Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Twilight the Movie


So I was taking a little break from studying for my test today and there was a trailer for the movie. I clicked, I watched, I got chills and was flooded with memories of the books. I absolutely loved these books. I think I went through them faster than when I read Harry Potter. It reminds me of when I was in sixth grade and my English teacher told me that I had to choose an author other than L.M Montgomery by the time I was on the 4th book of the "Anne of Green Gables" series. I tend to find an author and stick with them and forget to branch out. The sad part...I have the entire series and still haven't finished it...dang Mr. Hunt! So for anyone who wants a fun read and some romance, I highly recommend Stephanie Meyer. Besides, it'll make your husbands jealous! Which is always fun!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Ahhh Success...almost

At least we are getting closer! Friday night we went out to speedworld to run the dragster. We have been fighting bugs like most cars do...fuel curves, timing, burning out starters....you get the hint. Up until Friday night we hadn't been so successful out at the track. Dave and his brother Paul spent a good portion of an afternoon "tweeking" thing and we think we finally know where to go from here! Yippee! We are pretty positive that once we figure out what the engine wants, we can get into the 7 second range. But for now Dave is having fun in the 8's. We were driving home from dropping the dragster off and Dave turns to me and said, "everything just seems to be going by so slow!" I can only image!







Those of us that weren't getting our hands grubby and greasy like our nephew Quinn who is always such a big help with the car....


Were enjoying some nice hot chili cheese nachos!

He Shoots, He Scores, Hey Goalie! You Suck!



On Thursday I got to experience my very first hockey game. Dave was able to get some free tickets from work. The seats were incredible.

It was a great game. I have decided that hockey fans are definitely a different breed. I felt bad that I wasn't wearing a jersey. It took about oh 5 seconds before the checking started and only 2 major brawls tried to get started. The second one was my favorite. If you look closely you can see the little kid sticking his tongue out at one of the Capitals players....brave kid!
After some close calls the Coyotes won!


and Dave was happy...as was I!




Wednesday, October 22, 2008

I'll Repent...

I got an email this afternoon from the GCC Nursing department. They entered my application into the system. There were eleven of us whose applications got entered...so now I can try to keep track and hope that I can get in sometime within a year!

2179

So last Wednesday I finally got my application in for nursing school! I was so excited and then very depressed. 2179 was where the wait list was at when I turned in my application. They just did placements for Spring '09 which dropped the wait list to a whopping 1793! Are you kidding me. Only 386 students made placement into block 1. I haven't gotten to the really depressing part. Even though I turned my application in...I won't get entered into the system until November 30th! And it gets a "random" date/time stamp...I guess as long as someone who turned their application in after me doesn't "randomly" get selected before me, I'm ok, not that I would know. But does anyone else find this system extremely messed up and inefficient?

I also know that I should be all warm and fuzzy inside, I mean I have FINALLY made it to this point...it is just so bitter sweet!