I'm on a roll!

I just got my calc 3 grade, the class I took this summer. I GOT AN A!!!!!! Woohoo! This is totally awesome, since I didn't study very well for the final and I went in expecting a B, since I didn't study too hard. But then when I took the test, it seemed easy, which really scared me. Cause if it was that easy, that means a) I knew what I was doing and he made the test easy, or b) I was screwed cause I knew nothing. I was thinking b, but I guess he just made the test that easy. YAY!! Now onto the 4 classes that I have to make up at YSU this next semester, before I EVEN get accepted into the grad program for engineering. Should be an interesting semester. I'll be taking some hard classes, but I think I can do it.

Canoeing down the river

I forgot my camera today. I am so sad!! We went up to Clarion, PA for a few hours to go canoeing with the girls. There were so many great photo opps and I MISSED them. ALL! Boohoo. so sad. I am still mad that I forgot the dumb thing. Three times while we went down the river we stopped and the girls and Sean got out to play in the water. It was nice and cool and very refreshing. We had a real hard time getting the kids back in the canoe, they wanted to stay in the water. We only got stuck on the rocks once:) The river is only 3 ft deep on average, so sometimes the rocks could be tricky. Sean had a great time chasing the girls in the water, while they had fun "swimming" against the current. The best part was when Sean and Sabrina where looking for crayfish and found a large slimy mud puppy instead. I'm so bummed I didn't get that picture! Anyway. We had fun, and came home tired and dirty. That is all that counts, right?

Would you want to buy this?

Ya'll know of my obsession with this handbag. I started making another one today, it's almost finished. I forgot that I didn't have the rings for the handle when I started, but figured I could sew everything else, hence the lack of picture. But, the main thing I want to know is.... would ya'll buy this thing?! Say for $30 or $40? Or is that too much? Too little? Opinions people, I need your opinions!
There is one thing about this that I am thinking of improving. There are no pockets on the inside. Nowhere to put pens, change, or those other little things that we girls sometimes need to have. So I was thinking of putting in some little pockets. Would that make it more marketable? Should I bother?
I have a gazillion ideas for these suckers! I went through my containers with all my fabric in them and came up with at least 5 more bags. Okay, people, I really don't need 5 more bags! But! If I could sell them, well, then, I could finance my addiction:) Right?! So, what do you think? I have some free time on my hands now that class is over, at least for the next 4 weeks. So I could get some bags done in that time. The only real expense is the rings for the handle, oh, and the cord for the handle. I really don't spend much on fabric because I use scraps of stuff I have and stuff I've had for years and never used. But, if I could sell them, I could look at expanding my collection of fabric and ribbon. Oh, Sean would be thrilled with that. Well, let me know!! How much would you spend, and would pockets inside make it worth your money?

Environmental Engineering

News on the class front. Sometimes I get so frustrated by the crappy bureaucracy that is the college scene. I have been talking to one of the professors at Youngstown State trying to figure out what is going on with my application. Mind you, I sent everything in in FEBRUARY!!! And haven't heard a thing from them. Granted, part of this is my own fault for waiting until June to call. But, I was busy. Anyway. I called them and they couldn't find my USU transcripts. Uh, I had them sent. Actually, after I called USU, they said they had sent them. So, somewhere in mail-land my transcripts are sitting. Meanwhile, YSU NEVER sent me a letter saying anything was missing. And I know that I put on my application that I was planning on attending in the fall. Uh, doesn't that mean I need to have everything in. uh, yeah. So, I had USU send a transcript asap and YSU has it. After they FINALLY got everything, they took over 2 weeks to look at my transcripts in the grad office! Before sending it to the engineering office. Why, you ask? Who the heck KNOWS!!!! But the engineering department finally got it. Then the really good news. The professor finally got to read the transcripts and recommended conditional admission for the graduate program. Conditional that I take FOUR classes. Yes, count them, not 1, but FOUR!!!!!!! I was kinda mad when I found that out. I knew about the calculus classes, hence the 3 that I have already finished. But not the other 3! If I would have known about them, I could have worked on them this past year while I was working on the calculus. I thought I would be going in this semester with only 1 undergraduate class to take. Now I have to finish 4!. So that puts me behind an entire semester. Lovely. I'm not sure what the summer session has, in regards to classes. But hopefully I will be able to take a full load next summer and be done. I'm planning on taking 2 grad classes this fall, with 3 or 4 of the other classes that I have to take. yes, that would be 15 -18 credit hours. I think I can do that, I carried that many and played basketball when I got my bachelors degree. So we'll see. For now, I wait. I just finished Calc 3 last night. YAY!! I am so glad that class is over! I think I did okay on the final. I needed a 90% to get an A in the class, but i didn't study enough, I don't think. The test seemed really easy though. I'm not sure if it's cause I didn't know what I was doing, or if it was cause it was that easy. I'll find out next week when the grades are posted.

