Monday Blues

It's Monday and the sky is blue! How wonderful. I love Mondays, unlike many people, who look forward to them with the same enthusiasm as a trip to the dentist. As well as being the day of the moon, Mondays bring order and make me plan my week.

Today I have to do some tweaks to a site, make up some graphics and then I'm off to the bank to draw out a bit of cash so that I can pay for my MR2 to have a full valet. The little car is going off as a trade in. I love it to bits, but it's far too difficult to get in and out of the way my back hurts, and after driving it around for just fifteen minutes yesterday, to make sure the battery was topped up, I was in agony. I have found a brand new car that I like, so MR2 has to look its best so that I shall get the very best trade-in price I can.

As soon as the valet is finished, I'm off to the dealer to specify my new car. I'm rather excited, as this will be the very first brand new car I have purchased. Lots of cars have been nearly new - a year or eighteen months old - but this one will be my first pristine, specified-to-my liking car. I shall have heated leather seats, satnav and all the goodies, including an iPod connector so that I can play that on long journeys if I get bored with the 6 CDs I can have in the dashboard player.

This car won't be blue, like the theme of the post, but pearlescent black with graphite leather upholstery. The old blue BMW will continue to cart me about until my new car is ready and then it, too, will go to a new home. I doubt I shall get much for it, as it's fairly old, even though it still runs like silken clockwork. Never mind, it has served me incredibly well over the years and I'm ready to part with it in favour of a vehicle I can get in and out of really easily.

I have made a number of attempts to change cars over the past two years - and each time I haven't been able to do it because I have been so attached to the old BMW or for any number of other reasons, mostly emotional. Now, after starting this foray into car change, it feels right and I'm looking forward to the change with great enthusiasm.