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I was getting a little nervous because I hadn't heard from my Anatomy & Physiology Professor and I need my book. School starts Tuesday! I am weird about having it "all in order". When my surroundings are organized, I feel as if I actually have control of my life. (I know ;)
Wednesday, I get this long ass email with an attachment of THIRTY TWO pages to study BEFORE Tuesday. She says we'll be going extremely quickly through the material and finishing chapter one on the first day. SO I have memorized the Ventral Cavity (and its contents), the Dorsal Cavity (and its goodness). Now I am on the Systems - Like Digestive, Urinary, Skeletal, etc. I still have tons more pages to memorize.
I bought my book from Amazon yesterday cuz they only sell them brand new at the bookstore (RIPOFF) A way to make money off the poor college students. It was $232 at school (And a lecture notes, lab notes booklet is an additional $67). I found the book used for $145. I paid $12 to have it shipped by Friday. I have the HOPE Grant and it pays for $50 towards books so it should cover the lab & lecture booklet. I hope.
I am broke as hell. Had to use Ma-Ma's credit card for the book. I paid $55 from my Amazon account where I've earned money and I also transferred $100 yesterday. So all I owe her now is $213 for the ticket.
And my honey's car payment was due on the 13th. I have no funds for that even available. I get paid today & so does he, so hopefully that'll be enough for rent. And I have to pay his cell bill, the interlock fee....Whoa. Too much to think about huh?
Screw it. I cannot do a damn thing about it. I am here at work, aren't I? I’m in school trying to do better, aren't I? What else can I do exactly?
ON a happy note: Today is Ray's B-day (That's my stepdad- But not technically since my mom divorced him 5 years ago...He lives next door to my grandma, so he is still a frequent member in our life) Mom has mixed emotions about it. Some days she gets pissed saying that she doesn't want him around, some days she invites him for dinner. Who knows. We are all meeting at Ma-Ma's for cake...I'll have Miller Lit instead.
My book (daily devotional) was lame today. It said how the way you dress tells people who you are. Screw that. What if I can't afford to dress exactly how I think I am? I wear jeans & t-shirts & sneakers every day. They're clean clothes, but from Goodwill. And I look a little adolescent (I think). I have tons of clippings from magazines that I would love to have the money to buy: summer dresses, business suits, cute slacks, sandals & blouses...I am on a Goodwill budget so I look like I do because of that. I don't look scruffy, but I don't WEAR my personality.
Gooday Mates.
The first day we were there we were hiking down below the "beaver ponds" east of the horse camp when Lilli took a tumble on the trail ( she's my little George of the jungle) . She looked up and said '"broke my finger". The look on her face told me it was true so I led us across the mountain to the horse camp to get help.
There happened to be a nurse there who iced Lil's hand and they kindly drove us back to our cabin.
After three hours at the hospital in Poteau Lil was braced and taped up and we were headed back to "pick up where we left off". Her index finger was broke and her whole hand was black and blue but she wasn't going to let it ruin our vacation.
We spent the next few days hiking with the kids (no computers and tv only at night). I drove them up on Talimena drive which is one of the top 10 scenic highways in America. Lilli took a thousand pictures and video with her new camera. We ate burgers and hotdogs and played games with the kids.
Every morning my dog April and I got up early and went for a run! The beautiful scenery and sounds of nature made the runs seem magical in a way!
I must say I thought about you guys as I ran some. I wondered what you were up to and what you were "cussing and discussing"!I hoped I hadn't missed something good!
I'm going back to the cabin next month and taking a couple of friends from kansas City with me. We're going to do a couple of long distance hikes ( 15 - 20 miles). I'm really looking forward it. There's no place like home and cedar Lake will always be mine!
I actually missed two questions. One for 4 points and the second for 28 points. The 28 point question was a matching question and all semester long the professor and us students were having issues with the matching questions. She kept trying to take them out and we kept trying to answer them. Even when we would answer them correctly according to the professor's key it would mark us wrong. So anyone who happened to get a matching question on the exam automatically received full points!
In other words I only missed one four point question! Woot Woot!
I am so proud of myself! Easing back into college has been an adjustment for not only me but my entire family because Mommy would disappear for a few hours if the kids were home or I would be working on my homework and Daddy would have to help with the kids' homework!
This next semester I will be taking English Comp II just to finish out my English requirments. I don't need to take public speaking because that is one of my grades that transfered from my first attempt at college as a fresh out of highschool teenager! And I pulled a high B in that class. Simply because I used my highschool speech club speeches and the professor didn't like a couple of the topics! Kids who Kill Parents as an informative speech and a Presasive speech on why I was against Public Schools making students wear uniforms.
