11/7/25

I'm writing this several days after, so I may miss some details. But today was my retake of my two check-off skills, so I set alarms for 6 am, but I really didn't get up until 8 am or so. I was pretty confident on them, so I really didn't study or anything. I ate half of a pumpkin fry pie that my mom got me from her Amish trip yesterday for my breakfast. My time to be there today was 9:45, so I got up and got ready and left at around 9 am.

pumpkin fry pie, mmm

Once I got to Crisp, I read over my rubric for a couple of minutes, went to the bathroom, and then it was basically time. So I went up to the lab and did them. I did trach suctioning first I think, and I passed that. At least this time they told if you passed right after you did it. Both Mrs. Stinnett and Mrs. Hall were watching this time. And then I did trach care and I also passed that. The only criticism they had was that the cannula didn't fall all the way into the fake solution, part of it was sticking out. But I passed both of them, that's all that matters.

me after my check-offs. you could tell i was stressed because my
face is flushed and i was really hot afterwards

Apparently my sister was going to go see the cats again today, so I was planning on staying in town. I don't know if I talked about this yesterday, but Janell's been really wanting a cat for her house she's going to be moving into next semester, and she went to the Humane Society and found a cat named Joker that she likes (but she wants to name it Dory for some reason). So I kind of wanted to go to. So I did some stuff to waste time.

I first was going to go to HealthPoint, but their parking lot was basically full and I didn't want to work out when it was busy. So I went to Teen Challenge next and looked around for a bit. I ended up getting a book, Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King. I hadn't just bought a physical book to read in a while. I was reading 1984 earlier this semester and I want to finish that, but I was really craving a physical book.

So I went to the park and read several chapters of that in my car. It was an alright book. It was the first fantasy book King wrote I guess. The part I read was just describing the characters. There's a whole royal family and this evil wizard guy, Flagg. So I read that for maybe an hour.

Then I went to the UC to get food. I was going to get Janell to get me something but I think she was still at home studying or something. I snuck past the lady and used a ticket that Janell got me that they didn't take last time to get a beef burrito with queso and chips. So that was delicious. I saw Gavin in there but didn't say anything to him.

my burrito

After that I went to Walmart and all I got was a box of rice Hamburger Helper. Then I went down one of those county roads out past Walmart because I wanted to just drive around. I would say that we were about in the prime of fall right now, so all the trees and stuff were colorful. I drove for maybe 30 minutes, and it was really nice. I was going on some crazy gravel roads at one point. I ended up going to Gordonville and then to Jackson.

autumn trees

In Jackson I filled up with gas, but it stopped filling up when my car was at 3/4 tank for some reason. Then I went to Teen Challenge in Jackson, and they had some cool stuff, lots of shirts, but I didn't end up getting anything.

After that I drove back to Cape, got a small fry, and sat in the Banterra parking lot until Janell made her way over. Then we went to the Humane Society.

The Humane Society had moved to a new spot since the last time I'd been there, it was a bit of a bigger building. We went in and went to the cat room. There were a ton of cats in there, either lined up in cages on the wall or in separate rooms. She showed me the one she was interested in, I looked at some cute ones like one named Danny Devito. I got Rhea Perlman, Danny Devito's roommate, out, and she scrambled away from me and went under the cages. So Janell was freaking out, but we eventually got her out. I also liked this older cat that was really fluffy. There was a room called the Zen Room with a bunch of kittens in there, and they were anything but zen. They were crazy, but there was this one with a backwards tail that I really liked. So this was a fun trip here, I don't know how long we were here, maybe an hour.

danny devito

Afterwards I went with Janell to get Peace Love Energy, but I didn't get anything. Then she dropped me off and I went home.

At home I got some of my online quizzes for assessment done, which my mom made me study like crazy for beforehand. But I think I passed all of them, all of the questions were easily lookup-able. Then I scheduled an academic advising appointment for Monday because I realized I should have already had that scheduled a week or so ago. And then I watched the Family Fight episode of Always Sunny and then watched Order of the Phoenix. I've still been watching all the Harry Potter movies and enjoying them. And I think it was almost 3 am before I went to bed.

So that was my day, it was pretty good. Passed my check-offs, got to see cats, watched a movie, read a book. 6/10 day. Maybe 5.5/10.