School update: Part II.

We had our first Algebra test almost two weeks ago, and I got an eighty-one on that. Our first Spanish test was last one, and I'm 99% confident that I aced it. Our first Business Math test is tomorrow night, and I'm feeling mildly confident about that one. I'm gonna do a little studying tonight, and maybe some tomorrow at work to make sure I understand the latest stuff she taught us.

Our next Algebra test is Thursday night, and I'm feeling pretty good about the material so far. We just started on Chapter Three tonight, and I'm keeping up.

I wish I could say the same for my online classes, though. Ugh. It's hard to keep up when you work full time, go to school four nights of the week, etc. I like cooking for Rich, so I try to do that as often as possible. And before he moved in, I wasn't too concerned with how my place looked, 'cause I was never here. But now that we're living together, I don't wanna be such a slob, but it's a struggle. The laundry seems endless (I don't know how, there's only two of us), and there's always dishes in the sink. Rich helps out here and there, but it's still...daunting. With all that, I tend to put my online classes on the back burner. My workload has increased at work, so I don't really have time then to get anything done.

Oh, well. I just need to get adjusted, is all.

Vanity plates: Update I.

They're hugely popular in my area. I have no idea why. But I see them EVERYWHERE, and I don't think I've ever seen so many in one place until I came to this area. Some of them I've seen so often that I don't even need to see the plates to know what they say. Sometimes I see as many as five cars in a row with vanity plates, or ten in one small area of a parking lot!! It's madness!!

I've decided to keep a list of all the different vanity plates I see. No makes or models, just plates. Feel free to send me random ones that you may spot. This post will be updated often.

Repeat offenders...er, sightings, are denoted by an asterisk. Updates are italicized.

COMREY 4*
ONLYU 94*
WEEONE*
BNELLY1
TRBOBXR*
4BLKBTY*
ID LOOK 2* (Actually, this is a buddy of Rich's.)
QUAHOG*
TAXI 2 4*
AMC AF 1*
GKBEM 4
EVGMAY 1
KES 1987
CRITLE 2
NIK 88
EAT PORK*
RTZ GRL 1
JADE 63
THRD I C
EMJS 61
GUDTMS 4
MCKID 58*
ANGSAM 5
GJB 8
JROCK 19
RABIES 9*
SYSTEK*
EL CID 85*
RJK JMK 1*
4 PI LTD
FUN SUN 6
STELRZ 4*
MEGIE 86*
MKJK83
MS SET JR*
JLSMAS 5
SOTNYK 4*
MIKA 33
DPH 880
RLB 2002
MARCHO 1 (sp??)
METS 17
BAN 13
RSVLT 2
ARNSNS 4
DEANO 4
REINEK 1
KMN TYM
RDG 813
ERICA 77
I SEE GOD
TAMATHA 1 (sp??)
SPORT WD
WRK TT 1
SANDIG 1*
STHLRD 3 (sp??)
RCCC 13
MR DADS 2
JR TR 1 MIGGS
CNULAF 2
CP VRD 1
ITZ KEL 2
2 QUAD
74 DUCK
TERRY 20
1 NWBRD
MIMI N PA
RICAT 2

*Note: Today's update would have been nearly twice as long. But many of these were spotted while I was driving or riding shotgun, and I just can't text that fast, and I'm not ballsy enough to try writing while driving.

Vanity plates.

They're hugely popular in my area. I have no idea why. But I see them EVERYWHERE, and I don't think I've ever seen so many in one place until I came to this area. Some of them I've seen so often that I don't even need to see the plates to know what they say. Sometimes I see as many as five cars in a row with vanity plates, or ten in one small area of a parking lot!! It's madness!!

I've decided to keep a list of all the different vanity plates I see. No makes or models, just plates. Feel free to send me random ones that you may spot. This post will be updated often.

Repeat offenders...er, sightings, are denoted by an asterisk.

COMREY 4
ONLYU 4
WEEONE*
BNELLY1
TRBOBXR*
4BLKBTY*
ID LOOK 2* (Actually, this is a buddy of Rich's.)
QUAHOG*
TAXI 2 4*
AMC AF 1*
GKBEM 4
EVGMAY 1
KES 1987
CRITLE 2
NIK 88
EAT PORK*
RTZ GRL 1
JADE 63
THRD I C
EMJS 61
GUDTMS 4
MCKID 58
ANGSAM 5
GJB 8
JROCK 19
RABIES 9*
SYSTEK*
EL CID 85
RJK MJK 1*

Quickies.

To infinity and beyond: A sparkling survival story.

Baby Millie Boyle answers phone call to help unconscious mother.

Oil prices slide on soft demand. So why am I back to paying $3.99?!

Palin: War with Russia may be needed. FYI, I don't like the cold. I mean, I REALLY don't like the cold. If it's not snowing, it doesn't need to be cold. Even if it's snowing, it doesn't need to be cold. So you can bet your ass that I am NOT jumping at the prospect of deploying to fucking RUSSIA.

