On the Home Stretch?

It's early Sunday morning in Bangalore. Other than the chirping birds, barking stray dogs and occasional honking truck zipping by, seems most of the city is asleep. I like this time.

I'm feeling a little messed up as far as my days go - Thursday was a holiday in India - Republic Day, the anniversary of the day the Constitution of India was formally adopted. Because of the day off, though, I catch myself thinking "What day is it today?"

On Friday, Aakash and I had our weekly doctor's appointment. The baby is healthy and doing well, but definitely taking his/her own sweet time coming out. Our due date is this Tuesday, but we haven't seen too many signs that the baby will make his/her appearance then.

I shouldn't be too surprised, though. According to Aakash, he has made a deal with the baby to not come out until we've gotten a car. So far, the baby has been keeping his/her word. Although I'm very happy to say I *think* we are pretty close to getting that WagonR.

Since all of our endless attempts at financing have fallen through, we're left with no option other than to buy the car outright. The last attempt at getting financing - enlisting the help of my company - was particularly frustrating. I wrote on Jan 19th that we were to find out "in a day or two" whether or not our financing would go through. Would you believe it took 10 days? The loan rep, whom I had initially labeled a "very nice guy" gave us a bit of a runaround. He did a good job of dodging our calls for over a week, and then finally informed us that our financing did not go through. Same reason as always - we aren't citizens and we don't own land.

In any case, we've managed to scrape together enough money and tomorrow, we'll likely put it towards that WagonR we looked at - the 2005 which we were told was a 2006 (see the Jan 19th posting). We decided that we'd call the guy on lying to us and strong-arm him into giving us a 2005 price. Despite having been asked over 4 times point blank, "Is this a 2006 WagonR", the salesman denied ever having told us that. But, he did agree to give us the 2005 price. Now, if everything goes according to plan, we'll have a new car on Tuesday. Woo-hoo! Baby may just be on time after all.

Belly-Watcher Update (almost 40 weeks):