Out of My Mind

I dropped Bub off at my parent’s house yesterday.  It is so weird to not have him here.  Who would’ve thunk I’d actually miss the endless prattle about some detail about a dinosaur’s anatomy and what it can do, or the sound of bionocles engaged in battle or endless questions about going to the pool.  And he’s not even coming home until Saturday!

I’m not the only one missing Sebastian.  Poor Mike the cat.  He is just lost.  For as much as he likes to terrorize Seb, he is obviously missing him.  That will make Seb happy to hear that.  I’m sure the hubby misses him, too, but being a man and all, it’s not macho to talk about stuff like that.

I don’t have too much planned for while my baby is gone.  Read, work on my current crochet project (which is currently giving me fits!  I think there may be some flaws with the pattern.  Or else I just suck.), maybe try and go out to eat with the hubby at some point.  I’m actually planning on cooking a nice meal for dinner tonight.  Roasted pork tenderloin and new potatoes, probably some corn and salad, maybe some nice crusy bread.  Yum!

I’ll call Seb tonight and see how his day went.  I know they are planning to take him to the beach and to the movies while he’s there.  My brother’s kids were supposed to come this weekend, so Bub would be able to have fun with them on Friday night, but there was a change in plans and now they’re not coming.  Oh, well.  He’ll still have fun with Lucas.  I just hope he’s being good.  I’m sure he’s probably glued to the television right now.  My parents have Dish and we don’t have cable, yet.  He must be in cartoon heaven.

For fear that I might jinx things and it won’t happen.  My mom wants to take Sebastian for a few days before the summer is over.  I’m supposed to drop him off on Wednesday (and get my hair done, yay!  I’m whacking it off again.) and pick him up on Saturday.  I’ve never just shipped Bub off for a few days for no reason before.  Weddings, funerals, moving, yes, but never just because.  He’s also never been away from me for more than a night before.  And he’ll be gone for three.  He’s excited to go, though.  Plus, my brother’s three kids will be there Friday night, too, so he’s pretty geeked about that.

I’m excited to have a couple childfree days, but it will definitely be weird.  Don’t get me wrong, Seb and I really need a break from each other, so this will be good for the both of us, but I know I’m really going to miss the little monkeybutt.  Too bad we are pretty much broke from our little trip to Cedar Point last week and then to the zoo and dinner yesterday.  The hubby and I won’t even have extra money to do something fun, just the two of us. 

I realize that’s a weird thing to say about your own kid, but hell, it’s the truth.  We spent the day at Cedar Point yesterday.  All Seb could talk about was that he was going to ride the Maverick.  Had to do it right away, first thing.  I don’t know where in the world he got the idea that he just had to ride this monster, but he did.  And he insisted on riding in the first car.  What he was trying to prove, I have no idea.  I certainly didn’t go on the ride.  No way, Jose.  But Seb went on with the hubby. And how did he like it?  He didn’t.  Not. At. All.  Said he hated it and will never do it again.  But, damn, I’m proud of the kid for doing it in the first place!

To be fair, his two cousins who are both a year older than Seb went on as well and it scared the bejesus out of them, too.  They just weren’t as vocal about it.  Even the hubby said it was one of the worst (meaning scariest) rides he’s been on and he didn’t care to ever go back on it again, either. 

We had a pretty good time at Cedar Point.  We left Sunday afternoon, checked into the hotel and hung out at the pool/hot tub for most of the afternoon/evening.  Got up early Monday morning and headed over to the park, spent the entire day and headed home around 10:30.  It was around 1 am when we finally made it back here.  I have decided that the next time we go back, I want to plan for two days at the park and would like to stay at the Great Wolf Lodge.  It looks like fun!

Now that I actually have time to do something, I’ve started a new project, a blanket for my nephew Lucas.  I’m using this pattern, but am not putting the little stars on the corners (though they are very cute!) and I am doing it in blue and white.  This is my first time trying to work from a gridded pattern like this, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it actually turns out.  If it does, I’ll post some pics when finished.  If not, well, I’m too much of a perfectionist to post pictures of some jacked-up blanket.

