Well, I tell you, I just had an interesting weekend. What started out as a simple plan to put new tires on my existing car somehow turned into me finishing the weekend with a new to me car instead. Never a dull moment friends.
My old car was a 2001 CR-V. We've slowly been doing work on it here and there to keep it going and it's been treating us pretty well. After getting the new tires put on it on Friday, the tire guys mentioned that we had some broken sway bars that we might want to have replaced so they wouldn't cause problems for the new tires. My dad was with me since Mr. Monkey was at work and he said he'd go to my mechanic with me and pick me up while they worked on it if I wanted. I figured, I have the day, why not. My mechanic said they'd call when they had everything figured out. Well, when he called it turned out there were far bigger issues going on with the car than we realized. Major issues that would be cause for safety concerns. The cost to repair these things were suddenly almost as much as the car was even worth at this point. My parents had a quick pow-wow away from me and then came back into the room and offered to sell us their much nicer newer 2008 CR-V for a very generous amount of money considering it has extreme low mileage and has been very well cared for. I got the Pants Monkey on the phone and we chatted briefly and agreed we'd be foolish to turn this down. My parents had been wanting to upgrade to a newer one anyway, so they got themselves a nice new 2014 and we get their 2008. Somehow everyone wins, but this certainly wasn't how I expected my weekend to turn out!
Tank top - Old Navy
Blazer - Bill Blass, thrifted
Skirt - Tandem Vintage
Necklace - Gumeez teething necklace via Zulilly
Boots - Target
We will be under a bit of a tighter budget even with my parents giving us a nice deal on buying their car, so it looks like I might be giving up shopping for Lent after all. I wasn't going to this year! Fortunately, I had a gift certificate to Tandem Vintage - so I picked up this fun leopard skirt at their sale this weekend. I had done a little shopping at Target and Old Navy last week before this all went down too, so at least I got myself a handful of pretty new things. Time to lock up the wallet for a little bit though! But hey, I have a pretty nice new ride, so I guess things could be worse!
