Pilot Life: A Practice Flight for Fun

So here's the situation: I got started on my checkride last week, but only got through the ground portion of it because we had to iron out some record-keeping issues. So we rescheduled the flight portion for right after the Thanksgiving break, tomorrow in fact! So I took today as an opportunity to take a quick refresher flight in order to be prepared for the checkride tomorrow afternoon. I also did a ground school with my instructor yesterday morning to go over a few things I wasn't comfortable with as well.

Still flying N802CT.

I got to the airport and the airplane I scheduled myself in was missing it's ignition key! So I had to borrow a spare and got the pre-flight and start-up processes done. After starting up the engine, I taxied to the run-up area and got the run-ups done. After verifying the engine gauges were in the green and instruments were in good working order, I taxied to the runway and got airborne. After takeoff, I turned southbound and proceeded to a section of airspace to do my maneuvers. For practice, I performed power-on and power-off stalls, steep turns, a rapid descent, and ground-reference maneuvers which included S-turns across a road and turns around a point. After doing all that, I returned to the airport and did a few landings, practicing short-field and soft-field techniques before calling it a flight.

I plan on finishing my checkride tomorrow.