More index cards are a'comin

I got back test grades from last week and made A's on all 3 so I am infinitely less stressed out than I was at this time last week. Unless you count Friday's psychology test and next Wednesday's math test. Which I don't! :)

Yawn

We are both pretty tired this week. Daniel is not used to working so much so he's pretty worn out. I'm just ready for our trip to NYC to get here so I can have some fun!

Fall keeps pretending like it's coming but then sneaking away. I went to a dog show at the campus this morning with a friend and it was freezing but when I went back to campus to work out today around 5:00 it was burning up. I have bought some pumpkin and gingerbread candles and have been drinking hot chocolate in the mornings so obviously I'm ready for fall.

"One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound."-DENNIS PRAGER

My stack of index cards, somewhere along the lines of 300+, for my History, Theatre, and Advertising exams this week, and my Psych test next week. No math index cards because Daniel is essentially reading my math book and teaching me the lessons so I'll get them twice. College is hard!!!

P.S. Notice the old desk stained by Danny and Daniel and looking awesome!

"Dawn: When men of reason go to sleep."-AMBROSE BIERCE

Daniel has been working a lot so he is pretty tired. It also doesn't help that he goes to bed at the crack of dawn :) He got a second job at another pizza place so he is going to be a pizza making machine. He also put up a laundry line in our "backyard" so now we actually have clean clothes! (The dryer's heating element doesn't work.)

I ended up getting gas yesterday. I found some at the fifth gas station I went to for $4.19. It was pretty out of the way (I only knew it was there because I saw it when I was lost) so there weren't too many cars there. There was a big sign outside saying "Gas sold here!!!"

I have been studying my butt off for two exams I have this week, history and advertising. The advertising one should be really easy but the history professor is a nutcase so I'm trying to be really thorough. She seems like one of those people who will mention something once that seems totally insignificant then put five questions about it on a test. Hopefully I'll do okay.

What choo lookin at?!

"Nashville pumps dry after panic about rumor of no gas"

So people are pretty much going crazy around here this week. There has been a delay in getting gas to this part of the state and something like 90% of the stations are out of gas. Today I counted 15 gas stations, and 2 of them had gas, and each of those 2 had about 25 cars lined up outside of it. The way you know they are out of gas is because they take the numbers off the price signs. We are not supposed to get more gas until the middle of next week and people are panicking and buying up what is left. There is no gas shortage but people don't seem to understand that! I have been trying not to get gas so I don't feed into the panic but I'm worried that if I don't get any soon, there really won't be any left and I won't be able to get enough gas to get to Franklin for work on Monday. I have heard that people are waiting an hour in lines just to get gas. I am probably going to go sometime really late tonight to try to avoid the lines and get only as much as I need. So that is pretty much all that has been going on around here lately!

First exam

I got a 95 A on my first math exam! W00hoo!

You can't have your cake and eat it too

It's not the world's prettiest two-layer cake and it's sitting in a stovetop pan. But I made it, and it is delicious!

Note to self: Buy cake-serving platter when not poor anymore.

a five minute update

So I started my new job this week. So far it has been really good! It is a long drive to Franklin (about 45 minutes each way) but I really wasn't able to get a job here in Murfreesboro. The family is really nice. There are three girls, 14, 12, and 10, Mary, Emily, and Lydia. They are all really skinny because the family eats all organic and take a ton of vitamins. This week the mom, Kathy, is just hanging around and showing me the ropes. Mostly I will just be driving the girls home from school and to their activities and doing some light housework.

Daniel has been working a lot (as much as they will let him) and trying to fix our dryer. He has been pretty much fixing broken things since we got here but that's just the way apartments are I guess. I just asked him if he had any updates for the blog but he is too busy stuffing his face with chocolate cake :)

“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need."-VOLTAIRE

I got the nannying job! :) I start Monday. That really takes a load off my mind.