life...

Had a very good talk with HTB last night, and as a result we finalized his FAFSA and he's going to call Enrollment Services at our local community college.

He found out yesterday that his 90-day contract (through a local employment agency) has been extended until May 31st, so he'll be continuing to work at the internal help desk of BigCompany until then.

After that he's going to (hopefully) find a part-time job and go back to school.
Since all the stuff with financial aid takes a while, and Summer Term (well technically, Quarter) is odd enough to begin with, he might just wait and work this summer and start school with Fall Term in September.

I'm just glad we've finally reached a decision and are doing something! I'm still a bit anxious to try and get details on what sort of financial aid he's going to get & how far it'll stretch. Money's going to be tight, but this is a very good thing for him (& us) to do.
I'm very pleased & *very* proud of him. I've never had to try and make that mental jump from full-time gainfully employed adult citizen to older-than-the-average-age college student.

Completely unrelatedly, I'm in need of a new nsync (or individual member or any combination thereof) moodtheme.
Anybody have any they can recommend?
::bats eyelashes::
Pretty please?

Happiness!!!

I've shared the saga I've had with the noisy neighbors who think thought that since they were on the ground floor they could turn their bass on their music up as loud as they wanted. I whined & whined & whined & whined to our apartment complex management.

Several months later, lo & behold, they moved out!! :D Forced (or at least strongly encouraged) moved out I think, too.

The apartment underneath us was vacant for a couple weeks, but when I got home from work tonight I saw people moving stuff in.

It looks like our new neighbors are a young couple about our age, with a baby (saw the mom holding him/her through the window when I drove up). Baby is probably 6 to 9 months old.

But I think our problems with loud music are solved!! :)

I conviently decided it was a good time to go take the recycles out when I saw the both of them outside by their car getting ready to take stuff in.
I chatted with them a bit more (I introduced myself to the husband/dad when I first pulled up and walked up to my apartment). I like to introduce myself to my new downstairs neighbors as early as possible to explain the existence of a birdfeeder on my deck & apologize for the mess that the seeds make that fall down between the decking to their new apartment's patio.
So I started explaining how HTB & I have birdfeeders up & was all set to apologize when the wife goes "oh, the little birdies! I saw them, they're so cute!" I can't get her tone right in writing, but she was pleased & excited to have the fallen seeds as it brought birds to her patio! She even said that she & her husband were also thinking of putting up a bird feeder.

So far, I don't think we could ask for more perfect neighbors!
Well, except for the fact that they're probably going to put their baby in the room that's directly beneath our computer room... which is where HTB's subwoofer & speakers are that he likes to listen to music on. I guess we'll just have to be careful not to have it up too loud.