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Home › Diaries › Candace W's › January 8, 2001

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January 8, 2001

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me. Tonight I am the ripe old age of 22. It's almost surreal. Who ever would have thought I'd have made it this far? Yeah, I know I share a birthday with Elvis. And if you did, too, you'd get tired of hearing about it. I mean, I like Elvis and all (I think in his youth he was pretty cute) but I don't want to spend eternity being reminded of him on my birthday.

My big birthday present is going to be: a car. (We need one for when I go back to school full time in about a week!) We spent all day Saturday looking. I really was hoping to convince Al that we needed a minivan. This was just not happening. So, I started to sulk. We went home for lunch, with me still sulking. I knew it was unrealistic, but it just seems that a minivan epitomizes the whole "mommy" deal. Like if I drove a minivan, I'd feel more like a mother, and Al would be even more compelled than he is now to try and fill it with kids. (He thinks just one more child would be great. I think two more, at least.) I only test drove two of the eight cars we looked at. I let Al handle all the rest. I am really weird about driving. I don't drive often, and I was afraid I was going to do something to the car I drove. Anyway, he conned me into test-driving a Ford Contour (when I'd rather have driven the Monte Carlo which was bright red, had 70,000 miles, and priced at $8,500, but not really a family-mobile) and I did. When I got back he asked me how I liked it, and I grinned and said, "Well, it had great pick up." We finally both settled on the Chevy Impala. I would just die happy if I could get a new one with leather interior, neutral color, and the metallic blue color they have for the exterior. I am not a car person, but it's amazing how much that can change when you're looking at your car. I've never driven anything other than the white 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cierra he's had since we married. The car hates me. It once stranded me (refused to start) when I was eight months pregnant, and 46 miles from home. We had to tow the s.o.b. all the way home. The man who towed us wanted to know if I was going to go into labor. I think I made him really nervous.

Anyway, I am excited about the car, but only if I can get what I want. We'll see. If we can get a fantastic price on the new one, then I can consider it mine. If not, it's the used one for me. Which isn't horrible, but it just doesn't have the leather or the really cool color. It does have remote keyless entry (yes!) and a CD player. And I consider those two things really important. At least my priorities are straight. Ha, ha.

On the TTC front, I have been exercising since Monday. I did take Friday and Saturday off, though. I will weigh in tomorrow. I started at 148. I really want to be able to get down to 135. I don't think that's unrealistic. Well, it might be if I don't fix my lousy eating habits. It's amazing how much better I feel and how (I think) my legs look thinner already. I feel like I have more energy, too. Lately, I've been kind of unhappy, and I hope the exercise is going to help with that. I'm not really sure what it could be, but maybe it's stress because I don't know what the future will bring. I wish someone would tell me, "Hey, you're going to do this, so do it, and shut up!" If it were that easy!

Till next time,
Candace



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