188888

Dear Diary,
My car odometer turned 188888 today.

I stopped at the gate as I left OPUS 40 from picking up the boys and snapped a picture.

I found it fun to look at this series of 8's but I was really thinking about how my car only had 75,000 or so miles on it when I rolled it off the lot at Friendly Honda in Kingston. Wow - I really drove over one hundred thousand miles in the last 5 years. I am happy to have had great car care over the years from Honda Repair on Broadway, Steyers in Saugerties and Bruce in Mt. Marion. Yes, laziness led me to Jiffy Lube for oil and inside and out cleanings! Many and ongoing thanks to the many rescues from AAA (keys, flats and breakdowns). New tires from Van Kleecks and of course gas from Stewarts and my buddy who pumps it in the plaza.

Top Ten Favorite Moments
10. Placing my first bumber sticker on the rear bumper.
9. Teaching Arick how to help use the sprayer and vacuum at the car wash self serve.
8. Getting stuck in the snowbank at OPUS not once but several times in one season earning the good bye chant - "Stay away from the snowbanks" from the people who have dug me out.
7. Getting rid of the car seat groves from the properly installed tightly belted car seat that could be removed permanently.
6. Watching Stephanie drive away with my car never really knowing what condition the car would come back in.
5. Watching Arick turn my car into a fort by putting the back seats down and filling it with "stuff" to play with.
4. Using Duct Tape to hide that spare key - and using it several times.
3. Getting slightly rear ended because beginner driver was reading my bumper stickers.
2. Adding Sit, Click, Drive! stickers to various locations on the outside of the car along with adding car door magnets for the Weight Loss Challenges supplementing the already tacky rear bumper stickers!
and my all time favorite -
1. Seeing my car covered in silly string at random times over the years.

Me