Passed the test, got my drivers license! Had a moment of worry on the vision test. I thought they test distance but I couldn’t see a thing without my drugstore glasses on. And then I was worried because I couldn’t read the far right line even with them on. They passed me though, guess it’s not important if I can see to the right 😉

Didn’t know what to do with my new found cucumbers so I tried frying them with egg and flour like I do zucchini. It was okay but I can’t say that’d be a favorite of mine or anything.

After stressing about it for months (years?) I finally went to get my Indiana drivers license. Only because my Michigan one expires on my birthday August 5th. I was supposed to get it within 60 days. That was two years ago. So I tamped down my agoraphobia and went in and failed the written exam. Gah! Now I have to go back tomorrow and try again. I tried downloading the manual (pdf) beforehand and it stalled out. So I ask them if they had a booklet today and they said they were all out. Now isn’t that helpful?

I don’t have a clue why I must be tested on the complicated rules for getting a learners permit if you are 15 or 16 years old but apparently I need to memorize them. It also might have been extremely helpful to know WHICH questions I missed! That is to remain a secret however. I’m thinking about wearing long sleeves and writing the answers on my arm :p I know I guessed at some of those things about distances but I looked after I got home and I guessed right, so how am I supposed to know where I went wrong? Geez, that’s lame. Like I have any clue when I’m following a car if I’m 200 feet behind it or not.

Plus, some of the questions were stupid, like a semi will go wide to the left when making a tight turn. Huh? doesn’t that depend on which direction it’s turning? There was no “none of the above” choices. I think they should let me write the test for them so it doesn’t leave you wondering what the heck they are talking about. Then there’s the rural vs urban highways and what is the speed limit. But it doesn’t stop there, they can be broken down into other variations to complicate it even more. Why can’t I just LOOK at the speed limit signs to know what speed is allowed? How do I know when I’m on a rural vs urban highway? Nothing says, now entering urban highway. Okay, off to study the pdf if I can get the thing to download.

My garden as of today. I think I found a radish. I don’t remember planting radishes. I pulled it because I thought it was a weed. Maybe it’s a weed that looks like a radish? If I did plant them it’s odd only one came up.

My pretty vines.

The good is that I’ve made lots of progress in my yard and garden (still not done though). The garden is growing like crazy…of course so is everything else :p I have most of it finally weeded and yeah, I realize that’s supposed to be an ongoing thing 😉 This picture was taken a while ago, it’s all much bigger now!

Another sweet thing, I gave away the wooden swingset that was in my garden area to someone on Craigslist who was looking for one. I got a letter from them today with pictures. They had just moved to a new house and they have pictures of a deer right by the swingset that has twin babies. They also sent me a check for $25. I never expected ever hearing from them let alone money. I’m going to send them pictures of my garden. Thanks to them I could have one! The money is going into my very sorry furnace fund.

The bad, and I must keep this in perspective because it’s really so unimportant. Someone stole my two trashcans that sat beside my garage with my address painted right on them. It really makes me mad. So what if I wasn’t using them. It’s a violation and I hate living in the kind of area where people will take everything that’s not locked down. If they’d all quit spending money they can’t afford on fireworks to annoy the rest of us for days on end they could buy their own damn trash cans. I wish I could afford to move back into a civilized area like I always lived in. These are just not my kind of people. I’m annoyed at the rude kids around here but how can they learn to respect other peoples property when they have role models that steal anything they see that’s not tied down?

The other bad thing is my inertia. I skipped out on my group the last three times. I just sit here feeling sleepy all day long. I’ve dragged myself out to do some weeding and tonight I got the trash out, which meant picking the dead moldy weeds off my grass where I piled them. But I am so not being productive like I was before the worst headache in the world. I’m trying to applaud my efforts when I do something worthwhile but that seems few and far between lately.

Ah well, I guess good and bad equals out to normal. That’s life.

Bagpipe- Amazing Grace

I love this song and I love it even more when played with bagpipes. I want it played at my funeral.

Or more of a “how’d she do dat!?” 😉

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Getting out there and reading all this new material has turned up some strange and bizarre stories. I just felt I had to add my own weird one after reading Average Joe’s about the bird poop facials. Not for me, thanks but no thanks!

I suffer from allergies pretty badly so I had to go read this article that I ran across. It’s well written and very informative. I even can understand the theory behind why it works. But I must admit that I read it with a kind of fascinated horror. I’ve never had asthma so I am pretty convinced after reading this that I can live with my allergies just fine. I admire the author for going ahead and finding something that works and sticking with it.

But for me that would be a huge problem. The one phobia I have is worms. Any kind of worm and things that look too much like worms like say, millipedes. Caterpillars one at a time don’t qualify, but tent caterpillars do. You can tell I have this well reasoned out over the years! I remember in Science class in middle school when the teacher started talking about human parasites. I was shocked and appalled. Even more so when the girl beside me said “Oh yes, we all have them, you have to go to the doctor and get medicine to get rid of them.” I went home and was crying to my mother because I just couldn’t bear the thought that those things were living inside me. After she managed to stop laughing she explained that NO, we don’t all have them and that was why she taught us to wash our hands, etc. Can you imagine my relief?

So, no, I won’t be rushing out to infect myself with these either. If I did I would need serious sedation the entire time and probably someone else to wipe my hiney after every…well you know.