School begins for me tomorrow....

And one of my assignments is to create a blog for my humanities class. So, I have another one. It's at http://catshumanitiesblog.blogspot.com if anyone is interested in seeing what amounts to a school assignment, but who knows, maybe it's more interesting than this.
I am now into year two of my middle-aged college experience, and while I don't think I missed much by not going in my twenties, I do wish I had more time to devote to school so I could get this degree before my daughter, who's a junior in high school, gets hers. I might make it, but I don't think so. Once I can handle a full course load it will go faster, but first I'd have to quit my job and I don't really want to do that just yet.
Our air-conditioning died the other day and we are frying. AZ with no air is kind of miserable. We have a swamp cooler, but with it being monsoon season it's too humid for it to work very well, so we are just using the blower for a breeze. It's not working very well at cooling off the house. I'm about to melt.
My youngest had her birthday yesterday and now all my kids are in double digits. I think it's safe to say there are no small children left in my house. I'm not sure how I feel about that. On the one side I'm in the home stretch, so to speak, but on the other there is not so much of the cute funny stuff. Now it's all about learner's permits, then licenses, late nights and college board exams.

First Day of School!!

Yet again, school has begun. The buses are rolling and the homework brigade is out. All the kids seem excited to be back at it. The older ones are happy with their schedules, since they have classes and lunch with their friends, and the youngest is happy because her music teacher wasn't cut over the summer. She is bugged about one thing though: with 6th grade added to her school and taken from the middle school, she can't go out for a sports team since it's supposed to be the oldest two grades at her school. I think that she'll find out differently though.
I have two weeks before I have to go back, then I hit the ground running. A couple of weeks after that my schedule at work changes and I'll be going to work at 5:15am and getting schoolwork done before the kids get home. Tomorrow DH and I have to go out and get a bunch of supplies that the kids didn't know that they would need after today. C needs a graphing calculator, and only a specific type will do (they're $90, on sale!!). The rest need special notebooks, dry erase markers, more pencils, pens, special colored highlighters, etc. I know I like good supplies as much as the next girl, but could they just consider sending out lists a little ahead of time? They were able to get my older kids their summer reading lists, why is it so tough to get us a supply list?
Okay, rant over. I'm excited about my classes this semester, like Bio and Humanities. I also have Sociology class number 3....all about family relationships. This could be enlightening. Humanities is about pop culture and Bio is about the environment. I'm most excited about Soc, but with the other two I feel like I'm having fun getting the requirements out of the way.
Off to bed...have to get up early to shop...It tool 3 memo slots on my phone to hold the list!!