Good evening all. Yes I know,,,,,,,,,,I know! I know! it's been a while since I last posted. I'm horrible eh? Looks like this blog will be around for a long time because I did commit that I would do 365 posts here. Only then will I probably not be posting anymore here. Here's the gyst of why I have not been around. I am a full time student online with the University of Phoenix. I'm taking 2 classes at a time for 9 week sessions. My first two classes were Intro to University Studies and Health and Wellness. They just concluded last sunday and I ended up with an A- for both of them, so hoorah for me! =D
The clases i'm in now are University composition, and Intro to Personal Finance. I'm nearing the end of week number 1 for both those classes with 8 more weeks to go. I have roughly about 8 more 9week sessions after the one I'm on is over. So because it has been a while since I have been on here, and I didn't want to forget about it entirely, i figured I'd atleast come online and post something for a change. We've still been playing world of warcraft but I think the reason I'm bored with it tonight after I got off work is because I am really tired. Maybe I will feel more into it tomorrow. Anyway, I'm going to sign off for the night. Talk to you all later!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Day 87
Good evening everyone. Well I completed 1 out of my 2 mid term exams. Looks like I scored a 25/28 which equates to about an 88% for a grade. So, not too shabby if I do say so myself. Was up late this morning because I had to take lex to camp. Then because I didn't mow earlier, I had to get the lawn done. But first I had to go to circle K and fill up the gas container so that I could gas up the mower. I had used the last of the gas last time I mowed. One 2 1/2 gallon gas container lasts us a while apparently.
So tonight I'm probably not going to do too much for this entry. When I finally got to bed, it was roughly about 11:30. By that point the lawn was mowed, and I had done school stuff, and had dropped lex off. I was done with everything by about 10:50, but I was really hot so it took me laying in bed without the covers on, under the ceiling fan for about half an hour before suddenly I rolled over and fell asleep. I left a message for Erin on her phone telling her how much I got payed today, and what I wanted to do such as going to Aldi's for a grocery run tomorrow. Apparently though, for whatever reason, the message was a bit messed up, and she couldn't understand me. I'm weird in the sense that when she says "What?! I can't hear you!" in person or on the phone, I guess I feel dumb, and that then makes me irritable because I don't like to think of myself as dumb. Oh well, probably the lack of sleep talking. So other than the lack of restful sleep, I'm doing good. I will call that it for right now. Talk more tomorrow.
CB
So tonight I'm probably not going to do too much for this entry. When I finally got to bed, it was roughly about 11:30. By that point the lawn was mowed, and I had done school stuff, and had dropped lex off. I was done with everything by about 10:50, but I was really hot so it took me laying in bed without the covers on, under the ceiling fan for about half an hour before suddenly I rolled over and fell asleep. I left a message for Erin on her phone telling her how much I got payed today, and what I wanted to do such as going to Aldi's for a grocery run tomorrow. Apparently though, for whatever reason, the message was a bit messed up, and she couldn't understand me. I'm weird in the sense that when she says "What?! I can't hear you!" in person or on the phone, I guess I feel dumb, and that then makes me irritable because I don't like to think of myself as dumb. Oh well, probably the lack of sleep talking. So other than the lack of restful sleep, I'm doing good. I will call that it for right now. Talk more tomorrow.
CB
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Day 86
Good evening everyone. Today we made a recipe that I grew up with my parents making on special occasions. We maybe had it a few times a year, but whenever we did it was like "OMG!" The recipe is called Teriyaki steak. It is not made with regular teriyaki sauce, as my wife realized. She picked up the flank steaks, but picked up a bottle of teriyaki sauce. Nope, the way the marinade is made is with several ingredients mixed together, then poured over the steaks and marinaded for an entire day. Well, a few days ago, I finally got ahold of my mom. I had emailed her asking for the recipe for it again. Erin had already picked up the flank steaks and we just needed to know what to do. So her email with the recipe is saved on my blackberry.
