12 Days of Christmas

So since Bob doesn't read my blog at all, I think it's safe to share his secret present with you! The other day I got to work and my co-worker Teresa was working hard at planning the 12 days of Christmas for her husband. I thought it was such a good idea, that I stole it and decided to plan my own 12 days of Christmas for Bob! Here's what I'm doing for him:

Day 12: 12 Chocolate Chip cookies (his favorite)
Day 11: 11 Reason's I love you (framed with a picture of us)
Day 10: $10 Gift Card to Scheels
Day 9: 9 "coupons" for a back massage (from me without complaints LOL)
Day 8: An 8 pack of crayons with a Batman coloring book for us to color together on cold snowy nights
Day 7: 7-Up ( A 2-liter so he has plenty to last him thru a late night game night with Ricky)
Day 6: A 6-pack of his favorite beer
Day 5: A 5 blade razor (this may be a gift to me as well since his skin will be so smooth!)
Day 4: 4 energy drinks (he buys them before work almost every day)
Day 3: Menage A Trois
Day 2: A new pair of gloves-extra warm and waterproof so he can wear them snowboarding
Day 1: A snow board day, my treat (it may turn into a ski day if I hate snowboarding since I know how to ski)

Since Day 1, is the best gift I'm doing the gifts as a countdown to Christmas. Day 12 will be on the 14th, so I'm almost there!

Other than the Christmas shopping this week has been pretty mellow. I went to UVU to talk with the financial advisers about paying for school. They were extremely unhelpful. They pretty much told us that as long as we live with Bob's parents, they won't give us financial aid because we might get money from our parents. I explained that both of them are retired/unemployed and therefore don't make any money to give us. She simply shrugged her shoulders at me and said that sucks, guess you'll have to find another way to pay for school. I then asked her about student loans, she said she won't be able to get me a student loan until after the tuition deadline, so I would either need to pay tuition and use the loan as reimbursement or I would have a sizable late fee. Both sounded like ridiculous options so I asked her about payment plans. Unfortunately to get a payment plan we would need to pay a large portion of the tuition as a down payment to get on the plan, and we would have to do it before Friday (we don't get paid in time for that) Anyway, long story short, Bob and I can't afford to go to school this semester and we are really upset at the hoops UVU has made us jump through to be admitted, then to sign up for classes and now to pay for school. Bob is going to look into trade schools and community colleges, and start saving money to pay for school, and I'm going to look into other schools and other career paths as well. Hopefully we will figure out where we are going with our lives soon! Wish us luck!