Sunday, September 11, 2011

Money spent will sometimes equal happiness..

Well, there are just a few things to update about and only a ba-jillion Chester photos/videos to post!!

First thing first, I can't help but note what day today is. I want to write down my remembrances of what happened 10 years ago as it's kind of crazy to me that I remember something so vividly that happened so long ago. I remember I was not feeling well that morning so I told my mom I was going to stay home sick. Don't ask me whether I was really sick or not because I will neither confirm nor deny that I was totally faking and just didn't want to go to school (don't tell my mom!). My mom had gone to drop my brothers off but I could hear her downstairs on the phone as she got back, "Planes have hit the World Trade Center! A second plane just hit." I rushed downstairs to see what was going on, thinking that she was talking about some sort of action movie rather than real life. She had turned the news on and was sitting with disbelief on her face. Pillars of smoke were rising from both towers. I sat glued to the tv all day, from 8 am to 6 pm. I watched the chaos that was going on in New York with people running around, screaming, stuck in disbelief. I saw people falling from the top floors of the towers because they didn't see any other way out. I watched as the towers fell. It's surreal that ten years have passed since this and surreal to think what horrible things I actually watched with my own eyes. It's good to remember what happened and remember that America is strong and can get through.

I have to admit now, it's kind of hard to transition from something so serious and somber to the other things I was going to write about. :P One way to segway: to show our support of America, we have decided to add to the economy by spending money in the form of buying a new car (that was a good transition, right?! :D ). Our car is reaching it's last leg... granted, it's got a feww feet before it reaches that leg... so we want to sell it while it's still worth a good bit rather than putting money into it that we'll never get back. We went car shopping yesterday and I have to admit that I was SOOOO STINKIN' EXCITED. But then we got there and I felt overwhelmed and couldn't believe we were contemplating spending that much money so I kind of got moody was just generally not pleasant to be around. I wouldn't talk for a good 5 hours the first time my mom made me buy my own pair of pants so yeah, buy a car isn't much better. We honestly need one and we're planning to keep the car we get for a LONG time so it's just a matter of me sucking it up.

The main cars in the running right now are a 2011 VW Jetta which is the one Drew is totally championing (http://www.vw.com/en/models/jetta/gallery.html), a Kia Sportage which is the one I'm loving (http://www.kia.com/#/sportage/explore/) and the Hyundai Elantra (http://www.hyundaiusa.com/elantra/). We posted our car for sale on Craigslist just to see if we could get any interest in it and then we're thinking in the next month or two making the big ol' purchase. Scary!!!

That is the most exciting thing really going on for us right now. Chester is getting big, he's up to 10 pounds now! We found out with the hurricane and the tropical storm this past few weeks that he refuses to go to the bathroom outside when it's raining. Dumb high maintenance dog. It makes life rather difficult for us considering when this happened he also decided that he was going to forget how to go on the pad. Grumble... OH well! Still love him and after you see these pictures/videos you will too!

Sleepy puppy!


We learned the hard way how best to puppy-proof the bathroom when we leave him in there while we're gone...

The many emotions of Chester. He's so blasted cute!!


And then some videos :)