It was really funny. Yesterday Erin went to get up to go and put the marinade together. I told her I really wanted to do it. She looked at me funny. I explained that the reason I wanted to get everything set up for this recipe is because I already don't do a whole lot when it comes to meal preperation for our family with Erin going to school to be a chef. I like to know that I have some things that I can do for us as a family. ;) I know that's probably rediculous, but hey, it's just how I was feeling. Well I got them in the marinade, and around 3 am *even though I was not really wanting to stay up that late, but ended up doing so because of working on school and watching movies with Erin*, I flipped the steaks over onto their other side in the marinade. Then around 5:15 this evening, I grilled them up. It didn't take long to cook them at all, but when I brought them in, I grabbed a few strips for myself before heading off to work. I gave Erin a bite and she went "oh my Gosh! There might not be any left for ya when you come home! ;)" I said "There better be! :P"
So in closing, school is going really well. This week we have our mid term exams, so I will be stressing less when those are successfully done and over with. Other than that, the classes themselves are going well, the financial aid is taken care of (and I'm just waiting on the funds to post to my student account), and I've got A's in both classes so far. Hopefully I still have A's after the mid term exams. My friend Melissa (one of my followers of this blog, same as I follow hers) mentioned today that she has been thinking about school. Like her, if any of you are thinking about going back to school, do it! Why must we settle for these regular paying jobs with lots of hours, and little or no benefits when we can get into a career through an associates or bachelors degree that pays well and gives you the benefits you deserve.
Erin is less than a year away from getting her bachelors degree online in Hospitality and Restaurant management. We are going to have to step up our debt pay off so that maybe she can see about getting a business loan so we can get the bakery started up officially for her. Otherwise there are numerous opportunities for someone with that type of bachelors.
Me? I'm attending with the University of Phoenix online. They recommended we all start first with an associates degree before going to a bachelors for a few reasons. 1) it takes about a year and a half or so, could be less, could be a month or two more, in order to get your associates degree. 2) once you get your associates degree in anything, within a week you can re-enroll in the bachelors program. The great part is that because you already graduated with your associates, you will then be considered alumni and you will get additional discounts in tuition and fees. So, I took them up on their advice and started with my associates. My degree plan is an Associates of Arts in Hospitality and Tourism. When I get that degree I plan on continueing to get my bachelors, but at that point I should have career possibilities openned to me just with my associates.
I'm about half way through my first term of classes. They have you go 2 classes at a time, that's a total of 6 credits, completed every 9 weeks. As soon as your round of classes end, for example if both my classes were done today, tomorrow at midnight would begin my next two classes. It's really not that hard as long as you are pro-active and keep up to date with all your posts and assignments. I'm working full time security and I have a family at home as well and yet I'm doing just fine. In fact I have A's in both classes currently. It's worth it! Plus the representatives are completely professional and very supportive. They are the most proactive college staff I have ever had the pleasure of dealing with. My financial aid representative got me squared away with all the financial aid stuff in almost no time at all! My admissions advisor calls me every week or two and see how things are going. I'm going to close out this post by giving you his contact info! If you are considering going back to school, check him out! You will be glad you made the decision to go back to school. Don't wait just because you are afraid you wont be able to afford it. They can help you with everything! Trust me! College loans are debt, yes, that is true, but they are not evil. If I have any debt that I'm paying off after I graduate, I want it to only be student loans. My goal is to pay off the rest of my debt minus student loans by the time I graduate.
But just think about it, even though I will have the debt to the student loans, suddenly I will have that associates degree and then the bachelors degree and will have career possibilities opened up! I'm looking forward to making lots of money, having great benefits and living the good life. Dont wait! Here's my enrollment advisor's info.
Robert Guy
Phone: 602-713-1139 or 800-545-6042
Extention: 7131139
Email: Robert.Guy@phoenix.edu
Give him a call! I have too many friends that are working regular jobs and are as tight on money as we are and hate it just as much! All I want for each and every one of them is to live the life that we are working towards. Why should we struggle to make ends meet? Call Robert and get started today!
