What I Did Today:

• Changed my oil.
• Flushed my radiator.
• Sealed my radiator to prevent future leaks.
  
• Filled up on Anti-freeze.

:~) Isn't that exciting! I had asked my friend Randy a car question because I am (well, was) absolutely clueless about cars. He volunteered to take a look at it, and later told me some things going wrong in my car that are kind of a big deal. I asked if I could help him take care of it, and he let me! So today, after buying the necessary stuff, we worked on it!
I got to crawl under the car, and unscrew the plug screw (that's right, that's a real car term!). We drained out the old, yucky oil. Then I got to put in the new oil filter. After we put new oil in, we moved on to the radiator.
The temperature of my car was the reason we were lookin at it in the first place. It was fluxuating like crazy, and Randy said it was not even accurately reading my engine temperature. He showed me where the radiator fluid goes. Apparently, the fluid is supposed to be green-ish, but mine was definitely red. Randy said he'd never seen that happen before. I thought it was funny, but I think it is a big (not good) deal. :~) Oh, and it was really gunky when we opened the hose-pipe-thing. It had this nasty, brown sludge in it.
So we flushed out the radiator. It took three flushes to get the water to cease being pink-ish. Then we put this sealant stuff into the pipe because my car seems to be leaking anti-freeze. We put everything back together, and my car works great!
My heat works now! Before, it fluxuated with the temperature gadge, only oppositely. Now, it's all happy! I like working on cars. It would have been more fun if it wasn't so drattedly cold, but it's all good. :~) I want to change other people's oil now. I had a good day.