Today is the last day to register
to vote in the presidential election next month. Guess what Joanna will be
doing in a couple of hours?
Well, did anyone watch the second
presidential debate last night? I actually did in spite of the fact that I
wasn’t sure I wanted to. Seriously, I usually cannot stand listening to Obama’s
voice. Last night wasn’t so bad, I think because he was not using a
teleprompter and therefore wasn’t having pauses in odd places. I liked the
moderator for this debate much better than the woman for the VP debate. It was
hard to get these guys to shut up upon occasion but generally, I think she did
an okay job. I really would like to read a transcript of the whole thing before
I make further comments because I don’t want to fall into the same trap that we
heard last night of saying that someone said or did one thing when in reality,
something else was said or done. In the very least, it was interesting as is
much of what happens in life.
Cold morning today. There was frost
all over the Jetta. Not thick, though. It was nice to have the heated seat. We
were going to take the Toyota BUT Laura didn’t get the plates on like I asked
her (which is understandable because I asked her to after I arrived early at
school yesterday evening which would have been a very busy time here). Not to
mention we may have taken the Jetta anyway because I’ve only driven the Toyota
once and that was in the daylight. I really don’t like driving an unfamiliar
vehicle when it is dark.
Yesterday was better than the day before. I had a phlebotomy test that I
didn’t do as well as I’d have liked but at least I did better than on the
accounting test I flopped. Jonathan and Elizabeth were going to come over after
his appointment with a chiropractor in Hubbardston but then ended up coming
over before. They got here while I was taking my test. Then I needed to shower
because I needed to take Joanna to work and my plan was to continue on to the
RMV. Laura went with me so she could see the Navy recruiter and get her birth
certificate back but he wasn’t there and is transferring out soon. Hopefully
they’ll have someone to take his place very soon; I don’t like the idea of
leaving something like a BC anywhere.
Oh, AJ, we saw a car that made me (and Laura—she actually pointed it out: “Hey,
Mom, it’s a car your aunt might like”) think of you. It was a purple Charger.
Funny thing is that on my way to class yesterday evening, I saw another purple
car; looked like a Toyota but all I saw was the back. The Charger was much
cooler as it was older and just generally a much more awesome kind of car.
Sitting at the RMV was a blast as
always. We only had to wait for about an hour so their estimated wait time of
55 minutes wasn’t too far off. Paul said the Insurance Place told him it would
be less expensive to get new plates than to transfer but Adam’s had been less
to transfer so when I got up to the window, I said, “I need to register a
vehicle and transfer plates or get new ones and turn in old ones, whichever is
less expensive.” Well, that’s not exactly
what I said, but you get the general idea. As it turns out, because the
registration was due this month, it was cheaper to get new ones so that’s what
I did. They’re still waiting to be put on. I should go bug Laura about that. I’d
like to take Joanna to register to vote
before class but at the rate things seem to go around here, it will be
after.
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| THIS is what happens when I have run out of other things to do while waiting at the RMV. Awesome socks, eh? Grandma made them. |
In spite of being a better day, I
did not get done everything that I had hoped and right now I need to get ready
to milk.
Now it is 7:39. The bus should be
here at any moment. Are all children ready? Heck no!
Fast forward: the bus is gone and
unless someone is hiding upstairs, everyone managed to get out there. No snacks
today though. Half-day though. Fun times.
Phlebotomy was fun last night. Sort
of. I printed out the lecture slides and then somehow managed to not get them
with me to class. I’m not sure where they are but I’ll have to find them today
and transfer my notes to them. Drawing blood is always an experience. We were
supposed to draw two people but they kept slipping out so I ended up only doing
one. We also were supposed to do two tubes, in the correct order according to
color (different color tops, different additives) and mix the blood. I think I
did pretty well. The woman I drew said it didn’t hurt and was smooth. I
remembered to take the tourniquet off once the first tube was on. Once the
second tube was on, I gently mixed the blood in the first. It’s actually kind
of fun.
Today much to be done. Lots of
reading. Lots of studying. I do not want any repeats of these two bad tests. In
my defense, I never seem to get the short answer questions right for phlebotomy
because if the exact answer isn’t supplied, it is wrong. For example, on the
one before this one, I didn’t but an ‘s’ on a word so it was counted as wrong.
Fortunately, the teacher goes through and gives credit for things like that.
Have a wonderful day!
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