It was really funny. Yesterday Erin went to get up to go and put the marinade together. I told her I really wanted to do it. She looked at me funny. I explained that the reason I wanted to get everything set up for this recipe is because I already don't do a whole lot when it comes to meal preperation for our family with Erin going to school to be a chef. I like to know that I have some things that I can do for us as a family. ;) I know that's probably rediculous, but hey, it's just how I was feeling. Well I got them in the marinade, and around 3 am *even though I was not really wanting to stay up that late, but ended up doing so because of working on school and watching movies with Erin*, I flipped the steaks over onto their other side in the marinade. Then around 5:15 this evening, I grilled them up. It didn't take long to cook them at all, but when I brought them in, I grabbed a few strips for myself before heading off to work. I gave Erin a bite and she went "oh my Gosh! There might not be any left for ya when you come home! ;)" I said "There better be! :P"
So in closing, school is going really well. This week we have our mid term exams, so I will be stressing less when those are successfully done and over with. Other than that, the classes themselves are going well, the financial aid is taken care of (and I'm just waiting on the funds to post to my student account), and I've got A's in both classes so far. Hopefully I still have A's after the mid term exams. My friend Melissa (one of my followers of this blog, same as I follow hers) mentioned today that she has been thinking about school. Like her, if any of you are thinking about going back to school, do it! Why must we settle for these regular paying jobs with lots of hours, and little or no benefits when we can get into a career through an associates or bachelors degree that pays well and gives you the benefits you deserve.
Erin is less than a year away from getting her bachelors degree online in Hospitality and Restaurant management. We are going to have to step up our debt pay off so that maybe she can see about getting a business loan so we can get the bakery started up officially for her. Otherwise there are numerous opportunities for someone with that type of bachelors.
Me? I'm attending with the University of Phoenix online. They recommended we all start first with an associates degree before going to a bachelors for a few reasons. 1) it takes about a year and a half or so, could be less, could be a month or two more, in order to get your associates degree. 2) once you get your associates degree in anything, within a week you can re-enroll in the bachelors program. The great part is that because you already graduated with your associates, you will then be considered alumni and you will get additional discounts in tuition and fees. So, I took them up on their advice and started with my associates. My degree plan is an Associates of Arts in Hospitality and Tourism. When I get that degree I plan on continueing to get my bachelors, but at that point I should have career possibilities openned to me just with my associates.
I'm about half way through my first term of classes. They have you go 2 classes at a time, that's a total of 6 credits, completed every 9 weeks. As soon as your round of classes end, for example if both my classes were done today, tomorrow at midnight would begin my next two classes. It's really not that hard as long as you are pro-active and keep up to date with all your posts and assignments. I'm working full time security and I have a family at home as well and yet I'm doing just fine. In fact I have A's in both classes currently. It's worth it! Plus the representatives are completely professional and very supportive. They are the most proactive college staff I have ever had the pleasure of dealing with. My financial aid representative got me squared away with all the financial aid stuff in almost no time at all! My admissions advisor calls me every week or two and see how things are going. I'm going to close out this post by giving you his contact info! If you are considering going back to school, check him out! You will be glad you made the decision to go back to school. Don't wait just because you are afraid you wont be able to afford it. They can help you with everything! Trust me! College loans are debt, yes, that is true, but they are not evil. If I have any debt that I'm paying off after I graduate, I want it to only be student loans. My goal is to pay off the rest of my debt minus student loans by the time I graduate.
But just think about it, even though I will have the debt to the student loans, suddenly I will have that associates degree and then the bachelors degree and will have career possibilities opened up! I'm looking forward to making lots of money, having great benefits and living the good life. Dont wait! Here's my enrollment advisor's info.
Robert Guy
Phone: 602-713-1139 or 800-545-6042
Extention: 7131139
Email: Robert.Guy@phoenix.edu
Give him a call! I have too many friends that are working regular jobs and are as tight on money as we are and hate it just as much! All I want for each and every one of them is to live the life that we are working towards. Why should we struggle to make ends meet? Call Robert and get started today!
Friday, July 9, 2010
Day 85
Good evening everyone. Last night while on duty, it was about 1:30 AM. I had just finished going over to south campus to check the doors, and had begun walking out to my truck. You could say I have an over active imagination because I stopped and imagined what I would feel if I happen to see a person (or vampire) hovering in the air a distance off, their cape or cloak or whatever flapping in the wind, and then quickly coming for me. It made my mind start racing. Yes I know a lot of things are said to be simply fairy tail. I cant help but think about how interesting it would be if we had those kinds of things, wherewolves, vampires, etc, existing with us but of course hidden to the point where we still would think they were only legend.
