So it begins with a bang!

Well, more like a collapse....Michael and I are living at my parents' house again, waiting to get our break and be able to fix my car and get our moneys in order. The collapse part comes in quite literally, since the fold out sofa-bed we were sleeping on for the past month or so collapsed on us last night. Yay for 17-year-old flimsy hollow beams and fat people mixed together!
I like to think that it would have happened to anyone given they had sat on the right weak point, but my fat ass puts up quite a convincing arguement....At least it's still able to fold back up inconspicuously.

Michael and I started our classes at HCC on Monday. I have to take the Math CPT before I can sign up for any math related courses so it's purely humanities this semester =o Yay!

My schedule is looking something like this so far:

Mondays/Wednesdays
9:30-10:50 am Art Appreciation (dropped it)
11:00-1:50 pm American Literature 18oo's to Modern (teacher is pretty cool and out there)
Lunch/naptime!
5:30-6:50 pm Public Speaking (it's a requirement, not a choice lol)

Tuesdays/Thursdays
11:00-1:05 pm Drawing 1 (it's pretty intensive, 4 sketchbook drawings a week plus other projects every class day, etc)
2:00-8:00 pm Workz0rz

Fridays
Work or Play

Saturdays
Homework or Play

Sundays
11:45-6:00 pm Work


I think it will work out pretty good, but it wipes me out for whatever reason and I've been going to bed 10:30/11-ish and it makes me feel like an old lady...I guess its better than staying up too late and not having a chance at all of making it to class on time. And all my classes are pretty strict about taking attendance and everything, unlike at USF where you could fall through the cracks and disappear easily.

I must say though, USF is definately worth the extra money and such than HCC, because everyone working at HCC administration seems to be utterly incompetent and work slower than an 80 year old. My financial aid probably won't go through until 2 months from now so now I'm stuck trying to figure out how I'm going to shell out $400 for my textbooks (thank goodness that for now they have a copy of almost all of them that I can borrow to read in the school library). Michael's will probably be in a bit sooner, but we have no idea when, so he's in the same boat with the books too. Not to mention that somethings wrong when you have a two mile long line of students waiting to go up to the one out of 6 potential windows that's actually open. And then a 5 year old can type faster than they can. *sigh* Thus all that money we are expecting to get in is taking its sweet time in coming.
I'm excited to see what my tax return might look like now that I have a big expemption thanks to Michael....that will hopefully help out, if the W-2's get here soon.

In other news, reading Yany's blog about cooking reminded me that I've come to like baking things to take to the holiday dinners and special events, and just to make yummy things. For Thanksgiving I made a Brandy Pumpkin Pie, which my Dad said I could take over his position and pumpkin pie baker from now on. For the Christmas get together I made a bunch of cut-out sugar cookies and even glazed and decorated them with royal icing (which turns out is super crazy sweet). Thinking on it now, I wish I had taken some pictures of them! I also made some Zucchini Bread, inspired from having some Jessica had made some time ago. It's like Banana Bread, sans the Banana.

Yany, if you spruce up your cooking skills more maybe we could open up a restaurant! Lol. If nothing else, make me some Gnocchi to try~!!!