Om nom nom.

…Ish muh 25th berfday!!!!!  Exclamation Point Central!!!!!

Plans include frolicking in the rain with best friend Brandon Quan, formerly aka Dwight on this blog (will we go to Disneyland again for their “get in free birthday club”?  See “Alice in Wonderland” in 3-D?  Grab a Subway sandwich and a boba tea and sit around his apartment watching “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” for the 18th time?  Who knows?!  The mind boggles to think of the possibilities! It’s so great to have a best friend you can count on!) and also German Chocolate Cake with candles from Sage (my first birthday cake!  Yay!)

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There is also a special little quarter-century crisis gift to myself…I’ve traded in my mechanically unstable, inherited piece-o-crap truck for something older, cuter, cheaper, longer-running, easier to fix, and much more uniquely “me”…

I have named him Kermit. Kermit Kafka. If you don't know why Kafka (Come on, I assume you must know Kermit!!!), read more classic literature! Or, you know, just Google Kafka. We live in the information age, right?

Old cars make me happy.  And I’ve wanted a Bug for about a decade.  So now I have a little 1968 coupe. Just need to learn to drive stick, which Sage (proud owner of a Miata) has generously offered to teach me. Several years ago I drove a motorcycle as my sole means of transportation for two years, so I imagine it’s much the same principle…just using completely different appendages to operate everything.  Should pick it up in no time.  (Right?  Right???? – Gaaaaah! Terror!!!)  Plus, the engine on it has just been rebuilt, so yay!  No worrying about that for a while.  Whew.

Thanks to Sage and her mechanic friend Charlie for checking the car out for me yesterday!  It feels good to have somewhat reliable transport again, and something that doesn’t guzzle gas or pour clouds of black smoke when started.  Thanks also to the very kind sellers Marvin and Marjorie, who even knocked a few hundred dollars off the price for my birthday!  You guys rock, and also have the most lovely house ever (they built it themselves, and it’s chock full of antiques and much other loveliness).