Today as I was walking around at the beginning of my shift, I was shielding my eyes from the sun and the thought that went through my head was "I'm definitely a night person. You don't get blinded by the moon. During the summer, it's nicer out after it gets dark. Yes it's much colder at night during the winter, but for right now I would prefer night because of the temperature being a little cooler than the day time summer heat. This morning when I got off work, I couldn't go to bed right away. Erin had to work early this morning, so she was taking Zoe. Lex's summer camp goes monday through friday from 9:15 to 4:30, and so instead of going to bed for 2 hours and getting up to get lex up, I watched sliders while I worked on my school work for the day.
Dropped her off, finished the episode of sliders I was watching, and then I went to bed myself. It was just after 10AM when I went to sleep. I texted Erin asking that if she could please try not to wake me up till around 4 because of having to stay up so late in the morning. Around 3:30 she woke me up saying that she wanted us to be able to spend time together. I was still tired, but I did get up and came downstairs to hang out. Last night Erin bought a Pork Shoulder so that we could make pulled pork. Basically you marinade it in something and bake it on lower heat (like 200 degrees or something), for 5 hours. Then when it's done you literally pull the meat away in strips and then use the fork to pull it apart in shreds.
Then mix it with some kind of sauce or whatever and you have pulled pork. It makes a very easy and very filling sandwich, and the best part of it was the price. It was a 7 lb piece of pork for only $14.00. That's not too shabby!
On a closing note, I was looking over the schedule for next week in class and both classes say "Midterm" as one of the assignments. My eyes got all big and I started to hyperventilate at first. Then I took a deep breath, told myself it will be ok, and calmed down. Today I got the email from Veteran Affairs. My student information and request for the GI bill to cover my school expenses has officially been submitted to them by my school. So, hopefully they won't take long to process but eventually I should start not only seeing payments from VA to my school, but I should be receiving monthly checks to help us with our living expenses. I can't wait! Heck, I can't wait to do 9 more rounds of classes after these 2 classes and get my associates degree! Focus Chris! Focus!
So on that note, I will call it a night. I will write more for you all soon.
CB
Today as I was walking around at the beginning of my shift, I was shielding my eyes from the sun and the thought that went through my head was "I'm definitely a night person. You don't get blinded by the moon. During the summer, it's nicer out after it gets dark. Yes it's much colder at night during the winter, but for right now I would prefer night because of the temperature being a little cooler than the day time summer heat. This morning when I got off work, I couldn't go to bed right away. Erin had to work early this morning, so she was taking Zoe. Lex's summer camp goes monday through friday from 9:15 to 4:30, and so instead of going to bed for 2 hours and getting up to get lex up, I watched sliders while I worked on my school work for the day.
Dropped her off, finished the episode of sliders I was watching, and then I went to bed myself. It was just after 10AM when I went to sleep. I texted Erin asking that if she could please try not to wake me up till around 4 because of having to stay up so late in the morning. Around 3:30 she woke me up saying that she wanted us to be able to spend time together. I was still tired, but I did get up and came downstairs to hang out. Last night Erin bought a Pork Shoulder so that we could make pulled pork. Basically you marinade it in something and bake it on lower heat (like 200 degrees or something), for 5 hours. Then when it's done you literally pull the meat away in strips and then use the fork to pull it apart in shreds.
Then mix it with some kind of sauce or whatever and you have pulled pork. It makes a very easy and very filling sandwich, and the best part of it was the price. It was a 7 lb piece of pork for only $14.00. That's not too shabby!
On a closing note, I was looking over the schedule for next week in class and both classes say "Midterm" as one of the assignments. My eyes got all big and I started to hyperventilate at first. Then I took a deep breath, told myself it will be ok, and calmed down. Today I got the email from Veteran Affairs. My student information and request for the GI bill to cover my school expenses has officially been submitted to them by my school. So, hopefully they won't take long to process but eventually I should start not only seeing payments from VA to my school, but I should be receiving monthly checks to help us with our living expenses. I can't wait! Heck, I can't wait to do 9 more rounds of classes after these 2 classes and get my associates degree! Focus Chris! Focus!
