no shirt, no shoes ... but a pair of pants!

... and a couple of skirts.

okay, so tradition has been that, after i sit for each of the four sections of my cpa exam, i go over to target and buy a shirt.

the first time, it was of necessity: i had parked over at the parking garage for the testing facility, not even thinking that i would need to have cash for parking. so ... after suffering through 3½ hours of dull multiple choice questions in a room absoultely devoid of anything stimulating or even interesting, i tried to get change from the snack shop in the lobby -- but they don't take debit cards. grrr. so the attendant suggested that i run over to target and get some cash back there.

so i did.

that was back in the days of chocolate freedom, so i purchased a couple *really good* choxie chocolate bars and a cute little yellow cardigan, got some cash, and was on my way home.

the day of my second test, i again parked in the parking structure without any cash on me, but kinda thought it would be fun to run over to target after my test. so after 4½ hours of monotonous multiple choice questions and complex case studies, i went to target. this time, i got a white button-down.

test number three was 4 hours. and my souvenir from that one was 2 shirts: a blue t and a green 5-button henley.

the disaster we call test number four left me very uncreative, so i just quickly grabbed a red v-neck and got out of there.

now, supposedly four tests would be the end of it -- no more test shirts. but ... as you may recall, i didn't exactly perform very well on that last one. so ... yesterday was the retake. and i think i might have done better than i did before. heck, i got a 45 last time, hopefully i didn't do worse!! i was actually pretty blessed this time around -- having not taken nearly enough time to study and prepare as i should have (as usual, ugh), i wasn't expecting much. but i think that i was able to think much more clearly, remember a few more things from school and from my studying, and focus more on the test while sitting there.

it was a 3-hour test and i wish it were a 3-hour-and-5-minute test. yeah, i just needed 5 more minutes to finish up my second case study. it's okay. we'll see how i did. i was certainly surprised, however, when i read the first case study and it was *exactly* the same as one i got last time! yeah! i think i did better on it this time, though. so hopefully ...

anyway, walked back over to target (i started just parking at target after the second test so i wouldn't have to even worry about parking money or walking all the way back across the street, back over to the testing center parking structure -- ha!) and i was glad to be out of the testing center -- okay, it is a rather small room with nothing but a clock on the wall and about 17 cubicles set up, each with just a computer and a set of silencing headphones for those who can't stand the clickety-clack of typing in the next cube over. so once at target, i started looking for a fourth-test-retake shirt. not much luck. and i wasn't much in the mood for shirts. but i found some pants and a couple skirts -- it was more expensive target trip than the others ... oh well. *hopefully* that was the last time i have to go over to that testing center and the shopping temptation that is target, so yeah. that's my excuse. :P

(okay, fine, i *did* find a shirt that i liked as i was leaving target, but that kinda ruins the title of this blog, so we won't say anything more about it. okay.)