I didn't plan on it being a weekend to down endless cups of tea. I was going to mulch our flowerbeds and hike in the desert. Instead I spent much of the last three days in bed with the winning combination of a UTI and a sore throat. The UTI is gone (thank you cranberry juice!) and the sore throat is morphing into something a little more head-swimmy.
Despite my increasing head-swimmy-ness, today I put on my game face, took my medicine like a good girl and marched off to take the test for my drivers license. After taking a shower, I thought I might be feeling better, but later on, at the DMV, when the lack of working pens almost brought me to tears, I knew I was not. Why the California DMV can't just look at my squeaky clean driving record and issue me a new license without subjecting me to the embarrassing possibility of failing a written test I'll never know. Some employment scheme by the looks of things. At any rate, I passed (send me prizes for good fellow!) but I did get two questions wrong. One was a trickily worded multiple choice about when it might be alright to leave a child younger than six in a hot car. Double double-negatives and all that - never mind all that, that kid over there is seven and I've always remembered to get her out of the car. The other one? Something about when it's okay to make a left turn on a red light. Apparently the answer to that one isn't "Never".
And now it's not even seven o'clock, but I'm taking myself to bed with another cup of hot tea.
Sorry about your uti, those suck! But I AM sending you a prize, lucky girl. I sent you a separate email about it!
Mandy
Posted by: Mandy | November 29, 2007 at 05:38 PM