So on that note, I will call it a night. I will write more for you all soon.
CB
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Day 84
Good evening everyone. As of today I'm doing pretty good on school for the week. One of my classes I got today's posts and replies done by the time I got off work. The other class I posted the assignment but there hasn't been anyone else that posted so I can't respond yet. I will check later and hopefully a few of them will have posted the assignment. I was just looking at the upcoming weeks in class and next week or the week after I have a mid term in both classes. I saw that and went "Greeeeeeeeeeeeeat", but I guess it can't be too bad. Midterm exams are always higher in points, so it makes it worth a lot more and can hurt your grade a lot more if you don't do well. I tend to panick on tests too much and so when I see a bigger test coming up I usually start to freak out.
So today I woke up around 2:30, got up and came downstairs. Grabbed a bite to eat and then layed on the couch with Zoe while erin was on the recliner and Zoe was watching Dora. After a little while, I put on another episode of Sliders. I'm nearing the end of the 5th and final season. It's weird because 2 of the main characters randomly had an accident and disapeared. They met up with these 2 other characters that started sliding with them and they were supposedly helping them to try to get their friends back, but then suddenly you just stopped hearing about the friends. I'm thinking the reason they stopped the show after the 5th season is because the 2 characters that disapeared probably decided they didn't want to be a part of the show anymore.
So I guess in a way you have sliders off in former tv series heaven, just like Hercules Legendary Journies in tv series heaven. They're trying to cancel the seeker and a lot of people have made a big movement to try to get them to continue but I haven't heard if it will continue or be gone forever. It'll be a shame if it goes away, but that's the way things work I guess.
In closing, I was looking at my account online through University of Phoenix. I'm getting charged the $1,000 or whatever per class for tuition, and then I'm getting charged $70.00 per class for my books. Here's what's funny about that, the books are electronic so I don't actually have the books but I open them up on my computer with Adobe Acrobat Reader. $70.00 for something that is just on the computer? That's strange! But hey I guess colleges have to make money too! So on that note I will call it a night! I will write more for you all soon!
So today I woke up around 2:30, got up and came downstairs. Grabbed a bite to eat and then layed on the couch with Zoe while erin was on the recliner and Zoe was watching Dora. After a little while, I put on another episode of Sliders. I'm nearing the end of the 5th and final season. It's weird because 2 of the main characters randomly had an accident and disapeared. They met up with these 2 other characters that started sliding with them and they were supposedly helping them to try to get their friends back, but then suddenly you just stopped hearing about the friends. I'm thinking the reason they stopped the show after the 5th season is because the 2 characters that disapeared probably decided they didn't want to be a part of the show anymore.
So I guess in a way you have sliders off in former tv series heaven, just like Hercules Legendary Journies in tv series heaven. They're trying to cancel the seeker and a lot of people have made a big movement to try to get them to continue but I haven't heard if it will continue or be gone forever. It'll be a shame if it goes away, but that's the way things work I guess.
In closing, I was looking at my account online through University of Phoenix. I'm getting charged the $1,000 or whatever per class for tuition, and then I'm getting charged $70.00 per class for my books. Here's what's funny about that, the books are electronic so I don't actually have the books but I open them up on my computer with Adobe Acrobat Reader. $70.00 for something that is just on the computer? That's strange! But hey I guess colleges have to make money too! So on that note I will call it a night! I will write more for you all soon!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Day 83
Good evening everyone. I am already half way through week number 3 of both my first 2 classes. What's even better is I received my financial aid award letter today. Basically it looks like they managed to get me loans and grants enough to cover my first full year, and that is without even taking into consideration the fact that I will be receiving the GI bill. The GI bill will go directly to the school to pay for most of my tuition, and then my loans and grants will pay the rest and there will indeed be a surplus. I'm looking forward to being able to make random phone calls to creditors and say "How much can I pay you to settle this account and close it?"
