Old Cars In My New Car

So this post will follow up on a few things touched on in my last post and some new happenings.

I will start with the job. My friends dad told me that they really liked me, but I have yet to be told when I can start work. I have been given the impression by all 3 people I have interviewed with for the job that it is essentially mine. I have had a total of four interviews with three different people. I was told final word will come by this Friday and if all goes as planned I should start Tuesday. I certainly hope this is the case as I am anxious to work and I already know what I would do with the money. All of it fairly productive with much being saved.

I got to hang out with some of my friends from high school at a bonfire and have a few beers and it was a good time. I was able to catch up with some of them and just get out of the house and relax.

I got to see one of my best friends yesterday for the first time this summer. I really missed seeing her on a weekly basis like I did at college. We do a fairly good job at keeping in touch. Her and I went to a car show, walked downtown Lapeer and played tennis.

The car show was really awesome. I love seeing old cars and how well people restore or even maintained these cars. Old cars is something I would like to get into one day. I would really like to buy a completely restored one to have and put my own touches on. I am not much of a mechanic so I would need to learn or pay someone to do a lot of things for me.

Walking Lapeer and some of the other towns we stopped in on the way to the car show was very nice. I love downtown areas, it is cool to see the unique shopping scene they offer in the smaller towns or cities.

Tennis was fun as well. It is a sport I love to play and I encourage people to take part in. It is a sport for all ages and is a great form of exercise. I am better than she is but it is fun to play with her regardless. If I played someone of an equal skill level I would likely be very competitive and lose sight of the fun.I am very competitive even when it is completely unnecessary.

She also took me to some nature trails where we went for a walk, and I must say it may have been a little late for that. The sun was about set so it was going to get dark pretty quickly and walking through a heavily wooded area did not help things. It was fun until we heard deer or something else walking because at one point it sounded like how a person would walk. I really hate the feeling that I am being watched without my knowledge. By no stretch was I afraid of being attacked as I certainly could defend myself from anything short of a person with a gun but it was just a very creepy feeling that did not stop until I was safely in my car. For my friend she said she was still stressed and creeped out by it even after we left to go talk in her driveway.

I got lost on my way home even though I was not actually lost. I took a wrong turn and was on a road I knew but because I wasn't where I expected to be I lost my bearings and had to call my friend to help me and regain my bearings. I have an excellent sense of direction. Even if I do not know where I am at usually I can figure out which direction I am going. Once I am certain of that I can almost always find a road I am familiar with if I have been in the area more than once. Once I got home I looked at a map to find my error and I felt silly but I am grateful to my friend for helping me regain my sense of direction and getting me to a road I know. 

Overall my summer is going well and it has slowly gotten better. I love seeing friends and doing things that are productive. I really hate sitting around all day like I have most days. To bring the title full circle I drove to all of these things in my new car and it was nice to be able to drive instead of being the passenger.