After driving around all Sunday to the Bower’s Museum to see the mummy exhibit, to Disneyland for the 1st free day for our annual pass (and meeting Vicky and her new man at California Adventure), I still haven’t gotten totally adjusted to the new car. The drive from my house to work this morning, I didn’t even have any road rage, despite the fact that it took me 30 minutes to drive 7 miles, which on any previous day would’ve sent me through the roof. I didn’t realize the drive was that long. I was distracted by admiring the radio display on the nav system screen, which lists all your preset radio stations AND the song that’s currently playing on each of these stations so you don’t have to change stations rapidly to see what’s playing on each. I also received a phone call mid-drive, which I answered on the car’s speaker system without ever reaching for my purse for my cell. It was some financial service or other that was checking to verify that I did indeed authorize Lexus to finance a new car over the weekend. I’d totally forgotten that I’d put a freeze on all instant credit, recorded on all 3 credit bureaus, because I’d been the victim of credit fraud. They’re supposed to call me personally to verify that I want credit opened, so that’s what they were doing. It did scare me, tho, cuz at first I thought there was something wrong with my financing and it had fallen through. I still gotta sign up with Costco and get that cheapie financing this week so I can get out of the higher-rate Lexus financing.

When I got to work (on which drive I passed 2 Infiniti G35s, they’re ALL OVER the place!), I parked way out in boonesville, BFE, to lessen the chance of people dinging my car. My poor little Accord was never so dinged as it was parked inside our work parking structure, which is just ridiculous, considering everybody’s coworkers there, so you’d think they’d be more respectful with their coworkers’ property. But I’ve had an attorney in the building open the driver’s side door of his SUV so hard into my car, as I was sitting in my car, that it shook my whole car for a few seconds. I was SO PISSED.

Anyway, I guess I’m gonna need to find time to wash this car on a regular basis to keep it all shiny. There’s already a few tiny spots of yellow, like maybe a birdie sprayed me and got a few droplets on the car. I made the mistake with the first car to put it through an automatic car wash while it was new and I got spider scratches up the yin yang. I didn’t know! I was young(er)!