Getting things done

By the end of today, I will have turned in my biggest paper (the 6-8 page one) and hopefully started working on the second one. And I will have gotten thru my Math midterm, hopefully without failing it. Next Monday we have our 3rd midterm in Psych, and I don't think we have a final to worry about in that class, so I'm pretty much done with it after Monday (which is awesome!).

I still have lots of stuff to get done for my Art class, but I'll try and get all of that finished this weekend (I'm hoping I can get most of it done on Friday while I'm stuck at work, but we'll see). I also have to present an art lesson with a group tomorrow, and we really don't know how we're going to do that. We know what we're doing, but we're not sure how we'll go about teaching it...I think we're supposed to meet up tomorrow before class and talk that over...?

There is still a bunch of stuff that needs to get done before this quarter is finally over, but the list is slowly dwindling down, and that's an awesome thing. Next week, the last week of the quarter, is gonna be fun...a couple tests, lots of review...I can't wait. *stab*

Not Again!!!

I HATE this time of year!!!! It's only been a little over a year since my Grandma passed away, and now my Grandpa is sick and he's probably not going to be with us much longer. I don't want him to have to suffer...and everyone sort of expected this to happen because he and my Grandma were married for about 60 years (and people who are married that long don't usually live too much longer after they lose their spouse)...but I just wish it wasn't like this. With everything I've got going on right now, I don't really have time during the day to spend with him, and he's usually pretty worn out in the evening from all of the visits and such. When they move him back into the nursing home, I'm going to visit him every day, whether he knows I'm there or not. I know that nobody lives forever, and everyone has to die sometime, but I wish that my Grandma hadn't had to suffer thru her last week, and I really hope that my Grandpa doesn't have to suffer for however long he's with us. I hate this whole process!!

It's almost the weekend

Well, it's Thursday, and I've gotten some stuff done. I got my reading done for class today...and I actually got it done last night, and didn't have to do it this morning. I did have to write the 2-page writting this morning, but it took less than an hour to do, and so it wasn't any biggie.

I started my paper for Psych the other day, and I worked on it a little today (I've got almost a whole page done...yay!). Unfortunately it's due next Wednesday, and I've still got to get it to the Learning Center. And, I guess we've gotta turn in a copy of the rough draft (aka: the copy that we take to the Learning Center) to show that we did make corrections... so that's fun.

Next Tuesday, our proposals are due for our paper in English. I'm probably going to turn mine in a little early so that I'll have time to change it if I need to. Hopefully, tho, I'm going to be able to elaborate on a weekly writting...if so, I technically have the paper started. :)

Well, I definately can't wait until this quarter is over, but I really don't want the end to come because of all of the stuff that'll be due and the finals and all that...
If I can get thru things okay, I'll be fine with that. I'm not hoping for all A's this quarter (tho I wouldn't complain). :)

Lent and other things

I think I'm going to give up soda for Lent. I realized that I've been drinking way too much lately, and it'll do me good to get away from it for a while. It's going to be difficult after about the first week, but I think I can do it. :)

So, I have a long list of stuff that I have to get done before the end of the quarter, and we're in the 8th week now, so I have very little time to do them.

• write a 6-8 page paper for Psych
• take that paper to the Learning Center to be looked at by a writing tutor
• write a 5-7 page paper for English (and take it to the Learning Center if I want extra credit)
• about 3 more weekly writings
• getting all of the reading done for said writings
• figure out my exam schedule so that I can figure out when I can work that week
• figure out if I'm going to work during break, and if so, when I work
• get thru a few more math quizes
• get thru one more math test (plus the final!)
• get ready for 2-ish finals
• write up another lesson plan for Art Ed
• present the group lesson plan next week (the 1st?)
• do about 3 assessments
• get my notebook together (for our final in that class)

So, I guess it is pretty long, but when I get it all written out, it seems totally doable...at least, most of the stuff does. I'm definately gonna have a fun time with the papers, but the other stuff shouldn't be too bad, hopefully.

Oh yeah, Christa and I (and some other people) are going to see "Ghostrider" on Friday night. I thought that it looked like it would be a good movie, and she wanted to get together, so I figured that'd be a good thing to do. I just hope it's not aweful! But, one of my friends has already seen it, and she said she'd gladly see it again, so hopefully that's a good sign! :)

Anyways. I hope everyone has a good week, and gets to enjoy their weekends! Me, I'll probably be writing (or finding any means by which to avoid my writing ;p).

Oh shit...

It's almost the 8th week of the quarter, and while I'll be glad to get this thing over with, I'm not at all excited about getting those papers started. I've never really had to write anything that was over 4 or 5 pages long...so a 6-8 page paper seems like a form of torture to me...especially since I don't think I have enough to say to make up 6 pages...but, I guess I'll have to make stuff up...that shouldn't be too hard, right? But what sucks about this 6-8 page paper, is that it's like 1/4th of my grade...and I've gotten a B on my first midterm, and I doubt I'll do any better on my next one (which is today), so I'm hoping I can at least pull a B on the paper...that would give me a B in the class (if I don't bomb the 2nd and 3rd midterms) and I can live with a B.

