Dad... tried to call you earlier today to tell you about my car that I picked up this morning (too early!) at SCE. It's one of the Hertz Green Collection... and just the type o' car you've been looking for for me. Yep... it's a Prius. It was freakin' cold when I picked it up this morning (after all, it was pre-dawn in the frozen Happy Valley). There was a pretty heavy layer of frost, and the ice took a while to melt on the blue Corolla from MDT before I could even get rolling toward SCE to trade it in. Since I'm lazy, I just waited with the heat on. Better than getting out in the breath-showing, toes-tingling morning to scrape the windshield! Then I forgot to check the mileage when I got to the airport... leaving myself yet another trip outside to do that. Finally, I get my "key" to El Prius and head out to my new car. Okay, no scraper, no problem. I'll do the same brave-it-in-the-full-blast-heat thing. Hmm. Well, only if I can figure out how to turn the freakin' car on! Who knew it would be that hard to start a car?! Luckily, they come with an owner's manual... or a little tiny square of "this is how you start me" goodness in the console. I love it. It's fun. It's novel. Maybe not for me full-time, but an excellent rental in this now-possibly-next-to-last trip back "home" in SCE. Oh yeah... 'nother trip to add to the already-full schedule now. Back up here in 2 weeks. Good gosh... where is home these days?!
So, the full crew (but esp. the fun table... which was, of course, my table) at dinner sang to me and bought me a dessert with a candle in it tonight. Aww. Sweet. But, I wanna go back here to celebrate, Mom... don't you?
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