Just a little FYI

Pregnancy can cause a severe and abrupt case of buyer's remorse. Or who am I kidding, it's unfair to blame it on pregnancy, I'm just a spaz, plain and simple. Here's the scenario...

Yesterday after my dr. appt (everything looks great and is progressing fine, yay!), KJ called and asked if I wanted to stop by the car dealership on my way home. Yes. I need a car. So he had been researching and his requirements were safety, good gas mileage, and reliability. Mine were: radio controls in steering wheel, back windshield wiper, and sitting up high. hehehe I'm concerned about safety too, but that's just a given, ya know?

So he tells me that he thinks the Jeep Patriot meets both of our needs. I don't know much about Jeep, but low and behold there's a magazine in the dr's office talking about the Jeep Patriot, so I feel up to speed and can agree with his assessment as I head over to the dealership. I didn't really care for the boxy shape, but hey, if it has radio controls in the steering wheel, I'm game. Well, long story short, when we get to the dealership, there's another suv sitting by the Patriot and the man says that the Compass is pretty much the exact same with a more rounded body style. Right up my alley. So we test drive it, and it's good, except it's got leather interior (I love cloth, don't care for leather) and it's a limited edition (just a pure price hike). We start to say thank you and be on our merry little way when the man tells us that he's checked inventory and they do in fact have a reg. 07 cloth interior Compass on the lot. It's slate blue and I like it. After some paperwork and a little time, we walk out of there with some keys and I'm the proud owner of a 2007 Jeep Compass. Wait, scratch the proud part, that feeling didn't come immediately.

As we're driving home, I start to think and freak out. Did I really just spend my hard earned money and promise more on a car that I'd only learned about that afternoon?!?!?!? What!?!?! Panic sets in and I spaz. We were driving separate cars, so when we get home, KJ jumps out and says something about, "Are you happy that you have a car?!" and I say, "I don't know, I don't know, I think I made a mistake!!" I leave him in total confusion, go take a shower and proceed to jump on the internet all the while determined that we could have gotten a better deal, that I should have never betrayed my beloved KIA (I'm a brand loyal shopper. If I like it I stick with it. New York and Company jeans since high school. Neutregena face wash since middle school. Kia brand car since soph year of college... you get the picture), and that I've just made the biggest mistake EVER. Oddly I had this very same feeling after we purchased our home. I don't do well with putting out large lump sums of money at one time. I'm a bargain shopper and that's best done on a smaller scale. That's my style. Don't want "the man" to get over on me. So I cried. I calmed down and watched a show about lions attacking water buffalo and I cried some more, determining that I was the water buffalo in my car situation. Now, here's how excellent KJ is. In my mass hysteria, he let me voice my concerns, cry, and then he talked me off the ledge. We made a good choice, we got a good deal and if I absolutely decided I didn't want the Compass, then he'd call the man in the morn and tell them to cancel the whole deal (we scheduled to pick the car up after work the next day so they could clean it up and all). I went to sleep last night thinking that I had bought a car that I hadn't even prayed about specifically and then it occurred to me that I have been praying that God would just guide us in the decisions we made (in regards to the car and other life things) and bless us with what he saw fit for us to have. Duh Roz, I told my mom I kind of reminded myself of the man in the middle of the flood praying for help who won't get on the lifeboat b/c he's waiting on God to help him. Soooo, I am now the proud owner of a Jeep Compass. It's the first American car I've ever owned (started off with a Mazda Protege, had a Mitsubishi Eclipse for a second, and then got a Kia Sportage and then Sorento) and I think I should blast Proud to be an American or Born in the USA from my speakers for the first couple of days to break it in. Viva la Compass!!!

Happy Thursday all!