Got a new car over the weekend, checking one thing off the list that was eating up my time when I wasn’t at work.  The money I’ll save on gas will probably offset the increased insurance payment. (’99 vs. ’12 )  Damn car was using a quarter tank a day near the end.  The new one is getting somewhere around 35-38 mpg.

The money I’m not spending on constant repairs ( went extended warrenty to 100k ) will probably offset the car payments for a while :p  Gas tank, radiator, heater core, wheel bearings, serpentine belt… it was something else failing every month or so for the last year or two.  Not to mention four free oil changes plus discounted regular service of several types for quite a while on wear and tear typs stuff.

All in all, I may not even notice the added costs of the new car *laugh*

Not to mention that my hours are still up around that 50 per week range ( vs. an average of 34-40 for the last several years ) with no real end in sight.  It looks like we probably are out of the weeks pushing 60 for a while, but that could change come summer.

I’m finally adjusting to the increased hours ( or where we are now is the limits of my endurance vs. where we’ve been for the last couple of months ) and feeling awake enough to do things once I get home from work ( such as typing this )

I wrote an opening for an Earth Day story in the Magic of the Wood series yesterday, though I think I’m probably going to start the story in a different place.  Even if I completely scrap what I wrote, at least I wrote something *laugh*  That’s vast progress compared to the recent past.

I’m alert and don’t feel like I’ve been run over a truck right now, so that’s a good thing.  Probably going to start opening up some unfinished stories/chapters and see if anything is inspiring me.