My New Ride

Well, this is technically a little premature, but alas. I have one more month of driving my Cavalier (giving it enough time to easily hit 200,000 miles), and then I will trade it in for my new ride: a 2003 Ford Mustang convertible. I am buying it from Jack, who has provided multiple different vehicles to our family over the years (by my count, this will be at least the ninth car we've gotten from him). Jack provided this picture to me before I was able to go see it.

I drove down on Sunday to see it and test drive it. It is great fun to drive, especially with the top down. It drives great and is all around in quite good condition. I had been searching for such a car for a while at dealerships around the Twin Cities, and a few weeks ago had emailed Jack to ask him questions about Mustangs regarding reliability, and he told me that they had this car, and had had it for a few years, and rather enjoyed it, and that it was a "great car." Then last week, he emailed me and said that he was going to be selling it, and asked it I was interesting. Which of course, I most certainly was. So it ended up working out rather nicely. We're paying $8900 for the car, but will also be getting $500 in trade-in for my Cavalier. Sweet.

The only thing I wish was different about it is the color, as white is actually one of my least favorite car colors. But that's something I can live with, considering that I think this quite a good car, and should be reliable. I trust Jack more than dealerships, and the fact that it has been his car for around 5 years means that he's been keeping very good care of it. It also has never been driven in a Minnesota winter, so there's no winter damage.

I am rather pumped. But, of course, it will be until the weekend of September 20th that I'll be able to get it. Booyah.

Crushed Beyond Repair

Every so often, words of a poetic nature pop into my head. I wrote this one just yesterday, and it's the first one I've written since March (I posted that one as well - This Question Haunts Me Still).

Crushed Beyond Repair

Somebody come and rescue me, I'm crushed beyond repair
Someone come and take my hand and let me know you're there
Come and sit beside me, place your hand upon my heart
Pull me close and hold me tight, in case I fall apart

I once had joy and dreams and hopes, but now my heart is grim
I once saw a bright horizon, but now my view is dim
I felt the love around and through, I never hid nor fled
But now I have nowhere to run, and I've been left for dead

Where are they hopes that once felt so true?
Why am I abandoned by all I once knew?
Who can I blame for where I am and where I've been?
When can my eyes shut and not open again?

Somebody come and rescue me, I'm crushed beyond repair
Someone come and take my hand and let me know you're there
Every hand I've found to hold has failed me in the end
Another painful memory, another wound to mend

What in this world can bring me peace?
What hand can make the anguish cease?
What path is there for me to tread
That brings me views of light instead?

From deep within, I feel a love I haven't known before
I can't explain but now I know this hand holds something more
Blood drips from the shattered palm, my world is torn in two
The old life is washed away, I'm left with something new