I'm legal in Nevada now....

It has been a while since I've really posted - partly because I didn't really think anyone was reading them, so I felt like I was talking to the void. I might as well just write in my journal! But then I was informed that my ever so lovely sister Stephanie was reading them - so Stephanie, even if you are the only one reading these - I LOVE YOU! and I will continue to write nonsensical sagas of ramble.

Yesterday, I had another driving test - and this time I PASSED! Yay! To tell you the truth...I was worried. I spent the evening before practicing parallel parking, under the tutelage of my co-worker and friend Sharon, so I was feeling okay about that part. But I was still nervous - and I kept telling myself, goodness sakes, I know how to drive - it's fine. Sooo....

As the DMV often goes, you stand in line for twenty years, even when you have an appointment. It's like a conspiracy against the public - they have you wait twenty thousand years, just because that's just what happens, so of course you have to wait - so if you even want to deal with it, HAHA suckers, let's make life difficult for you! So you have to really want to do things to get them done - either that, or you are one of those law abiding citizens out there who do what they are supposed to do (shocking). And then, if you jump all those hoops to decide that, yes indeed, you want to be able to be driving legally...they make you wait forever and allow your nerves to fester and bubble inside of you, until you cannot possibly be in any positive state when you take the ridiculously strict test. Oh dear, you hit the curb while going 2 mph while parallel parking because you'd rather not hit the car in front of you; let's lose three points. Heaven forbid, that you go around the corner just a little too fast for the passenger's anxiety level and what if you were to not see a pedestrian? What would you do then? Let's lose four points there. And gasp, shock, you stopped at an intersection with your nose 1 inch over the crosswalk! No way! How could you? What if the person crossing the crosswalk can't possibly walk around you! I mean, the crosswalk just is not large enough, now is it? *obnoxious beep* LOSE TWO POINTS!

I suppose that if the examiner has to look for such nitpicky things to dock points on, then I really am a decent driver (provided I curb my speeding tendencies - which I have done successfully for quite some time now...). Yay, I have a Nevada driver's license! And at the same time, whoah...weird, I have a Nevada driver's license! It's sort of weird to have given up my Oregon License.

But you know...what makes it all worth it - is that my license picture actually turned well. How often does that happen? And I mean, it turned out really well...it's probably like the 2nd best picture I've ever had taken of me. So, yay for pretty pictures.