Finally, a grocery purchase that did not qualify for the 15-items-or-less checkout

Okay, I have some big news for you today.  As the title of this post may suggest, I went out today to the Pak'nSave and bought us a couple hundred dollars worth of staple groceries.  Among other things, I got three litres of milk, a big jug of laundry detergent, a bale of toilet paper, and a case of soda pop in glass bottles.   All at once.  Awesome.   I think my purchases weighed more than I did.  And how did I manage to get all that home in my backpack without toppling over?  Simple.  I didn't use my backpack.  I used our NEW CAR.

Yay!  We have wheels!  It's a 2008 Honda Civic hybrid and it is AWESOME.  It zigs, it zags, it runs silently on batteries at low speed (all the better to sneak up on you with, my dear) and most of all, it goes so much faster than we do on foot.  Look at this:  I ran an errand today over to Newmarket.  To get there and back on the train, we typically budget at least a couple of hours.  Today I was back home, done and dusted, in 45 minutes.  Much like a black hole's inexorable gravitational field that pulls matter toward itself, our car has instantly compacted the city for us.

It feels slightly odd to drive again after nearly two years of having not.  I almost have to check myself every time I slide behind the wheel:  I can do this, right?  This is mine?  I am a driver?

And I am indeed a driver.  So far this week I've already covered a couple of hundred kilometres and I'm feeling comfortable behind the wheel.  I think the hardest thing to get acclimated to is signalling a turn with my right hand; I keep turning on my wipers.  I even gassed it up like a pro, cringed at the bill, and was grateful that due to the hybrid-ness I won't have to do it that often.