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I got home from work last night, and my parents said they had some news. Apparently at the dealership where I had my car worked on yesterday, the owner just bought a car, not a few days ago, from some old lady who barely drove it at all, had yearly checkups and kept the car in pristine condition. The owner of the dealership wants to sell the car for $3500. $200 less than what we payed for my old car.

My parents told me they're contacting the guy today to buy it. I promptly burst into tears.

I just. I don't understand how unbelievably blessed and fortunate I've been in situations like this. I'm not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth, believe me, but it's just. I don't deserve this. I don't deserve this at all. And somehow everything slides right into place despite that. I just bought a brand new laptop, for God's sake, with the help of my parents, and again, the car, with the help of my parents. I've told them over and over that I'd be more than willing to pay what's rightly due, but they said as long as I pay for gas, repairs, and monthly insurance, they'll take car of it. It just kills me.

So, yes, as it looks, I'll be getting a '97 Saturn that looks pretty much like this, (except in white) before the week is out. Now our dilemma is to either pay another $2000 to get my old car repaired and then sell it for a really good amount (because otherwise it's in fantastic shape) or just donate it, as we don't think it could get much without the repairs already done. I don't even know. My head is still spinning.

So, yes, despite all that, I kind of, um, bought a bunch of things today. WITH GIFTCARDS. Mostly. So there. I bought Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Hadden at Barnes and Noble, and because they didn't have them there (WTF) and because I had a $25 gift card, I bought Twilight and Stardust from Amazon.com. This is just a fraction of my summer reading list. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW IT. I know you do. In order, because, um, I'm anal like that. I'm also in the middle of The Time Traveler's Wife right now.

Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Hadden
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Lamb by Christopher Moore
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Absalom! Absalom! and As I Lay Dying by William Faulker
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
Lullaby and Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk.

EXCITING, I KNOW. Some rec'd from various places all over my flist. Others because I read Other Voices, Other Rooms by Capote for my Lit of the South class and loved it, LOVED Faulkner and his insanity, and Hugh Laurie wrote a book?!? so of course, I have to read it. Good stuff.

And, uh, I may have ordered the Origins comic online. I do not do comics. Really. BUT FOR YOU SPN I WILL DO... pretty much anything. No lie. *Excited!*

I do not think anyone understands how nervous/excited I am for tonight's episode. OR MAYBE YOU DO. Oh. Oh God.