out with the old and in with the new

yesterday i said goodbye to the malibu. after talking shit on that car for 4 years now i was actually kinda sad as i stripped it of my personal effects...because there are some things that no matter how hard i try and take with me, they are stuck with that car. like the soda stains from me and katie's "mountain dew code red" phase my freshman year of college. and the used and abused engine that broke down almost every time i went over the grapevine, including during the storm of the century in '05. and the 4 cbu resident stickers on the windshield that remind me of the 4 most amazing years of my life....

i asked my dad to take off my alumni liscence plate cover so i can put it on my new car. the truth is though, i don't think that car deserves it. it didn't take me on the hundreds of trips to and from my hometown and school...it didn't take a car load of drunk incahooters safely back to campus just hours before class...it didn't take me to the mall with my college crush...it didn't fly over the campus speed bumps everyday...and it most certainly did not transport 14 black trash bags full of empty beer bottles to the dumpster from the greatest party that cbu will ever know.

so yeah, excuse me for actually being a little emotional as i traded in this car...BUT as they say...as one car door closes, another one opens! (o;

and there it is! i traded my '98 chevy malibu for an '07 chevy aveo! isn't it pretty?? and though it doesn't hold a place for all my old memories, it has plenty of room for new ones. like lots of future roadtrips to see my brother in hollywood, my sister in san jose, and all the places in between...

here's to future peace, love, & happiness!!!!