My left leg got quite a workout tonight.

See, I learned how to drive stick shift. Well, here's the thing: I'm obviously not what you would call great at it, but I've got the basics. I drove around on the streets for a while (I started in a big empty parking lot and stayed there till I was more comfortable with it) and got up to 4th gear. There's still lots to learn, of course (for example: hills). But it's a start. And it was really fun! Ok, well honestly, there was a while at the beginning when it was not fun; it was pretty frustrating. That's when I kept making the same kind of mistake over and over and couldn't figure out how to fix it. It's no fun to try to learn something and not be making progress. But once I got past that it was really exciting!

And Jonathan is very helpful and patient. :-)