I passed!

Well, today was a typical day around here. I got up early to bring Richard to the airport for a flight that he never got on. So he called a few hours later and asked if we had picked up our lisences yet. We hadn't made it out yet, so he kindly went to get them for us. Of course, Scopas hadn't made the cards yet or laminated them. He did it all when Richard asked, though. Of course, Scopas owns the laminating machine, so Richard had to pay him a little extra to get them laminated! Actually, just the fact that he could call us on the phone to ask if we had left the house yet is quite an improvement over the situation of a few months ago... where we had no communication whatsoever, except for the Internet!

He came home with our lisences, and it seems they almost got my names right. My middle name is now "Ra"... kind of like "She-ra" (remember her?!), which is kind of cool. I'm also classified as a linguistics consultant :) So I really am moving up in the world! And I guess the fact that I got the license means that I passed the test! Richard said that the officer who did our driving test was the same one who used to do the tests when he was a small boy. Imagine how many driving tests he's done? No wonder we only drove half a kilometer and back!

Anyways, that done, Richard came home. Then we went off to Victor's shop (aka, Home Depot) and bought some paint for my shelves and for the office doors. I salvaged this great book shelf from the old store room which we turned into offices. I got some lovely light blue high gloss paint (um, yeah, it was blue or army green or light green). I'm thinking that I'll get some nice material and make a bit of a curtain for it, so it won't be SUCH bright blue in the middle of the room, and the curtain will also keep the dust off the stuff on the shelves! It's fun to be thinking a bit about decorating and making a nice home for myself here.