The Storm before the Storm

Remember how my life was totally out of control last week?

I mean, besides the crazy pregnancy horomones:

I found bugs in my bed multiple times! #eek #worstthingever

My A/C wasn't working

Our car broke down #stuckathome

A trail of ants found Eli's food stash under his high chair #maybeishouldmop??

No one on craigslist would return my phonecall

All the good deals at dealerships were taken a few hours before we called

i was stuck at home with no way of shopping or playing with friends

Seriously. I was kinda going crazy last week

I don't even remember what happened. 

Yesterday at church, I got the oh-so-common-8-month-pregnant-question: "How are you feeling?"

Seriously, like a month ago, no one asked me that. But even men that I never talk to stop and ask me. I must have a big sign on me that says: I am super pregnant and need to be asked how I am feeling, not doing...but feeling. 

#ormaybesomeonesentoutanemail

Anyway, normally when I answer that question I say "Good." but in my mind I am thinking "if you only knew that my hips hurt so bad I want to go into a coma until the baby comes, I can't sleep, my legs cramp anytime I even think about moving, my depression is a rollercoaster, and my son's favorite activity is to either body slam my belly or run away from me in parking lots....How am I feeling? Like I wish I had this baby a few months ago. Thanks for asking."

But this week I didn't even think that because I guess I was so busy looking up cars online {for-like-ever} that I forgot that I am annoyed of being pregnant still

Here is the good news. 

Monday:

 Car broke down

Tuesday:

 AC in our apartment was finally fixed

we sold our car 

(which we deemed to be totalled...seriously, it was a mess and not worth more that $200 to fix...we actually made quite a profit haha. You can read about our ghetto car here)

Wed: 

look at craigslist all day

look up every car i find on kellybluebook to find out its actual value

look up reviews on certain types of cars

look up if the car will fit two car seats and big pregnant lady and a tall husband

call and email a million people

Thursday:

continue crazy looking and calling

have only one person return your phone call

ok, one more person returned the call. we set up an appt for early the next morning

friday:

wake up super early to go test drive a car, and realize too late that he had texted to cancel it because he was going camping

(seriously, does anyone actually want to sell their car on craigslist?? if so, answer your phone and let us test drive it!)

cranky mom for getting too little of sleep

test drive another car that is too small for us

continue looking online

call and go to multiple car dealerships for cars that we want and the cars were sold before we could get there #badluck

Saturday:

wake up and find good deals

(more kelly blue book and reviews...we are pro at this now)

make an appt, get down there. 

test drive a car/get it checked at a mechanic

make an offer on it 15 mins before the next person comes in to look at it

(seriously, this car was a good deal. he had 3 other people scheduled to test drive it that day and more people called while we were signing the paperwork!!)

so we bought this car:

2003 Honda Accord with 83,000 miles on it

It drives amazing and feels really new! We are so excited

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Wow.

I seriously don't want to think about cars anymore

but I am now sucked into it, and I look at the make and model of all the cars we pass and think about how it was rated online or what the kbb would be.

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So today. I actually went to the store

since I now have a car to drive :)

and we bought tons of stuff because we were soooo out of food and stuff from me dedicating my life to finding a car before this baby came.

#sidenote

yes, we were in a hurry to buy a car. I mean, anyone that told me that I should just calm down and take my time, and wait a few weeks...NO WAY! Seriously, everything that went on last week should not happen once you have a newborn. It was life consuming. Plus getting emissions and registering your car here also takes forever....so i knew we had to buy a car before the baby came. So we are very grateful that despite no one answering our calls and many deals being taken before we got there, that we still found a good car that we are super happy with :)

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so after my 2 hour target waddling trip

seriously, it took way too long for me to get to each corner of target today. I am surprised no one asked if i wanted one of those electric carts.

anyway, so after my 2 hour trip and bringing it in from the car...I am going to waddle to my bed and wait for eli to wake up

#happyresting!!!