I am giving you my two weeks worth

Man oh man it has been a busy few weeks recently. OK two things have already been written about but I will give you a quick get up to speed portion.

OK, 2 and a half weeks ago Alycia and I were in Charlotte for meetings and interviews with SIM. As I wrote we have been accepted to join SIM as missionaries to Nigeria. The day after our return Alycia took on a school bus during a rain storm. The rain has been great and the earth green, not the usual brown & tan that is North Texas during the summer. Later that week it was stamped as “Totaled” so the car was no longer ours.

That next weekend we had a van reserved so we could deliver some furniture to some relatives of my wife. We have to make room for Caden (our child still stewin and brewin if you are not keeping up with my life) whom we have yet to meet.

We moved and packed the van on Friday evening for our departure on Saturday morning. So Saturday morning rolled around and we were on our way. I drove the van and Alycia drove behind me in our car. It was a rainy day for a drive but we made it to Houston safely.

That evening we went on our planned Anniversary dinner at her most fav. restaurant America’s. It was great as usual and a great time with my wife for our Anniversary even though it was a week earlier and my wife had her accident on the actual date.

OK that night we were sleeping until we were awaken by an ambulance at the home. So we ended up at the hospital at 2am for a while. We then got back to the house about 3:30 as there was really nothing we could do there. It was a scary situation when your half asleep, I cannot imagine the other side.

Well we got home Monday afternoon and since we were searching for a car Alycia looked in the paper from that day. She found a sale there and she called. They had two cars she was looking for and we went. Only to get there and find out they were sold earlier that day. A little bait and switch tactic. They tried to then upsell us into a car costing more. We did not go for it, we would not have felt right walking out paying more for any car bought there.

Tuesday night we found a car that we liked and were negotiating a price for it and came to a good price. We finished the paperwork in an hour and 15 minutes and were waiting for the finance guy to complete the sale. Well we found out that we could not purchase a majority of the car on Credit since the check we got was not clearing for a few weeks. The sales guy knew that we were looking to pay for it that way but said nothing. We wasted 5 hours Mon. and Tues. at these dealerships.

There is not enough space to write the whole episodes here since there are so many details that I am leaving out that would make you laugh, cry and gag. OK not really gag but the others would be done.

Wednesday we took the night off to rest and relax from all that we went thru. Alycia on her day off went to a few dealerships during the day Thursday while I was at work. She found a few cars she test drove.

Well we bought a car that night. Funny thing it was not one we thought of again. It is another Nissan Altima (gold) that cost under the check we got from Insurance. So we have money to spare.

We know have a Him and Her Altima’s in our household.

We have been busy as you can tell. Hope I can get back to a steady life soon, we shall see.

I spared you so many details once again for those of you with ADD or ADHD who might not read the whole thing.