...Because I was too lazy to think up a clever title.
You know you're out of school when you view doing laundry not as an unavoidable hindrance, but an intriguing challenge. Today I did ALL the laundry in the ENTIRE house - washed, hung out to dry, brought into the house, folded, put away - all except for folding two loads. Mom took on one herself (even though I promised her that she wouldn't be doing chores now that her summer classes are underway) and I delegated Sarah to fold the other. One thing that makes laundry days interesting here - we have no clothes dryer. We have a clothesline, and on rainy days, we hang up clothes inside the house. I did a great deal of griping about it during the winter, especially when I had to hang out clothes when it was cold outside (I always had to wear gloves.) Now that it's spring, I actually - dare I say it - enjoy hanging clothes out to dry. Today was especially nice. It stayed mild, windy, and sunny all day, and I had my secret weapon: an MP3 player, which makes the process ten times easier. It's amazing, the sense of pride and accomplishment you can get from doing all the laundry for a family of six in one day - without the convenience of a dryer. (Actually for a while we had no laundry basket either - just these horrid small round hampers - but I put my foot down, so to speak, and Mom bought a nice big basket.)
My other great household triumph today was coffee. I finally perfected a coffee treat recipe I've been working at for a while, which consists of coffee with cream and sugar, cinnamon, and a few other spices. I made some cups for myself and for Hannah and Jesse today. They have since been insisting that I sell the recipe to Starbucks. I'm calling it St. Nick's Coffee, since it takes like a Christmas drink.
Well, it's 44 days until my summer class starts. Without Sarah Jo to drive me to school at that time (she'll be married by then) it's finally time for me to grit my teeth, grab the wheel, and DRIVE MYSELF TO THE DARN SCHOOL ALREADY. I got new glasses and renewed my driver's permit, and was pleased to learn that when you're over 18, the graduated licensing program no longer applies to you and you can get your license whenever you want. With this permit, I have to be with a licensed driver at all times, so I need my license before the 25th of June. (I can't very well take my parents to school.) Now, I have driven around a couple of times since getting my permit, but not enough to be again skilled enough to drive long distances. So I'm getting murderously serious about it now, and I told Dad as much after dinner. He agreed that I need more practice, and he said that he would let me drive more, starting tomorrow, if nothing comes up. I want to drive as many consecutive days as I possibly can, preferably every weekday. I vow before my Internet audience that June 25th will not catch me without a license.
I am determined to lose weight before the wedding. Enough said.
This weekend we are going to see Prince Caspian! I wish we could be there for the premiere on Friday, but Elijah has a football game early Saturday morning. But no matter - one way or another, we're going to see it! Finally, three years of waiting are about to be paid off! (Thank goodness I won't have to wait as long for Dawn Treader.)
My paycheck from working in the LAC is supposed to come at the end of this month. Thank heaven, because I desperately need new clothes. I'm still wearing t-shirts from two years ago, and I only have like three outfits that I would wear in public. Maybe Sarah Jo will go shopping with me...? We haven't been out shopping since that one time in the winter when she hit that lady's car.
Signing off.
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You know you're out of school when you view doing laundry not as an unavoidable hindrance, but an intriguing challenge.
LOL! Yes, one can get an enormous sense of pride out of that...Except that when I think of big loads of laundry, I think of towels and any other kind of random cloth one can find around an apartment inhabited by three or four young women that can be used to mop a bathroom floor after a toilet has backfired. (If you really, really want to hear more, just a bit more, I'll send you a memoir I had to write for English class--you might find it interesting...even if you don't want to hear more. *grins*)
Oh, yum, that coffee sounds delectible (or delectable, whichever is right, I'm too lazy to look it up)! Are you charging yet? Because if so, you might get your first order...when I get money. If I get money. I need a job. Badly. Anyway, cool name, too! (Though, thinking of Narnia as I have been quite a bit lately, you could give it a Narnian twist and call it Father Christmas's coffee, or I don't know...never mind. :))
Oh boy, the driving drama. Do you know what it's like to stand on a figurative balcony, as it were, and watch this again and again and wonder what other event is going to come of it? :) Just promise me if you ever get stranded at my house, you won't try to creep away in the morning and leave nothing but a silly note, as some person of our acquaintance once thought of doing. *ahem* :)
Wow, I had no idea Prince Caspian was going to be out so soon! How exciting! I'm finally actually reading the Chronicles for the first time. (By now no one should be surprised that I'm behind the times, ha ha!) I've just started Caspian and hope to finish it before I see the movie...I'll probably have them all done by that time.
Blessings,
Lizbeth
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