Quite a few things have happened. I'm coming up on 20,000 miles driven in the car, and I'm still averaging well over 34 mpg, which I'm very happy about. I still love this car very much.
I have to get the passenger side window re-tinted as just before Valentine's Day, my car was broken into. I must have been followed after buying a Tiffany bracelet for my now-wife to give her as a surprise present on our wedding day, and then have been going through quite the ordeal to get the window fixed "properly." Safelite came out and replaced the glass, but didn't have the right tools, so on Valentine's Day itself my now-wife-then-fiance had to drive to a brick-and-mortar store to get the window replaced. And then, that started the saga of the sagging window.
Minis come with frameless glass that dips when you open the door. However, when replacing the glass, something didn't go right because after about a month, the glass had fallen over half an inch from where it should have been and was making hideous whistling noises on the highway. Three times, approximately once every month, Safelite came back to do warranty repairs and three times it once again sagged down. They then said it was a broken window regulator, it must be, and they'd be happy to replace it if I paid them. Seeing as the car only has 18,000 miles on it, I took it to Mini instead, who said that Safelite might not have tightened the gear mechanisms in and around the regulator, and to keep an eye on it. Mini isn't ruling out a failed regulator, but it's been a few weeks since I had them work on the car and it seems to be holding. I'll let you know.
Additionally, I've acquired a Dr. Color Chip kit to fill in a few paint chips on the bonnet of the car and the scratches left from the break-in. We'll see how that goes.
And for the record, my parents were able to get get another bracelet for me and brought it down with them from Connecticut, so the surprise went off without a hitch. Until the bracelet broke. So we went to Tiffany and they replaced it. What an ordeal.