My two greatest nemesis of the year are back to haunt me.  My driving license and IKEA!

 I had what I thought was my last driving lesson yesterday in preparation for my exam on Friday.  The driving instructor who is a "little" man with a little power over people snarled at me for an hour. " Turn your head when you pull out!"  "Shift gears!"  "Break sooner!  Can't you see that truck!"  He is odious and we have VERY BAD RAPPORT.  We do not like each other at all and this dislike is as thick in the air of that car as the noxious fumes coming from his 3 pack a day breath.  So after the lesson with my stomach all in knots from not saying what I'd really like to, he tells me I need another hour (another $50.00) because I'm not learning the rules of the road.  What the H#@*!!!!!  So Thursday morning another hour with this A*#@ yelling at me, the test on Friday afternoon.  If I don't pass I'm going to go all postal on that driving school.  Somebody find out who got Amanda Knox out of prison and put him on notice.

Then IKEA.  On Saturday Grace had her sleepover and for only the 3rd time this year we opened her fold-out couch for the girls.  Off snapped a bolt that holds the folding bars to the frame.  It didn't fall off.  It broke in the hole.  A 2 inch bolt broke!  This furniture is such crap!  Thank God she'll only need to use it for 3 more years.  GP is scrambling to find the right size bolt to replace it because obviously it isn't standard and we are not, I repeat ARE NOT, going back to that store.  Argh.

The good news is that summer has finally come.  It is a glorious day and I don't have to work.  My classes at school are finished so I only need to go in for my contracted 16 hours a week and can choose when to do so.  Today and tomorrow off.  I'm planning on mowing my little patch of grass, doing some weeding, and starting to organize what needs to be packed!  11 days!  Right now I'm outside drinking my coffee and contemplating what else I can plant.  The magpies are out in force, fighting over territory.  They are the noisiest birds.  They have gotten so big and fat they waddle around looking like penguins.  xxoo me