Exams

Curtis's exams for the spring semester are finally over *breaths huge sigh of relief*. He just called me a little bit ago at work and sounded out of breath to tell me he got an 80% on his final Biology exam, it was one of the harder classes this semester. This means that he passed all of his classes and most of which are A's. He took 6 classes this semester and 2 jobs and dealing with a nutty room mate at times but he made it through it like I knew he would and I am way proud of him :-D

The paper he and I worked on together (on Thailand Prostitution) ended up getting a 100%! So that was an automatic A in the class basically. Over the summer he is only taking 2 classes thank god so that should give him a little break. The great news about the classes over the summer is that its entirely paid for by grants and scholarships. We are not having to pay a penny out of pocket.

I WANT BABIES!

 

So yeah my internal womanly clock is tick tick ticking away and loudly these days. I want a baby. I know I am not ready yet financially and Curtis and I aren't even married yes (and I will definitely wait at least till we are married) but damn I am so tired of reading about other people getting pregnant and having babies. Okay so maybe I am not sick of it I am just incredibly envious. I want a little bundle of joy all to myself. I know I say that now and its probably going to stress me out more than anything ever has in my whole life but deep down I feel soooo ready for it!

I don't really think Curtis is in the same boat as me when it comes to that though. He wants to finish school first which is going to take a couple of more years (and yes it makes perfect sense for him to finish up before we have a baby). *sigh* 

I think I am just going to post something on facebook to let me see if I can watch someone's kids for a day and maybe that will sway me from wanting them so bad. OR I could just go hang out in the middle of Wal-mart for an hour and I am pretty sure from watching other people's kids my eggs will shrivel up and die.

 

My 4 Day Weekend (Day 4)

Monday rolls around...

I was actually supposed to go to school with Curtis all day on Monday but the dentist scheduled me to get my filling done at 2:30 that day and I didn't want to spend the money on gas to drive all the way down to St. Pete and then all the way over to Tampa and only be able to see what two of his classes are like, one of which is not even music related. So I stayed home. I was quite productive though! I made lunch which is a pot roast/pork roast deal.


Now I by no means plan to turn this into a cooking blog but I do want to share this for my own future reference if possibly for anyone else's This makes enough food for about two adults and two kids or three adults. The cost minus the sides is a whopping $8 max. Here is the recipe with pics:

Step 1: Buy pretty much and kind of pork you want from the super market, I bought the Half Fresh Picnic because its only $1.69 a pound right now at Publix. (Buy around 4 or more pounds of it.)

Step 2: Buy this super awesome helper! It has all the seasonings AND a cooking bag which will make the pork ridiculously moist.

Step 3: Cut off any skin excess fat. (do leave some fat on there it will make it more moist)

Do not be afraid of having skin on meat, it cuts off pretty easy and there is great meat below it.

Your finished product should look something like this.

 

After the meat is cooked I scrape the marrow out and put it on fresh bread, it tastes delicious but most people don't know that. Its also super good for you.

 

Step 4: Cut off the extra fat. * Note: If you pull away the fat from the meat while cutting as shown in the picture you are less likely to cut off the meaty parts.

 

 

The directions say add veggies and this and that but all I ever add is the 1/4 cup water and the seasoning and it comes out perfectly.

 

Step 5: Place the meat in the McCormick bag and place in a pan (I just use a brownie pan)

 

 

While the meat is in the bag add in the seasoning and rub all over with your hands. Then add 1/4 cup of water (wash hands after)

 

Step 6: Place in oven on 350 degrees for 2 hours and let it sit for 5 minutes and POOF -> it will look like the above picture.

 

So that is pretty much the gist of it. The prep time can take a little while but if you have a sharp knife (I don't) it goes by pretty quick, I mean just cut it season it and shove it in the oven and leave it there and you have yourself and amazingly fall of the bone lunch/dinner. I also made some Jasmine tea for myself while I was cooking which was just kind of an extra treat for me. 

 

 

After all that was done and over with I headed to the dentist. I was not looking forward to this one bit and while I was glad I only had one filling to take care of  its the dentist. I had them give me nitrous which thank god eased my nerves. Overall it didn't hurt at all there was a slight pinch when they were numbing my gums but that was about it. Even after everything wore off  there was no pain at all. 

That about sums up my weekend though. I was really busy and I kind of wanted more time to relax and just overall time for myself but it will have to wait.

 

Where to begin? My 4 Day Weekend (Day 1)

Lots happened over the course of my 4 day weekend. I haven't yet decided if I am going to cut this into shorter multiple posts or just make one giant post with pictures.

