Well, today my mom drove my Mazda and decided that it needed to be checked out at an auto shop. I knew it was acting up but I didn't think it was as bad as the transmission being bad.

The repair job would have been around $1,700.

So we looked online for a new car. My brother actually found this one, though originally I was going to get a red one that was about $1,000 cheaper. When we got to the dealership, we found out that the engine on the red one was bad and could go out easily.

So instead, I got...



A white 1998 Mercury Mountaineer!

This is the actual pic of it from the dealership website. I'll get a new photo with me actually showing off next to it tomorrow, weather permitting....and it's supposed to rain all week.

It was pouring all day when we went. We actually test-drove this vehicle in the rain, and when we were doing the paperwork, it was thundering so bad that the electricity at the dealership actually went out a few times.

So I finally got some pics of me with it:




Roll Tide, baby!


Hey I can hold tailgate parties if I want to now!

Sadly, my old 1990 Mazda 626 is sitting on the lot of the dealership tonight. It was hard to let go of it - I got it as a graduation present in 2004. But it just had so many problems that it was time to get something new, and I got 5 years out of it so I'm happy about that.