The green-eyed monster

My sister and her dear husband and daughter head off to Denmark and the Netherlands tomorrow. And they'll be hitting Germany in the fall.  I'm jealous. I don't normally get jealous (anymore) of people, but if you're traveling to Europe, I will be jealous of you. I have this great wanderlust that just can't be satiated. (And yes, I know I've been very fortunate to do so much traveling. I'm not ungrateful, just greedy!)

Do you remember last September when this post appeared on my blog. You know, the one where I said we'd done so well saving money that we were going to go to Vancouver for the Winter Olympics and London for the Summer? Well, part (but not all) of that was a ruse to throw my sister off track since she'd pretty much figured out Shad and I were accompanying her to Paris. We really had been saving to go to London.

Well, that dream is gone. 

Instead we have this sitting in our garage now.

(And we think the garage is a better place for it than the living room!)

We took a HUGE chunk of cash out of savings and paid 80% of the car with cash. We sold our old Odyssey and are down to $750 owed on the car. While it's nice to have a new car and to practically own it outright, I'd rather have my old Odyssey in the garage while I was on a plane to London. 

But oh well.

So if you're driving around Albuquerque, and you see a green-eyed monster - don't worry. 

It's just me.