I saw this on Elizabeth's blog and thought it might be fun! So . . . let me think . . . .
1) I really don't like to drive on the highway! The traffic and the high speeds make me extremely nervous! I know that I'm a good driver - but I also know that a lot of people on the highway are not! I would rather drive ten miles out of the way if it keeps me off the highway!
2) I have to wear shoes! Even when I'm just puttering or cleaning house, I have to have shoes on my feet! It usually - at home - is flipflops, or in cold weather I might switch to houseshoes. I don't walk around in socks because I live with two of the male-type species who drop ice in the kitchen floor every time they get ice (through the door) of the freezer. I don't like to wear wet socks - so it's shoes for me!
3) I have a particular glass that I like to use for my drinks! It's not a special kind of glass or even decorative, but it holds about 24 ounces of liquid and fits my hand very well. When I go to bed at night, I wash it and then I hide it - so that neither Jody nor Chance will find it and use it. If they were to use it I would have to find another glass to use and even though we probably have between 30-40 glasses - I want mine!
4) I prefer my cast iron skillet over all others when I'm cooking (which by the way is rare!) I have some very nice cookware that Elizabeth gave me one year for Christmas - including a non-stick skillet, but I prefer my cast iron skillet that was my mother's before she gave it to me!
5) I throw all my change in the bottom of my purse! Whenever I pay for anything, the change that I get back just goes into my purse - just thrown in, to jingle around in the bottom until either I decide to clean out my purse or my purse becomes too heavy to carry without giving me a backache!
6) I hang my keys on their special hook by the front door every time I come into the house! Now that might not seem so quirky except that I am one of the most unorganized people you could ever meet! I can never find anything when I need it - except my keys and my cell phone - also because it has it's special place each time I come into the house! I don't know why I can't find a specific place for everything and keep it in it's place. I put things away so that I will be able to find them when I need them, but when I need them - I can't remember where I put them!
I've always been like that! I can remember many times, as a child, my Mom and Dad would ask me where I had put something and I couldn't remember. They would tell me to think about it or retrace my steps until I could remember - but nothing worked! So, of course, I was in trouble many times over losing things that I was supposed to have put away.
Today was a prime example, unfortunately. I had to take Chance back to the Ortho Doc today to recheck his wrist which he broke in November - Remember the post, "Skateboards-Who Needs 'Em?". When I had taken him in four weeks ago, Dr M had given me a prescription for Chance to have x-rays done at the hospital before he came to his appointment - which was today! I lost the prescription! But really, four weeks! That seems like an awfully long time for anyone to keep track of a little piece of paper!
Anyway, we had to go by the Dr's office, get a new script, then go to the hospital for the x-rays. The radiology department at the hospital was packed! We waited 40 minutes for the x-ray and then once the x-rays were taken, we waited another 15 minutes for them to make copies for us to take to the Dr.'s office with us for the appointment, which by now, we were 30 minutes late.
Example 2 - I let my Driver's license expire in November! Yes, November - completely forgot about it! Because of the new immigration laws which were passed in November, if you let your Oklahoma license expire, you have to take your birth certificate and ID to the Department of Public Safety to renew! Before November last year, we just took our old license with us to the tag agency and were issued a new one. Simple, right?
Well, this morning - I couldn't find my birth certificate. Anywhere! Once Chance and I left the doctor's office we headed to downtown Oklahoma City to the Vital Records department of the Oklahoma Department of Health to get a new birth certificate for me. I just thought the radiology department at the hospital was packed! I filled out the paperwork for my birth certificate and gave it to the clerk and she asked for my ID. I gave her my Driver's License. My expired Driver's License and she said that wouldn't work. She asked if I had someone with me that had ID that she could see. Well, thank goodness Chance turned 18 last week and could use his license - otherwise I guess they would not have taken my paperwork.
We sat waiting, once we turned in the paperwork, for almost an hour before I was called in to another part of the department to pick up the certificate. Where, by the way, the clerk in this office told me that my expired license would have been fine - didn't need Chance's after all!
We left there and went to the Department of Public Safety to get all the paperwork done to take to the Tag Agency to get my actual license! We walked into the DPS and it was standing room only! I took a number from the little number dispenser - the number 49! As soon as I pulled my number, we heard them call number 19! We arrived there at 3:30 and they informed us they would be closing at 4:45 - regardless of how many people were still in line for service.
Well, to make a long story a bit shorter, I was called in at 4:37, completed all the paperwork, did the vision test, fingerprint zapping and picture taking and then we headed to the Tag Agency to get my actual license!
I headed for the nearest Tag Agency because I thought they all closed at 5:00 pm. The Tag Agency was also standing room only! Thankfully, once again, this particular agency did not close until 6:00. We got my license and when we got into the car - it was 6:00 pm! Whew! What a day!
I'm pretty sure if I had been more organized, my day would have gone much more smoothly! Maybe that's a task I should put on my agenda!
In His Love and Blessings
annb
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