Minivan Confessions

Soooooo. I was listening to XM the other day. I usually have it set to Jazz, The Standards, The 40's, or Classical. Yes, I am a wild and crazy minivan driver. Anyhoo, somehow the dial ended up on Top 20 at 20 ... and a song began to play. It was just acoustic guitar (which I adore) and then a voice started singing. Oh, well now, who was this? Kinda sorta maybe sounds like a young Brandi Carlile (love her). So, I checked out the audio screen to see who the artist was.

And then I died.

Miley Cyrus. Oh dear. Is my minivan going to my head?

Minivan Confessions

My first car was pink. Baby Pink. Well, technically Heathermist Mauve. What kind of a person has a pink car? Me. How on Earth did I manage to arrange that? It was 1988. I was 17. I had a really cool mom.

The object of my desire in the late 1980s was a Saab. Not just any one mind you. Mine needed to be baby pink with pristine beige leather interior. Hot.

Well, my first car turned out to be not a Saab, but a hatchback Honda Accord in an unsettling fleshy color. I was quite happy to just have a car. My mom, who was never one to go small, suggested getting it painted in any color I wanted. Pink it was! And that's how it came to be that I surely had the only baby pink Honda Accord hatchback in the whole world.

PS: The guys at Maaco not so subtly ribbed me for wanting to paint a car pink. They eventually came around, and spent hours sorting through their paint books for just the right shade for me. The pinstripe guy did an elaborate freehand design down the side of my car in a fabulous fucshia. He was quite proud of it. So was I.

Minivan Confessions

I was so tired and distracted today, that I walked around with my shirt on inside out for 4 hours before I noticed.

Minivan Confessions

I let my little one have a soft serve ice cream cone for lunch today. Nothing else. Just an ice cream cone.

Minivan Confessions

We went out to dinner yesterday. At 4:47 in the afternoon. To a cafeteria.

PS : It was delicious.

Minivan Confessions

I let my little girl go to the grocery store in her pajamas today.