A productive member of society, part 2!

Hm. Well, I didn't blog yesterday, so I suppose I'd better begin with yesterday's adventures, and misadventures. It began with fishing. We (Jason, Jeremy, Angie, Meghan, Daniel, Justus and I) packed up and headed down to Baker Dam Reservoir. Since I was the only one who had any idea where it was, I got to play tour guide. I kinda like doing that. It makes me feel like the knowledgeable local showing around the new neighbors. :P. Anyway. I'd forgotten just how beautiful this place was. Blue water... red rocks, tall trees, green grass, soft sand... a fisherman's dream come true. Except without fish. Well... there were fish - Jeremy hooked a dead trout (a big one, too) and Meghan hooked herself... but other than that, no one caught anything. Oh, and Meghan dropped her fishing pole in a very deep dropoff in the lake. It looked shallower than it was... Anyway, the bobber was still on the line, so we managed to snag that and I pulled out all the line, pulled the pole up, and thereby managed rescue Meghan's fishing rod. Then we went home. T'was tons of fun.

Anyway... about an hour after we got home, I ran into a little bit of stomach and chest trouble and had to go in for some medical attention. About a block from the doctor, I started feeling better. Great. Anyway... I possibly have a relapse of ulcers. They can't tell at this point, though, because last time I had ulcers I had H. pylori (nasty little acid causing bacteria). Once it's there, it never leaves, so they'll never be able to tell if I have ulcers by my blood tests again. Anyway... the doc decided to wait and see if it happens again before he orders more tests - partially because I have no health insurance. This, by the way, is a bad thing. I also missed city council meeting. Not much fun.

So this morning was good, though. I got a phone call from Turn Community Services. Apparently, I now have a job! Woot! Productive member of society, here I come! I am scheduled for job orientation on June 15th. Quite a bit of a later start than I wanted, but at this moment, I'll take what I can get. None of the other places even called back. Anyway, it will give me a chance to get my license. I know, I know... I've said that before. But I actually have a test scheduled on Monday, with the only guy that can put the final signature on my official little paper-thingy. I think this is a good thing. I'm going to fail parallel parking, I'm pretty sure, but hopefully that won't matter too much. Urg.

This afternoon I got the crap scared out of me, as well. Angie and Meghan and I were coming home from Karen's. When we got here, Jeremy and Jason were riding the four-wheelers. Daniel and Jason were on the girls' little one. Jason got off and was steering, running alongside the quad while Daniel drove. Yeah... almost two-year-old Daniel. Anyway, Daniel sorta fell off sideways, landed on the ground. From my viewpoint, it looked like the quad ran him over. Angie and I flipped out and jumped out of the car to see what the damage was. Fortunately, Jason had grabbed the back tire-rim of the thing and picked it up so that it didn't run Daniel over. Daniel is okay, although it certainly scared him, and he wouldn't go near his dad for a few minutes. The rims on the tire were sharp, though, and Jason's hand is good and sliced up. I think I can safely say it will be a while before Daniel debuts solo on a four-wheeler again.

The adventure continues!
--Anna Grace