Aaron and I need him to get a car.
We have saved some money, Aaron has been trying to get as many hours as he can. We opened an account together and then, Aaron applied for the loan.
We were denied.
Even though Aaron is working close to 40 hours a week, because he is at minimum wage, he doesnt make enough to qualify.
Oh and he doesnt have any credit. That I will say is our fault.
My mom, being the wonderful person she is, co-signed for us and after jumping through all the hoops we had been given to jump through we thought we had it. Until Wednesday, when we got that fateful call to once again tell us...
we are denied.
Turns out, the co-signer has to be related to the person seeking the loan. So for reasons I am not going to discuss on here, we are stuck with no loan and no car.
Maybe this wouldnt have been such a big deal if we hadnt found the perfect car. It was a 2009 Ford Focus SES (the high end model). It had the spoiler and the fog lights the changeable dash color lights. It was perfect, oh and did I mention it was ridiculously under priced with nothing wrong with it. *sigh*
So when do we become adults? Aaron is 23 working a close to full time job with benefits and yet we still need a co signer? Why do people think that at 23 we are not responsible to sit down and figure out what we can and cannot afford? Aaron and I would have never even attempted this without first sitting down and figuring out our expenses and how much a car loan would affect our lives. Not to mention the expenses of regular maintenance along with an emergency fund. Ugh...I want to grow up and I want the real world to let me.......
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
A New Blog, but No Where Near My First.
Xanga.
Remember it?
For those of you who do not remember Xanga, Xanga was a blogging site similar to the one I am blogging on here. Everyone I knew was on it when I was in highschool (for reference that would be 2001-2005). There was no facebook, or at least that was attainable to me because you had to have a college email address to have it, myspace was still an up and coming thing and the days of AOL and dial-up were falling off fast.
So there I am, a young blogger blogging about the daily perils of being in high school. I had just started dating my first boyfriend and was soon religiously checking his xanga along with all of his friends (or my new friends). It was always fun to check up on people, to see what they were up to. It would be even more fun when "drama" would pop up on someone's blog and you would spend time trying to figure out who was mad at who and for what reason. Well, at least I had fun doing it.
Not much was ever learned from having blogs. When some of my friends and at the time boyfriend went off to college I started learning about college life via blogs, but that was about it. The one thing that I loved, and truly miss, about Xanga was the ability to be involved in someone's life without necessarily stalking like we do no through facebook.
Your blog was a place that you could write your ideas, thoughts, feelings exc, but no more no less. You were in control of who read what instead of jumping through hoops blocking this group of people from viewing your friends list while blocking this group from your pictures. It was nice, it was almost like you were catching up with old friends by reading what was up.
So maybe thats why I am here. I have had a blogger, or what used to be known as blogspot, since I started college and very infrequently updated it. I could sit here and say that I am going to update religiously, but I know that life gets in the way with anything enjoyable and since I am still living the college life of no routine being the same everyday I cannot guarantee that.
I have decided to start fresh because I have changed so much in the last 5 years that I do not think that I could possibly imagine bloggiing where I left off 3 years ago. I did, however, consider it and re-read all the old posts I had made, and was left feeling a bit scattered. I could not believe that was who I was just 3 years ago, and no that is not necessarily a good thing. I was trying to be approved by once friends that I knew would never approve of me again, I was dating someone who was completely wrong for me that my mom did not like and I was still being walked on by a couple of people that I thought I was good friends with.
I really do not feel like I was the only person that was like this just a mere 3 years ago. As I looked past my own distorted view of reality I saw people dealing with relationship issues, friendship issues, and in some cases, just what they wanted to spend the rest of their life doing issues. Some of them have worked through their issues, and some have not. There are some of them that I feel inspire me (or could if I spent more time around them) and others who I wish not to speak to anymore. The greatest change that I have seen between now and 3 years ago is the sense of security that I have gained in myself and I have to say part of that is due to who I have let myself continue to be friends with and those who I knew were weighing me down and I let go of.