As it is, it looks like with the pell grant and the loans, I got an award letter for roughly about $12,000 ish. It's a relief to know that it officially has been processed and that is how much money I've been awarded to pay for my school. If I can plan it right, maybe after just the first year I can pay off all the debt except for school loans, and then maybe I can cut back the amount of lending I would accept and only take what I need in order to finish my degree. I'm hoping that my GI bill will last all the way through my degree so that I can really cut back to bare minimum. I should be able to keep receiving the pell grant, so hopefully I would be able to not really get anymore loans. I guess I will have to wait and see how things turn out.
So, 3.5 weeks in, My Introduction to University Studies class I am sitting at a 100% in the class, and my Health and Nutrition I am sitting at a 96%. Not too shabby so far. I'm not letting up. I've already got my assignments done through tomorrow so I am good to go. Next thing I need to do is do the assignments that are due by 11:59 PM sunday evening. That way come the weekend, I will once again not have anything I need to worry about. That was pretty nice last weekend. The first weekend that followed the first week of class was hectic. I was trying to get into the groove and so when it came sunday, one of my assignments I turned in a minute before it was due. After that week I tried to save assignments as drafts so that I already had them done, then on the day they were due, I would post them and then respond to two class mates posts.
So, in closing, for a while I would have both good days and bad days health wise. One day my stomach would be fine, I could eat regular meals, drink my mountain dew during my shift, drink lots of water, etc, and other days my stomach would twist and turn regularly, sending me bolting for the bathroom. Erin's mom sent us these pills calls "Beta Plus" which are supposed to help with the digestion process. When we received them many many months back, I didn't think I needed them. At that time I wasn't having any problems. A few days ago I went ahead and started taking them before meals and instead of one good day and one bad day, I had about 4 or 5 good days in a row. I thought "ok, so apparently I do need to take these." Well then come today, suddenly even with taking the pills I have had to run to the bathroom about 4 times already.
The only difference is today the main thing I ate before we ate dinner around 7PM was I ate a very large bowl of oat meal. Could that have done it? I don't know. I guess we will see. Erin herself has not been doing the greatest either. She has had an itch in her throat lately and it results in such a powerful cough that today she threw up because of it. I wish I knew what I could do to help her. It's got me really scared because I don't know what's going on, and what we can do to help it. I got her mucinex and cough drops hoping that would help. I think they help a little bit but obviously she still coughs pretty bad at times.
Also, even though it was a rough day for her cough wise, today is Erin's birthday! Lex and I made her a star cake made from a strawberry supreme cake mix with strawberry frosting. Lex looked at me and said "4 candles?" when I only put 4 candles on the cake. I said "Yup, i'm not putting 32 candles on the cake. Sorry lex." Especially because they were trick candles, which are always fun. I told lex that just for her I will put 10 trick candles on her cake next time we celebrate her birthday. ;) So I think on that note, I will call this it for the night. I will write more for you all tomorrow.
Thanks for being here.
CB
As it is, it looks like with the pell grant and the loans, I got an award letter for roughly about $12,000 ish. It's a relief to know that it officially has been processed and that is how much money I've been awarded to pay for my school. If I can plan it right, maybe after just the first year I can pay off all the debt except for school loans, and then maybe I can cut back the amount of lending I would accept and only take what I need in order to finish my degree. I'm hoping that my GI bill will last all the way through my degree so that I can really cut back to bare minimum. I should be able to keep receiving the pell grant, so hopefully I would be able to not really get anymore loans. I guess I will have to wait and see how things turn out.
So, 3.5 weeks in, My Introduction to University Studies class I am sitting at a 100% in the class, and my Health and Nutrition I am sitting at a 96%. Not too shabby so far. I'm not letting up. I've already got my assignments done through tomorrow so I am good to go. Next thing I need to do is do the assignments that are due by 11:59 PM sunday evening. That way come the weekend, I will once again not have anything I need to worry about. That was pretty nice last weekend. The first weekend that followed the first week of class was hectic. I was trying to get into the groove and so when it came sunday, one of my assignments I turned in a minute before it was due. After that week I tried to save assignments as drafts so that I already had them done, then on the day they were due, I would post them and then respond to two class mates posts.
