Caught up

I am finally caught up in my classes!!! I am actually ahead. I only need to watch about 15 hours of videos and answer three more questions in my intro class and I will be finished until the final (with the exception of some self-tests and discussions). In my finance class, I just finished homework that is due next Tuesday and I am halfway done with homework due in two weeks. Just one homework left in there. Woohoo!!! I did a ton today once I got home including running for half an hour, mowing the yard, washing clothes and washing dishes. Good times being productive. I hope to finish up my class work tomorrow.

Vanessa and I can't deal with being apart for more than two weeks. After that time, we just argue a lot. When we're back together, it's all good. I found out last week that there's no chance of her going to school in Fayetteville. I had banked on that as being my "out" from here. I was going to go back to school and get a higher degree in Mechanical Engineering. Now I am not sure what I am going to do. She has to be in Little Rock at least two more years and then she has to stay in the state. I have thought about in two years going back to school in Fayetteville and then she can do her rotations up there for a year. I just don't know. I looked at the University of Texas at Arlington and they have an aerospace engineering master's nd ph.d program. That's appealing because Lockheed is there too (their Aero group is there).

Right now I am just not sure what God has in store for me. It's frustrating here because it seems like the social atmosphere is lacking (mostly because it is). I don't feel like a professional when I go to work, I don't feel like I am making an impact or doing anything really worthwhile. I am working my way into a manufacturing rut and I don't want to stay in that field. I want the ability to open my mind and be creative.

Enough of that. Geocaching is getting rough. It's been super hot here, so I am miserable out there caching. Plus there are some not nice things out there to sting me, bite me and irritate my skin. Ugh...looks like it's back to the 360. I haven't turned on my TV in something like three weeks.

busy busy busy

I am so ridiculously busy. Right now I am listening to my online class and doing this. I mainly post today to keep my blog updated.

Last weekend I went to Lake Ouachita with Bubba and his son to a geocaching event. We had a lot of fun, but didn't get nearly as many caches as I would have liked. We knocked out around 50 and met a ton of nice cachers. Left the house at 5am and got back around 1230 on Sunday morning. I wanted to sleep in, but I got elected to the communion on Sunday morning at college avenue. I showed up late to find out that the single's class is no more on Mondays. Weak sauce. This church is weird like that; it cancels the single's class on and off and that really bothers me. There are at least four members of the group that are there regularly, so there is a small need.

All this week was green belt training. Most of the training is old stuff I've heard before, but we did cover some neat new stuff. I enjoyed the break from the same ol' work but it was tough sitting through some of the teachers. I got to hang out with some cool young engineers and a lady from Dallas. She was super smart and I enjoyed speaking with her. Unfortunately, the class last until after 5 every day and my ME lead wanted me to come in at 6 every day too. That made for some looooonnnnnggggg days. Monday night Bubba and his family invited me out to eat some Chinese buffet. I should not have gone, since I was so busy, but I did and enjoyed myself. It was their anniversary and I was glad to see some marriages making it.

I am trying to get ahead in all my classes because I think I might get to go out to White Sands to work on some planning for a few days. I need to go, but mainly I just want to go. I think it will be helpful, but I am not sure how much it will help. I suppose I will see.

Classes are going okay. I have got to get far enough ahead in them to have time to study for my exemption test in Industrial Cost Analysis. Next semester I will only be taking one class, unless two just really stand out to me. After that, I will start looking for two classes to take each semester; I want to get out of this program....ugh.