It All Starts After 50

Will miracles never cease to exist?  I'm actually writing a blog entry!  Wow!  The biggest news is that I passed the Theory and Hazard bits of my driving test!  Would you believe that there were 50 questions on the Theory test now?  I only missed two.  Am I good or what?  On the Hazard bit where I had to click every time I saw a hazard developing or potential hazard, I scored 55 out of 75.  I only needed 43 to pass so I am well chuffed!  Considering that only 40% pass the Practical (driving) part of the test, I am NOT looking forward to that part of it.  I still need to learn how to back that big boat of a car of ours around a corner and to verticle park ol' Bessie without jumping the curb.  Don't get me wrong, I love that car . . . .  .it's just that she's so bloody big!

My brother sent me a care package from home last month.  I actually got teary eyed over Cream of Wheat, Skippy Peanutbutter, and Sweet Baby Ray BBQ sauce!  There was strawberry banana jello (jelly to you Brits) and both chocolate and vanilla puddings (lamouge to you Brits - I think).  Johnny also sent me a devil's food cake mix and a pineapple cake mix.  They were absolutely scrumptious!  E insists that he can't tell the difference between Brit peanut butter and US peanut butter, but he really whoofs down the US stuff when it arrives!  The Cream of Wheat flavours were maple sugar and cinammon, apple and cinammon, strawberries and cream, and  the original.  Oh I just about swooned when I took the first spoon full on that next cold morning.  I saw an advertisement the other day for Oreo cookies, so they are here now in the stores.  I'm going to look for them tomorrow in Tesco's. 

I've been piecing a quilt using his mother's old crank sewing machine.  Edwin watched me standing there for hours on end, cranking away and then to my utter delight, surprised me by ordering a wonderful new sewing machine on line!  It does everything but cook dinner!  That quilt top went together so much more smoothly and quickly with the electric machine.  Right now I'm marking the top for quilting after I layer it.  That will take quite a while to do too.  The majority of pieces I used were from a quilt that I was attempting to make back home called a Wedding Ring.  My marriage at the time was falling to bits and even though I was an accomplished quilt-maker, I couldn't piece it no matter how hard I tried.  I adored all of the bright batik coloured fabric I had though and so saved them for another project.  I brought the fabric pieces with me over here.  So I decided to have a go here and changed the pattern to a brear's paw.  It fell into place like magic!  I couldn't get over how very easy everything just pieced together.  Hhhmmmm, must mean something!

E's and my wedding anniversary is on Monday.  We still haven't decided how we are going to celebrate it.  We're both working.  Tomorrow is going to be a Tesco's run, laundry, and footie on telly.  So I don't think there's going to be too much going on romantically speaking.  I'm not going to wax philosophical here.  I will say this, however, the best things in life are free and I am so very grateful for every single day that we have together.  Yep! We piss each other off occasionally and we both need our space.  But that man just plane completes me and that's that!  So when the frozen dinners are served on Monday night along with Tesco's cheapy champagne, it'll be plenty good enough for me!  That said, everyone have a lovely weekend!

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• #11 Comment from faveanti 
  13/03/08 07:54 | Permalink

  I never could reverse round corners either!  On my 5th driving test, the one I passed (we didn't do the theory bit then), I could see I was driving into the kerb and couldn't think which way to turn the wheel so I stopped.  "Please continue reversing" said the tester.  That was just enough time for me to have had a think!  I pretended I thought he had said stop!  Taking a right turn, almost back to the test centre, I stalled the car.  "Oh bugger," I said, started up again - and passed!  How on earth I did that I don't know.
  Angie, xx
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• #10 Comment from beckiepainton 
  10/03/08 11:37 | Permalink

  50 questions!well thata certainly put me off! Beckie x
• #9 Comment from labdancer51 
  09/03/08 16:59 | Permalink

  Congrats on passing the theory test Susie, also a very Happy Anniversary. :o)
  
  Love Sandra xxxx
  
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• #8 Comment from lanurseprn 
  09/03/08 11:35 | Permalink

  Happy Anniversary to you both!!
  Pam
• #7 Comment from oddb0dkins 
  09/03/08 10:44 | Permalink

  Well done with the driving, hope the rest goes just as well.
  Congrats on the anniversary. At least you'll have a cake to celebrate. (Working backwards through your entries here, lol.)
  
  B. x