I’ve just spent the last hour on the phone.  Why?  Because not only is my financial aid messed up (again!!!) but the payment for our truck that i mailed out oh, nearly 3 weeks ago, never cleared.  So, yeah, I’m a tad frustrated right now.

I got a disclosure statement the other day for my student loans for the upcoming year.  It listed my subsidized loans, but had nothing for the unsubsidized that I had accepted.  And the subsidized is not enough to pay my tuition and fees, so I was a little worried.  Thankfully, when I called the direct loan dept., they had record of it and said it should be dispursed with my subsidized.  To be fair, there is a little blurb on my disclosure statement that says actual dates and amounts for dispursement may be different, but there was no way I was leaving that up to chance.  I’m still not 100% confident that it will all go smoothly, just because of the way WSU screwed everything up last semester with my financial aid, but as long as everybody has the same amounts, I’m hoping it will all be good.

And can’t forget the stupid truck.  I mailed out the payment on July 14th and my check still hasn’t cleared.  It’s only going to Grand Rapids, so they definitely should have gotten and cleared it by now.  WHen I called, the rep said they showed a payment of five hundred and some dollars posted for the july payment.  Well, that’s about 200 bucks more than my payment.  There was no record of the payment I sent in.  SHe said it’s possible that the payment got mixed up with somebody who’s account number is similar to ours since it’s all done by computer and that she’ll have the accounting department look into it and call me back later today.  I hope they can get it figured out, because I made the flippin payment!   Grrr.

4.0 for the semester, baby!  For my Info Tech class, an A is 940-1000.  I got 947.25.  Just barely an A, but an A is an A and I’ll take it!  What a nice way to end my first semester.  Hopefully, I can keep it up!

I got my score back on my final.  81/100.  Not terrific, but not terrible.  Now I am just waiting for the grad assistant to update the last two grades.  One is for an Access assignment worth 50 points and the other is for participation worth 100 points.  Out of the 150 points left, I need to get 137 to get an A in the class.  It’s definitely doable.  But all I can do is sit and wait to find out.  I’m not good at sitting and waiting.  I wish she’d hurry the heck up!

Last night, I was talking to the hubby, trying to figure out exactly what I needed to get on the final in order to get an A in my Intro to Technology class.  I already have an A in my Intro to the Information Profession (Woohoo!!!!).  Yes, I would love to have a nice 4.0 for my semester.  Yes, I would love to graduate next year with a 4.0.  That would be fantabulous.  Does that really make me a nerd, or just ambitious?

I took my final this morning, and it wasn’t too bad.  I highly doubt I will get anything less than a 75/100 on it, and that’s being pessimistic.  I would be happy with a 90 like I got on my midterm.  There were a few question I was kind of iffy on, so I know I didn’t get a perfect score, but I think I did well.  It’s waiting to be graded, so of course I’m on pins and needles.  And I can’t remember how long it took for the midterm to be graded.  Which means I’ll be checking in every half hour or so to see if the stupid thing has been graded yet.  Okay, maybe that makes me a nerd.

I submitted my portfolio (after some trial and error) for my LIS 6010 class.  I am officially done with that one.  I have to take my final for my 6080 class by Thursday night, so I am currently going through 6 chapters of my computer concepts book, studying and making a cheat sheet (It’s allowed!  I swear!).  I should have started this last week, but there was just too much other junk going on.  Once I take the final, I have a little over a month off before the fall semester starts up.  Woohoo!  Can’t wait!  I’ll actually have time to crochet and read for pleasure again!

I get to go dress shopping for a wedding I have to go to next weekend.  So not looking forward to it.  The wedding or the dress shopping.  I had hoped to be about 15-20 pounds lighter by this time, but that ain’t happening.  The wedding is going to suck.  My sister isn’t going because she doesn’t have anybody to watch Lucas.  She’s my drinking buddy at family weddings.  My older brother is bringing some "exotic dancer" as his date, my little brother plans to get drunk as a skunk and I just know I’m going to get stuck with his girlfriend, who I don’t particularly like.  My parents can barely stand to be in the same room with each other and the hubby and are in that "meh" cycle of our relationship.  Oh, the fun we are all going to have.