Day 1 (Friday)

Well this day was sort of like any other in the sense that Curtis and I woke up at the butt of the morning and then we headed to get my teeth x-rayed and cleaned. I didn't have nitrous like I did last time so I was awake for the cleaning and I am NOT going to be doing that again. It worked the last nerve I had. There is just something about the dentist that makes me very uneasy.Come to find out I only need one filling and possibly two more if I don't start taking better care of my teeth. They scheduled me for Monday at 2:30pm which means I don't get to go to school with Curtis.

After the cleaning we grabbed lunch somewhere at Checkers (SUPER unhealthy) and then we headed to go look at puppies and kittens. None of the kittens really caught Curtis' eye so we didn't get one. We keep looking but he hasn't fallen in love yet with that special cat. I already have a cat Yuki:

and while Curtis loves her to death she really is my cat in the long run. There has been one cat we keep seeing at the Humane Society in Clearwater called Zach that he likes but adoption fees right now are at $55 which is a bit out of our reach. I have been thinking about going back there and just picking him up as a surprise for Curtis but when we move (which won't be till October 1st) we will have to pay double the cost of the pet fee and some of the pet fees are nuts!

After that we went home I relaxed a bit while Curtis practiced for the show that night. Friday was the first day of DOA, and my first time at DOA (Dean Owner's of America {if you own a Dean guitar you are in the club}).

When we entered the Kapok Pavilion I was AMAZED! I SUPER want to have my wedding there! I mean just look at some of these photos:

Curtis ended up getting a call right before we left asking to do two more songs. He did the first without a hitch though I have to say the singer was not very good at all and he did the second one okay too but the singer did horribly on that song! And come to find out the other two songs Curtis was supposed to do the drummer was missing for one song and Curtis spent like three months practising the wrong song for the last one. Oh well, we still had a great time.

We also saw a pretty good band there, thought the make-up was a bit much for me, Cadillac Freaks They were probably one of the best performances next to Michael Angelo Batio. We got some good pictures too but I am not going to post all those on here. We didn't get home till a little past midnight but we were both exhausted and had to be up the next morning to tour the Dean Guitar Factory.

All in all a great day and an amazing time. It was the first time I got to see Curtis perform and I am by far his biggest fan!

Good News - Dentist!

YEAY!!!

So I got off the phone with our dentist after having a long and rather embarrassing talk about how we can pay almost all of the bill up front except for about $320. We have to pay the full $6,767 up front two weeks prior to him receiving the oral care because they are going to sedate him. Now we have scrounged up just about every penny we can muster, including both of our tax returns and we are both selling things on ebay to make up for the last little bit. I have someone who is buying some of my clothes on top of it all. So we are TRYING!

So the lady on the phone said it was okay if we pay the large amount and the last little bit the day of the surgery, so I as SUPER relieved. But THEN! I got a phone call from them and she said she would waive the cost of the sedation!!! I almost jumped through the phone and hugged her. The sedation fee is only $235 but its something! a BIG something! She also told me that Curtis' insurance runs out February 28th, so I don't know what all that is about but I don't want to bug Curtis just right now about it to see what is going on because he has so much on his plate with work and school, especially school.

In the mean time my doctor's appointment is tomorrow and I keep trying to find part time work for Curtis and myself, on top of the jobs we already have. No such luck yet but still this bit of news totally brightened my day!

Money - Dentist

So Curtis is not getting as much money back from his loans as I originally thought.

I asked him the other day if he would mind for us not to get married just yet and pay for his teeth out of pocket. I told him I understand that if getting married is the only way we can fix his teeth that I would understand but I really would like a wedding. So right now we are still not getting married and we are trying to come up with around $6,500 to pay for his teeth. Now I think we are well withing our means to be able to do this its just a matter of how much of it do we want to try and finance and through what company.

I think he should go to our bank at Suntrust and see if he can get a decent sized credit card there that has free interest for like the next 12 months so we can pay the whole thing off before interest hits. Right now he has one card but the limit is a whopping $500 (it actually might be less). My big concern is that he won't be able to get a bigger card because of how little he makes every year. I'm worried the credit card company will not consider his loans as a part of his income. I guess we'll just have to wait and see on that one.


The Dentist also gave us the option of having everything with his teeth fixed in one big swoop and wanted to know if we wanted sedation dentistry. I think its a good idea but then we have to pay up front two weeks in advance, and fill out paper work. Another option is that we just give him nitrous but I am sooo worried about all the pain he is going to be in.


We are going to talk about how all to pay for this, one way or another his is going to get it done even if it means paying out more from my own pocket. What I am really hoping is that they give him a good credit card so he can start building credit, pay it off month by month till is next line of student loans come in, pay of the remainder with the student loans and poof we will not have to worry about the card. The only thing at that point we will have to worry about is how we are going to pay for the rest of his school if he does run out of loans over the next year.