Birthday Wishes and 50 Years Together …

Happy Birthday to Donna! Ok, Happy Birthday two days ago.  was a busy day on my end, and I forgot to update my page. Hope you had a great day!

Speaking of celebrations, this weekend, we are having a 50th wedding anniversary party for my Grandparents.  Looking forward to having some fun with the family! Congratulations guys!

While driving home from work today, my MINI crossed the 130,000km mark. Now, I didn’t buy this car new, so I cant comment on the first 80K of driving, but the last 50K or so have been some the best times I have ever spent in a car. Aside from a ABS sensor, the car hasn’t needed anything but regular maintenance done to it. (touch wood!). Oil changes, recent brake job, and a soon to be replaced windshield are all par for the course when you spend 60K a year on the road.  Aside from that, the only money it has needed have been for modifications to make it faster 🙂 Reduced supercharger pulley, intake and exhaust along with some suspension work have really transformed the perky little MINI into a small beast, and I couldn’t be happier.  Here’s to another 130K of happy driving!

As posted before, I am in summer mode at the school board. Holidays have me down to two-day work weeks for all of July and August. During that free time, I have been able to pick  up some shifts at ALNC while Ian is away on holidays visiting his family. Because of these extra shifts, and the paycheck I deposited this morning, I am officially credit card free!  It took a bit longer then expected (wasn’t planning on dropping money on the brakes and washing machine, but oh well).  At long last the card is at zero.  I can get back to my old ‘use and pay it off in the same month’ mode.  Man I’ve missed those days. 

Now that we are caught up, and its looking like my bug is going to be a bit longer then we had hoped, I may spend some of my hard earned cash, and get my driveway paved sooner then later. I was planning on doing it next spring, but if I can swing it now, and not have to worry about shovelling a gravel driveway again this winter, I would be very happy.  Going to spend some of my time off tomorrow looking for prices. If the price is right, I may go ahead. Time will tell.