So much more fun with your top off

So guess what I brought today!!!!

Its karma!
I have been looking for around 4 months now at Mini Cabrios.
Before I even thought that I might even actually be able to buy one,
and I hadn’t seen anything that fitted my idea of the Mini that I wanted. 
I knew that if I was going to buy one, it had to have options that I wanted, it had to be MY perfect Mini ( within my budget of course) but it was stuff that doesn’t come standard, if you know what I mean.

It also had to be within my budget and not a cent over. 
It under to have under 60,000Kms.
have no more than 2 owners.
Have cruise control and an iPod connection ( not standard)..
Not be red,
A few other things, but that was proving hard to find… I found one, it was $3000 over budget.
I found another, it was in WA.

I got the AOK from the company that I got my finance through on Friday afternoon.
And on Sunday morning I got an email alert with the new Minis put up on a website for sale, and there she was.
2005 model, S, 45000kms on the clock, one mature woman owner that had just brought a new model Mini.
Cruise control, ipod connection added. New tires, no damage, always been serviced, lived in a garage, non smoker, it was in Brisbane ( bonus not having to pay for stamp duty or change plates etc) and it was under my budget.

I sent a friend over to look and I put the deposit down in the afternoon.
Just sign all the paperwork tomorrow and she will be sent up to Cairns by Tuesday next week!

I can’t believe it, I am so over excited.
I couldn’t sleep last night thinking that I really wanted this Mini, and I had to wait for the call back.
I keep dreaming that I was driving it.
Its just dumb.  I have wanted a Mini since the new model came out in 2002 I think it was.
Finally I am going to own one.
I do own one.
!!

My job is going awesome.
Everyone there has been so good, and my Exec chef there is amazing.
I’m kicking myself!

This job is just going to open so many doors for me. 
it took me a few days to get used to not being so busy with what I was used to.  Not coming in and doing a service like I have done for the last 956 years, but to run things.
And its a huge operation, so just to be made in charge, be management.  Be looked upon and looked up too.

Its a huge job.
I still have a hard time thinking that I am that person.
That job is my job.

Just like the car.
I’ll wander down to my carpark and look at the car and say "thats MY car!".

I really am blessed at the moment.
I have just gone through that fucked up year, feeling so much less of a person,
feeling like I was living outside of my own body.
feeling out of control of everything in my life.

Living with a man that had no respect for me, that thought it was ok to lie and cheat on me. 
And I never had the balls big enough to say to him "hey, fuck you…. I know the weekend you spent in "bathurst with the boys" was actually a weekend in Canberra with the girls… so go fuck yourself"
I wish I had left him the moment I found out in Darwin. 
But I didn’t and that was my fault. 
I stayed in that position… I have to own that. 
I can’t blame him… it was my choice to remain where I was.
But neitherless… the choices that I had to make lead me to where I am today.

I have my dream job, and now my dream car.
I wake up every morning in the Tropics and walk my happy little dog down the beach everyday.
I walk past palm trees and coconuts and never have to wear anything more than thongs on my feet. 
Even when it rains its warm and I love that.
I even love the wet season.
When it pours and you can watch the lightening, but its hot and noisy and town is quiet.

Yip, I am feeling fucking good right now.
And nothing can stop that.

Kip
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