Can't you just see the excitement in his eyes?

After 4 months and 270+ hours of studying, Brent took the CAS Exam 6 yesterday, we'll find out the results in late December. I explained a little about his exams back in July. There are 9 of them. He takes them to get his professional certification as an Actuary (one of the best descriptions of what an actuary is is found here). The exams are very labor intensive and it feels like we are perpetually stuck in grad school. He studies for about 4 months for each exam. Well, he did anyway. It looks like for the last 3 he'll need more studying because obviously, they get harder and harder. If you want to learn more about Brent's job and exams, you can ask. Or maybe I'll have him blog about it himself.

Anyway, the tests are in the morning and last about 4 hours so Brent is always home by 2 on tests days and that's when we celebrate. We do whatever Brent wants to do. For example, after his test in May, all he wanted to do was veg on the couch and eat snack foods. This time, we saw Eagle Eye on IMAX (a little heavy on the swearing but, SO GOOD!!), and with our coupon we only paid $15 for both tickets instead of $16 each. Since it was a 4:50 showing on a Wednesday we were the only people in the ginormous theater until a couple walked in during the previews. It was awesome. After the movie, we went to Chevy's for dinner and ate way more food than we should have, and still had plenty leftover for us both to have lunch today. Their fried ice cream is so yummy that it should be illegal. It was kind of a late birthday celebration for me since we didn't do a whole lot on Saturday so Brent let me pick the restaurant. I had wanted to go to Macaroni Grill in Burbank but when we got to the theater, we saw the Grill was closed. Stupid! I love their rosemary bread. Anyway, we improvised and went to Chevy's instead and we had a coupon for it too which made it all the better. Best tortillas ever. I didn't take our camera but I caught a few things with my phone, which explains the poor quality of the pics.

Giant, empty theater. We should have been making out instead of taking pictures...what were we thinking?


Even food tastes better without the pressure of studying hanging over our heads...