Buy Happy

So after eight years of driving my 2002 Mazda Protege, the time has come to trade it in my friends. Again, this has nothing to do with the fact that it was broken down, run down or in horrible condition. But rather due to my wants. My needs. I had been thinking about it a lot lately.Especially after a few trips down south with the lil man. My small little protege that was comfortable for me, just hasn't been cutting it these days. Now, yes we have my husbands car. But in the grand scheme of things, his 2006 Mazda3, isn't that much better. So yes I have been contemplating it for awhile.

A couple of weeks ago, I was on the net when an ad for the new 2011 Sonata popped up. I stopped, a looked at it. For giggles I even clicked the link and was taken to the Hyundai homepage. Within seconds I had built, mind driven, and priced out my car. And yes, I will say my, because I knew without a doubt that this was my car. The car that I wanted. Forget the Mazda6's that I had originally thought about. It was this car. And this car only that I wanted...

Perhaps what appealed to me was the slickness of the design. The smooth, fancy looking with a decent price. Perhaps I looked it and thought, I am an adult now. I need an adult car. But yet there is a part that screams sports car. That part of me doesn't want to give up the need the desire to have a quick clean looking fun car. Adult that I may be needs an adult car, but still knows how to say I am not ready to drive the typical mom SUV quite yet.

I convinced my husband to take me to at least look at the car during mother's day weekend. Of course look, turned into test drive, which turned into, I want need this car. I love love love this car! And I want it sooner rather than later.

Yes I fell in love with the car. I reasoned why I needed everything, the navigation system, which we had always said would be in my next car anyway. The sunroof, because it automatically came with the navigation package. The key-less entry, because with one hand its just more convenient. I even reasoned that the XM stereo would be awesome considering my husband loves his in the Mazda3 he owns. I even had a case for why I wanted a little bit of leather, which no wasn't necessary but for the model I wanted, it to like the sunroof came standard. I did my homework, I researched it all. I talked it out I pleaded my case to anyone who was willing to hear me out.

And I waited.

We did drive by the dealership one other time, but they didn't have the color I wanted, which was silver but really anything other than the one on the lot, a pearl white would have been fine with me. And since this was going to be a car that I was obviously going to keep around for awhile, judging by the length of my protege anyway. I figured I was going to get what I wanted. Of course talking to the salesman they said they could get me whatever color I wanted I would just have to wait for them to ship it. And still we waited. Not because we couldn't afford it. Rather we wanted to get a loan first. Make sure we could and would get the best deal there was out there to have. Etc.

We even discussed this with my in laws, who advised us to trade in my husbands Mazda3 instead of the Protege since the Protege has been paid off for years now, and in all actuality is probably in better shape than his.

So again I waited. Until Memorial day weekend, when my husband promised we could get it.And lets not forget, the hope of a sale or two. Memorial day came and went and still no car. This of course was not anyone's fault. We were able to score a long weekend and used the time to our advantage to spend some time with my sister down in NC.

Of course when we arrived back into town, the car was pretty much the only thing on my mind. After all I had been pretty patient. by this point it had been a month since the new car itch had taken over. And so Tuesday night, straight from work we found ourselves headed not for our house but rather the dealership down the road.

In all honesty I wasn't exactly expecting to drive off with the car. This was a brand new car, and hard to find with the features I want. Simply they can't keep them on the lot apparently. Which is funny because I haven't seen any of them on the road. Well take that back, maybe one or two. Rather I was expecting to go in, talk to them see what we could get for our trade and then order a car picking it up maybe on Saturday.

But it seems as those the car gods had thought I had waited long enough for right there on the lot, was a nice shiny silver Sonata, with everything that I needed and wanted. Just waiting for me to buy it...and no way was I going to let it get away...

another words.

at 10:45 Tuesday night, I drove away one very happy woman...

with my shiny new Sonata..