My MLK Day

Let's start the night before - Dan is watching the news and I am getting ready for bed and the news brings up that "tomorrow is MLK Day" and Dan's heads snaps towards me and I turn and look at him and just start laughing as he says - "you have tomorrow off of work?!" I just replied - Yes, I do. This past year I quit telling Dan when I had days off of work that he doesn't remember - which would usually include every extra government holiday that we get. I try to enjoy these days to myself and hang out by myself at home or doing something for me.
Today:
I started the morning by letting myself sleep in for maybe an extra 15 minutes (Katelynn actually got up a little before 6am and I put her back to bed and she slept until we woke her up at 7am - whew). Off to daycare with Katelynn and I had an 8am hair appt. at the salon. I was debating all morning whether I would go and get a much needed pedicure after my haircut and ended up driving to the Ford Car Dealership instead. I had a couple of hours to kill before I was meeting a friend for lunch in Milliken. So in I walk to Ford Heritage in Loveland. Dan had already scoped the place out and had, had some good offers on a couple of their Ford Edge cars so I thought I would go ahead and test drive one while I had time and see what all the fuss was about. I ended up driving a 2007 Ford Freestyle as well, which was the original car that I wanted to look at when I decided my Caliber just wasn't big enough for a family of four (at least my family of four). I drove both cars and really couldn't decide which one I would really like, there were a few differences and it would depend on my priority list. Because I didn't really know which car I liked better the dealership said I could take one for the afternoon/day to see if it was something I wanted. I thought, wow- that's great, I didn't think they did that anymore. So I took the Freestyle and off I went to lunch. Lunch with my friend was great, we went to the Mexican restaurant in Milliken that I had been wanting to try out and it was good food and good service and the place had really been cleaned up from the last owner. I came home after that to possibly work on some house cleaning or taxes or just bum around with no one home, but that didn't last very long (maybe 10 minutes) because my husband just cannot handle me with a day off from work and sitting at home, so here he was at 1:15pm rolling in. It did work out to my advantage today because I got to show him the car and get his thoughts on it. He didn't love the car, but said if I liked it then I could go and try to swindle a deal. So off I went back to Loveland with the title in my hand for my Caliber and a check in my purse ready to buy myself a new car! My sister-in-law works for Ford in Minnesota so I thought I should give her a call and see what she could tell me on the pricing she thought I should be offering for the car and I am glad that I did. She told me that I should be looking at paying around $14,000 for the used car that I was driving and that her company could pick them up on-line for around $12,000 and were only making around $1000 on the Freestlyes right now. Well, this was some really good information to have going in because me and Dan were willing to pay a little bit more than that. So, I get back to the dealership find my sales guy (who was really a nice guy who had only started there a week ago) and said let's talk some numbers. He went to the money manager and came back with what was a huge joke to me - the sale price was $20,995 and they offered me $8500 for my trade in (which still has warranty left on it) and wanted me to cut a check for the difference of $12000 - are you kidding me? That wasn't even in the ballpark of what me and Dan were going to offer, let alone was my SIL said I should be offering. So, I made my offer and let them know that I had done my research and the manager came down and said that if they could get a car for that price it might be worth the road trip, but there was no way he could get down to that price or even close. I looked at him and at my bulging belly and said, does it look like I can be taking a road trip anyway? I am due in 3 weeks. I said sorry we couldn't make something work out to my sales guy and shook the other guys hand and walked out the door and back into my Caliber to get ready to go to my dr.'s appt.
Dr. Appt:
So here I am a little over 37 weeks and am anxious more than ever for this appt. I have been thinking that the little guy has dropped down and something has to be giving and I know that I am going to get "checked" today so the dr. can let me know. So, of course with every appt. I go and pee in the cup and then wait. The nurse calls me in and I step on the dreaded scale and say "please be nice to me" (this of course after I have put down the purse, taken off my zip up sweater and taken off my shoes, every little bit helps right?) and then into the waiting room to wait for the dr. My dr. comes in and we do a little talking and I tell her again that I am ready to go and we chit chat and we did discover that the nurse wrote down on my chart that I was only 36 weeks. All I can think is "nightmare" from when I was pregnant with Katelynn and they put that I was a week over due - please nurses - get the dates right?! So we listened to the babies heartbeat and all is well and we are ready to check. Keep in mind that I am really in the back of my head thinking that she is going to tell me that nothing is happening and I am hoping for 1 cm dilated - and then she tells me that I am already at 80% and 3 cm and that she is pretty positive that I am not going to make it to February and that if I went into labor now they would not stop it. Whoa - that was a little more than I was bargaining for, of course I rush home and tell Dan and Katelynn and start getting my bag packed and jr's bag finished being packed and now that I have been made fully aware of my status I am feeling contractions here and there all night as I am running around the house like a mad person. I am wondering if I was having all these contractions before (which obviously I was) and was just that oblivious to them? Then I think to myself - crap, I didn't get my pedicure today - when am I going to fit that in? Well, my fingernails and hair are done at least.
The Car Sale: one last note on this, I was browsing the Internet after Katelynn went to bed because now I am on a little mission to find a Ford Freestyle (they changed the name in 2008 to the Tauras-x, if you were wondering what car this is), I think I can find a good used one for a good price that we can buy. So, I pull up a website and start looking around and low and behold, what is the first vehicle listed - the one from Heritage Ford that I test drove all day today and guess what they have the sale price at - $17,995, less then the starting price that was offered to me. Needless to say, I will probably not be going back to that dealership anytime soon and won't be referring anyone there - what an ass is all I can say about that manager, trying to rip me off, sorry buddy - try it on someone else!