church-family when we attended our former church for their late-morning service, and a couple of Aaron's college buddies and their lovely wives. Just as the weekend was beginning to feel almost mini-moon-ish, Monday came along and brought with it the normal chemo-routine. It was interesting to see just how few people make the choice to be at the hospital on Christmas Eve, ha. My, was it dead. Even our sweet and silly parking attendant 'Mario', as he lets us call him--as he oddly resembles that of Mario the Mario Brother--said that he'd parked a totaling three cars that morning between 7am and 10am! And yes, we were the third, ha.
No matter. I had chemo, we got to see what all my weekly nurses look like as 'santa's helpers' and things went smoothly.
After chemo, we decided to head over to a Mazda dealership (something we don't have in Roseburg anymore) and check out a couple of different cars we'd be 'scouting out' for a while, via the internet. Our beloved Murano, as many of you know, had been experiencing some issues that we knew were a ticking-time-bomb scenario and though a car-change was just about the LAST thing we were wanting to do right now (no car payments is such a nice thing!) it was either sign up for them again or sign up for replacing a transmission on a car worth nothing more than the cost of the transmission.
UGH.
Have I said lately how much I HATE paying for things like cars?!! Such a sad scenario we've all been 'dooped' into, to think... 'well sure, I have 300..400 even 500 dollars a month that I 'can' pay to have *insert outlandish/unnecessary posh vehicle here* But really, when you stop saying the whole dealership favored 'per month' thing, and you start asking the whole TOTAL WHEN I OWN THE DANG THING question, it's pretty sickening.
Yeah.
LIVE. and then *hopefully* LEARN!!!
Murano. BAD DECISION. (Yes dad, you were right, we were WRONG.)
Mazda. BETTER DECISION. MORE RESPONSIBLE DECISION.
Loaded? Hardly.
Flashy? Not at all.
Leather? NOPE.
*Insert all other uncessary modern conveniences, including extra passenger carry-capacity, here* NO.
New? HECK NO!
Cheap? YES.
Gas-efficient? EXTREMELY!
Carries our family plus one? Mm hmm.
Safe? Oh yes!
Reliable? Um... 8900 miles on it as of now? And japanese-made? I'd say DEFINITELY!
Yep.
Tis the season, for frugality... for wisdom... and for around shedding of things unnecessary for things necessary. Like...less money going toward our cars than before so we can have more for medical bills as they continue to come and I continue to work very little.
Yes. These are GOOD things.
I am un-emotionally attacked to her *the car*... yet I am proud of Aaron and I for being wise. ESPECIALLY at a time when so many around us are going out of their way to help us financially and in any and all other ways too, that they can.
We have not been the wisest stewards, but we are learning... and we want to show how much we appreciate those around us too, who HAVE been wise stewards--so much so that they have been able to bless us. We hope and pray, someday, that we can return the blessing--
TEN FOLD~
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