While I’ve been updating my food-tracking blog several times daily, I’ve been neglecting this blog something fierce. And what has been taking up so much of my time? Nothing, really. I wake up, go to work, work my bum off, come home, work on cross stitch, catching up on Gossip Girl, or expanding my pinterest boards, study, go to school, try to learn how to drive a stick shift* and read books. It’s pretty ho-hum, actually! … But I like it. Life is good, and I’m going to cherish it while it lasts.
I’ve been causing a bit of mayhem on Facebook… pushing my political views on anyone who doesn’t agree with me. Bleh. Who knew we’d have to deal with this before the presidential debates started up? I thought we’d have a nice 4 year break… nope.
I also cause mayhem when I over-share the type of shenanigans that me and my brother get into:
Seems legit….
Haha… Work is the same as usual. The only thing that’s pretty awesome is that I’ve got over 100 followers on my other blog and to celebrate, I’m doing a ‘Happy Hundred’ challenge where I am working out for at least 10 days for 100 days since I got my 100th follower…. Turns out that’s until January 1st 2014 🙂 Serendipitous.
To help me reach my goals through the winter..[Pipe down, Stark, we all know winter is coming…] Jeff and I got a BOSU ball and a jump rope 🙂 So far, I’ve gotten at least 1 ten-minute workout in… while inflating the BOSU with the hand-pump 😛
*Jeff and I got an Audi a few months ago and while it was a great deal because it was marked down, good financing, paid off my car, etc.. there’s just one itty bitty tiny little problem: I can’t drive it.
The Audi is a stick shift. A manual transmission. A Standard transmission. Three-pedals, kills the car if you do it wrong, shuddering death-trap of a stick shift. And he drives it like they’re linked telepathically and all he has to do is think and it responds.
He was trying to give me a driving lesson today and I should not have gone out–it was already a rough day. I was able to get the car going from a level surface, and cruised around the neighborhood 1st, 2nd, 3rd, oops, dead-end, neutral, park, reverse, 1st, stop-sign on an incline, shuddering start, stall, attempt # 1, attempt #2, 4-ways, concerned neighbor, attempt #3, car is smoking, I quit.
Heh.
I’ve been driving an automatic for 10 years and it’s really not that easy for me to pick up the skills needed to keep the car going smoothly. It’s half mine, though, so I’m determined to figure it out. Any tips/tricks would be welcome in the comments below 🙂
MegsFitness 
My tip is to practice in a rental!. It will cost a fortune to replace the transmission in that thing.
Congrats on your 100th follower!! I’ve owned 3 cars since I got my license over 10 years ago and all of them have been a stick shift. My parents forced me to learn it when i turned 16 and I hated them for it. But eventually I got the hang of it because I had to if I wanted to drive. My tip is “stick” with it!! Hehe.
Haha.. I see what you did there 😉 I’m actually thinking about just taking the car out on my own: less pressure, lol. I like the comment I received earlier, too, about using a rental…