I am very happy to have made the decision to get this car! I wrote about getting it in my last journal but thought I would make a journal of its own now.

In my last journal I mentioned that my mustang went to shit. On my way to work it overheated. Earlier in the week I should of figured something was wrong because my car wasn't heating up as it should at all. So yeah it overheated on my way to work last Tuesday 1/6. As soon as it did I pulled over also this day was really crappy too below 0, roads, and traffic sucked. A cop saw me pull over thinking I had wrecked. I told him no that my car was overheating. He was a nice guy and let me sit in his car while he called a tow truck and waited with me. Since it would have been bad to drive it to a repair shop with it overheating and I didn't have any anti freeze with me. Well after the tow truck finally arrived and we got to the repair shop I had my Fiance come pick up me since he didn't go into work until later that day. So I at least had a way to get home. I did have to call off work too which I was kind of mad about but I had no choice I couldn't get there with my car broke down.

Anyway later find out my oil was going into my coolant and that I had a cracked head gasket. It was going to cost $3,000-$4,000 to fix. I definitely though shit what am I going to do I can't afford that repair and I just had 3 repairs before it broke down which definitely totaled over $1,000. Which I'm stuck paying for now. I had borrowed a car from my parents for Wednesday and Thursday morning to get to work. That sucked too because it doesn't get hot enough but I went out with my Dad Thursday to look for a new car because I had no choice now.

So we look around first looked at a 2009 ford focus 4 door sedan with about 45k miles on it. Test drove it didn't care for it the engine sounded weird and just wasn't much great shape on the inside. Then went to the dealership where my parents got there cars and talked with their seller. He was trying to sell me a 2012 Hyundai Elantra with all the bells and whistles. Heated seats back up camera gps etc. It was going to cost 270 a month! and 98 for my insurance. So I got a little overwhelmed and stressed I almost cried because I so couldn't afford that! I make decent money but I have other things to worry about to put my money towards. I was trying to stay under $200 for a car payment. I do make decent money at my new job but I have credit card debt and school loans to worry about now and a wedding to save for.

Well anyway we stopped looking because it was -14 that day went back to my parents house to warm up and waited for Mom to get home. Went out to eat. My mom found the ford focus hatchback at a dealership near where they live and we decide to look at it after we eat. I'm really glad we did because I fell in love with it after test driving it! I'm glad they still had it and it was a great deal!!!! $12k 2012 ford focus sel hatchback in the blue candy metallic. Only 35,900 some miles on it. Got for it for $11,000 something instead because they took $500 off because of the crappy weather so I was like SOLD! I felt bad though we were there hour and a half after they closed to sign the paperwork and everything. Got a 5 year extended warranty on it which will help so much! and got gap insurance so if it ever got totaled the loan would get paid off. So thank god for that! I got the 5 year extended warranty since I do plan on keeping it for a long time. The only thing I have to save money for is brakes and if it ever needs tires. So I got payments about $223 a month and $72 for insurance. Not bad at all. I can definitely handle that!

Thank god for my new job! I have to really budget now of course though because of credit card debt and school loans to pay off now. But I definitely think I can make it work.