What can I say?  2016 June 08 Weds.

Today nothing was going on, except Andy and I were looking at flights to Montreal, Canada. for his birthday 01 Aug.
So, Andy bought plan tickets for that time frame.  He also looked at Airbnb, doesn't seem like a bad deal, one price for each day. Unlike hotels the change its rates for the weekend, Thurs, Friday, Saturday.  So, still looking for something at the moment.
I just showed as a fluke a former nunnery to stay at, and Andy said that would be a hoot to stay there on his birthday.  To say he did that, and it is in the heart of downtown Montreal.  It got good reviews, just it doesn't have towels, and no AC, and there wasn't any pictures of showers, plus the beds may be too small for Andy, we will see about that.

Today I also finally looked up my grade from my last college class POLI SCI 103 and I got an A first one since I started going there. So, my GPA is up to  3.01 All I need is some more A's and I could get it up to 4.0 then I go to SDSU.  We will see, my math is keeping me from finishing up the classes I need to transfer to SDSU.  I hate Math and I have tried and tried but I can't seem to remember the formulas.  I just don't know what I am going to do.

Memorial Day Weekend Andy and I flew out to Detroit/Pontiac for a memorial for Chuck Tabar (Andy's dad) who died last year 2015 September.  But Peggy his wife/Andy's mom/my mother-in-Law had him cremated and this year (2016) went into the park and dumped his ashes into a lake the he love to fish at all the time.  With the family watching or assistant in the dumping.
Now that that is done, Peggy has cleaned out the house in Pontiac, Michigan and fixed up the house for selling.  She will be moving to Washington State and live near her younger son Chris and his wife Trish, even though she has family in Pontiac her brother and sister-in-law, and the nieces and nephews.  But Peggy is doing what she wants and needs to do.
I commented Andy may be smiling that not only is his mom moving near Chris & Trish, but also Chris'  in-law live near by.  So Chris has the whole clan right near by. LOL

I can't believe I did it

I am the type who will stick with something until I get it.  But I had to withdraw from my math class at Mesa College.  It wasn't that I couldn't keep up, it was that I couldn't understand. 2 of the 3 test I had taken were failures.  But I know that doesn't  excuse me from having to take  the math course for my pre-requisites for having the units needed before I can transfer to say SDSU.  If I can, the GPA has to be at least a  4.0.  I will have to see about that later.

At Mesa college they do have a time slotted for math tutoring, but at San Diego City College has a room for math tutoring and hours.  So, the one at Mesa, I guess due to not having enough tutors,  or can't spare a room and a whole day for that.  I am just thinking that way from comparing the two schools.  I did pay for a math tutor but that math tutor, who was patient still had trouble with getting me to understand the subject.  And I have a feeling he thought I didn't study.

Should I continue with my grade going down and risk failing? But then again the W doesn't come off my record, it stays on  there forever!  I had a W from a class back in 1996 20 years ago.  What the heck?  I was told I could have the W coded out, but the class where the W was for will still be on my record. It was a black and white photography class.  And was told if I wanted to change my major to Fine arts in photography, there would be an issue with the W coded out on the subject I had taken. 

I also spoke with two different counselors one before school was to start and he recommend that I take Math 92 at Mesa college, it should cover the Math 96 (which I failed that class, thanks to me not being about to understand the intermediate Algebra and trigonometry). Which was one of the classes needed in my educational plan. Then this second counselor I spoke with just last week, told me I still had to re-take that Math 96 class, since it was a D.  She seem to get insulted when I said that San Diego City College was setting me up to fail.  She  basically told me it was my fault not the schools.  Considering San Diego City College's success rate is only 12%  So, I disagree with her. They get their money from the State/Federal and the workers there keep their jobs until the day they die. City/State/Federal government workers keep their jobs until they die.   I should get one of those jobs where I don't have to do anything and still sit there and get paid for "that job" 
I am also not good with test taking, and no matter how many classes on "how to take a test" doesn't work for me.
That is all for today, sorry about ranting but better than crying about this stupid thing.

First day of "In my opinion"

Today the 23rd of March 2016 is the first day of my blog.  

At half a century old this is new to me.
My domain name is femalenavyretireesblogspot.com
I would think a lot but have no one to just talk to about it.  Including the hubby.
A little bit about me: I am a female, retired from the US Navy after 23 years.  I retired 2015 FEB.  About 5 months after that my husband and I bought a townhome in Spring Valley.  I love it, with a garage, high ceilings, and two bathrooms.  Went from owning and living in a Condo for 16 years. The last 3 years the complex was turning into a ghetto,
Harbor Vista Condominium not a very nice place anymore. It was not a bad place, right off of the 94 E/W 7-10 minutes to downtown, and connect to the 805 N/S or 15S or 5N. Trolley station at Eucid Ave.
 Anyway we have a great new place since August 2015.  It is just me and my husband with now three cats. Roadking, oldest 14 years old,  Dash or dasher  3 years old, and now Sue 7 month old kitten.
I go to school now at San Diego City College, to get most of my credits done to transfer to SDSU and have a bachelor's degree in political science.  I have an associates from a Excelsior college I used online while in the Navy.

Hubby works for a computer company one of the bigger ones in San Diego county, up in Sorrento Valley and Mira Mesa area.

I was told this could be a good way for me to write just like a journal.  I rather type than write now a days.