No matter what happens, no matter how bad things get, there really is one thing I can rely on. The God works in mysterious ways.
As much as I wanted to get a car first, as much as I really wanted us to have 2 cars as soon as possible, things are working out the way they need to. As I’m watching this weekend unfold I am realizing this fact. Am i scared C wont be able to find a vehicle this weekend? Yes, but he really has until wed to get one and we may actually have one. We have a truck that the service department has to look at and possible fix some things on Monday if the truck we are looking at tomorrow doesn’t work out.
But that’s the small fish. Here is the big fish:
If we had followed our original plan I would have been the next to get a car, probably at the end of the month and it would have been a jeep commander. Why a jeep commander? Because it can seat 6 and in the rare occasions after the baby is born when we have all of us riding in one car we need a 6 seater. Of course I was having that fall on me even though it really isn’t the most earth friendly economical option. About 4-6 months after getting the jeep C would have gotten the truck he is currently looking for, and I would have then realized my mistake and been stuck…
Why would I have made a mistake? First off the truck gets about the same mileage as the commander, but possibly better. Second, it fits six so we would have had 2 six seater vehicles for those rare occasions we need it. Third, and the real reason I would have been upset…The truck is a diesel. Ever since college I have wanted a diesel vehicle so I can have it run on homemade biodiesel. C wants that too apparently (because we share the same dream, duh). So here we would have been with one biodiesel vehicle and me being jealous. That’s a sad story. It’s so super easy to make your own biodiesel too. We plan on getting a diesel generator for the house for “just in case” emergencies and running that on biodiesel too. To make biodiesel you convert used vegetable oil (usually from fast food places that would otherwise have to pay to have it disposed of) into biodiesel using one of these 
fun filtration/ conversion kits. The cost starts at about $1500 and goes up from there. The one in the picture makes about 40 gallons per day for about $1 a gallon. The most awesome part about it isn’t the saving money part, which is really nice. It’s the fact that once we make the switch we will not be tied down to the oil industry at all. We complain about these giant companies that have monopolies over our lives, we complain about the fracking destroying our environment and contaminating the land, yet we rejoice when gas is below $3 a gallon. I feel like a giant hypocrite. Unfortunately it’s nearly impossible to live in America without some sort of vehicle, unless you live on the east coast but even then it can be tough. We are cutting our ties to big power, cutting our ties to the water company, and now as soon as we can we will be cutting ties to big oil. Now if only there was a way to do this with cell phone companies and internet, but unfortunately we can’t make those ourselves.
Sooooooo… Here is the NEW plan (thanks God!). C gets his truck. I still need a second car in the next month, but he says he is working on that so i’ll trust him to figure that one out. I guess i have to, although I also have to admit that i’m super jealous that he gets a car before I do, but such is life. Anyway, as soon as we can get his credit up (which should happen fairly quickly now that he has no debt except for a car payment he makes every month), we are going to get me a diesel SUV type car. I have been looking around and it looks like a jeep (I love jeeps) liberty will be the best way to go for us. We will also need to refinance his truck at some point this year too, but we’ll cross that bridge after we have 2 reliable vehicles. I have to say, as upset as I am that we STILL don’t have 2 vehicles I am happier about this plan, and far more excited about it, than I was about the original plan. I guess things really do work out in God’s timing.
