The End of the Mini-Van Decade
My dear, darling, wonderful, marvelous, generous husband gave me an early birthday present.
I KNOW!!!
After a decade as a mini-van driving mama, I'm now driving an Acura MDX. Which makes me something else entirely, even if I don't exactly know what that would be. Nervous, a little, I guess.
It's funny the things we think we deserve and the things we don't.
Anyway, I LUUURRRRVVVVVEEEEEE it. I'm not really a car person, but this car? Y'all...it's like driving a hovercraft or something. I keep manufacturing errands I need to run in it. (Want me to bring you some coffee? Really, it's no trouble. I can be to Texas in three or four days, tops.)
And one of the best things? BACK-UP CAMERA. Imagine how much trouble this would have saved me over the years! Sheer brilliance.
They've made a lot of improvements to cars in the last decade--there's all this bluetooth stuff and hands-free this and that. My trunk closes itself. The rear seats are heated. (Not the ones in the very far back, but since those are only big enough for pygmies anyway, I'm not sure the heaters would ever have been used.) There's this really terrific thing where the car memorizes all of my settings for the seat and mirrors and steering wheel and as long as I use MY keys, as soon as I put the key in the ignition, it goes right to those settings. (This is in the event that I ever let anyone else actually drive it who might change the settings. I've had it for nine days and it hasn't happened yet.)
There IS something I don't understand. I made a little video about it, in order to showcase my technological prowess. (Oh, hush. Just...hush.)
(Note that I'm not complaining about the key thing--I just don't understand it. I feel certain there is a reason for it; I'm just not aware of what the reason is. Yet.)
Anyway, if y'all are looking for me over the next decade, that's where I'll be.
After a decade as a mini-van driving mama, I'm now driving an Acura MDX. Which makes me something else entirely, even if I don't exactly know what that would be. Nervous, a little, I guess.
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| I was trying to blur the numbers on my license plate and inadvertently erased the whole dang thing. I am a GENIUS. |
Anyway, I LUUURRRRVVVVVEEEEEE it. I'm not really a car person, but this car? Y'all...it's like driving a hovercraft or something. I keep manufacturing errands I need to run in it. (Want me to bring you some coffee? Really, it's no trouble. I can be to Texas in three or four days, tops.)
And one of the best things? BACK-UP CAMERA. Imagine how much trouble this would have saved me over the years! Sheer brilliance.
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| Have knitting and a fabulous fancy-pants car; will travel. |
There IS something I don't understand. I made a little video about it, in order to showcase my technological prowess. (Oh, hush. Just...hush.)
(Note that I'm not complaining about the key thing--I just don't understand it. I feel certain there is a reason for it; I'm just not aware of what the reason is. Yet.)
Anyway, if y'all are looking for me over the next decade, that's where I'll be.
Comments
Wow. I am so out of the loop on vehicles; I can't figure out left side steering wheels and so I cannot drive here. I now want a car with a retractable key thingy, though. Or, your husbands!!? How weird is that total keyless thing!!?
Man, they've done a lot with cars in the last five years...
Oh, so pretty!