Monday, January 15, 2007

No easy way to say this...

The reason for no update post is because we have all been a little depressed.

Jen miscarried last week, the day after her first ultrasound where we were able to see the baby. Everything was fine one day, and the next it wasn't. So we have been taking it a little harder then normal.

We have both kinda fallen into the solace of virtual worlds lately, avoiding many things in our own lives. But we are starting to pull out of it.

One plus though, we did get a new car. We are no longer driving a 1990 geo prism that is held together with ductape and luck. We now have a 94 chrysler concorde LSX, and our mechanic praised us on our excellent fortune finding one in such good shape. At 188,000 miles, two mechanics (ours and my wifes grandfather, who is the man I admire the most) both gave the car an excellent bill of health, and just basically told us to "baby' the car with regular tune ups, winter and summer flushes and the like. But that we will most likely get at least another 200k miles out of the car.

The body, except for a little hood rust and some "normal" key scratches at the door is perfect. The inside (besides smelling a bit like ass, quickly solved by Fabreze), is perfect with no stains and no rips or burns. All parts work great, and it has a wonderful little invention called the "Traction Control" (which i know is now basically standard, but we are thrlled, especially since we had icing last night). It really helped me maintain the car when i started to slip off the highway last night.