I did them all myself !!! 🚗 💨 🚗 💨

Today my car reached 200,000 miles. 

I did most of all of them myself!! It had less than 20K when I bought it.  

Disclaimer: “Maintenance required” simply means it’s time for an oil change. The last time I got one, they put a windshield sticker stating to get one when I hit 200,300. 

When I was pregnant, one of my coworkers gave me a book called “Oh the places you’ll go” by Dr. Seuss. I mean, it was for the baby. But I obviously went to a lot of places in this car. Between 2020-2022, I did retail audits all over Texas and 9 other states. I did spend one day in Memphis, but did not venture east into the rest of Tennessee. I left Memphis after doing some 10-12 audit jobs there, because it seemed like there was a police state. Cops were everywhere, and it made me nervous. Sometimes I say “all over nine states”. That has truth to it if you include Texas. Tennessee was technically the tenth state. 

Yesterday something else higher happened. Kevin asked me to marry him, and I said yes. We are shopping for rings today. I knew it was coming, and I knew 200K was coming on the car.  But I didn’t imagine they’d happen the same day. 

20-25 years ago, most people in my life were vehemently opposed to the idea of me ever getting married or having a family. Miraculously, that ended last year when I moved in with Kevin. I surmised that it was because I was by then 45 years old. No one is going to try and boss a middle aged woman around the way they would boss a woman in her early 20’s around. It’s a lot nicer without all the hate and drama, but at the same time- is it going to be the same for my daughter?  Does she have to wait until she’s 45? 

I don’t know. The very few people I’ve told so far have been happy, but I haven’t told anyone that wouldn’t be.