I’m a College Kid

Yes, that is right.  Back to school!  You may have heard/read that I earned a full scholarship to the University of Phoenix (thanks to my mom-in-law)!  I am taking all classes online, and have it made to my second week of my second class.  The classes run one at a time for 5 weeks.  I found out from my mom-in-law that I can opt for a week break in between classes.  That doesn’t sound like a bad idea.

For my first class, which was a general introduction into UoP, college, learning teams, APA formatting, etc., we turned in a total of three “research” papers.  I’m currently taking Research 110, and am finding out that our research is going to consist of a whole lot more!  Anyway, I walked away from the first class with a good experience.  My team was great.  Believe it or not, I was considered a team leader.  I earned a 96.5 in the class as well as completing an APA workshop.

Breathe!  I have to keep reminding myself.  I seriously forget now adays.  There are about 1,000 things to think about and 1,000 more things to do.

We are moving in 8 days!!! The bunk beds are disassembled and Peter’s room is piling up with boxes.  Our house is in that sense of chaos that I just love (ahem).  We are in the “oh, that’s where that has been” stage of moving.

A coworker/team-mate was let go at work and I took over most of his responsibilities.  I really enjoy the new aspects of the job, such as project management and process development.  We are still in the transition phase and trying to turn the ship around.  I work very closely with the program developer, but also have a lot of interaction with the president and other business heads.  In addition, I’m creating a series of training videos for our program and traveling out to the West Virginia office once a week to have more fae-to-face interaction with the team out there.  (Oh, by the way, I really like using the word “team” when it comes to people I work with.)

We finally bought a second car! It is a ‘95 Toyota Camry with 162k miles.  Our friends sold it to us for 1k.  It runs great.  And we are still DEBT FREE!

Expenses have seemed like they’ve been through the roof lately, but that is just with all the transition happening.  Hospital bills, security deposits, car, etc.  We are down to 7,300 in our savings currently (from its high point of 11k).  I think we are very close to being able to throw money back in there.

By the way, our desktop computer pooped out on us.  We are trying to revive it with some memory.  A friend is coming to work some magic on it.  Thankfully we have the laptop (once again – a blessing for the in-laws).

We are praying things will start to normalize… kinda sorta… once we are done with the move.  We’ll need to start planning the vacation to Colorado this summer.  It’s going to be great to get back there after 10 years.

Ok, so I could probably continue, but I’m afraid I’ve already lost you.  Sorry for the rambling, but I’m trying to fit a bunch in knowing that it is not likely that I’ll be blogging very frequently.  Hopefully it will not go out of style before I can actually get back into the groove.