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Trial by Fire
Well, today has certainly been a day, and I'm friggin' exhausted, which might explain why this is probably going to sound a little disjointed. But anyway.
I drove by myself for the first time today. I don't know how I managed to do it, and I had to have a moment of total PANIC!, but I did it. It was not a normal car either. It was a truck. A covered pickup truck, which was impossible to see out the back of. Not exactly the easiest thing to manuever. All I have to say is that I'm glad I wasn't going far and that the traffic was light. I'm not exactly as elated as I think I should be over the whole thing, getting through that whole first time driving by myself thing. Relieved might be a better term, though I'm still not looking forward to the next time.
And now that I think about it, a trial by fire is rather apt--the truck was bright red.
On a different note, though, I learned today that mulberry weed, Fatua villosa is the Tribble of the botanical world. Apparently it grows flowers not only on the first set of true leaves it gets, but also on the cotyledons (also known as the leaves it has as an embryo and are the first leaf-like organs it shows when it sprouts). In other words, it's born pregnant. XD
I drove by myself for the first time today. I don't know how I managed to do it, and I had to have a moment of total PANIC!, but I did it. It was not a normal car either. It was a truck. A covered pickup truck, which was impossible to see out the back of. Not exactly the easiest thing to manuever. All I have to say is that I'm glad I wasn't going far and that the traffic was light. I'm not exactly as elated as I think I should be over the whole thing, getting through that whole first time driving by myself thing. Relieved might be a better term, though I'm still not looking forward to the next time.
And now that I think about it, a trial by fire is rather apt--the truck was bright red.
On a different note, though, I learned today that mulberry weed, Fatua villosa is the Tribble of the botanical world. Apparently it grows flowers not only on the first set of true leaves it gets, but also on the cotyledons (also known as the leaves it has as an embryo and are the first leaf-like organs it shows when it sprouts). In other words, it's born pregnant. XD