We finally have an offer on the condo!! We're set to close in a couple days but the condo HOA is being a bit finnacky, so we might have to delay another week. We got waaaay less then we wanted and are ending up taking a loss on the condo, which is hard to accept especially after all our hard work, but it's better than continuing to have 2 mortgages. I hope the new family enjoys that place as much as we did :)
I took my GRE so I can start my grad school application. I had no idea that you can basically take the GRE whenever because it's a computer test (shows you what I know about higher education). All the other tests I've taken (SAT, ACT, Teacher Cert) are only offered once every month or so, so you have to plan ahead. I signed up to take the GRE about a week and a half after I decided I wanted to do it, so that meant no prep time...the only thing I did to get ready was print off a copy of the paper version of the test so I could see the formatting of the questions/essays. I know I did horribly on the essays because I haven't written a paper since high school (that's a decade ago people!!!). I tested out of all my English classes at A&M, so I never had to write a true paper while I was an undergrad. I don't know my scores for the essay, but they give you the verbal and math scores immediately after you finish. Well, no shock I didn't do very well on the verbal; I talk to 11-year-olds all day so my vocabulary isn't what it used to be. I only got a 570 out of 800 on that part. Here's the exciting news though: I got an 800 out of 800 on the Math part...without any prep!! When I saw that my heart started racing and I thought they had made some kind on mistake. I guess I'm as much of a Math nerd as I thought. 1370 total score isn't bad, so I should have no problem getting into U of Houston or A&M for Masters. Who knows when I'll officially go back to college, it may be a few semesters, but I'm starting it out :) Exciting!!!
Allison is still the cutest baby ever!! She does so many things to melt my heart on a day-to-day basis. She says night-night, uh-oh, nana (for banana), up, and most interestingly, poop. I know potty training is still light-years away (which by the way is a distance, not a time...), but I'm trying to get her to know what "poop" is.
Greg is still working hard keeping his company afloat. He works in the water/wastewater portion of land development, so with the slowdown of new housing developments, the rest of the company is struggling to find work. Being an Electrical Engineer in Houston after Hurrican Ike, there are lots and lots of developments and municipalities who are getting generators installed, so he has more work than he knows what to do with!! The Electrical Divison is the only divison to turn a profit, so they owe a lot to Greg and the other EE.
I have 5 weeks left until summer!! I'm definitely looking forward to fun time and projects this summer. I plan to try some gardening (we'll see if I inherited Mom's brown thumb), and we'll probably be spending lots of time at the pool. We have a few big vacations coming up, and I can't wait!!!
Here are some recent pics (all of Allison of course...).
Getting into the china cabinet. Good thing the only thing there are all my leftover wedding candles.
At Mami's house
With cousin Bailey
They look like they're getting arrested :)
Modeling her new dress.
2 comments:
Congrats on your GRE scores! I think it's awesome you're getting everything ready to go to grad school! Having just finished, I think it's great!!
What a cute picture of her by the door with her cousin - hands up! Congrats on your GRE math score - that's amazing...you and Frank must be related! :) I lucked out with music education, it's one of the few exceptions for not needing to take the GRE for grad school, so I finished my master's without ever taking it, which is good, because I would have failed!
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