Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Oddly And Briefly, Productive
This morning we had to be at the immigration office, all the way on the other side of town, for Leigh-Ann to get her biometrics done. Fingerprints, picture, etc. It was strangely enough, a good experience. We gave ourselves LOTS of time to get there since it isn’t an area of town with which we’re familiar. Her appointment was for 11am and we got there maybe around 10:30am. I figured we’d have to wait at least until her appointment, but no. As soon as the security guard let us in the door (no one gets in w/o an appt), Leigh-Ann filled out one form and then immediately was taken into the back room for medical experiments. She was gone 5-10 minutes, and then we were done. We didn’t even have time to read the plethora of magazines we brought with us.
After we left the INS (oh wait, we can’t call it that since it’s been swallowed up by “Homeland Security") office, we decided to take a quick trip to a realty school that I’d found online. They have loan officer classes that are four hours daily, for two weeks. They estimate that it’s equivalent to three months experience. It’s a decent price compared to the last program I wrote about that was $15,000, but I’m pretty sure you get what you pay for. I’ll probably be going to class in a couple of weeks. If I don’t, it’s a 9am class in August...and I don’t want to be on the freeway with rush hour traffic. It would, at the very least, double my travel time of about 20-25 minutes. The return trip would be fine though, as that’s about the time we came back home today. The freeway was clear on our side and bumper-to-bumper on the other side because of one of the constants around here, an accident. I think Las Vegas specializes in bad drivers.
On the way home, a stop for pet food and the all important Cookie Yumms, P-nutty flavor. Crickets loves them, and she’s a dog who tires of having the same treat more than once a week. She loves Cookie Yumms, as does Phoenix, and they’re okay for Phoenix to have because they don’t contain corn. Yay.
You’re thinking to yourself, “Now, Flippy couldn’t have possibly done anything more today.” Oh, but I did. We went to the grocery store too. We were home by noon and still had to feed the dogs & the birds. All in all, a productive-ish day. Now, I’m totally exhausted and won’t be able to do anything for another few days. Where oh where is my HGH?
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Congratulations on a productive day! A word of caution: I’d keep a close eye on Leigh-Ann and monitor her behavior for the next few days. They could have implanted her with alien DNA or something. There is no such thing as “routine” biometrics! (cue spooky mad-scientist laugh)
Helly on 07/06 at 05:03 AM -
She does have these weird marks on her hands. She swears they’re from tiny kitten claws, but how can I be positive? I didn’t notice them before the biometrics. Hmmm.
on 07/06 at 12:05 PM -
Aren’t they implanting all foreigners now with a tracking device?
It’s great that you can do so much stuff now that you’ve had the surgery! And real estate school sounds exciting. I like houses so much I’ve thought that maybe I could be a real estate agent, except that details and paperwork either bore or confound me.
Nancy on 07/06 at 04:30 PM -
OOOh… real estate school. Getting to see other peoples houses - legally! Woot.
Congratulations on the busy day. Now send me some magazines.
jess on 07/10 at 08:26 PM -
Gee, now I’m going to disappoint you guys. I’m not going to real estate school. Okay, I *am* going to A real estate school, but to take classes to be a loan officer. I’d make a terrible terrible realtor. I don’t enjoy the schmooze and I don’t enjoy driving more than necessary. I’m going to be your finance or refinance go-to person though. Okay, maybe not yours, Jess, because I don’t know how to get a license in Canada, but if you ever move here…
on 07/10 at 09:33 PM
