Continued from the last blog

I ended that last one pretty abruptly but I tend to get long winded in these things, so I started another.
School for me is going well. I stay pretty overwhelmed most of the time but I am trucking along with it. Today I actually received my first "non A" grade on anything. I was pretty bummed but I should have studied more and one of those days we covered for this test, was the day I was home sick with Chance and I had thought I had gotten the notes I missed, but apparently I missed some after all. I still made a B, but I can't help but be disappointed in myself just a little bit since this is really the easiest class I have. Then again, it seems like in the classes where there's no real challenge-I do the worst in. Like when I went to GTCC, my psych teacher taught pretty much just like my sociology teacher now. Lectures and from the book. I got so bored with that psych class and I never showed up on Fridays...ended up dropping after my wreck since I was too far gone at that point to make up the days. Our Soc. teacher gives us a study guide, has questions from 3 chapters on it and then questions from his lectures. What's on the study guide, ends up being on the test. Sounds easy enough right? It should be, but the average grade on both tests we've taken has been in the 70's.
Anyways, enough of that crap. All of my classes are going really well overall. My average in math right now is 100.271 or something like that. History, I guess an A of some sort since I've made all A's on my exams and quizzes....all twenty seven of them. It seems like that many anyway since I feel like I am always studying for a test or quiz in there. English, not sure of my grade but I guess an A. When we did conferences for our project, she said her class should be the least of my school worries and I didn't even have any revisions to make on my paper. Whew!

I wish I had more exciting stuff to talk about, but I really don't. Finally after eight months of being here, I have made a few friends. Tomorrow we're headed out in town to do some shopping and take John out for a later Veteran's Day dinner and meeting up with a friend and her husband who just got back.

Ooooh, yeah I know! It SNOWED here the other week! In October! I wouldn't have minded so much if we had our heat turned on but the guy had said the end of October or beginning of November was a good time to have it turned on. So the Tuesday Chance was out of school for being sick, John called and they said they wouldn't be able to make it out until that friday. Soooo yeah go figure it would freakin SNOW in that time period. The mountains looked so beautiful. It happened that Wednesday because I remember being super duper beyond pissed off b/c Chance's school wouldn't allow him back without a doctors note. He ran a fever for two days (a low one) and the 3rd day he was fine but he had to be fever free for 24 hours so we had to keep him out on Wednesday too. Which is fine. But the doctors note thing was a pain in the ass. I couldn't get him an appointment on post b/c well, it was on post and they suck ass like Winn Army apparently. Finally after an hour on hold (literally an hour. Not even exaggerating here) I was able to talk to the tele-nurse. I explained to her the problem and that I did not want to drag my perfectly fine child out in the freezing cold/rain/sleet to the ER where he'd probably end up catching swine flu or some crap and be there all night so she was nice enough to refer him out to an Urgent Care on the west side and said it had a good reputation of being pretty quick. John took him and sure enough, they were back in about two hours. I had to resit the urge of writing a little note of my own, let me tell you. But the next morning, got up (freezing my arse off since there was no heat) and the mountains were WHITE. I'm still note sure how we managed to make it that entire week with no heat. We have this tiny $10 or $15 space heater I got from Walmart when we moved in here b/c I was TOLD by the property manager that they had already switched the heat to air (they hadn't) but some mornings it was pretty chilly, so I would use this tiny space heater when Chance and I came downstairs in the morning. So that was all we had that entire week. It helped. I mean heck, it was better than nothing. We had Chance sleep in our bedroom and I would turn the little heater on as high as it would go, close the bedroom door and let it do its thing for a good half hour. The bedroom would be warm enough that I could turn the heater off (I'm too paranoid to leave it on) and fall asleep before it got cold again. Getting out of bed in the morning sucked but eh....Go figure we have heat now and I think since it's been turned on, we've NEEDED to use it once or twice? Our electricity bill this month was only $54!

Alright I'm irritated at the moment. Not even going to go into it. But I am going to finish up this laundry and go to bed. Long day ahead.