I'm so ready for Spring! Even though my Spring Quarter's probably going to be tough, I still want the warmer weather. Snow is nice around Christmas, but afterwards, it's time to warm up (or at least not be subzero) and eventually be warm enough to go outside without a coat on. But no...we get 3 feet of snow instead. Don't get me wrong, I love this snow, and I'm kinda glad that we got those 2 days off because of it, but I hated being stuck at home because my mom wouldn't let me drive, and it was too damn cold to walk anywhere. I mean, I realize I haven't been home much, but being stuck with my family for 2 days is a little ridiculous!

Plus, I really hate this time of year because it marks several anniversaries of deaths in my family...plus we had someone pass away just last week (on Valentine's Day, actually), and so I'm really ready to get this part of the year done and over with! I want to be able to remember those that I've lost in a positive light, but it seems like everything (including the outside) is depressed, and I just crave the happy sunshine and the ability to get outside and enjoy it. I hope that Spring break will bring good weather, and I can enjoy my time off...if I get any time away from work.

I LOVE him!!!!

Yesterday I went over to Jake's house because I had gotten him and his family some stuff for V-day, and I wanted to give it to them. And he had said that he had something for me, so I figured I could meet him over there before he went to work. Anyways. I got there and I handed out stuff to his mom and Mary, and then he came in and handed me a box of chocolates and a card. The card was so cute...something about the kissing fishes not having anyone to kiss, and so he's only a stupid fish who's all puckered up for nothing (I don't remember the exact wording, but it was great!). And so I gave him his stuff (I got him a little bit of chocolate -mostly because they had them at the bookstore and they were half off or whatever- and I also got him some M&Ms boxers (they have the blue and green M&M on them, and the blue one tells the green one to give him some sugar, and on the back she dumps a bag of sugar on his head and he says "not what I had in mind" or something like that). Anyways. After he got his boxers, he reached around the side of the couch and pulled out the little tiger that I told him I wanted. If you've seen the Hallmark commercial with the talking tiger that wags his tail, you know which one I'm talking about. His name is Leonardo, and he's so cute! I'll have to show everyone the next time they're over. :D

Oh, and in case you were wondering, the title is about that tiger, but it's also for Jake, too. :) I love them both...and I love Jake even more now that he got me what I wanted for V-day!!! ;p

Valentine's Day

I was looking forward to Valentine's Day for the last couple of weeks...and when it finally came around...it was a disappointment. Not only was the weather sucky, but I was all alone (except for my family) and I only got to speak to Jake over the phone. Now, I know some of you are going to say that you were worse off than me because your boyfriends are farther away than Jake is from me, but yesterday, honestly, it felt like we were miles apart. And, what was even worse was that I -knew- it wasn't that far to his house, yet I couldn't go there, and he couldn't come to me. It was very depressing. But, I'm over it...Valentine's Day -is- overrated. It's just a "holiday" that was created by the card companies, and I think it's only purpose is to remind those who are single of the fact that they are single, and I don't really think that it has any other value to those who are in a relationship, other than giving them an excuse to get dressed up and go out for dinner or whatever. I didn't really have any big plans for yesterday, but I still would have been nice to have even a "normal" day...compared to being stuck at home.

Anyways. There were some good things that came out of my being stranded at home with my family. My mom and I watched "The Devil Wears Prada" (it was my second time watching it, but I caught more details and some things made a little more sense the second time around). It's not a horrible movie, but it's not one of my favorites.

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Yeah, that's pretty much how I felt when I woke up this morning. I didn't sleep very well...I kept waking up and checking on my cat (Ming) for some reason...I don't know...she's old, and maybe, subconsciously, I thought she might die sometime in the night..? I don't know. All I do know is that I woke up several times and didn't really sleep very soundly. It might also be because my grandpa's in the hospital with pnuemonia (and he's also got some other kind of infection/virus, but they don't know what it is yet). Anyways...it's only been slightly over a year since my grandma died, and this is all too soon for my grandpa to be sick like this...at least, for me it is. So, I'm thinking that this contributed to my restless night (and I kinda do feel like I didn't sleep hardly any last night). He's doing a lot better than he was when he got taken in Saturday morning/afternoon, but there's definately still room for improvement.

I tried to get my reading done for my English class (on Tuesday) over the weekend, but obviously I was met with some important distractions, and didn't get that goal accomplished. It's not "due" until tomorrow, and we're probably going to be doing group work on it, so it's not like I -have- to get it done, really...but I've got to at least try. And that's what I -should- be doing right now instead of typing up this blog, but obviously that's not the case. I also wanted to get some reading done for my Psych paper, so that I'm not as far behind as I feel, but that also got pushed to the back burner over the weekend. I feel like I'm slacking off majorly this quarter, and I'm trying to get at least caught up so that it doesn't all pile up at the end of the quarter, but not really having a whole lot of luck with that.

