5 Year Anniversary // Clown Edition
Yo, Yo, Yooooo!!!!!
IF YOU ARE ALIVE
& IF YOU ARE NOT TERRIFIED OF CLOWNS
THAN THIS IS THE CALENDAR FOR YOU!!
A classic 12” by 12” wall calendar has always been my favorite.
-This calendar is a fantastic way to decorate your wall
-this calendar can help you stay organized & excited for upcoming events
* Add your own holidays
-This calendar has plenty of room to write on
*I like to jot down little notes & things about my day on my calendar
**It’s like minimalist journaling
-This calendar has 6 POSTCARDS that you can cut out on the back cover
*Sugar cereal box vibes intended
- this calendar was made possible by many precious people
*And Many Precious Clowns
-This calendar is printed by SmartPress
* a super cool, carbon neutral, employee-owned, socially & environmentally minded company with awesome customer service
Hi, April here!
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April of 2024 @ 1000 Faces / Athens, GA
WAX PONY ORIGINAL T’s
5 June 2025
Two weeks ago, on a Wednesday afternoon, I was running’ some run of the mill car maintenance errands. Two weeks prior I had gotten my oil changed down at the Walmart on HWY 157. However, my vehicle had been leaking oil and running a lil low on the stick reader too. So I went back to my guys at the Walmart and they did a look over on my Honda CRV 2010... Ya, she had a leak… and the guy had put it down in the notes section during my last visit. (I didn’t read the note section.. Ha! Who does?!?).
He recommended I take D.W. (my vehicle) over to the Oil Express and have their mechanic check out the problem. So I did. As I sat in the little 5’ by 5’ square of a waiting room I was sold on two new filters for my car: a cabin air filter & an engine air filter. I got a discount because it was “ladies day” plus an additional 10% off because I bargained with the kid… I’d leave the 5 star review he asked for in exchange for an additional 10% off. Score. About a half hour later the mechanic came in and sat in the chair next to me. He showed me some foreign photos of the underside of my car and explained that I had a leak in my oil pan gasket as well as a deteriorating lower engine mount. He asked if I wanted a quote for the job and I said yes. He left and came back within five minutes with some papers in hand. He sat back down beside me again and quoted me $1,600.00 in total for the job. I had a visceral reaction. “I don’t have $1,600.00!” I exclaimed in an animated and shocked fashion. He kinda laughed but then assured me that it wasn’t necessarily a time pressing matter and that I could take some time to save up and the car would be okay in the meantime. (Wow, I just used the word “time” three times in a single sentence! Haha.) Anyways, I thanked him for his work and got the heck outta there with my quote in hand.
*The mechanic man had very beautiful eyes. They looked like a clear water ocean with little orangey starfish and little silver fish sunbathing through the magnification of the of the water. Dreamy and kind eyes. He was a silver fox, as they say, and I couldn’t help but wonder if he was married... WHO WAS I!?!? LOL.
When I got home I knew exactly what I wanted to do for my 28th birthday… I wanted to save on the $900.00 of labor costs and fix my car with my own two hands! (Which was only a possibility because my dad happens to be a mechanic man himself!) Usually my brother and dad would take care of all the mechanic duties that came up. But my brother is now married and moved away. So it was clear to me that my time had come to step up to the plate *aka lay down on the mechanic’s creeper!
So… I bought an extra quart of my synthetic oil to keep D.W. afloat for the week, hit the road for a long awaited long weekend, and started to dream up a future life in which I was a mechanic!
Fast forward to MY BIRTHDAY!!! (8 February 1997) If anyone was wondering. ;).
My dad and I had assessed the situation the day before and we were ready to go for a mechanic’s adventure that we really couldn’t have been prepared for… As I type this we are on DAY 3, of what was predicted to be a single day of work. (Youtube and Reddit have some catching up to do regarding the oil pan situation of the 2010 Honda CRV.)
4 MONTHS LATER GRAM for the concluding of my mechanic’s soap box/small talk.
We did successfully remove the oil pan, redo the oil pan gasket, and replace the lower engine mount. (It was a 4 day project overall.) The oil pan situation proved to be quite complicated and involved lifting the engine, dropping the entire subframe of my vehicle and using a crow bar to barely obtain the space needed finagle the oil pan out. However getting the oil pan back on WITH the uncured gasket lining the entire seal was like project insanity! I am NOT a surgeon, and precision like that would require one to be so! LOL. Therefore my dad was the one who placed the pan while was the conductor of the crowbar. HA. Trying not to let the wet gasket seal touch anything while being on your back with micro room for error as I am crowbarring the sub frame downward so that the bare minimum of space is available to masterfully slip this giant metal pan into its perfect puzzle pice placement was HILARIOUS as well as TERRIFYINGLY challenging. By some form of a miracle me and my dad got it done. As I am writing the end of this small talk 4 months later, I feel inclined to report that D.W. still has an oil pan leak even after all of that. It is a small and slow drip, unlike the one I had before this whole mechanic mission. So… better than before… but still not perfect. Mechanic mission 2.0 will most likely be taking place soon. I will be honest, I do not look forward to having to muster up all the effort and inspiration that I originally had for this project back in February. But I will do what I must and I trust it will be as good of time with my mechanic teammate as last time.
Rock & Roll. -APRIL
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