So, in closing, for a while I would have both good days and bad days health wise. One day my stomach would be fine, I could eat regular meals, drink my mountain dew during my shift, drink lots of water, etc, and other days my stomach would twist and turn regularly, sending me bolting for the bathroom. Erin's mom sent us these pills calls "Beta Plus" which are supposed to help with the digestion process. When we received them many many months back, I didn't think I needed them. At that time I wasn't having any problems. A few days ago I went ahead and started taking them before meals and instead of one good day and one bad day, I had about 4 or 5 good days in a row. I thought "ok, so apparently I do need to take these." Well then come today, suddenly even with taking the pills I have had to run to the bathroom about 4 times already.
The only difference is today the main thing I ate before we ate dinner around 7PM was I ate a very large bowl of oat meal. Could that have done it? I don't know. I guess we will see. Erin herself has not been doing the greatest either. She has had an itch in her throat lately and it results in such a powerful cough that today she threw up because of it. I wish I knew what I could do to help her. It's got me really scared because I don't know what's going on, and what we can do to help it. I got her mucinex and cough drops hoping that would help. I think they help a little bit but obviously she still coughs pretty bad at times.
Also, even though it was a rough day for her cough wise, today is Erin's birthday! Lex and I made her a star cake made from a strawberry supreme cake mix with strawberry frosting. Lex looked at me and said "4 candles?" when I only put 4 candles on the cake. I said "Yup, i'm not putting 32 candles on the cake. Sorry lex." Especially because they were trick candles, which are always fun. I told lex that just for her I will put 10 trick candles on her cake next time we celebrate her birthday. ;) So I think on that note, I will call this it for the night. I will write more for you all tomorrow.
Thanks for being here.
CB
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Day 82
Hello everyone. I'm really enjoying having one half day during the week. It feels like when I come to work on saturday, that the day flies by. Well today I officially got my oil and oil filter changed on my truck. FINALLY! Also Erin woke me up saying that I had received a check from the community college in the mail in the form of a refund of some kind. It was like $240. She was like "I wish I would get checks in the mail like you've been lately!" I was like "Well that's why I wanted to go back to school because not only will I get a degree and a better job, but stuff like this happens!"
We went to hyvee and cashed it, and I withdrew cash out of our main account that I have through securitas, and we payed $300.00 towards our electric bill. The bill has gotten quickly back up to $700.00 apparently, and the local organization that has helped us with bills in the past has a program that if you bring your tax information, and have made a recent payment to your utility bill, they will match it up to $500.00. So the reason why I recommended this to Erin was we could pay $300.00 and still have funds left (that's after all bills have been paid), and monday I want to go and see if we can get the organization to match our payment. That'll mean that the electric company will have gotten $600.00 towards the $700.00 balance. That'll put us almost to current. Plus, our insurance temporarily on our vehicles temporarily had cut out because there was a 3 week period where things were tight and i accidentally let it slip. When I went online with them thinking "Crap, I'm going to have to re-enroll and do a new policy, new cards, etc", I found out that I was able to re-instate our policy and when I did it said that it registered us as not having any gaps in coverage, and basically we resumed our coverage as if nothing happened.
So when I got off at midnight, Erin was upstairs laying down already. She has been having a bad cough, and so she hasn't been feeling too well lately. It's been rough in a way, but I'm dealing. I could have gone to bed at midnight. Lord knows I was yawning my butt off when I was sitting in the parking lot during my last two hours doing a patrol while reading off and on, but when I got home, Erin kept saying how she needed some cough drops. I looked but didn't find any. Instead of buying the name brand of mucines she bought an off brand and apparently it didn't do crap. I've done that before where I bought an off brand because of the price and it really didn't help my cough or cold at all.
