I’ve had such a shitty couple weeks that I’m not even gonna list all the stuff at the moment because I don’t wanna bring myself down. Because I’m super excited that...

I HAVE A TRUCK!!!

I have a pickup truck! It’s all mine! MINE I TELL YOU!!

We needed to shuffle around vehicles because my dad’s transmission went in his white pickup truck, and it was a shitty truck anyway, so replacing the transmission didn’t make sense. My uncle is going to sell it for us (because my dad is stuck in the 70s with his vehicle pricing/selling tactics).

We decided my dad would get the van I’ve been driving, which was bought back in 2007 and was meant as a family vehicle, and we’d get a newer vehicle for my mom and I -- hopefully a pickup truck, but we were also looking at SUVs. I was excited and hoping for a pickup truck because I don’t like cars or vans, but the van we have is a nice vehicle and we’ve kept up on the maintenance.

But then recently my uncle was doing some trading with a guy and in one of the trades was a 2006 Dodge Ram crew cab pickup truck. He took it home for parts, not thinking much of it. He’d traded the equivalence of $3000 for the truck.

Well my mom and I saw it and jumped right on that. We thought he might not want to sell it to us because we knew he wanted the truck for parts, but he was happy to do it.

It has a KICKASS stereo system (part of the reason my uncle was happy I took it -- he knows how into music I am), better than I’ve ever had in a vehicle, and IT’S A PICKUP TRUCK!!

It’s black, has some wearing/bubbling of the paint on the hood and roof (it happens in the desert unless you park in a garage or under trees), but it hasn’t been in any accidents and is in pretty great shape for being 13 years old. We already put running boards on it so my mom can get into it. They’re black and have grips on them so she doesn’t slip.

The guy who owned the truck had kids, so the inside is disgusting, but my uncle knows this guy who does professional detailing, and he owes my uncle a favor, so I’m getting the truck detailed by him next Monday. I’m not super picky about cleanliness when it comes to vehicles, so I totally don’t mind driving it even though it’s gross inside, especially when it has a kickass stereo.

It’s rougher on the gas than the van, but I don’t drive a whole lot and I can always use the van if we need to drive long distances or my aunt’s little car if we go REALLY long distances.

Here’s a pic below of what a truck like mine looked like brand new. Mine isn’t as clean and pretty as this one, but at least you get the idea of what it looks like.

I was about to say I don’t care that it’s not all pretty and clean like the one above, but I do care. It’s stressful to me driving around a brand new spotless vehicle. I’m always worried something is going to happen to it. I like used vehicles not only for the $$ savings, but also because I don’t have to constantly worry about people scraping it in parking lots or us hitting it while we’re loading stuff into it.

I’m so excited! I haven’t had a pickup truck since I had that really big psychotic episode when I was 25. It was so bad that I stopped driving (and pretty much everything else) so my family sold the truck and got the van. I missed my truck so much!

And now I have one again!