School Starts Again

Once again I have started another semester at college. I have gotten into three of the four classes I was going to take, so now I need to find an online class of some kind to fill in the needed units.

The weather was a bit of a worry, but so far this morning it was clear enough for us to get over, tonight on the other hand...wish us luck. I am carpooling with my friend, Meghan, my sister, Nancy, her boyfriend, Jori, and his friend, Nick. Nick has a class that keeps us at the college until 9:30 at night. Nancy has a class that requires us to get to the college before 8:00 a.m. We have an hour drive home. I am too nice. Lucky for me we only have to do this two days of the week.

I have been sick this past week, yucky sniffling, coughing, wheezing, thing. Throw in some dizziness and nausea, and you have a wonderful night before school starts. I finally felt well enough to fall asleep around 1:00 in the morning, Jacquie woke up at 4:20 and started walking around and talking loudly to whom ever was putting wood in the stove, and my alarm went off at 5:45.

At least I got into the two classes I was worried about. I had been wait listed for them and just made the class. Hopefully I will do well in my Japanese class that I am taking. Kristie sent me some books, but they have been lost in the immenseness that is the bookshelf.

So, once again, hopefully we will have good weather this evening, have a nice fast food dinner, make it over the hill and on to home, and sleep in tomorrow morning.

Avatar

I went to see Avatar today, and it was earth shaking, literally. In the middle of the movie, our seats started shaking and everyone was looking around. My friend thought it was the surround sound, but that would be more of a vibration. Not a back and forth, side to side motion. The earthquake was a 6.5 off the coast. When I got home I asked my mom if it was an earthquake, and it was. Avatar rocks this world. ^_^

SNOW!!!!!!!

We have snow!!!! It is 9:00 in the morning and I am at my friend's house, and there is about 2 inches of snow on the ground, the roads have not been plowed and there is about 3 inches at my house. Sorry mu fingers are a little weird in the morning.

COLD!!!

For the past week, it has been 12 degrees!!!!! At night, 14 when we wake up and today we have gotten a high of 33 degrees. A pipe in our kitchen froze last night, so nothing was going down the drain, and it was going all over the kitchen floor. But it defrosted by this afternoon.

Transiberian Orchestra Concert

I went to see the Transiberian Orchestra at the Arco Arena In Sacramento. It, was, AWESOME!!!!! The singers, the music, the hot guitar player.... They had pyrotechnics with flames shooting into the air and fire works! We had floor seats so we were really close, I was six seats away from the isle where the band members would go running by randomly. I had lots of fun and the band had lots of fun too. Oh and there was a snow machine so our section of the audience got snowed on. A kid in the front got a guitar signed by the whole band. It was cool.

Grandpa is staying with us right now...might kick Nancy out of her room, which means she will stay in the room will both me and Jacquie...which give us a great excuse to clean out the basement, seal up the floor and move down there.

I did a little experiment the other day, I got a gummy worm and put it in a bowl of cold water too see what would happen. A few hours later I got the results and it was cool.

JOB!!! *happy dance*

I have a job, through RUSH up here, at the road department. I wake up at 5:15 a.m. to be there before 6:30, and I get off at 5:00 p.m. Flagging, mowing along the road, and maintaining the trucks and equipment is what I have helped on. I have done some flagging in the heat, and in the chilly morning. I have helped change oil and filters, grease the joints, check the brakes...start the big dump truck. ^_^

Today unfortunately, my coveralls sleeve got snagged by the oil spigot and I ended up pumping oil down the sleeve, which I didn't notice until it spilled down my side. So my pants and shirts got covered in oil. I had to go home and change, wipe off so the oil didn't burn me, and get the cloths into the tub with dish soap, to try to get the oil out before it could ruin my cloths.

I also started learning how to drive a stick shift today. They had me practicing in one of their Ford F-350 diesel trucks...one without a plow on the front. ... AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I kinda don't like a stick shift. I did okay, but I just don't like it, maybe because the clutch was so hard to push in, I actually got it down pretty good, but I really don't like it when there are people behind me or around me. I want to be more used to driving a stick before trying around in town. I only was driving for 20-25 minutes.

But all that aside, I really like my job. Really.

Pics and stuff

Well, this is what happened to the basement over the weekend... thursday...lastweek sometime. And my car -_-