Well, we've done it

After much negotiation and a lot of research on Irish's part, we've agreed to purchased a new car. I know, I know... if you're like me, you're wondering what we are doing wasting money on a new car.... which is why this process has taken us over a month to agree to. We both swore we'd never get a new car, we both swore we'd never get a black car (having had them before and knowing the work it entails keeping it clean), we both swore we weren't those kind of people who spent huge amounts of money for no good reason.... now we are those people.

We've justified it a thousand different ways. Currently, we both have 2 seaters. I have the M1ata; Irish bought a truck that has the little jumpseats in the back. It was a little tough carrying my parents around in that when they visited last year. We knew we needed something that would at least allow us room for 4. We wanted something that we could carry a dog in, because that's on our list of things to do this year (I just reread that and it sounds like owning a dog is just something you check off the list. that's not what I meant at all!). For Irish, this is a dream come true. He's never owned a new car - in his last job, the bank provided vehicles, like they often do in european countries, it seems. This is one of his 'dream cars'. He's tickled to bits!

Our other rationalization - well, HIS, really - is that he's still thinking in euro terms this year. This car he's getting costs 60k euro in 1reland, here it's half that price. He knows that probably by next year, after being in the US awhile, it won't seem cheap anymore... ah, there's so many reasons. Frankly, I just want him to have it, if he wants it. It's not like we don't have the money. We do. He sold his house in Ireland enough above the asking price to pay for this. It's not like we made a snap decision.... in fact, it's taken us longer to make this decision than it took to buy our house and we often laugh at that fact. We will both get immense amounts of pleasure out of this car, we are sure of that. We may never buy a new car again.. (Unless we BOTH want to drive it, then we may have to get another. lol)

Here's what our new baby looks like. That's not our car, or our house and ours is actually a 2006 (this is the 2005, they look the same). I feel like a proud mama.