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well, i got a new car, 2011 nissan versa, love it

and my new creative thing is i am taking a class for soapstone carving.
i am not sure about it
i tried to take this class last year and there were not enough people so they sent my money back....
now this time around, i saw it offered again and i said to myself, screw them it was cancelled last time and i was looking forward to it. so i threw the book away. then a week or so ago i got a call from the adult ed dept asking me if i would take the class because they almost had enough people to have the class this time. so i reluctantly agreed.

now i am taking it and i am not sure what will come of it.
they have us working on a block of plaster to get used to the tools
i started out not knowing what to carve
then i thought i would do a bird, but i could not really 'see' the bird in the 4 x 4 block of plaster... i still cant
and then i started chipping away at it and realized
a) how hard it is to control the tools
b) how tiring it is to do this
c) and how pointy a bird it (beak and tail) so i decided to not make a bird
i will post it when i have something worth posting....

even though i still cant see the animail in the block but i decided on a very simple bear. and so i was chipping away at it tonight until my arm was too tired.

ok so my car has to have MORE work done to it AGAIN
i have decided that it is costing too much money lately, i have put well over 7k into it in the last (under) two years... not to mention all i put into it previous to me remembering how much i have spent recently on it.

so now i am confused as to what to do next.
i dont really want to buy a used car because my dad always said you are buying someone elses problems
and a new car costs so much money
AND i love my little cruck, i dont want to get rid of it

so i am looking at all the car makers lowest priced models, whether they seat 5 or not. now i am debating trying to learn to drive a standard so i can save some money, but i just dont think i can do it. i have no faith in myself.
but i would save probably 1k at least getting a standard
i will give it a try but i hate learning new things and i just dont think i will be good at it. i tried once before a really long time ago.

also looking at the prices, i am not sure if i can afford anything at all.
it is depressing really