day thirty

day thirty: whatever tickles my fancy

first off, new layout!! woot woot! i actually heard the quote on my banner on one tree hill today and i thought it was an awesome line and i totally feel the same way, so it is now the new tagline of my blog, woot! secondly, i seriously can't believe that this is day thirty! actually, i should have been done a few days ago, but since work got kind of crazy for a little while there i didn't have time to blog, so i guess this shows even more that time is moving at a decent pace for me. yes, i would be happy if it decided to go by a little bit faster, but i'll take it! last time i checked my donut of misery (a little countdown thingy that shows how much you have gone through and how much you have left in percentages,) it was at 49% left but i'm thinking it has to be around 47-48% now, which of course means everything from this point is downhill! i'm getting so so so close to being with my husband and i couldn't be more excited! almost to the four month mark which means i'll only have three months left! yay!!

okay, so in my last post i talked about an awesome story so here goes.. here is the story of how larry h miller tried to screw me out of 5,000 dollars! well, there was this larry h miller 500 used car sale so me and my dad went since i was in the market for a car! well, we get introduced to our sales guy who has this charming and adorable southern accent, but of course the longer amount of time we spent with him it slowly disappeared.. anyways, that is besides the point, but i think this is a good way to show that this guy is already one big shiesty liar! anyways, as we are walking around my dad mentions that my husband is military and he's like 'oh awesome, you'll get a military discount, and then my dad is like actually she works for a larry h miller company as well, and then he's all 'oh then you'll get the larry h miller discount that is a lot better.' so yeah, at that point i was pretty stoked. at first i was planning on paying the whole car off but the dealer and my dad convinced me to do the whole payment thing since when you buy a house they want to see a long term monthly payment on something big.. so i gave in and decided to go a little higher than i was originally planning! well, i saw my car and immediately fell in love! it was super purdy and a perfect first car for us! on the windshield it was advertised as 11,991.. and then on the side said that normally it's 13,900.. so it was a good sale! so this of course made me want the car even more! i actually have amazing credit, a 780, but since i only make 8.50 an hour at the moment i needed a co-signer so my dad decided he'd co-sign! oh, and real quick, my dad noticed a couple of scratches on the front and back and the guy is all 'well fix that for you' okay, so we start signing all the paperwork and we ask about the larry h miller discount and he's all 'we are actually selling these cars for as low as they go so we can't give you a discount but we'll give you some things for free,' so at the moment i was pretty satisfied with that!

okay, so at that point in time i was happy, but then rey asked me about registration for the car so i went and started looking through the paperwork and realized that they did not charge me the 11,991 that they said, they charged me the 13,900.. so basically over 14,000 at this point and almost 15,000 with all the taxes and crap! yeah, not cool!! so pretty much for two days we kept being told we needed to talk to somebody else.. and finally yesterday my dad got a hold of the right guy and my dad told him the whole story about how this guy said we could get a larry h miller discount but then told us we couldn't and blah blah blah! well, obviously they felt bad! oh real quick.. i realized i forgot to finish the scratches story.. when i was signing paperwork he tried to get me to sign this paper that nothing was promised and i was like what about the scratches, and then he was like 'oh yeah, i forgot,'... which i know he didn't.. he was just trying to get out of it. anyways.. okay, so the guy felt bad and gave me the actual larry h miller discount price which on a used car is $500 more than they bought it for, so i got it for 10,800.. which is 1,100 less than what i was originally told that i was going to pay.. so pretty excited about that.. but we also came to find out that he charged us for all of the things he said he would give for free for 'my larry h miller discount'. in the end they are giving my dad some free mp3 player thing for his car and they are doing my scratches for free.. so now i am very happy with it all since i love my car.. but honestly that was soooooo unbelievably stressful!

so yeah! i hope that all made sense.. if not.. oh well!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen