Natural Sceptre

It’s me!  Internet, do you remember me?  Hmph.  I know I’ve been gone for so long- but give me one more chance.  I’ll try to make it up to you.

So….this week….it’s been pretty good.  A little slow at work- in between payrolls, and I’m becoming more and more efficient at the daily reports I have to do, which results in less time to do them, which gives me more time with which to do other things.  It can definitely be fun- but it can also be slow.  There are days when I go in and have a million things to do.  Then other days when I’m just chillin- asking, “So, any checks needing to be cut?” or “how about I clean out the mini-fridge?”  But it’s all good.  I should be learning a couple new things soon which will help me be more productive, and there are ALWAYS things to do.  Some days it’s just a little more exciting than others, I guess.

The science class has majorly progressed this week.  I have one exam left: the final.  There are 80 multiple choice questions and 8 essay questions.  I need a 60 to get a C in the class.  In a perfect world, I’d review rather well and do just fine on it.  In the real world I’d just wing it, and have a chance of not even passing.  Which would mean taking it again. (The test, not the course.) We’ll see-  I really just need to concentrate one evening to make sure I get through it rather well.  And then I will be free, FREE of undergraduate requirements…and on to graduate ones.  Should be good.  I’m kind of excited to go to Westminster- a new experience…of course…more work, but it’ll probably feel good by then.  I hope so anyway.

Today wasn’t too bad.  It was quite nice, actually.  We got out of bed pretty late, I’ve finally begun being able to sleep in again.  Much needed sleep, I might add!  We got up, I started some chili in the crockpot, we cleaned house and then went up to Salt Lake.  We visited with Jared, Emily and the girls for about an hour- just catching up a bit, and then instead of going to IKEA like we had planned, we stopped off to get some gas at Costco and ended up looking at some Hondas.  They didn’t really have anything we were looking for- and while the first salesperson was tolerable, his manager was not.  He kept saying things like, “Well, if money is an issue, you don’t need to worry about that today.” Ok, sure!  Sounds great!  Let’s show up at 6pm, look around a bit, then drive off with a new car, down payment pending…and hope the insurance covers it within the month!”  What do we look like, idiots? Him saying, “You don’t need to worry about this today,” was right…because I’d worry about it for the next 30 days.  The first guy had taken us on a test drive, gotten a list of cars and years of cars we were looking for, and said he’d call us back if they got one in.  That is completely acceptable.  The second guy had no clue what we wanted and that they didn’t even have any on the lot.  I wonder what, exactly, he was planning on us driving away in.  Hopes and dreams for 16 k?  I don’t think so.  He wanted us to test drive a brand new accord, even though we said we didn’t want anything new (not worth the taxes or depreciation at the moment), and when we said it was getting late, he pressured us to stay.  It was lame.  But we looked at stuff.  Then we came home.

Now we’re watching Casino Royale…doing some laundry.  Looking forward to an early night perhaps.  I can watch my husband compulsively look at cars online while I try to catch up with my adoring readers.  I’ve been trying to think of some interesting things to blog about…one thing that came to mind was naming 3 random books we have in our apartment every week.  That doesn’t sound to interesting, but I’m still finding out what we have around here (as the books are mainly John’s as mine are still in MA) and the other day I found one called “How to Hypnotize Yourself and Others.”  Hmmmm…I’ll think about it.  Oh yes, and one more thought, in honor of Dame Judi Dench, who is perhaps the classiest, coolest, smartest (in the English sense) women I’ve ever come across, I’m thinking that Dame would be a great name for the potentially little lady I’m growing.  John doesn’t agree.  What do YOU think?