Some Disappointing News, but I Understand

I was supposed to start school June 28th, but because some of my financial aid has been used for Ashford, for my first term there, I am in a overlapping loan period, basically that means that if I went back to school now, I would not have enough to cover my first term and I would have to pay out of pocket. Since I can not afford that, I have to wait now until September when the new loan period starts. So, the first start date at school will be October 11th. So, that is when I will be returning to school.

I thought about this and it is not so bad. I have a nice chunk of time to relax and get some stuff taken care of. I am not worried about what will happen with school, so I can really enjoy my time off now. I am still enrolled in school, so my loans will not lapse into collections either. It is just one of those things. Now, I am not in a time crunch with the tax return either. So, maybe this is a blessing in disguise. 

Wow, Wednesday Already

For some reason this week is really just flying past me! Hopefully only 6 more days until I am back in class. I can not explain how much I am really looking forward to that! I am so excited and ready to go! Even if my first two classes are ‘beginners’ classes. In these classes, they are get acquainted with the interface and how things work classes. Basically I look at these classes as free A classes. That way I can prop up my GPA before the hard classes begin.

I am tired still. I did sleep well and I will probably take a nap later. Tonight is a night I am making dinner. We are having cheeseburgers and the green beans I have to use before they go bad. Not really sure what else we will have with this yet. I am enjoying the peace and quiet that I have right now. It is nice. Well, I am going to go. Ciao!

An Update for the Earlier Post

I was up all night last night because I had slept like 15 hours yesterday. Now I am all tired and ready to go to freakin’ sleep now. As for the tax thing, I feel like a total idiot for not thinking about sending that to the desk top. I know I had it printed and I can not find that right now. With moving last September and packing, it honestly could be anywhere. Ugh.

So, now I am stuck  waiting for the IRS to help me. Joy. I got my book for blogging for books today and I will start reading it tomorrow. I have yet to hear if the tax thing will delay my start date or not now. Which is in like 7 days. I hope not. But you never can tell with these things really.

I might look later or tomorrow in a file container I have, maybe it might be in there. I am hoping so. It looks to be getting ready to storm here now. I have some fresh green beans that were bought on Sunday, so I have to use them tomorrow. I am making my garlic-butter bacon green beans for dinner tomorrow. I am looking forward to those though. I love them.

Just thinking about them is making my mouth water. Yum! Well, gonna run. Ciao!

A Day Full of Surprises

Most of  you know that I recently got a Microsoft Zune Mp3 player and I am still in love with the thing. I know it sounds strange for me to say that, but it is really cool and I love the touch screen. It is 32 GB and I could  honestly fill it maybe 3 or 4 times with music that I love. Yeah, I love a lot of music.

Speaking of my Zune, I lost the USB cable that came with it, but it is okay because it has wireless sync and that is a good thing! I found a replacement cord on Amazon for about $10. Most of the others were at least $20. So, I know I got a good deal on it.

It seems as though I was selected for verification for school. This is a process that the Department of Education springs on about every 3 students, randomly of course. It is not difficult, you have to fill out a verification worksheet and send in a signed copy of your tax return. No big deal. Unless you are me. Sigh. Yeah, they want a copy of my 2009 tax return and it was on my lap top, but because I had reset the factory defaults because it was locked solid, I lost it.

I did not think that was a big deal because I use Turbo Tax every year anyway. Well, because I use the Federal Free version, they don’t keep PDF files of my previous year’s tax returns on their servers. So, I had to request a copy from the IRS, which could take about 5-10 days they say. Normally, this would not be an issue, but I am due to start school in 8 days because remember I moved my start date up because of financial aid reasons. Sigh. I have sent my financial aid person an email explaining all of this. Hopefully they can do something about it. Well, I am leaving you with one of my favorite Jason Aldean videos

Changes In the Air… Again

So, my admissions advisor at my Plan B school talked me into starting school on June 28th instead of July 5th. Mainly for financial aid reasons and it all made sense to me when it was explained to me, so I agreed to start earlier than I had planned.

Today is 4 weeks since my appeal started and I still have not heard anything at all. So it seems that I got my answer. Plan B turned into Plan A and I am alright with that actually. I like the Plan B school a lot and the people I have dealt with so far have been great.

I am not  exactly sure of the instructors, but I do know that my Plan B school requires their teachers to go through training in distance learning and online teaching. Which is kind of cool. When I have attended other schools in the past, I would get people who were not so qualified to teach the classes they were teaching. Ugh. That was a total nightmare!

So only 8 more days until my new chapter starts and I am glad it is happening sooner than I had planned. As much as I liked Ashford there were a lot of things I did not like about that school. Now, I am at a school I like and we will see what happens. Ciao!

Some Stuff Goin’ On

Before I get into this entry, I want to wish all the dads out there a happy father’s day!! Hope it is a great day for you all!

A year ago today, Doug’s dad died. If you have followed my blog or are friends with me on Facebook, you might remember last year at this time we had no power as well. It was a horrible weekend all the way around. You can find those entries here, here,and here. Of course if you read them in order there are more entries after about the aftermath of all of that.

It has been a rough year in some ways for us. Although it has been kind of good in others too. I still miss his dad terribly on some days and I think about him often. Doug is spending time with  his sister today and I am at home just chilling out.(although there is a story behind that too, but since there are lurkers I can not put it here)

Sometimes it feels like a life time ago that his dad died. Other times it feels like only a few days. Today is difficult for me because his dad and I got to be close and I miss him. So, I am going to go now. RIP David, we miss you.

Saturday. Oh Saturday

I am thinking about what I will make for dinner later today. Maybe fried chicken or chicken fried steak. It depends on how I feel later. I love to cook, so these days are fun for me. I am hoping that I get some sleep later or guess what? I won’t be making anything! LOL

I am so relived now that I have this school thing taken care of. It had been bothering me for a while and I was worried. But since I will be going to my Plan B school, I am not worried anymore and I am feeling a lot better now.

I spent a lot of time talking to an old friend. Someone from high school and someone who knows me well. It was nice to catch up and find out what has been happening in this person’s life lately. I had some wonderful laughs and some really great memories. It was nice to chat and I am hoping that we can do it again soon!

Right now, I am so tired so I am thinking I might nap a bit before Doug comes home. I am tired and starting to get a headache a little. Last night we went to Del Taco for dinner. I love Del Taco it is so much better than Taco Bell in my opinion. I had a pretty good chicken burrito.

Well, I think I am ready for a nap, so I am outta here. Ciao!!!