Woodstock's first official checkup

I just got back from MINI of Monrovia after taking Woodstock for his 1 year checkup. He's been to the doctor many times before for several warranty issues, but this is his 1st official service. He had his brake fluid flushed, oil and mircrofilter changed, and he got a nice car wash. He is now ready for AMVIV in a couple of weeks. I can't believe he'll be 1 year old in 4 days.. Awww my baby is growing up.

My Poor Niki

My poor Niki, I should have known something was wrong with her when she didn't get out of bed to leave with me for work. She wouldn't even let me pick her up without growling and squeaking in pain. After I dropped her off at moms she started wimpering and shaking and could hardly walk. My mom called me because she was really worried about her.

We just got back from the vet, and apparently she did something to her back and she can't walk or do much... The vet gave her a shot and sent her home for total bed rest and anti inflammatory medicine. I feel so bad for her that she is in such pain, at the least the shot will take effect pretty soon and hopefully she won't be in too much pain for long...

Time Flies

I was just looking at my AMVIV countdown clock and just realized that there are only 18 more days to prepare for it.. I just ordered the tent today and I already have my sign that I had made for the Magical Mystery tour. I still have to create more stickers and makes my display signs. It seems like it was yesterday that I had 3 months to go before AMVIV. I had all these grand plans to do t-shirts too which I had already designed but have not had the chance to make. I guess I'll make samples and just take orders. Geez, I can't believe how fast time flies. I need to get off my butt and getting going..

Coogies Today

It was a beautiful day for SCMM's 1st of the month breakfast meetup at Coogies. I woke up early and headed out without Niki. (She stayed home with mom) It was a nice twisty semi-fast drive down Sunset to PCH. I don't speed on PCH by Sunset, cuz there's always so many police just waiting to give people tickets. Plus I didn't need to get pulled over 2 weeks in a row.

Well, I'm doing about 50 mph, and I look in my mirror a see 3 MINIs approaching me pretty quick, but I can't see who it is. One of them speeds up and gets besides me and I see its one of my SCMM friends, Dan.. He waves and backs off and gets behind me again. The only problem is, a policeman saw him speed up and clocked him at 67 in a 45.. He pulled him over and gave him a ticket.. I felt so bad that he got a ticket on such a nice day... what a bummer... Sorry Dan...

Found out my vendor spot at AMVIV 6

I just found out my Stuck On Minis Vendor spot at AMVIV 6. Please come by my booth #8 located across from Vinyl Styles and Go MINI Go.

If you mention that you saw this blog post I will give you a free $2.75 sticker of your choice with the purchase of any sticker..

Little Black MINI finally has a name

Ashley took me out to dinner tonight and I asked her if she had a name for her MINI, but she said she couldn't think of one. She wanted something with Pooh on it because ever since she was little we called her Ashpooh. Well we finally came up with the perfect name for her MINI, MNI POOH..isn't that a cute name... She just got finished ordering her special license plate for him. I think it's the perfect name for her MINI....

I can't find Woodstock's license plate

Geez, since I got that fix it ticket, I need to put Woodstock's front license plate on, the problem is I can't remember where I put it... The CHP won't sigh off on my ticket unless I have it on there. Boy that is dumb, I'll have to tear apart the garage this weekend to find it

I could have bought 1/2 a MINI

Well the total for my huge sewer problem came to $13,100 almost half of what we paid for Ashley's Little Black MINI. Hmm, new MINI or new sewer, at this point since we already have 2 MINIs in the family, I guess it wasn't too bad. I now have a whole brand new sewer system that should last for the next 50-75 years....can we say that a new Mini would last that long?

Yeah, I'm back home

Yahoo!!!. I get to sleep in my own bed tonight. The plumbers replaced the sewer pipe from my house to the end of the property line and the inspector passed it today. They told me I could use the water until tomorrow.

Tomorrow they will have to clean out the sewer from the property line to the city's main sewer. Once they clean it out they will then put the epoxy sleeve in it. This effectively gives me a a brand new sealed pipe that should last for 50 years or more. Once the liner cures for approx 5-6 hours it will need to be re-inspected, then they can refill the huge trench in my front yard and this nightmare will be over.. I can't wait, I just hope it doesn't rain tomorrow...

I got a cool present

Look what I found when I got back to my moms house after dinner at Roberts. My cousin dropped this little red RC Mini off at my moms house for me. He told my mom that he couldn't find a Yellow Mini so he got the red one. That was soo nice of him, I've been wanting a RC Mini for awhile now, but also couldn't find a yellow one, so I just never bought one. I think I'll paint it yellow..