Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

Okay, okay....first? Didja know today is the first day of spring?

Here's what it looked like at my house:

Second? After doing so wonderfully splendidly well coping with my first-born son getting his driver's license last week ... (REALLY!), today, he went and signed papers on this:

I Am Serious!!!!!!!!!!!!! It looks almost exactly like this. The paint is this sharp (& this color). It has damage to driver's side where it's met up with a guard rail and will need a new door and front wheel. The rest is minor body work. The insides are almost pristine. Leather with all the goodies. The two front seats need some leather dye to bring them back to life (that soft leather shows wear WAY quick!!!) and the V8 engine runs like a dream! Anywhere they've looked for this model car it has run in the area of DOUBLE what the guy wants for it. With approximately $500 in repairs, it would easily sell for double if Corey chose to do that. But the boy's in love.

*sigh*

I know, I know. A SPORTS CAR!!!!! But isn't a Must@ng every boys' dream? (around here it sure is)

We've never been able to help Corey get most of what he has in his young life, and he likes to get the best quality and will shop, research and compare for a long time before making a purchase. He's a wise buyer. I've been worried about what replacing the Intrepld with one of these babies would do to the cost of insurance, but it doesn't change it at all!!! Who knew?!?! Corey was able, by borrowing $200 from his grandfather (T's dad) and getting the $500 T got from selling his old Jeep (we're giving him that money as a gift) and adding that to what he had saved up, to get together half of the original price the guy was asking. We were hoping and praying he would allow Corey to take at least 3 months to pay the rest. Amazingly he was, but he wanted an additional $400. *sigh* Not too bad, really. So, Corey signed the paper and is going to start working full time for my dad til he gets it paid off.

They (Corey and Tommy) started this here dealie Saturday night. Saturday night. Sunday afternoon at 2pm, Tommy had to leave for a two-day continuing education thing in western Kentucky. So guess who's been doing all these deals all by ourselves. The car's from a "buildable wrecks" lot, so they can get gone before you turn around.

Which means....we've been driving around in some slickery snow today!!! I mean, COREY'S been driving in it and I've been riding with him.

Third? He did really well for his first time really driving in bad snowy weather, but we almost had a wreck....TWICE!

Sheesh! Neither time was his fault, by the way! Once, we almost slid right off a steep hill trying to avoid the mess of schools letting out early.

The second time? Gah!! We were like two miles from the house at a stop sign. The stop sign is right in a curve of the road we were turning onto. I was telling Corey he should take the Explorer out of 4WD, so I had him put it in neutral and let it roll backwards a bit before putting it in park...next thing we knew, this idiot who was smoking AND on a cell phone slides right off the road missing the curve completely and ends up sitting right where we'd just been....and I mean just mere inches away.

*pant, gasp, holding heart*

Scared the berjeebers right outta us both! God is WAY WAAAAY good!!!! :)

Oh...and here's a quick pic of the dawgies...

Chubby's doing lots better and is getting acclimated to not being the doormat all the time. He's getting pretty rotten about coming inside, though. *sigh* We're gonna have a tough time teaching him to stop coming in without an invitation!

As you can see, he and Tucker are getting along better. Actually, here they're both looking for stray crumbs from a bone-bone fest. LOL! Poor Chubs. He has this tongue-in-nose disorder. Every time I've snapped a shot of him, his tongue's been right up there just like this. It has to be some sort of syndrome. I mean, we see him all the time without his tongue in his nose. But snap the camera, and voila! there that sucker is....right up his schnozola! What gives?!?!!?

I dunno.

One more thing...you probably can't tell from this angle, but Chub is completely black from his nose alll the way past the corners of his mouth. From there, it kinda flairs and disburses a little. A friend of mine said he looks like something's blown up in his face, like on the cartoons, and he's still surprised about it.

ROFLOL! That is SO accurate!! Poor little huggable Chubsy. ;)