Continuing on the good luck train… today the dealership called me to inform me that they had gotten me better terms on my new car loan. I’m heading in to review the fine print and sign a new contract, but it’s going to be a lower rate, hence lower payments.

I am feeling very loved in the universe lately. So much pain and drama before, and now just the peaceful feeling of a fresh start and a lot of good things happening for me.

It’s true what they say, you get what you give.

Ah, so let’s rip the Band-Aid off and go for the bad news first, yes? Saturday morning my dad called me to let me know his father had passed away. I have mixed emotions regarding this. On the one hand, I was not terribly close with my grandfather and we often argued. He was a misogynist, and well, c’mon, that’s never going to sit well with me. He was also an all around grumpy old man. But there were occasions, glimmers of a relationship that could be, where he and I were able to sit down and have a conversation without one of us deciding the other needed to be taken out back and shot. Rare occasions, but still there all the same.

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