After signing what seemed like endless papers and filling out too many forms, having things Fedexed back by the nazi-forms police ( my oath of office affidavit had 1/9/08 and the seal was in the wrong place, my middle name was written with my first name, and I forgot to sign at the bottom of page five of a six page form) and then Fedexing them back to her, receiving two large boxes filled with books, cd's, and then a laptop, I am ready to start learning about doing surveys. Today was Daneille Temple's wedding shower (the wedding is March 7, to Drake Hatfield of Louisville, KY), which was nice. Yet, as is typical, I have to finished her picnic quilt. Only the binding being made, sew on the then hand stitched is left, but that's enough. So much to say, that I will begin my work on the self study portion of my new job Monday. Gotta finish that quilt first.

The fear of being a failure is still real. Every time I tell someone it's in Holmes County, I get,"be careful," or "Oh no, not Holmes county, you be careful." That's not very encouraging. It happen both time I went to be finger printed by the police officers, too. Yes, I had to go twice. The instructions didn't say get two copies, although there were two forms. I thought (that's the problem!) maybe they sent one in case of a mess up. The first police officer did also.

Now it's January 19, and I received another Fedex to me on the outside, but to someone else who will be there in Dallas on the 26. I guess she or someone else got mine letters about hotel reservations and flight arrangements. With as many people that they have to deal with it would be easy to mess up.

I started me home training today: reading, watching videos, and starting my Dell laptop for the first time. It was nice having KP there to hold my hand and show me short cuts with the different keys. I hope I can remember all the neat tricks he taught me. Tomorrow I begin in earnest.