I am sorry, Indy.
Since this is Thread Drift, I am drifting. I have 2 good things to report!
1) I just got an email that my registration is processed and I can call the company that gives the licensing exam for my counseling license. I've been studying since last January, but really intensely since July. I will probably do it during the first 2 weeks in November. Nervous. There's a high failure rate.
2) DS is leaving the Marines... he'll be coming back from Afghanistan in December. He really won't be done until March, but he has so much vacation, he won't be working much, with the transition stuff, etc. He's going to come and visit (he lives in Long Beach) and most importantly, he's going back to school. Will finish out his second year at a community college in the spring and apply to Cal State for next fall. This has been a long road. I accepted the fact he was in the military, but never really that he dropped out of college. He's scarily smart and he is destined for great things. I guess I can thank his wife for putting her foot down and saying she's had enough of being apart!