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6 years ago
So... I want to drop the good news.
I have a license and a car now. I'm super happy. Best Christmas ever.
I bought the car back in May for really cheap for a car. The guy simply wanted to give it to someone who needs a car as well as getting rid of it because he was moving back to his home country. Plus the cash I gave him is more than he needs in India. Lucky!!
SO from there I've been practicing with my sisnlaw and her car as well as driving mine around... not really in the streets, just using it to practice parking mostly. I can parallel park like a champion... maybe...
So with about 3 months or so of practice in a big van with many auto problems. My mom paid for driving school as a Christmas gift and at the end. I made it. It was the happiest day of my life. I hate the bus. I hate everything about it. I hate the driver (#not all bus drivers are bad), I hate the people riding (#not all riders are bad), I hate the occasional protest that no one rides a bus when I really needed to get to an appointment or an interview, and most of all, I hate waiting for 1-3 hours in the +100oF weather for the bus. Basically, I was ruled by the bus schedule all my life.
I got registration, insurance and some mechanic fixes soon as I got the time.
The New Year hits and my roommate and good friend, Tony got a job and I agreed to help him out since it was very far and he owed the household financial compensation. Well, another friend wanted me to drive him to work too. I was more willing to help them out because driving was a newly acquired skill and I just like helping my friends out. It started taking a toll on me and my car. I wasn't getting a healthy amount of sleep because both parties had two different hours throughout the day. I can't take naps and make up for the loss because my body just doesn't work that way, I tried. I either get full 7-8hours or it's waking up feeling malaise. It doesn't help that it takes 1-2 hours for me to drift off. So week after week I got roughly 2-4 hours of sleep a day and I couldn't do the things I wanted to do like drawing. My mind was set on sleep though I've been on adrenaline just to not conk on the road. Mondays are probably the best days because I spent the weekends mostly sleeping.
So about last weekend, I came to my senses and I started drawing again and realized I haven't done it for a while and I got two commissions long overdue. So much I want to do but as the weeks went by I was so tired. I needed a break from taking these people around.
It doesn't help that the schedules between the two people I drive around change February more drastically which if I kept going I might not be able to sleep at all AND commit to these people. So for now, I needed to drop the one who can easily take a bus or something. Tony, was the one who worked miles away. I kept him but he won't be needing me for very long. A few paychecks or so and he'll start driving too.
I planned on going on long trips in car. Something like going to UT to see my dad and probably tour the USA in my car. I've traveled once in Europe and it was an experience I'll never forget, and from then on, I wanted to travel around and experience a lot of different cultures and foods... and all that was going to start as soon as I got wheels and the license to drive.
So coming February, I'll start drawing again soon as I'm caught up on sleep.
I have a license and a car now. I'm super happy. Best Christmas ever.
I bought the car back in May for really cheap for a car. The guy simply wanted to give it to someone who needs a car as well as getting rid of it because he was moving back to his home country. Plus the cash I gave him is more than he needs in India. Lucky!!
SO from there I've been practicing with my sisnlaw and her car as well as driving mine around... not really in the streets, just using it to practice parking mostly. I can parallel park like a champion... maybe...
So with about 3 months or so of practice in a big van with many auto problems. My mom paid for driving school as a Christmas gift and at the end. I made it. It was the happiest day of my life. I hate the bus. I hate everything about it. I hate the driver (#not all bus drivers are bad), I hate the people riding (#not all riders are bad), I hate the occasional protest that no one rides a bus when I really needed to get to an appointment or an interview, and most of all, I hate waiting for 1-3 hours in the +100oF weather for the bus. Basically, I was ruled by the bus schedule all my life.
I got registration, insurance and some mechanic fixes soon as I got the time.
The New Year hits and my roommate and good friend, Tony got a job and I agreed to help him out since it was very far and he owed the household financial compensation. Well, another friend wanted me to drive him to work too. I was more willing to help them out because driving was a newly acquired skill and I just like helping my friends out. It started taking a toll on me and my car. I wasn't getting a healthy amount of sleep because both parties had two different hours throughout the day. I can't take naps and make up for the loss because my body just doesn't work that way, I tried. I either get full 7-8hours or it's waking up feeling malaise. It doesn't help that it takes 1-2 hours for me to drift off. So week after week I got roughly 2-4 hours of sleep a day and I couldn't do the things I wanted to do like drawing. My mind was set on sleep though I've been on adrenaline just to not conk on the road. Mondays are probably the best days because I spent the weekends mostly sleeping.
So about last weekend, I came to my senses and I started drawing again and realized I haven't done it for a while and I got two commissions long overdue. So much I want to do but as the weeks went by I was so tired. I needed a break from taking these people around.
It doesn't help that the schedules between the two people I drive around change February more drastically which if I kept going I might not be able to sleep at all AND commit to these people. So for now, I needed to drop the one who can easily take a bus or something. Tony, was the one who worked miles away. I kept him but he won't be needing me for very long. A few paychecks or so and he'll start driving too.
I planned on going on long trips in car. Something like going to UT to see my dad and probably tour the USA in my car. I've traveled once in Europe and it was an experience I'll never forget, and from then on, I wanted to travel around and experience a lot of different cultures and foods... and all that was going to start as soon as I got wheels and the license to drive.
So coming February, I'll start drawing again soon as I'm caught up on sleep.
