We made it to Riverside. It was quite the week last week. Many ups and downs on whether we'd actually be moving here or not. More on that later when I actually have my own internets. We are slowly getting settled in. Thanks to all those who helped make our move possible.

When life throws you curve balls...

...don't just stand there and strike out. Do your best to hit a home run.

7 more days till we move and one full work week left and still waiting to know for sure where we will live. It has been an incredibly stressful the past couple of weeks and this week probably won't get any better. We just keep getting curve ball after curve ball through at us. Why can't everything just fall into place nicely so we can move on?

To explain our current situation better I'm going to have to go back a few month to April. In April Tracy went to register for his last and final class Calculus II that he would them be taking during the summer. He had taken it before but got a D but needs at least a C to graduate. We had saved up our pennies and he planned on taking it as his last and final classes. In order to register for the class, the system was requiring him to put in an add code in order to register for the class. He contacted the math department for an add code and received the reply that they were not going to give him one because his prerequisite had expired and he therefore would need to retake Calculus I. They had started this prerequisite rule in 2010 that all prerequisites expire after two years. There was just no way we could afford both classes. After a couple of fail attempts at appeals we started looking at taking the class through a different college. Westminster became an option till we found out it would cost $4,000 just to take it from there.

We soon discovered that the whole state of Utah had some sort of prerequisite time frame rule through Utah System of Higher Education. One school, can't remember which one, only had a one year time frame. It is suppose to be beneficial in helping bring up the percentage of those passing math classes. I guess they figure if you take your math classes closer together you do better.

After narrowing down our options it came down to BYU being our life savor, but their summer semester class was full and had a pretty long waiting list. Doing it through their independent study became the only option.

So here we are today, Tracy's been working on the class pretty much every day and plans on taking the final on Friday. He's been able to get the U to work with him on transferring the grade so that he can have his degree cause with out it they won't let him start at UCR on the 24th unless the degree is posted even if all his classes are completed. Now he has to get the professor of the Calculus class to do a rush grading and send his final grade to the U.

At least if it doesn't all work out, UCR will rearrange his aware and he'll be able to start in January. So we'll be moving our stuff to Riverside next week. Depending on the out come of this Calculus class we'll either join our stuff or come back to Utah and live with Tracy's parents for a few months.

Now if we both die (figuratively) of stress by the end of the week, you all will know why. That is if you understood all my ramblings.

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