have i told you all how much i hate money?!

ok, so this past wknd we were going to go up and help some friends move into their 1st house, we got about 20 miles up the road and the car started acting like it had a flat tire...sooooo we pull over, no flat tire but car is still acting WAY funny

so along comes tuesday when our mechanic is back from his holiday and he checks it for us...passenger side cv axel needs replacing (no surprise there, i hit a curb admittably) but it's the tranny! which doesn't completely explain it all, but that is NOT a cheap repair...

i've got an appointment tomorrow morn w/ a tranny specialist place to have it looked at and dx and get a price quote on repair from them (for free thankfully!)

guy on the phone said some tranny things can cost as little as a couple hundred all the way up to the rebuilds so here's hopin' that our's falls in the couple hundred category!

i did go out car shopping today though, let's just say that was a joke...i hate how dealers now won't ask you what you'd like to pay over all but how much you'd like to pay a month and then they try and sell you a car way out of your price range w/ a 6 yr or more loan on it for the price you said...let's just say i'm not doing that again...just going to tell them i'd like to see what they have on their lot that might work for us and then go from there...actually we'll probably go private party when we get around to buying a car...you almost ALWAYS get a better deal that way...the only dealers i like are saturn...and that is it...oh saturn how i do i love thee let me count the ways