{"id":490,"date":"2006-03-29T02:40:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2006\/03\/29\/omg-what-a-weekend\/"},"modified":"2006-03-29T03:23:51","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T12:23:51","slug":"omg-what-a-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2006\/03\/29\/omg-what-a-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG what a weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SO, I meant to sit down and write something yesterday when I got home? But well. Heh. I never really managed the write part, just the sit down part. Then the lay down &#8220;I&#8217;m so tired I can&#8217;t THINK or MOVE&#8221; part. And the sleeping part! I was real good at the sleeping part! Yeah baby!<\/p>\n<p>So, as you can see down there a bit, I reaquainted myself with The Magic Coffee Machine &#8482; Which I took pictures of just for you. Really. It&#8217;s not so I can look at it longingly or nothing. Cuz I&#8217;m not addicted to CoffeeOnDemand, really. Stop laughing. I&#8217;m not! Sheesh! (oh! how I miss thee, MCM(tm)!<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY!<br \/>\nThe drive up was beautimous,  dry, ice free roads and fast travel. Legally fast, of course, I&#8217;m not a speed demon. Really. Sheesh &#8211; again with the laughing! I arrived in plenty of time to get to the <strike>MCM(tm)<\/strike> bed n breakfast and settle in. I even got a little bit of a nap before heading to class.<\/p>\n<p>Oy. That class! Someone dad knows likened it to &#8220;taking a drink from a firehose&#8221; and he sure wasn&#8217;t kidding! The teacher, Jim, was a hoot n a half, and a force of constant movement. He breezed in dragging his case of books and looked right at me:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You Lessa from Kenai?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yessir, that&#8217;d be me.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;GOOD! We can have class then. They done tol&#8217; me, if that Lessa from Kenai shows up again, you have class no matter what!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heh. Apparently, my raising a stink last time had an effect on the Anchorage Office. Good, they need shaking up every now and again. And when there is a bargain struck, and I hold up my end of it, I expect the same from those who made the agreement with me.<br \/>\nThe class itself was just a MINDDUMP of information. It was like he&#8217;d open our skulls and just started POURING the information in. I know it&#8217;s all in there soemwhere, now I have the next two weeks to study on my own to access the informtion in order to pass the State Insurance Exam. I&#8217;m fairly confident, though a panic-y fairly confident if you know what I mean. Even now as I write this there are words that trigger responses from me. (ie: Agreement &#8211; equals Contract+Premium which brings up several other responses too in a virtual waterfall&#8230;) I just hope I can keep it all in there and retain it all until I take the exam on the 8th. Passing it the first time will make me very, very happy. Failing it the first time will make me &#8230;. just like everyone else. *LOL* (and here is where I DUCK as nana moosie takes a swing at me&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more|inline--><\/p>\n<p>There was a spot of excitement this weekend too, as my car just STOPPED WORKING in the middle of one of the busiest roads in Anchorage. Fortunately my &#8220;boyfriend&#8221; was working nearby and came to rescue me. Soon as he touched the car it started, and I&#8217;ve not had a problem with it again since. Harumph. Clearly the Jeep missed him too!<\/p>\n<p>I also took him out to dinner on Sunday night after the last class, as he&#8217;d had his birthday while up there working. We ate at Applebees &#8211; a first for me, and QUITE yummy! With that and all the AMAZING breakfasts at the BnB &#8211; I&#8217;m sure I gained 129312038120 pounds this weekend, though possibly worked off the same with the sheer brain power necessary to survive the weekend class. *L*<\/p>\n<p>After that, I was able to enjoy my last evening, visiting the MCM(tm) then curling up in the comfy bed, with 7 (SEVEN!) pillows and comforter and the remote ALL TO MYSELF and watched the season finale of The L-Word. Happy Lessa! Then, before leaving town, I indulged in my obsession with New Book Smell and spent too much money at Barnes and Noble, but didn&#8217;t care because New! Book! Smell! Whee! Course, I can&#8217;t read any of them yet, as I&#8217;m spending every spare moment studying, but well, whatcha gonna do? How could I resist?<\/p>\n<p>Then I drove home, which was again a beautiful ride. I took some mountian pass pictures from different areas then before, and will upload them soon&#8230;ish. Then home to fill out paperwork for a meeting with dad, home to reaffirm to my kiddos that I still existed, to a meeting, then home to collapse. Is it any wonder I waited till now to post? Busy busy.<\/p>\n<p>Today was spent studying, then a meeting, then some actual design work (gasp!) which will need serious working on tomorrow in preparation of another client meeting and the boy has a dentist appointment and I&#8217;m to take my Ladybug to her soccar practice after that! Whew! And SOMEWHERE in there I must study n study n study n study. I&#8217;ve got chapter 5 down COLD. There&#8217;s only&#8230;.17 others plus the state laws to memorize before the 8th. No problem, right?<\/p>\n<p>Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SO, I meant to sit down and write something yesterday when I got home? But well. Heh. 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