Freedom of Having Your Driving License

Recently, I signed up for my road test for my G2 (in Ontario, thats the license that allows you to drive on your own) and successfully completed it. I chose an early time, figuring the instructors would be in their best moods and hit the road. Luckily, I snagged a nice guy who did his job well but also had a sense of humor. I was told to drive around to the back (by a very energetic employee...I don't think she would know the meaning of the word smile if it hit her in the face but then again, I guess I can see where she's coming from) and wait for an instructor; I was probably only waiting alongside the other eager/nervous drivers for about 2 minutes. It was a very straightforward test, just simply had to follow his instructions on what to do (turn here, change lanes when safe, parallel park) and the test took no longer than 15 minutes at most.

Of course, I was extremely nervous the whole time, but we managed to joke about one thing which eased the test a little; as I was coming up to a set of lights, a guy was literally 5 steps from the intersection and was "J-walking" and happened to do so right in front of us. He said "I guess coffee makes him feel all powerful" and I added "Yah, and who uses crosswalks anymore really?" The moment definitely made me feel a little more comfortable inside although the test was practically over.

Overall, I passed. After I went back to the parking lot he gave me back my original license and congratulated me on successfully passing. My only error was not sufficiently checking intersections but everything else was executed perfectly he said. And me, happy as clam said thank you and drove the car back to the front, hugged my dad and handed in my form to the "eager" employee and was off.

And now, I can drive freely wherever whether it be down my street or on the speedy highway. AND I can give my friends all those rides I owed them from them driving me around. Feels good, thats for sure! But of course, I will be driving safe and all...maybe :)

Tie-dying is the new BEST thing

in the big, old deep river, the chaput/hedden family tried out tie dying for fun. with amy and mike's wedding coming up, the family wanted to have some fun and aunt heather showed us some cool styles and tricks and after the unravelling of the first shirt, we were hooked. some people may think of the typical hippie neon colours with crazy sun-shaped patterns but i can assure you that they are MUCH cooler when you do them yourself. and the possibilities are endless; you can make horizontal/vertical stripes, bullseye, plain circle. The designs are left to your imagination. And the best part is definitely taking off all the elastics and seeing your own design. The only part is to not dip your bare hands into the die because most likely, the die WILL stain your clothes.