It’s day 1 of NaBloPoMo and here I am:  sleepy but afraid that I’ll be too busy tomorrow this afternoon to post an entry and be out of the challenge before it has even begun.  How mortifying would that be?  I don’t yet have a set schedule of posts so I’ll just wing it, perhaps using some of the ideas that were suggested back in this entry.  I have a question though:  when you see NaBloPoMo, how do you pronounce it?  Where do you put the long vowel or stress?  I put it on the Po, saying nabloPOmo, but when I’m singing the word in tune to the song that ends with “Chiquita!” [please somebody know what I'm talking about], then I pronounce it naBLOpomo to fit. 

Well now that I’ve brought my semantics woe out in the open, it’s time to share some good news:  I finally got my driver’s license!  Second time was the charm, although I thought I had failed.  I counted five [small, apparently] errors that I made, and I think my saving grace was that after each one I’d tell the examiner right away what I would and should have done to fix it so she knew I knew what to do, and wasn’t just clueless.  I was far more nervous about this test than the first; my heart was pounding through the entire test.  It was almost twice as long too:  I think she was giving me an opportunity to redeem myself.

She was far friendlier than the first guy, and I’m not just saying that because he failed me.  She greeted my cute mom and then said hi to me, asked me how I was doing and was more laid back and friendly at the beginning.  But once we started driving she was all business.

I’m very happy am grateful to GOD for helping me out.  I was sure I had failed it.

Filed under: Celebrations, Goals, NaBloPoMo, Reading & Writing by jummy