Update on the Target job

Working at Target is an interesting endevour. I get up at 3 am, go to work at 4am, work for 6 - 8 hours and come home at 10 am or noon. It's actually a pretty good schedule. It's great for getting things done, I get home before the middle of the day, so I have plenty of time to do stuff. Although I always feel rushed since I have to be in bed by 7pm. I have to wear one of those masks to cover up my eyes, otherwise I would never get to sleep. It also makes me feel like I'm missing out on stuff cause I've got to go to bed. Yeah, that would be the one downside of this job. The people I work with are pretty cool, there are the usual idiots that you wish you didn't have to work with, but everyone has to earn some money somehow, right? I'm thinking I'll probably keep working there even when school starts at the end of August. I can work there 2 days a week and still have plenty of time for classes and studying. Oh, the joys of retail work.

Look what I got

The garden is bringing forth the fruit! :) Here are some of the green beans, I picked another handful a few days ago and we put them in some stir fry. Nothing like home grown veggies in your food! Here is one of the tomotoes. Can't wait to have it ripe so I can pick it an eat it. I'm so excited. This week should be great for the veggies, since it's supposed to be sunny and hot all week. I will just have to remember to water them cause there is no rain is in the forcast. For once.

Extreme Food Storage

Having a chef for a husband does have its advantages. Sean knows how to slice large pieces of meat. Due to some great circumstances we were able to purchase some bulk meat, chicken, beef roasts, bacon & pork to put in the freezer. We have access to a store called Restuarant Depot where they have EVERYTHING in bulk. It's great. We were able to get everything at a much cheaper price than going to the grocery store.
This is what part of 40lbs of chicken looks like. We have enough chicken to last us the year if we eat 1 package a week. Yeah, that is a lot of chicken. We also have enough bacon to last us the year. If you're wondering why we are thinking about a years time (other than that is what we are directed to do), that would be the year that I am in school and we won't be able to afford anything, let alone meat. We hope we got enough of the other stuff to last us at least until after Christmas. Now here's hoping the electricity doesn't go out and the freezer stop working. That would be all sorts of bad.

My garden, it is a'growin'

All the hot, wet yucky weather has been great for the tomato, pepper and green bean plants.

The tomtoes have shot up pretty high. I'm going to have to put netting on the top so that the deer won't eat them.
My beans were taking over the one end and covering up my pepper plants, so I had to put a string up so the peppers could get some sunshine. We aren't going to get enough beans to can, which is a bummer. One of my friends from church knows a farm we can go to that sells green beans for $10 a bushel. I think I'll be going when they are ready! This is just one of the squash plants!! I have about 3 more buckets that look just like this, half have zucchini in them. I don't think we'll have a shortage of squash and zucchini!
This is one of my radishes. As you can see, it's ALL leaves. Only a few actually had bulbs on them. Most of them looked like this one. I don't know what I did wrong. My onions didn't do so well either, not sure what is going on. Here is what most of the radishes look like. Sad, I know. They were even starting to go to seed. What a waste.