Oh me oh my

Tommorrow I start back in school. Yippee. I have got to get up early for my first class that begins at 9am. I have decided to only take 3 classes this semester so I don't overload myself like I did in the spring semester. Monday and Wednesday is Sociology and Math and Tuesday is a Psych class "Human Sexuality". That one sounds like fun. I know school isn't supposed to be fun it should be about learning but I have fun learning...does that make me a nerd? Oh well! My biggest problem is that I have to wait til my payday on the 5th to even buy my textbooks. That sucks. I hate being unprepared. There always seems to be someone in my class that doesn't have their stuff together like textbooks, lab equipment, pens, access to a computer, etc... Well it looks like its going to be me this time around. I hate being broke! I am a bit nervous but that seems like a on-going thing every new semester, so I can now expect it when the next semester rolls around.
I do have to occasionally remind myself that this is how I get what I want. Go to school. Get a good job. Get a little ahead. MONEY. They say that money is the root of evil. Well if you don't have any money does that make you a good person? Hmm! That is something to ponder. I have no intention of being rich. Upper middle-class sure. I miss being in the middle-class. I don't quite think I have fallen out of that class but I am definitely on the lower end of it. Which is just barely above poverty. I don't really like that area much. I am too snobby and sophistocated to associate on that level. I know that sounds horrible but it's true. I don't look down on individuals on poverty level. I just can't really relate to them which makes me feel a little on the outside. I don't think anyone should feel that way. At the same time though, I don't really relate to the rich either. I mean what would I have to talk to them about? My experiences in combat? How I like the sound of a classic american muscle car? How I am horrible at golf? How I really don't care about an Ivy League education verses the University and private college education? The money investments I couldn't afford to make? Yea I know it sounds bad but people do fall into classes. You can always change classes. But I don't think someone should venture into a class that they are not comfortable with.
Wow this sounds like I am ranting and raving again so I will just stop. Oh look at the time. Lorin and I picked up NCIS season 8 and we are blowing right through it like we always do. I think I will get back to our little TV show marathon. That's all folks!

The United States Marine Corps

Well I was just looking at stuff on the internet. Particularly on the Marine Corps. Gosh I miss being in! I sometimes look back every now and then and wish I could have stayed in, but I know that everything happens for a reason. Even if it involves crushing your leg, causing you to not continue to do what you loved to do. If I hadn't gotten retired then I never would have met Lorin.

I enjoyed going all around the world for free, blowing stuff up, and pretty much having myself a good ole time doing it. I miss the friendships. I miss the great body I used to have. I don't don't don't miss getting up at 4:30 in the morning to go run around the desert, just to maintain that great body I used to have. I miss very interesting conversations about how you can blow up a tank with balsamic vinegar, duct tape, a platic spoon, fresh squeezed lemon juice, a rubber hammer, a half of a roll of charmin toilet paper, and a stick of cinnamon flavored gum. I miss the wrestling matches we would have at 2am in someone elses barracks. I miss the pranks we would play on the FNGs. I miss a lot. I used to call the Marine Corps my own personal fitness and gun club.
Its funny. Lorin says that I mention her in like every post. Here I am talking about the Marine Corps and I managed to somehow include her in this post. Well what can I say my world pretty much revolves around her.

Stuff

Well I finally finished the fourth book in the Night Watch series book called Last Watch. It was very good. I like the writer. I think he creates wonderful characters.

In other news, I got called to go in to work today for the closing shift. It was a little slow, which is rare for a Thursday. Oh well. Tommorrow we are supposedly having guests over and also on Saturday. The house...well...we ain't cleaned in a while. So I spent earlier today and I will be doing the same tommorrow...CLEANING! I hate cleaning but I really don't want Lorins co-workers thinking we are slobs or anything. So I have to bite the bullet and get the house all neat and tidy. Well the downstairs part anyways. Nobody goes upstairs but us so the cleaning up there can wait. Our new kitties are so cute and they are getting more and more comfortable with us...with the dogs maybe just a little. Work in progress. I will say that fortunately our garage is still clean...shocker!

Pretty soon we have to start buying Halloween candy. Yea yea I know its in like 2 and half months away. But really the young terrors of Carson City all come to our side of town to get the good candy. Its always known that you go to the rich neighborhoods to get the good candy on Halloween. And well we are about a block away from the governors mansion, so its almost a requirement to live around here to have candy and it better be the good stuff too, or else your house will probably get egged or rolled. I honestly think that the people that come up here for Halloween are from all over the damn state. We have been here for over two and half years now. Judging from the masses of people that were on our block the last two Halloweens, it just looks that way. Well thats all from the world of Gary and Lorin so I will post more later.

School

Wahoo. School starts up again at the end of this month. I have been pretty bored this summer. Mostly because I have been absolutely broke. With school in session I will be able to get that GI Bill money to pay for stuff. Like: I need new truck tires, there is also a check engine light on in my truck which is that I need my fuel injector cleaned, groceries, other household odds and ends, 30th birthday coming up next month, I need glasses because I am friggin blind now that I am old, all the TV shows are coming out on DVD this fall, play money, and of course to pay for my lovely edumacation so I can gets me somes smarts! Not that this summer was uneventful but I hate hate hate being broke! Also I want to hurry up and get my nursing degree so Lorin and I go wherever we want. Traveling around the country and around the world without her moms permission or say in what she and I do... Ahhh to be free of her moms reign on her will be grand. I know thats a horrible thing to say but I really can't stand her moms controlling ways over her. For the most part she has managed to break free of a lot of it but there still are some strings that need to be cut. Well thats about as exiting as it gets for me. I know that nobody besides Lorin really reads my blog but oh well I will just keep posting my thoughts anyways. So until next time.