So, Valentine's Day is coming up in a few days, and I haven't really gotten anything for Jake or my family...I'm really behind in all kinds of stuff right now. The reason for the lack of shopping is that I really don't know what to get...I'm kinda having a sort of "shopper's block," so-to-speak. Oh well...I'm sure I can just go out and grab some candy for everyone, and they'll be fine with that...except Jake...so he can have some boxers or something. I don't know...I've just got so much stuff going on right now...I wish this was an easy quarter!!

Crap!

I realized last night that we're in the 6th week of this quarter...and I have 2 big papers that are due in the next 3ish weeks...I should probably start on those (especially since I have to take the one to the Writing Center as part of our grade, and I can take the other one for extra credit, which I may consider doing-mostly because I'm not sure how good it will be) or at least start getting ideas or reading the material that they're supposed to be over. I really suck at writing long papers, and I always run out of things to say, so it feels like I'm just talking in circles...yay. Hopefully the people at the Writing Center (who get paid to help people with their papers) know what they're doing and can at least point me in the right direction.

Anyways. I bought myself a new movie last night! "First Wives' Club"!!! It's such a great movie! I was at Wal-Mart getting some anti-fog stuff because (starting yesterday) my windows started to fog up and get a thin layer of frost on then (on the inside, mind you) while I was driving, and I decided that I really can't have that so I went and got some stuff to help with that (which worked pretty well today...it didn't get rid of all of the fog, but there wasn't any frost, which is awesome!). I'm also supposed to see if I can rent Cinderella III tonight so that we can watch it when I go over to Jake's house for crocheting (with his mom and sister...not Jake ;p). I'm hoping that it'll at least be better than the 2nd Cinderella movie (which probably wouldn't take much ;p) and the plot seems interesting enough, so we'll see.

I ended up getting an A on my Math test that I was all worried about last week. I'm not sure how I only missed 5 points, but whatever...not complaining! ;p I have another quiz today, which shouldn't be hard because it's over measurements and stuff (which I've done millions of times) but I'm not really sure what kinds of questions the prof will put on there...so I've definately got plenty of chances to screw up, I'm sure.

Last night, I don't think it ever stopped snowing. I love snow, don't get me wrong, but I think there's a time and a place for it, and that's definately not when I have to drive 20ish miles to get to campus for work and school! I'm so ready for it to stop and for Spring to come (only, I don't think I'm looking forward to Spring quarter very much)!!

Well, I should probably go look over my notes a little before the test, so I guess that's what I'll go do...maybe. :)

Mondays

So, I watched a little over one half of the game last night, but I went home around 5 or so minutes into the 3rd quarter because I had eaten too much and needed to be able to lie down (plus, if I didn't get away from the food, I would have eaten more and exploded!!!). The game, from what I saw of it, was a pretty good game...very intense at some points...and the commericals were pretty funny (I liked the one with the bunny, guinea pig and the mouse...it was great!!), at least, the ones that I saw, but there were some really dumb/pointless ones, too.

I didn't get to bed until about midnight last night, and I woke up at about 10 after 6 this morning...so I definately didn't get enough sleep. The weird thing is that I'm pretty much wide awake. At least, for now. Thank goodness this isn't one of my long days or I'd be dead tired by the end of it.

I have an appointment with my advisor today to figure out my schedule for next quarter. I pretty much know what I want to take, but I have to run a couple of things by her and make sure that everything's going smoothly. I want to do my field experience next quarter, so I'll have to fill out some paperwork for that and get fingerprinted before I can go into the school (I guess it costs $20 to get a fingerprint kit done...I can't believe that crap! You'd think that the school would pay for that kind of stuff since their requiring it...but no).

Oh yeah, I got my hair permed on Saturday. It's a little curlier than I wanted, but the curls should mellow out once my hair grows a little longer and then it should be fine. But, it's not horrible, so I'm sure I can live with it for now. Hopefully I'll be able to make it less poofy when I can finally wash it and get all of the product out that has been put in it (apparently you now have to wait 48 hrs instead of 24 hrs to wash your hair...it sucks).

I feel kinda crappy today, and I'm not really sure why. Something happened last night that I didn't ever really expect to happen (it's no use asking if you want to know because I'm not gonna talk about any specifics) and it wasn't a good thing...so maybe that's part of why I feel down (actually, it's possibly a big part of that). And this past Tuesday marked the 1-year anniversary of my Grandma's death, and I didn't go out to visit her grave because they still haven't gotten a gravestone put there yet, so it's not marked or anything, and I don't think I could find it.
Yesterday was just a really long day...and I was glad to go to bed and have it be over with.

I got invited to go with some friends down to one of their b/f's house for the weekend, and I thought it might be fun, but I had to decline because it was for this weekend, and Sunday's my Mom's birthday, and I figure that I should be here to spend time with her. I was kinda hoping that it would be next weekend, because I really would like a break, but it doesn't look like that's possible right now. Plus, I have a midterm in my Psych class on Monday that I really should study for, and going away for the weekend definately wouldn't help with that.