My wedding dress is still not here...I had it custom made from Romantic Threads. As far as she knows my wedding is this Friday. I am definitely glad I took one of her customer's advice and told her that the wedding date was a month before the actual. I can't imagine having it last minute. There are always alterations to think about even if it is custom made and what if I don't like it??
We are also going to order our wedding cake on Wednesday. I really like the design. Since we're getting married in March, the wedding scheme is brown and green. Brown branches and green leaves. Here's a snapshot of the cake from the book at the bakery. The twist is we have to pick it up Saturday and the wedding is Sunday so we have to refrigerate it and then put the gum paste gold flowers on ourselves because they will crack in the refrigerator.
I also found a flower arch that I REALLY WANT for the cake table. I'm not sure how to make this happen. My mother seems to think I can find one at a local wedding rental store. I don't know if I have time to search all the stores in the surrounding area. I definitely don't have the skill to make my own so that is probably the only option. Here's what I saw on the internet.
Most days I can handle all the details but it is pretty stressful considering I am trying to get 4.0s in my dental hygiene prerequisites as well as plan this wedding. I am taking 3 classes. One is a preparatory course for students just entering college. I blog for it about 2 hours a week. I consider it a total waste of my time. Thank god it's only an 8 week course and I'm nearly done with it.
My second course is college level writing. Now I took this back in 1998 during Running Start and then again in 2005 when I was considering going back to school for engineering. If I have no other reason to complete this degree, not have to take another college level writing course will be reason enough. My first essay I aced with full points and my teacher asked if she could use it as an example for future students. I hated that essay and thought it was terrible. My second essay is about Trader Joe's and it was actually pretty fun to write. If dental hygiene falls through I'll probably apply for management there! Hopefully I can get perfect scores on all my papers. At least I can rewrite all of them for higher grades if I want.
We have an argument paper coming up and I believe the topics are already chosen for us. They include: the death penalty, the draft, and marijuana. YAWN. I have a more controversial topic I'd like to write about that would be much more interesting: the misplaced value of dairy products in the American culture aka how milk bought itself into our daily life and why it shouldn't be there. I think I could make a really interesting paper on that topic. But come on, the death penalty? the draft? marijuana? What is the point of writing about something that people already have set opinions on?
My last class is Anatomy and Physiology. I REALLY wish I knew how I was doing in this class but unfortunately my teacher is a huge slacker and has not posted our test grades from 2 weeks ago even though she promised them a week ago. We already took another test - our lab test - I can't even imagine when we are going to hear our grades back about that. I really need to know so I can figure out if I need to step up my learning strategies or if I'm on the right track. My sense is that I got a 90 on the test but I know she curves. Since this is the most important class I'm taking this semester, not knowing where I stand is killing me.
We've already had preregistration for summer and I've signed up for 2 courses. This could be a mistake. Currently I'm signed up for A&P 102 and Chem 111 but summer courses are condensed into 2 months and are significantly more difficult. I'm wondering if it might be a mistake to take this much during the summer especially if I'm still going to be working full time. The option is to quit work which I have thought about extensively. Unfortunately, I don't know how we are going to support ourselves for 3 years (1 year of prereqs and then 2 years of the dental hygiene program) with no influx of cash. I'm not really keen on building up huge mounds of financial aid debt. So it's really car wash or financial aid debt. As much as I hate my job, debt is not looking good.
I had an instructor in college that told us it wasn't really about the work itself, but proving that you could hack it in the professional world by showing up for class, being dependable and finishing the assignments. It made the tedious stuff easier to take. I made mini-challenges for myself. If we had a paper topic that was passe, I looked for a way to work a new twist into it and make it more interesting. The evils of marijuana have been spun by special interest groups in much the same way support of dairy has been. Maybe you could work both topics in to your paper without straying completely off subject?
ReplyDeleteYour cake is gorgeous! I hope you post at least a few pictures of the wedding online. :)
A&P and Chem are going to suck. Plain and simple. They're tough classes and as accelerated courses are going to be that much tougher. But I can tell you that financial aid debt is a bigger nightmare, so if it's change your course-load or have student loans, I'd change your course-load.
When Tom finished with his masters,we wound up with a financial aid bill of $100,000.00 plus. The payments are more than our house payment. Almost more than our house payment AND our car payment combined. If it weren't for student loans, he could work one job and we'd still have tons of $ left over. If you can pay for school without it, I'd avoid it like the plague. I figured it up once, if we pay on these at the same rate we are now, they won't be paid off till I'm over 70 yrs old.
You should talk to the writing prof and ask if you can do a different topic. I'm pretty sure they get bored with reading. All the same stuff. :) I've had some profs that really blew away my expectations when I actually was smart enough to talk to them...
ReplyDeleteYikes! Good point, Jora. I'm still looking to get another job but I think you're right. I still need to work.
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