Bittersweetness

For those of you who have sat through my "Ya! We're getting a car!" posts, you may have noticed that I have not posted a "Ya! We have a car now!" entry.

After almost a month of phonecalls, phonecalls not returned, being strung along, delays and broken promises of delivery dates, we have now confirmed that tomorrow evening we can pick up our new car - without the sunroof. Apparently, a part is on order for installation of the sunroof and it would take until next Wednesday (!) for it to be ready. Considering we have waited this long AND we have to make a trip to Fergus this weekend (minimum 5 hours or so on the bus in total) for the boy's sister's 30th birthday, we were not going to happily wait until next week. So, we're picking it up tomorrow and we'll take it back, when the part is in, for installation.

We're happy and excited, but the joy has been slightly deflated by the hassles we've had. Welcome to car ownship, I suppose.

ETA: After I wrote this last sentence, a quote from frequent reader and commenter, Sophie, came to mind: "Goody, goody, gumdrops" :D