More fun than a barrel of monkeys...

Still nothing new to report on anything. Haven't been able to rent some new movies I wish I could see due to finances since the IRS took my tax return. However, I did notice my school sent me a nice check so that may change this weekend. I'll finally be caught up on bills again. I am currently in my 10th to last class, Dependence of Man on the Environment. It is a 4 credit class to where all the others are 3 credits. So far, this is the hardest class I have had with the most homework as well. I still have a 3.80 GPA. All of my classes except 2 were A's. I got a C two classes ago because I didn't do any papers due to my wife being hospitalized and my last class I received a B just because I didn't put too much effort in the course as I have become burnt out on school. This class seems to be going well so far as I enter into week 2. After this class, I only have 9 classes to go before I graduate.

Military life seems to be going ok as well. Still waiting on the results of the Direct Commission. A lot of my time right now is spent on M-F going to work, going home, jumping on FB and playing my games. My computer at home has become so slow, it takes forever to do some of these games. Think I need to upgrade. It is a laptop I bought when I came back from my deployment in 2006. So, yeah, time to upgrade.

Weekends are usually spent at home watching movies, FB'ing, or sitting around since I haven't had funds to do too much. However, in a week and a half I am going to NASCAR for the weekend for the Nationwide and Subway 400. One of my Soldiers offered me to come and hang out in the Miller tent for the weekend on the inside track. Which means I will be in the circle and able to meet the drivers. I've been to a couple of races before, but inside track is going to be more exciting than the other times. I'll also be camping out there for the night. It will be fun.

Kids are doing well with school and haven't had too many problems with the oldest. He returned to school about 3-4 weeks ago and is doing well with it. At home, there aren't as many outbursts as there were in the past. The hardest part right now is just keeping all three of the kids from fighting daily when I get home.

I know, I live an interesting life. A few years ago, I would have a story to tell everyday. Since I moved a few years ago, I do have stories, just not enough to tell one everyday. I think i am finally getting old and not getting as wild and crazy as I used to. I went from drinking daily, spending about $150 a week to drinking maybe every two weeks and spending about $12-$30 a month.

Well, that's all I got for now.

arrrggghhhh

That is how I feel today. I started my class yesterday...Dependence of the Man on the Environment...or something like that. It seems like a lot of work from what I looked at so far. Been doing good on not drinking. I went from spending about $200 a week down to about $6 every couple of weeks. Had a couple of 40's last night and I am regretting it this morning. Have drill this weekend so it is another 13 day work week. Finally decided to shave last night after growing it out for a month. Still need to get a haircut before this weekend. Still no news on the Direct Commission. I was told it will be about May-Aug before I hear anything. Still working on my credit. A few things have finally dropped off my credit report so I am hoping it is enough to get me qualified for a house now. We will see. I have seen a few houses that my sister has e-mailed me that look good, price is good, but it is all a matter of the credit and if they are still available.

Haven't really seen any good movies lately. Well not good enough to post about. Still been watching them, but they just haven't been that good. There are a lot of good movies coming out this year and next year that I am looking forward to, but there are others that are coming out that makes you ask...WHY? Like 21 JUMPSTREET, another TERMINATOR, another INDIANA JONES, EXPENDABLES 2, I mean come on...let's do something original.

Well, other than all that, nothing new going on in my life. Just trying to get through today.

February already?

This year has gone by pretty fast so far...or at least January did. Was sick a couple of weeks ago. Not my normal sickness. When I get sick, I am usually sick for like 12 hours. This time it lasted 5 days. Finally, I went to the Dr. on the last day and they didn't know what was wrong and just prescribed me Amoxicillin, Cough medication, cough syrup with codeine, and two different inhalers. So I filled the prescriptions, went to the store, got a bottle of rum and I was good the next day. Go figure. Even the Dr. told me in the old days, just mix Jack with Tea and you get better. See, alcohol is a remedy.

Still attending school to get my Bachelor's Degree. Getting ready to finish Informal Logic before going on to the next class. Wow...10 more classes and I will have my degree. Scheduled to graduate right now in Feb 2012.

Looks like I will have to wait for the announcement for my Direct Commission. The board ends today, but I was told I will not find out if I made it until May-Aug time frame. Have nothing scheduled this year as far as going anywhere. That is good for now as I need a break. Thinking about taking some real vacation time later this summer and heading back to Indiana with the family. Depends on finances. Looking at buying a house here real soon. My credit should be where it needs to be next month. Once qualified, I will be looking. Then maybe a few months later get a new vehicle, get lower payments than I am paying now, so I have a better vehicle to drive back to IN with. We'll see.

Everything else has been going ok. Haven't been on here as much as I used to since joining Facebook. It seems I can put out more faster there. Plus I have just gotten involved in a lot of the games on there. Work has increased since I first took this job, so time has been taken away from there as well. So, we'll just have to see how often I post here this year.