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I just changed the left front turn signal light bulb on our car. All by myself.

Things that made me feel like one totally hot chick:
- popping the hood.
- rummaging through Dave's 4000-strong collection of wrenches until I found the right size.
- using the aforementioned wrench.
- getting on my back to scoot under the car to look and see if I could reach the wrench after I dropped it into the engine area.
- when my neighbors walked by and hooted at me and acted very impressed that I was working on the car.
- all the grease on my hands when I'd finished.
- having a working turn signal again.
- the fact that I got it working on the first try.

Things that made me feel very much not like a hot chick:
- dropping the wrench into the engine area just as I was about to finish.
- using kitchen tongs to see if I could finagle it out without having to disassemble the headlight panel.
- using really long tweezers to see if I could finagle out the wrench.
- yelping when a yellow jacket flew by.
- dropping the wrench into the engine area again because obviously I did not learn my lesson the first time. At least I was able to reach it without having to disassemble anything.

Overall, I'm feeling very much like one totally hot chick. I think I may have discovered a passion for car mechanics (no pun intended).