Ice, Ice, Baby

Exciting, huh? This is the view from my front door. The hubs doesn't usually park in the yard, but our driveway is kinda sloped, so he made do. Also, you might be wondering why I didn't share a picture of our house {instead of the houses across the street}, well... what if there are killers reading my blog?! LOL

Hope ya'll enjoy the weekend! We don't know if we're going to Tunica, MS yet. {btw, we were/are going to the casinos and to eat at Paula Deen's again} Anyways, I'd also like to throw in a random tidbit.. this grad class is totally kickin my tail already! I had homework this week and it literally took me 5 plus hours to complete it. Ouch. Hope I get an A on it!

I Should Really...

Learn to keep my mouth shut! :) That was one of my NY Resolutions, right? Yep, I think I recall something like that. Well, last night would've been one of those moments.

The instructor from Hell asked me to answer a question - in a philosophical manner, yet this is a MIS class, but whatev, we'll roll with it - but before I could answer, he said "How do I know you?"

My response? "Well, I had you for COBOL in undergrad, but dropped you. Then, you were my advisor, but I switched advisors."

He then says, "So, did you only take this course with me because I'm the only one teaching it this semester?"

Me? "Yes, you could say that."

Him... "So, I guess we know where we stand."

"Yep."

In other words.... Hello Mr. Man that I can't stand. Yes, I took your course because you were the only one teaching it and had I the choice of taking a different instructor I would've. But, since I didn't have that choice, just know that you and I are not going to agree on many things, but I'm just going to do the best that I can to make an A in this course and move on.

Anyways, last night was a very agonizing 3 hours and it looks like every Monday for the next who-knows-how-many weeks will be the same way. To give you a little background on Mr Man himself, he has a PhD in Philosophy. I have no idea how he got into teaching MIS courses and I'd really love to ask the Department Chair that very question, but have decided it's not in my best interest to do so. LOL Otherwise, the man is near 70 and speaks so quietly that he usually has to have a microphone, but alas, that microphone is broken...so everyone was super quiet, turned off the air/heat, and strained to hear him. All the while, he's asking you questions...in which you answer...and he turns around and picks apart your answer. Sounds fun, right?

Case in point... (I'll shut up after this, I promise.).. One of the questions I got the joy of answering was this: The arithmetic mean of a classes' IQ is 100. Jon's IQ is 160. Would Jon's 4 siblings be less smart, more smart, or as smart as Jon? (Um, hello this is an MIS class, but we're rollin' with it...) I said less smart, since the mean is 100, then it seems that Jon has an above average IQ and blah blah blah... the probability of his siblings being above average is less since the overall mean is 100.

His rebuttal? I'm wrong of course, because I didn't take in consideration that genetics plays a huge part in a person's IQ - according to him, of course. And since the siblings have the same parent's...same genes.. yada yada.

So, long story....long... this is gonna be a long semester!

Have ya'll ever had a horrible instructor that you had to take? How did you make it through the semester?

Edited to add: Today's Bible Verse/Lesson on the Proverb's blog:

"The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences." Proverbs 18:21 (NLT)

Sign taken.

I Love Trace...

Instead of a weekend recap, I'm just gonna fill ya'll in on my new love... Trace Adkins! LOL

• Friday evening, my sister, stepmom, and aunt loaded up and headed to Carino's for some pre-concert drinks and grub. We enjoyed Happy Hour drinks, yummy pasta, and dessert!
• We thought we'd try a new route over to the concert venue... yeah, not a good idea when the person who is giving you directions has had a nice, big yummy drink! Needless to say... we think we might've drove through a drug deal in the making and took a nice little tour of the ghetto...all the while, driving a new Yukon... Um, not a fabulous idea by any means, but it presented us with many, many (albeit scary) laughs!!!
• Because of our little detour, we made it to the concert and Trace was already singing... Wouldn't you know it, the ONE concert that starts on time....and we're late! ha!
• We sat at our awesome seats. Read = very, very, very lower level seats.
• Then proceeded to watch the handsome man himself shake those wonderful hips. Sigh.
• We spotted a lady in the first row who flashed Trace...um, lets say she was white trash and didn't have the goods to be showing everyone....
• Anyways, blah blah blah, great concert! That was the BEST concert that I've ever seen! It could've just been the great seats and that handsome man.... :) But, Martina was pretty good too! She even did a few old songs from Journey and Bon Jovi! Love it!
• Since we were a little late, we forgot to take pictures of us, but I did get a few with my iPhone. My sister had her real camera, but I've not seen those pictures yet.

Our seats were right by the "pit," so we got to see Martina's kids and Trace sitting watching Martina's show. Yes, that is Trace's cowboy hat! I was about 10 foot from him - sitting right above him!!! Ya'll don't know how badly I wanted to ask him for a picture or autograph! But, I was good!



Anyways, enough about my new love (yes, hubs knows that I have a thing for Trace now...). Thank you for all the comments on my little project that I've been working on. I have Photoshop Elements at home, but I'm not that great with it... So I use Picnik to edit most of my photos.

Btw, yes I did take pictures of Martina...but honestly, she looks like a troll doll in them! :)

Also...tonight is my first class at Grad School!!! I didn't sleep very well - I kept having dreams about binders! ha! Wish me luck - I'm gonna need it! The class I'm taking is called Decision Modeling in Information Systems....