So I changed back out of my sleep pants into shorts, grabbed my wallet and went to hyvee and got her a bottle of mucinex and 2 bags of halls cough drops. Being stressed out about little personal things, I of course was thinking "I need something to snack on." Instead I settled for bottle of V8 Splash. Then when I got back home, a really good sone came on the radio in the truck and I sat there for a few minutes singing my heart out to that song. Then I gave Erin her stuff I got for her. I don't know if she took any of them because she woke up long enough for me to tell her, and then when I left the room to go downstairs to watch sliders and chill out, she rolled back over onto her pillow.
I came downstairs, nuked up some left over dominos pizza, turned on sliders, and logged online to my classes. One of them even though it's still the 2nd to last day of class for the week, I already have grades for the week because I got all the posts, participation and assignments done for the week. The other class I don't have grades for the week yet but I'm done there for the week as well. Tomorrow if they post the upcoming assignments and posts for next week I will try to see what I can do to get a good start on it. I'm liking being a day ahead because then when it got to friday, I really didn't have shit to do! So, 7 more weeks and my first 2 classes towards my associates degree in Hospitality and Tourism will be done! WOOHOO!
In closing, things are going pretty well. Some times it takes extra patience and juts having faith that everything will be ok. I know things will turn out to be great and we just have to wait and see, but it's hard being patient. So, on that note, I will call it a night. Thanks for reading everybody and I will write more for you all tomorrow.
We went to hyvee and cashed it, and I withdrew cash out of our main account that I have through securitas, and we payed $300.00 towards our electric bill. The bill has gotten quickly back up to $700.00 apparently, and the local organization that has helped us with bills in the past has a program that if you bring your tax information, and have made a recent payment to your utility bill, they will match it up to $500.00. So the reason why I recommended this to Erin was we could pay $300.00 and still have funds left (that's after all bills have been paid), and monday I want to go and see if we can get the organization to match our payment. That'll mean that the electric company will have gotten $600.00 towards the $700.00 balance. That'll put us almost to current. Plus, our insurance temporarily on our vehicles temporarily had cut out because there was a 3 week period where things were tight and i accidentally let it slip. When I went online with them thinking "Crap, I'm going to have to re-enroll and do a new policy, new cards, etc", I found out that I was able to re-instate our policy and when I did it said that it registered us as not having any gaps in coverage, and basically we resumed our coverage as if nothing happened.
So when I got off at midnight, Erin was upstairs laying down already. She has been having a bad cough, and so she hasn't been feeling too well lately. It's been rough in a way, but I'm dealing. I could have gone to bed at midnight. Lord knows I was yawning my butt off when I was sitting in the parking lot during my last two hours doing a patrol while reading off and on, but when I got home, Erin kept saying how she needed some cough drops. I looked but didn't find any. Instead of buying the name brand of mucines she bought an off brand and apparently it didn't do crap. I've done that before where I bought an off brand because of the price and it really didn't help my cough or cold at all.
So I changed back out of my sleep pants into shorts, grabbed my wallet and went to hyvee and got her a bottle of mucinex and 2 bags of halls cough drops. Being stressed out about little personal things, I of course was thinking "I need something to snack on." Instead I settled for bottle of V8 Splash. Then when I got back home, a really good sone came on the radio in the truck and I sat there for a few minutes singing my heart out to that song. Then I gave Erin her stuff I got for her. I don't know if she took any of them because she woke up long enough for me to tell her, and then when I left the room to go downstairs to watch sliders and chill out, she rolled back over onto her pillow.
I came downstairs, nuked up some left over dominos pizza, turned on sliders, and logged online to my classes. One of them even though it's still the 2nd to last day of class for the week, I already have grades for the week because I got all the posts, participation and assignments done for the week. The other class I don't have grades for the week yet but I'm done there for the week as well. Tomorrow if they post the upcoming assignments and posts for next week I will try to see what I can do to get a good start on it. I'm liking being a day ahead because then when it got to friday, I really didn't have shit to do! So, 7 more weeks and my first 2 classes towards my associates degree in Hospitality and Tourism will be done! WOOHOO!
In closing, things are going pretty well. Some times it takes extra patience and juts having faith that everything will be ok. I know things will turn out to be great and we just have to wait and see, but it's hard being patient. So, on that note, I will call it a night. Thanks for reading everybody and I will write more for you all tomorrow.
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