I got my first homework back and received a "check plus," the highest grade! It seems those extra hours of help on the homework really did pay off!

Happy (would have been) 70th birthday John Lennon!

argh! I finally got the download to work for the student version of Office 2010, but cannot remember how to add the option to "save as Word 2010.doc" to my list of saves. Does anyone know how to do this? It wants to save as a docx, which most people cannot open. I tried the Tools menu to make changes to "Save As," but it only shows the old "2003-7 ( Read more... )

I have a few more books to add to my list of those I have finished (or will finish) this summer:

I think I forgot to add that I read "Frankenstein."
I read the series of "The Green Mile" by Stephen King.
I am almost finished with "White Noise" by Delillo.

My son got his GED!
Also he was accepted at the Art Institute!

He will begin college in early October. We are working out his schedule, but it looks like he will attend full-time which is between 12-15 credits per quarter. He will be in the Game Design program.

This morning I decided to pull everything out from our cabinet under the kitchen sink and organize it. This was mostly because the last time our owner was here to replace our water filter, he shoved everything underneath in a mess ( Read more... )

I found an offer through my university for FREE upgrades for Microsoft office if you are a student! I am getting Office 7 as well as a preview for 2010. This makes me happy because Microsoft Word actually crashes during use and it has been maddening to finish writing projects ( Read more... )

I just got back from a nice breakfast with a my friend Theresa. It is always good to have time with girlfriends. We chatted it up and I defended my coffee cup from being refilled every second by the waitress. I have no idea why they don't understand that refilling it when it's half-empty means they are messing up your coffee-cream-sugar ratio! ( Read more... )

I finally did something I have been meaning to do for awhile now. I got us renter's insurance. It is through our car insurance company and actually lowered our bill per month by a few dollars. It will cover theft, vandalism, fire and water damage related to pipes. No earthquake or flood, since these are not usual to this coverage in our area ( Read more... )

Happy Happy Birthday to the wonderful _paegan_ my friend from high school days!
I hope you get all that you desire!