Tedious Tendencies

My mom supervises over a few skilled care facilities, and at the end of a few months, she has to calculate the number of miles she has driven between facilities. So a few months ago, my mom asked me to do a favor for her: to find out the miles are between each of these facilities and how many miles it is from our house to each of these facilities as well. When I first took on this task, I had thought it was not a problem because I had not realized how long it was really going to take simply because there were only about ten facilities on her list. I thought wrong. I started by going on to MapQuest and typed in each of the addresses, and listed them in the order they were given to me. This was difficult since some of these facilities have similar names and/or similar addresses. Then, I played around with the list and found out how many miles there were between all of them. I wrote them all down on a list. This took me about an hour and a half to do. I was so glad to be done with such a tedious task and hoped never to do that again. Until my mom had asked me two days ago, to do the same thing except with six new facilities!

That is how I get to the picture above. I had asked her if she was kidding. She said no, I was capable of doing it again, and that I have more time to do it since I don't have school. I really did not want to go through that again, but I had to since she gave me a guilt trip. Frankly, she is my mom and I do it because I love her. I reached for my favorite yellow note pad and thought that would at least make me feel better about creating this extensive list. I started to find out the miles between the first facility and realized I had laboriously procured the miles for this facility months before. I went to her room and asked her of she had the list I "constructed" before. She said that she had it somewhere and went to her car and found it. I was relieved. I told her that I was just going to create a list of miles for the new facilities. The list shown above is not the whole list there were two more pages about the same length. It took about forty-five to almost an hour to calculate the miles on Mapquest and to create the list. I gave it to my mom, and she was very grateful.  As for me I ended up with a cramp in my hand, but I was very pleased with how neat and organized my list was.