Kanye West arrested after scuffle at airport. I don't like Kanye West. At all. So this headline brought a smile to my face.

WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE. I registered last month. I'm ready to "rock the vote".

McCain grilled on The View. This was so awesome. There are no words to describe the awesomeness.

This Week's Palin Primer From Alaska: Bristol and Levi, Earmarks, Troopergate, More. I feel really, really bad for Bristol Palin, if this is true. For both of them. They are going to miserable if this is what their relationship is really like.

Personal Finance For Crime Victims. Ugh.

After that, I feel the need to inject some cheesy humor into this post:

Why do melons have big weddings??

...

Because they cantaloupe!!

How did the frog cross the road??

...

He tied himself to a chicken!!

I got those off a Laffy Taffy wrapper. Srsly.

Confessions, Part VI.

Ignore what's been said, and focus on this:

You are the love of my life, hands down. You're it for me. There's no one else.

Confessions, Part V.

At times, I find you overbearing and intolerable.

I've become accustomed to having little or no happy thoughts.

Confessions, Part IV.

You infuriate me sometimes.

I want my happy thoughts back.

Five years in the military, September 11th, and FUN STUFF.

I meant to blog two days ago about my fifth anniversary of active military service, but it slipped my mind. I have 363 days of active service left. Less than a year.

OMG...THE FINAL STRETCH!!!! It's like the last lap of my mile-and-a-half run for my PT test (which six laps around the track)!! Hallelujah!!

I wanna blog about September 11th, which means I should blog about it today, but I don't feel like dragging up my memories of that day. Perhaps later today. Or even tomorrow. No...definitely later today. After class.

Some crazy links for your enlightenment:

Apparently, terrorist attacks are not the only things remembered on this day. There's a coup...oh, and important church stuff.

I wonder if the Community College of the Air Force would accept this class under electives...

Bible Quote of the Day!!

Please, Mrs Palin, continue to spout your half-truths. Do it for charity.

The tragic results of high oil prices.

Oh, noes. Poor P Diddy has to suffer the indignities of flying commercial, first class, instead of zipping around the world in his private jet. What is this world coming to??

Confessions, Part III.

No matter how upset I get with you, I can't stop loving you.

Is that good?? Is that bad??

"I can't quit you!!" A quote from Brokeback Mountain, I think. Not sure, so don't quote me on that. Ha ha, get it?? Quote?? Oh, stop.

Confessions, Part II.

I've never seen the movie My Best Friend's Wedding. I caught a few minutes of it last night, though. The scene at the karaoke bar really resonated with me. Not the part where Cameron Diaz sang horribly and was applauded. No, right before that. When Cameron was sitting there like a third wheel while her fiance, Dermot Mulroney, and his best friend, Julia Roberts, chatted it up, leaving her feeling excluded. On the outside. Her vain attempts to join in the conversation are ignored. And when Julia finally acknowledges her, she and Dermot give Cameron this look that plainly says, Oh, you're here?? We completely forgot about you.

So here's my confession:

I've been that third wheel. Ignored and forgotten.

School update: Part I.

The first night of Spanish was long and boring. I slept through about half-hour at some point, and throughout the entire four-hour long session, we only got one ten-minute break. We didn't have a session this past week, since the campus was closed for Labor Day. I've ordered my book for the class, but it has yet to make an appearance on my doorstep.

I'm able to keep up in Algebra so far. But I haven't bought the MathXL code yet to do homework (all online), because I'm broke from buying all my other school supplies. The campus bookstore sells the code, just the code, for forty fucking dollars. A classmate told us, though, that a university campus bookstore in the next county is selling it for fifteen dollars. Now if only I had the time - - and the gas - - to get over there and save a few bucks. Despite being genetically unable to grasp math most of the time, the class feels a slow. I feel as if I'm not being challenged enough. I'm sure it'll pick up soon, though, and then I'll be lost.

Business Math is proving to be a bit more complex. Being broke, I still haven't bought the calculator we're required to have. But I'm managing so far. I got my book today...but was furious to find that it was the teacher's edition. I was so upset, I had tears in my eyes. Nowhere in the online ad was it advertised as being a teacher's edition, and it doesn't even say it on the book. I only knew because next to every single problem, all the answers are highlighted in red. Believe it or not, I don't want the answers. Believe it or not, I want to figure the shit out myself. Ugh. But what am I gonna do?? So I just went ahead and did all my homework, attempting to cover the answers as I went along.

I'm planning on going to the campus bookstore on Monday during lunch to sell my Psychology and Speech books. They'll probably jip me, I have no doubt, but I should get enough to cover gas till pay day and get my the MathXL code that I need.

And thank God for my having a USAA bank account. My money from my paychecks is made available one whole business day before the official pay day everytime. So I'll have my money this coming Friday, instead of having to wait till the following Monday. Woot.

Confessions, Part I.

It's been over a week. I can't hold it in any longer.

My birthday sucked.

The end.