Up until recently, I noticed (and I wanted to blog post) that my car has been running real smooth.  I was going to go out on a limb and say it felt good driving it as it had been in a few years.

However, I sense a bit of shaking from my car.  Last time that happened, the mechanic told me the engine was just about empty of oil.  But I have been checking the dipstick and ... OK, first of all, the dipstick sucks.  It's not metal; the dipstick in my car has a plastic orange end.  I have seen owners of my model of complain without end on the Internet at how difficult it is to tell how much oil is left in their cars because they can't read the orange end of the dipstick.  The best I can tell is that it's not completely full, but it's nowhere near empty.  And I remember once that when I brought my old car in, I was told that the damn engine was overfilled.  Apparently I have to Goldilocks every car I own.  You know, if I have to worry about not enough oil and also too much oil, maybe a car is too finicky for a civilian to drive, no?

I think I'm just scaring myself.  Maybe the shaking is just uneven roads, or it's all in my head.  Maybe I should just stop thinking of ways the car is going to break down and just believe it won't.  God, I'm so paranoid, I'm being my own pain-in-the-ass.