You’ve had a birthday, honk hurray!

I can’t believe my little car has turned 150G! There should be more important things in my life to blog about right now, but this grabbed my attention this week. I was actually able to catch the odometer clicking over (luckily I had the camera with me)! It made me reminisce over the past 3 ½ years or 57,000 miles. What changes my life has been through! Here are some highlights involving little green civic:

- Driving through countless summit county snowstorms wearing her chunky snow tires
- Living out of her during my last semester at USU
- Learning how to drive a clutch, talk on the phone and peel an orange all at the same time
- Listening to dozens and dozens of books-on-tape ranging from British lit to quantum theory to spanish lessons
- Filling her trunk with all manner of work supplies: garden hoses, plants, paver bricks, tree branches, drip tubing, shovels, rakes, lobbers, lumber, and bags of sand
- Standing up against mild chuckling when parking at a job site next to all the other contractors and their big, shiny, white work trucks (how much does it cost to fill THEIR tanks?!)

For all of her weird noises, weak engine, 2 different types of skin cancer (paint and rust), low clearance, un-tinted windows, balding summer tires, and sliding floormats, she's been the best little car for my life so far. I don't know what will happen for her future 150,000 miles. I know the back can fit a car seat and the trunk can fit a stroller (barely)... who needs a mini van?!