A whole lot has happened lately.  I finally quit Wal-Mart.  I took my first college class.  It was a two week sociology course.  Just finished it Tues when I turned in my second and last exam.  I got an A on the first one, so I’m hoping to do well on the second one also and maybe get an A for the class.  This week the full summer term started.  So now I have three online classes.  It seems like I don’t know what is expected of me in these classes yet.  It all seems so confusing.  There are nine hundred links and I guess you need to be well versed to know what is really important and where they hide the actual instructions as to what you are to be working on.  I am considering dropping at least a couple of these classes in exchange for taking them at the campus.  It may be more effective for me to take them that way.  I think it would work schedule wise, but it is just a lot of extra driving and gas money that right now we really don’t have.  So I don’t know what to do.  Stay where I am at, and hope I don’t drown, I guess.

Also looks like everything so far is on track for getting my fall term paid for by the gov.  Since my former employer Electrolux is moving some of their work to Mexico I will qualify for schooling under the trade act.  I know they filled for coverage on the 19th.  Should take maybe a month to hear back then I will hopefully have more info.

Some of our creditors have also made payments to our accounts this past month.  Come to find out all of the credit protections that they offer you for unemployment (like me) have to be renewed each month.  So each month we have to submit a new form and the insurers no doubt hope that they can screw us out of benefits.  Since I am now in school and will probably be unemployed for a while, it seems like a giant pain.  Whats really disgusting is this will get us out of debt faster than we could have ever done ourselves though.  Assuming we don’t get screwed in the process.

I think we may yank what few pennies I have in my 401k out and use some of my student loan money to pay off one car payment.  Really - it’s not that bad I barely had over 1000 in the 401k - so that shouldn’t be to painful.  We just need rid of some bills.  That will allow me to be a full-time student.  Yay!! (?)  Well maybe….if I survive it all.

A lot has happened in the last month.  I officially start school tomorrow.  My first class to start is an accelerated 2 week sociology class.  Then I will have 4 more classes start on the 27th after this one is done.  One of those is a speech class that is also an accelerated class and will only last 3 weeks.  The other three will last all summer.  The unemployment people will waive my job search as soon as school begins full time on the 27th.  Going to school for a Business Information Systems degree.  It’s mostly computer programming.

My wife got finally got here 60 day notice from her work a week or two ago.  We knew it was coming but it still hurt that she was losing her job also.  That situation got resolved on Friday though because she accepted an offer for another position with the same company she has been working for.  The pay will be the same, but there is more room for advancement.  The main difference for us is now she will have to go into the office instead of working from home.  Kinda sucks but I guess we knew that would come also.  But at least we are not both unemployed anymore.  Well, she was never really, but just on the verge of it.

Gotta get up tomorrow and change routines again!!! BOOO!!! HISS!!!  I have to drive about 40 miles to my sociology class at 8am.  So I gotta get around early, fight the wife and kids for shower space, and run out the door.  Not sure what to expect tomorrow.  Scared to think of what I’m getting into.  Too late to turn back now, wouldn’t want to anyway.  Hopefully it will be kinda fun.