License To Drive

Well, she did it..  Lizzy passed her driving test yesterday!  Lizzy now has a license to drive!  I saw her score at home; only 5 errors out of 15-not bad for her 2nd try!  She drove off to work that same afternoon, alone.  And, there I was at the front window watching her drive off alone for the very first time to work.  Kind of sad, huh? 

Of course, now she wants my car. 

Have you checked out the gas price here in California?  The most cheapest place near my home is $4.20.  Driving my other car (the family van) eats up so much gas.  It's cheaper to get Liz a bus pass; although the idea does not suit well with her.  I will buy the bus pass!  May be her father in NJ will buy her that car he has promising her..that would be pretty darn nice right now! 

As soon as Andrew is out of school, I'm working a 4 day, 10 hour work week.  Three day weekends throughout summer..  YAY!  Sure I may come home after a 10 hour day feeling a little haggard, but oh well.  At least I will save money on gas. 

They say that gas is going to be up $5.00 by the end of the year.  How insane is that?  Will someone PLEASE start making electric cars already?!  I don't care if we Americans are "spoiled" and frankly, I don't care that Europe pays so much more for gas.  I heard recently that gas was down to $1.50 a gallon in 2002.  Gee..  I'm going to have to sell a mother load of Avon lipsticks to afford to drive by 2010!  Watch, in the year 2082 someone is going to come across my journal entry and laugh.  HA HA HA..  Hopefully by then they will have hover cars that run on sand or something. 

Anyway, that is my rant for the day. 

This week is been going too slow for me.  I know it's only Tuesday, but it feels that it should be at least Thursday. 

I cannot wait until Andrew is out of school.  He was given an assignment recently where he had to role play a character from the 1800's living in the south on a plantation.  For the last 4 days I've been "helping" his ficticious character, Howard Hopp.  (Yes, he made up the name.)  Andrew originally wanted this guy to be from Iceland, until I finally convinced him that the liklihood of this Hopp character coming from Iceland in the mid 1800's was a bit odd, and unbelievable.  So, Howard Hopp eventually came from England which made a lot more sense.  We have been writing so much on this Hopp guy, that he has almost become real.  He was an overseer of a plantation in Mississippi, and  also a teacher who taught the slavehands English.  Here I go again, almost making this guy's character real.  Funny, thing though, last night I had a dream about him!  I'm not kidding.  I remember waking up laughing to myself, realizing that I was dreaming of  Howard Hopps.  I guess naturally, after writing letters from Howard to his mother in England, and typing up about 4 journal entries for the guy-I'm bound to dream of him!  Very strange, and although I wish I could tell you about this dream, I unfortunately don't remember a thing other than waking up laughing.  Don't you hate not being able to remember a funny dream? 

Apparently, Andrew's school is not the only middle school who is doing this project.  Why just yesterday a fellow co-worker of mine went on and on about her daughter's project. Her daughter's character was a run away slave.  The assignment was also driving her mother crazy.  Sometimes I think the teachers should know that more than half of the time, the real people doing these reports are the parents!  They do encourage student and parent interaction on these assignments, but yesterday I found myself printing wanted signs for one of Howard Hopp's runaway slaves, hoping that my African American co-worker/ friend wouldn't walk on and see the wanted posters on my desk. 

Courtesy of Lisa Jo--thank you sweetie!  :)