Adventure! Yay!

I am embarking on an adventure! This is something I have never done before and I must say, I am nervous and exhilirated! Name them, I have them: butterflies, jitters, knots in my stomach, random bouts of nervous giggling and grinning. The list goes on.

What am I doing, you ask? Climbing Kilimanjaro? Bungee jumping? Getting married?

None of the above.

I am... drumroll, please!... buying a new car! All by myself, with my own money! Never have I been so nervous!

Honestly speaking, I should be less nervous. After all, I have bought property, for goodness' sake! I have taken on new jobs, gone overseas, passed crazy exams and finished a thesis. I went to Zimbabwe without blinking!

However, six or seven phonecalls and about twelve e-mails from dealers and insurers later (this is just the beginning, I fear) and I am a bowl of jibbering jelly. What is a balloon payment, anyway? Do you get a balloon when you pay? Do you give the dealer a balloon and get to pay less?

Let's not even talk insurance! One guy phoned and talked at me for ten minutes about a car I do not have yet! And then he finishes off by telling me that we will have to do it all again when I get the car, because it will all change!

So, I need some Chamomile tea and a long bath and, preferrably, to wake up when it's all over!