Life is just cruising right along for Thomas and I.
Man, is it exciting!
Wedding plans, as you know if you've recently read my blog, are coming along wonderfully.
Simply wonderfully.
December 17th is going to be here before we know it!
Thomas and I are on the market for a new car.
Well, moreso me than Thomas, but hey, what's mine is ours now, right?
Right.
Car shopping is incredibly frustrating,
not to mention time consuming,
and I'm getting bored of it.
But! I feel like we're just about to find something we like, and I am SOO excited.
It will be my very first "official" car I will have bought all by myself!
I am looking for something sleek and pretty looking.
No bulky jeep or rusty old chunk.
Preferably something only about 4 or 5 years old,
with 70/80,000 miles or less on it.
I just need something more reliable than what I have now.
I have a '99 Saturn with 115,00 miles.
It runs, alright, but I share it with my sister, and the "service engine soon" light randomly turns on and off, which is a little nerve-racking on those long-distance trips.
Sometimes it gets stuck and jerks backwards when you put it in reverse.
And sometimes it doesn't start.
It's just time to upgrade, and I feel like right now is the right time to do it.
School is another area that just brings the biggest smile on my face!
I am almost finished and I'm finally getting to the exciting part of my college career!
I get to pre-student teach this fall, and then....drum roll please...full-time student teach this spring!!
I am {so} stoked!
I don't know where I'll be teaching yet, but I do know I'll be doing half of the semester in a middle school, and half in a high school.
And then I get to graduate and start my career!
Fingers crossed that I'll be able to actually find a job after I graduate.
But also with school, the biggest reason it brings a huge smile to my face, is Thomas found, quite literally, the {perfect} school for him.
It is [exactly] the type of thing he was looking for.
It's called the Minneapolis Media Institute, and it's pretty much brand new.
It's fully accredited, and perfectly designed for Thomas to get his Associate's in exactly what he's always wanted to do...and more.
He'll learn graphic design, 3-D animation, drawing...
Video and motion graphics. Game art and design. Digital art and design.
He'll learn to work with green screens and blue screens.
He'll compose 3D models.
Animation projects.
It's got everything for him.
It's a five semester program that will take him 20 months to finish.
After he's graduated, they have a department to help him find a job, and starting salary out of college is about $70,000.
He'll have options to work with a company, or on freelance projects.
He can work on movies, video games, for hospitals and other companies.
The class sizes there are only about 8 students to 1 teacher.
The class sizes there are only about 8 students to 1 teacher.
I went with him to tour the college and learn more about the programs they offer, and all I kept thinking was, "Wow...this is like Thomas' dream college."
I am sooo happy we found it.
And it's weird how we found it:
And it's weird how we found it:
on a billboard driving downtown.
Good advertisement!
Life is good.
I feel like everything is falling into place.
We're becoming adults.
Scary.
But fun.
Good luck finding a car, it's hard to find reasonably priced decent vehicles these days with the poor economy, but they're out there (few & far between)!
ReplyDeleteI've heard great things about the Minneapolis Media Institute, Tom will love it!
p.s. You'll be an awesome teacher! :)
So when I was reading about the car all I could think of was during the school year when you me and chels went to Gordmans and you pressed the gas and we went about as fast as an ant crawls! That was so funny! :)
ReplyDeleteAshley