Baby Got Back

I am happy to report that things on the cat-front have been PEE-FREE! We are still giving Big Mo a half a pill once a day, but we are hoping that we can stop that and things will remain dry.

Because of all the pee issues, I never got to share that I got a new car! Getting my first Mini Cooper was a dream of mine. I got Tiny just a couple of months before my 30th birthday, and boy was she a step up from my first car that I was selling to get her. With Tiny came power windows! And AC! And power steering! And cruise control! All things I greatly wished I had had when I drove from OK to NJ one summer (and then back again that same summer) ... Think sun burn on just the left side of my body, with ground in interstate dirt in my hair. Hot stuff.

I got a Mini Cooper Clubman this time around. I had been wanting to upgrade to this slightly larger model for a while, and had been keeping an eye on rates. The dealer in town was running $3000 off 2011 models and they even had one on the lot that I liked. The only thing I didn't love was that it was black. I do love me some of the original colors that Mini's have. BUT - I could get custom graphics, and black was a great background for that. So my new car, Baby Got Back, became mine. The first couple of weeks were so weird - just like I remembered from when I got Tiny and my very first car too. Like I couldn't believe I was so lucky.

Having grown up in poverty, with mostly unreliable cars and constant fears of them breaking down and not having the money to repair them, I have only purchased new cars with good warranties. Even though I make very different life choices than my parents, and Jim and I do not live in poverty or anything like it, I cannot seem to break free from this mentality. So I save up lots of money to get low car payments, so that I can buy a new car. Now, I know lots of people disagree with that. But the security I get from having a 7 year (or more) warranty on my car, makes me feel like its taken care of even after I own it outright.

Oh, and the custom graphics? We put on silver stripes over the black, on the hood, roof and down the back of the car. And put the number, 01, in lavender, in a racecar-like circle on both the passenger and driver side doors. The bad news is I don't blend in well, which makes my road rage harder to hide. But the good news is ITS AMAZEBALLS!