Wait till I try parking
Today I drove for at least 15 minutes! That's way up from my meager five minutes from last week. Over the holidays I sat down in the driver's seat for the very first time (my cousin in Seattle let me test out her car in a parking lot), but now my Mom is letting me practice in the family minivan--something my Dad never would have done. It's kind of funny too, because the first time I sat in the car it was in the cemetery, right in front of his plot, so I silently prayed he wasn't too mad up there. But I gotta do what I gotta do. This time around, I found a small park facing Flushing Bay with an empty parking lot, so I was just driving around and around, practicing my left and right turns, remembering to signal, etc. I'm not so scared of the gas pedal any more, which is a plus. But now I have to work on making not-so-horribly wide turns, especially on my right side. It just feels so hard to judge! My plan is to keep on getting comfortable with driving until I can sign up (cough--afford--cough) for driver's ed lessons in early spring. And I also don't want to learn in inclement winter weather.
As for other exciting things in my not-too-exciting life, did you know the amazing wonder that is Netflix? Then why have you never shared this with me!? I signed up last week, looking for ways not to spend $25 per movie outing, and holy moly! Now I can catch up on all the TV I keep meaning to catch up on (hello Buffy and True Blood!). Or start series I've always missed (e.g., is Battlestar Galactica worth it?). Or--and this is my favorite part--watch movies online! I wholeheartedly welcome any suggestions to my Netflix queue--although I am shamelessly biased towards movies made in the late 20th/early 21st century. Unless it's Casablanca, I really have to be hard-pressed to watch the classics.