{"id":891,"date":"2006-01-21T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=891"},"modified":"2006-01-21T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T22:50:55","slug":"891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2006\/01\/891\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving lessons, shopping, and house stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a slow start this morning, Michael and I got out of the house around 11 to have some driving lessons and do some shopping.<\/p>\n

Driving lessons?<\/p>\n

I can’t drive a manual transmission car. Never even tried. When we bought the Civic with manual transmission I was scared! But Michael is willing to teach me, so today we went to an empty church parking lot.<\/p>\n

Michael kept me to the basics, I stayed in 1st and neutral the entire time, but I did well! I only stalled it a few times when I let up on the clutch too quickly, and managed to keep the ride relatively jerk-free. I even managed not to be nervous or overly self-critical. I’ll have to practice again soon in a bigger parkinglot so I can practice changing gears and going up hills.<\/p>\n

Then we stopped at Linens-n-Things<\/a> to pick up some curtains for our bedroom. When we bought the house every room had normal plastic blinds. They’re not bad, but they aren’t terribly pretty, curtains would help.<\/p>\n

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Now curtain shopping is not our favorite thing, our last experience<\/a> was terrible. This time things went well. We picked out some nice light brown curtains and a couple curtain rods and were on our way. I had to frown at the price though, curtains are pretty simple things, I could probably even make them myself if I had a sewing machine.[lj-cut]<\/p>\n

Once we left Linens-n-Things<\/a> I suggested heading over to Lowe’s<\/a> with the gift card we got from Michael’s father for Christmas. We only planned on getting a new toliet seat (exciting huh?) but ended up stumbling into the lighting area and decided to get some new overhead lighting for the bathroom and laundry room.<\/p>\n

We got home around 2:30 and got to work.<\/p>\n

First it was the curtains, Michael got them up in about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Much better!<\/p>\n

Then for the new lighting. Doing anything electrical, even something as simple as replacing overhead lighting, is a foreign thing to me that I think should be a complex art only practiced by professionals. Michael continues to prove me wrong. In about 40 minutes he had both awful florescent lights removed and replaced with the nice, new lighting.<\/p>\n

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\nOld, cheap, plastic, florescent lighting<\/p>\n

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\nNew, glass and metal, incandescent lighting<\/center><\/p>\n

The difference is amazing, even with one 60 watt bulb in each they are a much brighter than the old florescents. Man I hate florescent lights, the last ones to get rid of are those in the kitchen. Maybe during the next trip to Lowe’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then Michael got the new toilet seat put on, but I didn’t take a picture of it because that’d be weird.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd this is Caligula while we worked. Useless animal! ;)<\/center><\/p>\n

And now we’re just going to chill out. I’m making spinach lasagne for dinner and we have a bottle of Cavit<\/a> Pinot Grigio to enjoy this evening in front of the fireplace.[\/lj-cut]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a slow start this morning, Michael and I got out of the house around 11 to have some driving lessons and do some shopping. Driving lessons? I can’t drive a manual transmission car. Never even tried. When we bought the Civic with manual transmission I was scared! But Michael is willing to teach me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}