Back To School Shopping

OMGOODNESS...... it's really here!!!.....this is the week!!!  I start back to school in just two days!  Baking 1 for Restaurants.... and then..... I graduate!!  WOO HOO!!!  Does this make me an official Senior?!!??....... and........ should I be experiencing Senoritis!???  LOL  And is there really anything more fun than "Back To School Shopping"???  Pencils and paper and binders.... OH MY!  LOL  I'm skipping down my own yellow brick road on my way to see the Wizard for my diploma!

When I went to my advising session with my Chef.... he suggested I get a few things to add to my knife bag, so I went shopping at Target this afternoon in search of baking gadgets.  I bought a candy thermometer, a long flat and a short pastry spatula, a couple of rubber scraping spatulas and a pastry scraper.  I have my new fresh notebook, my mechanical pencils and sharpie markers in my book bag, my uniform is cleaned, pressed and waiting for me to put it on and I'm ready for the first day of school again.

Because I am taking this class in the "Late Fall" term, I get the benefit of having the Christmas Holidays fall right in the middle of the term.... thus.... I go 6 weeks, off 2 weeks and back to school for 4 weeks, which will fly by with the hectiness of the holidays.  I am currently reading as many chapters in my textbook as I can.  I want to be ahead of the game because of the stress and hectiness of the holidays.... which will include my youngest daughter, Lauren, moving home from LA Dec. 20th.  She graduates from FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising) Dec. 16th.  She has been in LA almost 3 years and that time flew by like a flash.  We are for this moment..... Seniors together!  Awwwww!!!!!  Guess we will have to have a big blow out Graduation party for the two of us!  I graduate Jan. 27th..... just 5 weeks after she graduates.

Back to reading of the text!  Have two chapters of homework completed already.... (there is no homework for chapter 3) I am in the middle of chapter 4.... which is the longest chapter in the book (50 pages), and I want to get through chapter 5 before school starts because according to the syllabus, we will be studying chapters 1-5 the first day of class.  I like to be prepared!  :  )

Happy Monday!