Financial Planning

So, I think I've mentioned before that I am currently taking continuing education courses to become a Certified Financial Planner? Yes? No? Oh well, basically all that needs to be known is that I go to class every Tuesday night to work towards this goal and also had an all day class this past Saturday. Being at school from 8:30am - 4:30pm on a Saturday was the second least amount of fun I had last week. The number one being the final exam for my history of warfare course that I had to write at 8:00am on Thursday.

Anyways, on Saturday we learned how to use our fancy financial planning calculators. We are encouraged to use the HP10BII because the text goes through all the keystrokes for the equations on the HP but doesn't help you if you have any other kind of calculator. I suck at math. Like, really suck. It was always my poorest subject and I can barely do basic addition/subtraction to this day. But this calculator is amazing! Once you learn all the variables for calculating the Time Value of Money all you have to do is input them into the calculator and SHIZZAM! There's your answer. It's terrific and actually makes me enjoy doing the calculations, which is really saying something!

In other news, my little kidlet is at a different dayhome this week since our regular lady is on vacation. We're actually going to be switching to this new place on June 1st since our regular lady is pregnant. I was a little but worried about how it would go when I dropped the kidlet off this morning, but he was excellent. This place has a cat and there is nothing Braden loves more than cats. I barely had time to take his shoes off before he was gone to chase their cat. He didn't even come to see me when I said "Bye Braden, mommy is leaving now!" Didn't care. There's a cat, why should he care? I called on my lunch break to see how it was going and she said that Braden is "quite wonderful!" News to a mother's ears.

P.S. Their cat is hideous and I was impressed he even could tell that it was a cat. It kinda looked like this