15. Learn to Drive a Standard

First, let me give a little background on why I put this goal on my 101.

I've always wanted to go on the show, Amazing Race, and if you've never seen it, it's a reality tv competition where 11 teams of people race around the world and they travel to all these different countries and the winners get a million dollars. In most countries, they're provided with vehicles to get themselves around and they always get standards. And some of the teams lose a lot of ground because they can't drive standards. So I figure if I ever want to compete in the Amazing Race, I have to be able to drive a standard.

Johnny gave me my first standard lesson a couple days ago and I was such a nervous wreck. But I didn't crash and that's the important thing. We just drove around my block and went on a busier street for a bit and then learned how to reverse in a parking lot. I got a cookie ice cream sammich as my reward. Next lesson: highway driving.

Yup, Another List

Yesterday was such a good day!

I'm too lazy too organize my thoughts into paragraph form, so I'm sorry, but you're getting stuck with another list.

Things that made yesterday awesome:

1. I had to get The Kids ready for school in the morning, which meant I got to wake up before nine, hooray! (Yes, I am a morning person)

2. I went for a bike ride. My second one of the month!

3. I went to institute and had an awesome sub. I love learning church things!

4. My newest Threadless shirt arrived in the mail, woot woot!



5. I PASSED MY DRIVERS TEST!!! And I wore my new Threadless shirt for my picture.

6. I hung out with Cassandra last night because I could drive myself there!

Things that made yesterday not-so-awesome:

1. I jammed my pinky. Bad. And it hurts :(



If you divide the good things by the bad things, carry the one and take the square root, you will find that regardless of the jammed pinky, yesterday was pretty freakin' awesome!!!

It's About Time

I've made an appointment to get my driver's license! I would have liked to go in today, but they don't do any testing on Fridays. I am so excited. I've gone driving with my grampa a few times this week and he says he would pass me if he was the one testing me. My grampa was an RCMP officer and he used to do this for a living, so I trust his opinion.

I go in at 2:00 on Tuesday. Wish me luck!

My Future's Going Down the Crapper

The past three days have been pretty good. On Monday I improved my chess skills and got some FHE planning done with my Superpa and the other Mas and Pas. On Tuesday I met a boy after institute and hung out with my dad for the afternoon. Today I went driving with my grampa and he said that I drive well, hooray!

Yesterday my cousin was showing me a notebook she bought from the Calgary Zoo and it was so cool! The coolest thing about this notebook is that it was made out of elephant dung. Kinda gross if you think too hard about it, but I found it so fascinating. I was definitly nerding out. Wouldn't it be funny if I ditched my dreams of becoming a pharmacist to go study poop? That'd be an interesting conversation.

"So what do you do for a living?"

"I'm a scatologist*."

"That sounds interesting, what is that?"

"I study poop."

" . . . Oh that's - nice."

"Actually, it kind of stinks" (snicker, snicker)

It would also be a great way off putting off a guy that I'm not interested in... I'll be saving that for someone - special.


* Scatology is the study of feces. A scatologist is a person who studies feces. And feces is a fancy name for poop.

I'll Get It One Day

Arg! I gossipped again! D= This time it was to my rugby mate, Jazz. She was in Texas for the last semester, so of course I had to fill her in on all the juice. I promise, one of these days I will not gossip. I think I just have to wait until all of my friends go back to their respective places of study and then it'll happen. Or I could become a hermit for a day and stay away from any social networking site that keeps me up-to-date and informed on the lives of those around me. *cough* facebook! *cough*

Other than the gossiping, my resolutions are going well. Except I still haven't started on my license... You should have seen the roads today! We got a pretty good dump of snow and there wasn't a snow plow in sight! All they did was sprinkle sand on the roads, which did nothing except get the road dirty. Cars were slipping and sliding everywhere! And the drivers around here are so bad that they don't make things any better. Can you blame me for not wanting to be one yet?

Alright, so I promise once this snow lets up and the roads get a little nicer, I will go out for a drive to get some practice in and let you anxious folks know how I do. But if I die in a blazing car wreck, don't expect a blog the next day. Unless they have wifi in heaven...