Sorry I’ve been forgetting to post.  I work a full day job and I *gasp* can’t screw around online so I can’t do any blogging from work.  And when I get home after 8 hours in front of a computer screen, I don’t feel like blogging then either.

What else is new in my life? Driving. I live a tiny bit farther from downtown and my usual hangouts which means I have to actually drive to go places.  And I’ve had to drive out to my mom’s house (2 hours away) a lot – at least every other week, and we’ve done road trips here and there.  Way more driving than I’m used to!  Until a few months ago, we drove the car(s) less than once a week.  I also have a brand new car now, so I can’t use the “I can’t be the driver, I don’t have a car” excuse anymore, which means I chauffer people more often.  I’m still trying to adjust to driving all the time.  I don’t know if I’ll ever like driving.

But I’ve learned some funny things about driving a hybrid:

  • When I get angry at people for driving too slow, I can say things like “OHMYGOD. You are driving so slow that my ENGINE SHUT OFF!!!” (it shuts off at around 40 mph)
  • I feel much calmer in traffic, like when I’m outside of Boston and stuck going 10 mph for an hour (it happened last weekend) because I know that I’m not using any gas. But it usually evens out when I later have to drive 80 to make up for lost time haha.  Luckily I can do that because I don’t have one of the wimpy ass hybrids.
  • Now that the weather is cold, I learned that battery mode isn’t always good.  Because that means the engine isn’t on to generate heat.
  • When I’m on a neighborhood street and there are no cars around, or in a parking lot, I coast as much as possible so that the gas engine doesn’t turn on.  Brian gets annoyed and says UGGGHHH YOU’RE DRIVING LIKE THOSE HYBRID PEOPLE.  And I’m like yeah, deal with it. I swear I check to make sure there’s no one behind me though.