Happy Birthday Hubby

Hubby enjoying ice cream on Ocracoke during vacation

Today is Hubby's birthday. It is always surprising when he has one. You know how you always forget to change the date at the beginning of the month or year because it sneaks up on you when you're not ready? Well, that is what happens to Hubby's birthday each year. It's probably the same with anyone who has a birthday on a 1st.

No special plans. I've made a cheesecake--from a box--and we'll probably head out to the Mexican restaurant. He's been working late. This is good. For about a year and half there was no overtime allowed at work. It's back to running full capacity now. Even better news is that temporary workers have been hired back (in the 100s), bonuses will be paid out this year (although not as big as in the past), promotions are being made (they had been on hold since 2008), and Hubby has permission to hire 2 workers from outside the plant to fill positions (they had been strictly hiring within or leaving positions unfilled). Most of the good news is due to this and the fact that people are buying cars again.

We drove the 2011 Odyssey around all last weekend. The one we had was fully loaded, so they could check for any potential problems prior to mass production. My favorite feature on it is the blind-spot indicator. When a car drives into your blind-spot the indicator comes on next to the rearview mirror on that side of the car. What a great safety feature! Our "funny" happened when we plugged M's iPod in and told the voice activated system "Playlist". She responded with "Temperature Down". We did get the temperature figured out and listened to the iPod.

Even with all the cool features on the Odyssey, our family decided we're perfectly happy with our Swagger Wagon. Call us traitors, say we bite the hand that feeds us, but we are a Toyota family and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon. Luckily for us, there are lots of loyal Honda customers out there! Thank you to all of them.