Dreams to Reality

Yesterday Mike went to Metro to meet with an Aviation department counselor to discuss his goals and the classes he needs to take to get there. The counselor he met with was really nice and helpful, and she was able to register him for four classes for the fall! He’s taking public speaking, english, and two aviation courses. One is on weather, and one other that I can’t remember. I think he called it ground training or something. But the really exciting thing is that he can actually start flying his first semester if he wants!

This first semester is going to be nutso. He was able to get all of his classes in the late afternoon/evening. He has two on Monday/Wednesday, and then two on Tuesday/Thursday. So that means he’ll continue to work at the job he’s at now and then head to class immediately after Tuesday through Thursday (he has Monday’s off). So for the first semester at least, he’s going to continue to work fulltime while having a fulltime course load.  I know it’s going to be a ton of work, but I’ll help him out however I can. I know a thing or two about English. We’ll see how this first semester goes and then if he needs to he’s going to scale back at work. School is definitely the priority right now.

I couldn’t be more proud of him! And I’m already daydreaming about all the fun trips we’ll take when he starts working for a commercial airline.  Wish us luck! This is going to be quite a journey!!

In other news, we had our first softball game last Friday. I actually did much better than I expected! I was able to get a hit every time I was at bat, and I even scored a run! Our team ended up losing. Only by 4 or 5 runs though. I was expecting much worse as we had never practiced together, and at least half our team had never even played. Oh yeah, and I was the catcher! hahahah… I had no idea what I was doing. Good thing the backstop was there! I probably only caught about half of the pitches. But there were no injuries and we had a lot of fun so I count the game a success! Oh yeah, and Mike and I were able to get gloves from a guy on Craigslist who ran a league and had a bunch of equipment. Two gloves for less than $30 — score!

Oh yes, and I am ashamed to say I have finally jumped on the Twilight bandwagon. I tried to stay away because I knew I would get hooked. Curiosity got the best of me though and on Friday night I watched the movie. Funny thing is Mike watched it with me too and even though he had to work early the next morning, his eyes were glued on the t.v. and he wouldn’t go to bed until it was over. He won’t say he liked it — he says it was “interesting.” He so liked it!

After watching the movie I was immediately hooked and started reading the first book in the series the next night. I’m about halfway through, and already have the second one lined up to start reading immediately after. I don’t know why it’s so intriguing. I wish I was creative enough to think of a book idea that could hook so many people. What a fun career!