Squirky, thank you very much. I'll send you a pm in just a second. smile

Pam, hug for all your suggestions and nod, I dop think community college will be the way to go. I started to take a class a year ago at my closest Cal State School and for just one class, one class, (well it would have been good up to 6 at 6 units) it cost over $1000! And I don't think that included books, school supplies, or parking. Crazy, huh? When I was in college (my first time around) I did take a few classes over the summer at the local junior college and they cost like $13 (that was over 10 years ago now) a unit. So much cheaper! And yeah, right now, since I really need all the basic basic math and science courses, I'd think at least some of them would be okay to take at a community college level. As I said I'm really going to start doing massive google scholarship search after the holidays.

Thanks again, everyone,
Mona