A Very Good Day Indeed!

I have about 2 weeks before I go back to school. I'm kind of excited but at the same time I'm not. I have mixed feelings about the coming semester and I'm not 100% sure why. I know I have to concentrate and stay on task but with so much crap going on it's gonna be hard. I think I can do it though. I have to keep telling myself that all I have to do is finish this semester and the summer and I'll be done at least where I'm at. I still have to finish about another 2 years but the point of the matter is that I'm finishing and I know where I'm going. That's always a positive place to be at in your mind. I still need to go get my books too. Not looking forward to that at all. It's going to cost a lot of money and since I haven't received any word at all about a loan I guess it'll all come out of pocket once again. Yeah I got some of the money back from last semester but that went to Christmas so I'm pretty much tapped as far as that goes. I should probably talk to the financial aid office about the loan thing. That would be helpful. I know I'm going to need it for the Summer semester because financial aid doesn't apply to the summer. And there is no way that I'm going to be able to afford the classes I need to take to finish. It's just not going to happen. We'll see. I need to worry about this semester first.

Saturday I had the most fun I've had in a long time. I was supposed to run my mom downtown but since the place she needed to go to was closed I didn't have to take her. My cell phone was acting wonky so I decided to take it to Verizon to see what the deal was. Turns out that there wasn't anything they could do. My phone had water damage from sitting in the cup holder. They say a lot of people have had the same issue and to not put it in the cup holder with something next to it. That would have been helpful a long time ago but oh well. So I had to buy a new phone and spent much more than I wanted to. In retrospect I probably shouldn't have but there isn't much I can do about it now. That wasn't the fun part of Saturday though. It was beyond gorgeous on Saturday...it was like 70 degrees outside and would have been a waste to sit inside some where. Keith was working Saturday but was getting off at around 2. We decided we were going to play mini-golf but those plans changed. He took me to Susquehanna State Park. (I didn't take those pictures...they were just some that I found) I've never actually been there....I've been past it but never actually went in there. Anyway the one road was closed so we had to take the round about way to get to the places he wanted to show me (the best part to me). He showed me all around the park with little anecdotes about what he did and who he was with at the time. I love hearing people reminisce like that. Anyway we drove around there for about an hour or so before it got dark and at one point he did one of his favorite activities: tree tackling. It sounds immature and it is but it's funny as hell to watch.

Then he said he was going to show me Havre de Grace. I've been to Havre de Grace a couple times but I never saw the places he showed me. He fishes there a lot when he can and took me to some of his favorite spots. At one it was gross because there was a nasty grungy chair sticking out of the water which was a shame because it would have been pretty otherwise. There was another chair in close proximity to the grungy one which must have just fell in. So he decided to take them both out and even got another piece of trash out of there. We set it by the garbage cans...our civic duty for the week :) We went to a couple more places finally ending at the promenade; another place I've never been to. It's like a mini-boardwalk for people to walk up and down while looking at the bay. It was nice. We climbed down onto the "beach" for lack of a better word...it was mostly rocks but there was a bit of sand there since the tide was out. There was a light house and everything. It was just nice. By this time though it was pretty dark and the wind had started to pick up so it was time to head back. We then went to dinner with his daughter and her boyfriend which is always fun. They're hilarious! It was just one of the best days I've had in a very very long time. I love doing stuff like that. Just wandering around seeing what's out there. I'd do it every day if I could but that's not an option. Hopefully we'll have another day like that again soon. I'm kind of itching for winter to be over already even though we haven't had any real winter-like weather. No snow yet and the temperatures have been mild although it was chilly this morning on the way in to work. Can't complain though as long as there isn't any snow to drive in. I get sick when I have to drive in the snow. Something about the way the snow flies at the window makes me nauseous. Not pretty!

I don't know what's in store for the rest of the week but on Saturday I will be watching the football game. The Colts (boo!) vs. the Ravens (YAY!). People are not nice when the Colts play here. Even though it happened over 20 years ago it's like a fresh wound is being opened for some people having the Colts come back to Baltimore. All I can say is that I feel for the Colts fans. It's not going to be pretty when they get here. There is a lot of animosity towards Colts fans here. I'm staying positive and I think the Ravens are the better team anyway. I'm maintaining faith that they're going to bring their A game and wallop the Colts back to Indianapolis. I don't know where I'm going to watch the game but where ever I am it'll be interesting. If we win this weekend, then we're headed to another playoff game against whoever wins between San Diego and New England and hopefully if we win that then it's on to the Super Bowl. It's exciting! I can't wait! I wish it was the weekend already. I know I shouldn't be pushing it but still. So many people are looking forward to this weekend, myself included, that the week is going to drag on. It already feels like should be Thursday to me.