Now that I have blogged your ear off, I leave you with this side note:
I am going to do my best to keep up with this, I must say that it is kind of theraputic to write out my thoughts a feelings knowing that people can give me feedback. However, I am in no a way a grammar person and do apologize if you find yourself getting lost mid sentence because my thought has gone on for just too long or I have used way too many commas. I suck at grammar and frankly, unless its professional, do not try that much so please bare with me, I will do my best!. Finally, I do not plan to use this blog as a look into my past, but merely for talking of what's going on now and what the future holds for me. While it may be used to give me a solid foundation of my blog, history is is history and I have an extremely exciting future ahead.
Thanks for checkin in!
Steff
Remember it?
For those of you who do not remember Xanga, Xanga was a blogging site similar to the one I am blogging on here. Everyone I knew was on it when I was in highschool (for reference that would be 2001-2005). There was no facebook, or at least that was attainable to me because you had to have a college email address to have it, myspace was still an up and coming thing and the days of AOL and dial-up were falling off fast.
So there I am, a young blogger blogging about the daily perils of being in high school. I had just started dating my first boyfriend and was soon religiously checking his xanga along with all of his friends (or my new friends). It was always fun to check up on people, to see what they were up to. It would be even more fun when "drama" would pop up on someone's blog and you would spend time trying to figure out who was mad at who and for what reason. Well, at least I had fun doing it.
Not much was ever learned from having blogs. When some of my friends and at the time boyfriend went off to college I started learning about college life via blogs, but that was about it. The one thing that I loved, and truly miss, about Xanga was the ability to be involved in someone's life without necessarily stalking like we do no through facebook.
Your blog was a place that you could write your ideas, thoughts, feelings exc, but no more no less. You were in control of who read what instead of jumping through hoops blocking this group of people from viewing your friends list while blocking this group from your pictures. It was nice, it was almost like you were catching up with old friends by reading what was up.
So maybe thats why I am here. I have had a blogger, or what used to be known as blogspot, since I started college and very infrequently updated it. I could sit here and say that I am going to update religiously, but I know that life gets in the way with anything enjoyable and since I am still living the college life of no routine being the same everyday I cannot guarantee that.
I have decided to start fresh because I have changed so much in the last 5 years that I do not think that I could possibly imagine bloggiing where I left off 3 years ago. I did, however, consider it and re-read all the old posts I had made, and was left feeling a bit scattered. I could not believe that was who I was just 3 years ago, and no that is not necessarily a good thing. I was trying to be approved by once friends that I knew would never approve of me again, I was dating someone who was completely wrong for me that my mom did not like and I was still being walked on by a couple of people that I thought I was good friends with.
I really do not feel like I was the only person that was like this just a mere 3 years ago. As I looked past my own distorted view of reality I saw people dealing with relationship issues, friendship issues, and in some cases, just what they wanted to spend the rest of their life doing issues. Some of them have worked through their issues, and some have not. There are some of them that I feel inspire me (or could if I spent more time around them) and others who I wish not to speak to anymore. The greatest change that I have seen between now and 3 years ago is the sense of security that I have gained in myself and I have to say part of that is due to who I have let myself continue to be friends with and those who I knew were weighing me down and I let go of.
Now that I have blogged your ear off, I leave you with this side note:
I am going to do my best to keep up with this, I must say that it is kind of theraputic to write out my thoughts a feelings knowing that people can give me feedback. However, I am in no a way a grammar person and do apologize if you find yourself getting lost mid sentence because my thought has gone on for just too long or I have used way too many commas. I suck at grammar and frankly, unless its professional, do not try that much so please bare with me, I will do my best!. Finally, I do not plan to use this blog as a look into my past, but merely for talking of what's going on now and what the future holds for me. While it may be used to give me a solid foundation of my blog, history is is history and I have an extremely exciting future ahead.
Thanks for checkin in!
Steff
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