Well, to me anyway. From Brent's short stint as master home videographer. He really needs to take that up again.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Cars and Chemistry and Dishpan Hands
I have now left the land of denial and am staring into the laughing face of reality. When I went in to talk to the academic advisor last summer I was all, "Yay me! I have 50 credits! How cool am I!" Even though as I said this to myself I was looking at the yellow paper with all the classes I need to take but a part of my brain wouldn't let what I was looking at fully register. Although it's true, I had 50 credits, they would only work with five classes. Yes, five classes. So I basically had one semester under my belt. No wonder it's going to take me four years or so to get through school (guess I should stop taking one or two classes per semester, huh?) So now that I've accepted the world of reality, what to do? Well reality isn't so bad I guess. I've registered for three classes in the fall and one in the summer. I'm not so sure about the summer class. Chemistry. It's online and for non science majors so that sounds a little less threatening. I also feel like I have something to prove after that debacle in high school, junior year. Did I ever show you my chemistry lab scar that is on my left hand? It looks like those paper doll cutouts where they're all holding hands. It's kind of cool actually. But the biggest thing is I'm wondering if I should take it, it is only one class after all. Or should I free up all my time to hang with my kids and get all OCD about organizing my house? I could probably do all of those, or at least hang with the kids and clean the house, along with the one class. Who knows. I've got a week to decide.
Anyway so spring semester is done. I really liked that art class. Fun times. Now onto domestic things. Our dishwasher broke about a year and a half ago. Well, halfway broke really. The heating element broke and we've been using it with the hot water from the furnace but that isn't working so well any more so I've taken up washing dishes by hand. Let me tell you, my sink has never been so clean on account of I'm a slight germaphobe and all. But I'm starting to get the dishpan hands, especially since I feel the need to put bleach in the water along with the soap. So what to do? Do you save up for three new appliances? Because they are all at varying levels of falling apart. Or do you just go out and get the new dishwasher and live with mismatched appliances for the next year or two or so? Because we have white appliances right now and I don't see the point in buying new appliances if they aren't going to be stainless steel and look pretty.
Either way the dishpan hands are here to stay for a while. It'll probably be a couple of months since we were in the position of realizing last week that our Subaru Forester wasn't worth the money it would take to fix it so we decided to go for the new car for Brent to get to work and back. If you have to buy a new car it is a good one though. A 2009 Toyota Yaris. 38 mpg freeway, baby! Ironically, it's white. Maybe we should have gone with a stainless steel car. We've named him Junior, because he looks like our Mazda MPV's small child, sitting next to it in the garage.
Anyway so spring semester is done. I really liked that art class. Fun times. Now onto domestic things. Our dishwasher broke about a year and a half ago. Well, halfway broke really. The heating element broke and we've been using it with the hot water from the furnace but that isn't working so well any more so I've taken up washing dishes by hand. Let me tell you, my sink has never been so clean on account of I'm a slight germaphobe and all. But I'm starting to get the dishpan hands, especially since I feel the need to put bleach in the water along with the soap. So what to do? Do you save up for three new appliances? Because they are all at varying levels of falling apart. Or do you just go out and get the new dishwasher and live with mismatched appliances for the next year or two or so? Because we have white appliances right now and I don't see the point in buying new appliances if they aren't going to be stainless steel and look pretty.
Either way the dishpan hands are here to stay for a while. It'll probably be a couple of months since we were in the position of realizing last week that our Subaru Forester wasn't worth the money it would take to fix it so we decided to go for the new car for Brent to get to work and back. If you have to buy a new car it is a good one though. A 2009 Toyota Yaris. 38 mpg freeway, baby! Ironically, it's white. Maybe we should have gone with a stainless steel car. We've named him Junior, because he looks like our Mazda MPV's small child, sitting next to it in the garage.
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