Nissan

In Florida I purchased a Nissan Sentra.  Florida, being a one-license plate state, orders it’s cars without the front license plate option on it’s bumpers.  Now, Iowa is a two-license plate state so I had to run to Nissan today to purchase a plate base to attach to my car so I can put the front plate on.  Personally, I was going to say f**k it but then, at work last night, we stopped three cars because they didn’t have front plates and I figured I don’t want a ticket for something so asinine.

Of course, the Nissan guy wouldn’t install the damn thing for me – he didn’t want to “damage” the bumper by possibly doing it wrong.  Oh yeah, that gives me all the confidence in the world that I, a regular layperson, will be able to put it on straight.  Ugh.

Tomorrow I have to drive myself and a coworker to Des Moines for a stupid class so I would like the plate on properly by then.  I spent almost $300 just getting my insurance switched up here and getting my car registered because I didn’t want to be stopped with a coworker in the car for having expired Florida plates.  Always something.

I just know I’m very tired today and I’ll be lucky if I get five hours sleep tomorrow so I need to be sure to get a good nap in tonight before I go to work.  I have to take my son to his job in a few minutes, then I need to stop by the library but then I need to be in bed by 7pm so I can be up by 9:30 to get ready for work.  I may let my coworker drive my car, especially on the way home, tomorrow and let me rest.  Ugh.  I hate having to go there – it seems like such a stupid waste of time.  The test we have to take should be available locally.

I also have three classes on the internet that I need to take when I have time.  It isn’t required like tomorrow’s test but they would really like me to.  It has to do with disaster management which I have already taken a lot of the classes for but not these three.  So I will do that this weekend.  I sent for my transcript of the other FEMA classes because I don’t remember where I have it in my packed boxes of stuff.  I need to resume taking the classes for the heck of it – I enjoy learning about disasters.  Maybe someday I’ll get money enough to pay for the college credit I could get for each class – then I’d have a degree or certification in emergency management.  I’ve got a lot of it done already.