Week 30: Car and Paint

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This week John and I bought a new car!  Well...it's not "new"...but it's new to us!  We bought a 2007 Chevy Trailblazer.  We have been looking for a while at Carmax, trying to find a reliable car, with decent mileage, and a reasonable price.  The first car we had transferred was an '05 Trailblazer.  We weren't sold when we saw it so we kept looking.  We found a good buy and had it transferred a few days later.  When it got here everything looked and ran great!  I'm very sad to say that we had to trade in the '99 Nissan Altima.  The poor Altima had over 172,000 miles.  It was a great car.  But I am SO excited to have a new car that can hit 70 without shaking!!

This weekend we (well...John) painted the nursery!  We had been waiting to paint because we were hoping to sell our home.  Since it hasn't sold, and I'm impatient, we decided to go ahead and paint.  Choosing the paint was quite an ordeal.  We bought 6 samples total.  Then we weren't sure we liked any of them.  We were all over the place...green, yellow, pink...  So we finally decided we'd go with the custom match color of green.  John took the sample to the store and told them we needed a gallon.  He came home and started painting...only to find out that the color was completely different from what we wanted!  It was a much deeper, hunter green.  So...we got back in the car and went to get another gallon of paint, and this time hopefully what we wanted.  The lady at Home Depot actually gave us what we wanted, and then added more of certain colors to make the match perfect!  The paint on the wall is beautiful!  I was really worried about the green being a little dull, but it is beautiful!  The green with the white is adorable!  I can't wait to move all the furniture back, put some decorations up, and bring the whole room together!  So exciting!  John painted for hours to make the room look wonderful!