It's official.....

.....I'm PINK ! As I mentioned, last night I went to the No Frills Grill where I play a game they have called NTN trivia. You can become a Player's Plus [PP] member for free and when you do then you rack up points for every game you play...and more if you win the game among the others playing. So, if you are a PP member then you have a little colored plus [+] sign next to your name and the color represents how many PP points you have. So, last night, my plus sign turned pink because I passed the.......drum roll please......750,000 PP points mark. Yes, it is official, I am a dork.

"Bring two scantrons."

These are the three most dreaded words from a professor to any college student before a test because this means there will be MORE THAN 100 questions on the test. Ugh. Well, in my case, it may not matter....after another dismal showing in my most recent Biology test [sorry, Tom] - I am about 95% sure I will be dropping the class this week. The thing is, I got my associates degree with a 3.87 grade-point average and I really don't want this class to mess that up. I mean, if I have to re-take it, fine, but no sense lowering my GPA in the process. It was probably too much to take on with my other two classes. Lesson learned.

I printed out the schedules for Spring and I am in the process of trying to put together my schedule so I can get something together for a work schedule starting in January too. I had one-midterm test today in my Applied Mathematics class and I think I did good. It was a little "more" than I expected but I felt good about it. I won't know my grade on it until the end of next week because there was a take-home part too that I turn in on Monday.

Weekend plans .... well, No Frills Grill tonight. Oh, and I found a website for the them - click HERE to see my favorite place, I go to the Eastchase location. Also on the list for the weekend, buy a new printer, do a WalMart BIG run and clean the apartment. I got some new shelves for my office that I also need to put together. Big fun.

So, that's it - I'll probably blog some more this weekend. Ciao.

Heidi, my jeweler....

First, hurray, JoLynn - starting her new job today. She hasn't been working for 6 weeks and I know she is thrilled to be getting back into the swing of it. And, I can already tell she is super happy with the new experience and opportunities.

So, the holidays are fast approaching, and with a new job, I have no idea what days I am going to be off and which days I am going to work. It would be nice to have some time off from both work and school but one never knows. I'm going to send a message to my bosses today so that they can start working on my schedule. I am kinda unique because I work the weekend so we'll see what they come up with. My preference would be to work more days around Thanksgiving and less days around Christmas because my mom and dad will be here.

Of course, we all want my brother to come down too but he is holding out saying he needs to stay and work, etc. Last night I was talking to him on the phone and he wanted to know the next time I was going to go to Abilene [my sister's] - he wanted us to go to this silver store near my sister and get him some rings. He said "I'm going to have Heidi, my jeweler, measure all of my fingers so you guys can look at rings for me." His jeweler ?? I laughed my head off at that and said, "That is so going to be my blog title tomorrow." At which point he laughed. Yet, here it is. Anyway, I hear my mom in the background informing him that my sister told her the place was closed. He said "What? Well, there goes your 1% chance of getting me down there for Christmas." So, if anyone else knows a good place to buy silver by the ounce in pre-made jewelry items, please let me know. I'm hanging on to the 1%.