Driving time.

I have about 31 days worth of driving under my belt but I am not a licensed driver yet. The reason why you ask. I will tell you why.

My dad allowed my older brother to take the white car out to Phoenix, AZ for a month and ten days. Craig said that he would be back in September. In time for me to make my September 20th driving test.

My dad basically let him take the white car when he could have bussed there which would have been cheaper and it would mean that we would have the white car here at the house for me to continue with my exercising and driving lessons with mom.

Now it is December and still no white car in the first bay of the garage. I have looked for cheap cars for my dad to purchase for mom and I to drive but he flat out refuses to go out and buy a cheap used car for mom and I to drive and let alone even make the attempt to find one.

My brother told us that he might not come back at all. To which makes my parents very happy and yet pisses me bloody off. I'm neglected and yet yelled at because I'm asking for a vehicle to drive instead of waiting for mom to get off her butt to go into town since it is now dad who buys everything at the store.

I cannot buy a car till I get myself a drivers license, not one that is a permit license. So I have to suffer playing the waiting game for mom to get off her butt to go into town so I can have some driving time and when dad goes into town and it is not to the office, I get a chance to drive into town but that's rare to say the least.

I have asked and begged for a car that mom and I can drive, so I would have time driving and going to the gym to start off my exercising again so I can start losing weight that I have gained since my older brother took the white car.

My parents, I wish they would just understand me and my desire to get my license finalized and get myself a car so I can get a job and start living my own life. But nooooo, their interest is to keep my older brother out of the house. If it was me, they would make it extremely hard for me to do so. I wish they would get another car and let me start getting serious about driving and having time behind the wheel.

Working on cookies, driving & writing.

I'm spending the day working on my writing while I am waiting for my test cookies to bake and to cool down. I had to come home early from the Farm Market as I sold out of my cookies! I had none to sell but I did take suggestions from the people who came by to bring different cookies in next weekend which they'll buy from me.

I'm working on perfecting my peanut butter chip chocolate cookie so I can bring it to sell next week and I told them about my peppermint cookie that I am working on perfecting this weekend.

I have to make at least 30 dozen cookies of each if I get them perfected by next Friday morning. Then, I'll spend all of Friday evening baking them and letting them cool down till Saturday morning about 5:30am when I start wrapping them up in pairs to sell for $2 each. I may have a tin which has an assortment of flavors for $15.

I will of course have samples for everyone to taste before they decide which cookies they want to buy.

And on this past Wednesday, I went and took my written test for my learner's permit. I flunked the first test and the second test, I passed with only two questions missed. I now can go about with learning how to drive officially. The girl who was at the office was really helpful, she told me if I had a problem with one of the questions, leave it blank and she'll help me. And she did help me to pass the second round with only two missed questions.

The first lesson for me to do is backing out of the garage safely and then driving into it and stopping without being jerking with the brakes. When that is done perfectly the next step will be driving into the pasture and dealing with how to stop without being jerky about it. I'm a bit heavy footed when pushing the brakes. I don't ease the brakes to stop, I shove my foot on it and stop the vehicle fast and hard, thus the jerky motions.

I'm currently working on one of my fanfiction stories - The day love came into my life. It is going slow right now but that's because I'm a bit unsure on how Sesshomaru would react to the information that Kagome informed him about. When I figure that out, I think everything else will start flowing smoothly.