There are so many little things that take forever. Check how much money I have in both checking accounts and what I owe on my credit cards. Print off a paystub. Look up each car and check the features. Check that against the New Car Price Report. Check interest rates for car loans in Arkansas. Use an online calculator to appraise Noah so I know how much the trade-in is worth. Do all this inefficiently because my phone cord is frayed and the internet connection keeps failing. Clean all my crap out of the car and bring it inside. Scrounge for quarters for the car wash. Find enough to use to use the vacuum hose at the car wash. Check with a different, drive-through car wash I can pay for with cash, find out it's broken. Go to grocery store to buy more quarters, by which time it's dark. Plan to finish tomorrow on the way to the dealership.
I have to get this done tomorrow. I can't afford the time I've spent in the past week. I guess if I don't finish my thesis and don't have a job, I'll have a car to live in. Untill they repossess it.
I keep thinking I've done all the things that scare me, that there's not much left I can't handle. After living in China, I thought that. And actually I was right, but smaller things still happen to shake my confidence. I've never bought a car, going alone and haggling over money with dealers scares the crap out of me, or at least is very stressful, but I have to do it. And then, well... I'll have done it. That will be a good thing.
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