Yay! I am happy! I have a bottle of merlot chilling for tonight's dinner since we are broke till pay day (paid bills and did holiday shopping with last weeks pay check!) to go out for dinner. I choose merlot because it will go with deer burger chili for tonight's dinner! I can't wait to actually get my grades in my hand!:D
According to a story found at MJSite.com the singing Jackson family isn't doing so well for the most part. Sure Janet still has cash, LaToya is somehow making a living in Europe doing God knows what and Rebie was smart enough to quit after Centipede and marry herself a man with some bank.
But the boys are a hot greasy mess:
Michael: On the verge of losing Neverland ranch as well as the family's Encino, Calif., home. He's hiding out in Las Vegas and repeatedly makes promises to his brothers while sabotaging any attempts by them to ply their musical trade.
Jackie: The oldest son started an Internet clothing business and is trying to produce records by his sons. Nothing has panned out.
Randy: Does odd jobs like changing tires to support himself. He was Michael's business manager during the 2005 molestation trial but ran into serious problems with friends after he persuaded three people to take out lines of credits against their homes to help Michael pay his attorney fees and Michael stiffed them.
Marlon: Lives in San Diego, where he works stocking groceries at a Vons supermarket. He fell on hard times three years ago when he was forced to leave his foreclosed home and move into an Extended Stay America hotel with his wife, Carol.
Jermaine: Splits time between the parents' Hayvenhurst mansion and his girlfriend's home in the San Fernando Valley. With more than $5 million in federal, state and other liens against him and a 1995 bankruptcy filing, he doesn't work or have a regular income.
Tito: Formed a blues band several years ago and plays at small venues for $500 to $1,500 a gig.
These broke bastards better call VH1 and get a piece of that reality show money that's out there before it dries up. If a crispy critter like Flavor Flav can get women to fight over him then imagine the caliber of chicks that Jermaine can get with his California Raisin looking ass.
So, I was going about my day. I had finally stopped procrastanting (sp?) and got off of chat, neopets, mindsay, and a few other sites and got busy.
I finally finished dejunking my room. And while cleaning out my closet, I found one bat, one 12 inch softball and one 11 inch softball, my first catching pud, my last pair of highschool softball cleats, six batting gloves, one lefty mitt, and an equipment bag. With a suprise!:O I always wondered where that dayum box of condoms in my senior year had gone too! Now I know! At the bottom of my softball equipment bag!:D Looks like my mom only took the main equipment bag of my softball gear and handed over to my diabetic counselor. I put all the gear in the bag and it is sitting next to the mudporch door so I can hand it over to my mom's to give to my diabetic counselor. Once I meet my goals, THEN I can have all my gear back!
I changed my bed sheets (the bi weekly changing!:D), rounded up Randy's and my dirty laundry, put away clothes and had just gone down stairs to start a load of laundry when I got the phone call from the school!
Secratary: "Jackie? Can you come up to the school? DeLaney smashed her fingers into the class room door somehow!"
Me: "Dayum! Is she bleeding? Can she bend her fingers at all?"
Secratary: "No blood, but lots of swelling and discoloration. Hold on let me see if she can bend her fingers. It is on the first knuckles that got it. She can bend all her first knuckles with out pain but her left ring finger."
Me: "Dayumit all to hell! Okay, let me get dressed, call the doc's office to see what they want to do and I will be up."
I got dressed (it was cleaning/lounge day so I took the kids in my jam jams and was still in them!), put a call into the doc's office, called my mom and asked if she could look at the finger before I decieded to drive to the city with DeLaney. And got on the road.
Luckly by the time I got there, (they were icing the finger down) the swealing had gone way down and according to the Mission Secratary not the school Secratary, the discoloration had gone from angry deep purple down to a angry pink color. She still couldn't bend that left ring finger though and she had a good size dent in the finger with a bit of dried blood but nothing major. I signed her out of school and we headed down to the Tribal Clinic so Granny could take a look at her finger for me.
I didn't think it was broke but I wasn't taking any chances. My mom agreed with me that she didn't think it was broke but suggested I take her up to the doctor anyway. I again called the doctors office to let them know we were coming up, stopped back at the school and signed Coltin out. (Randy is on the road, my mom didn't get off of work till 6 this evening, and yay not really an emerency so my dad wasn't going to go pick my boy up for me!)
We were right. It isn't broke just badly brused. Doctor didn't even order xrays but we are going to buddy wrap the left ring finger to her tall man finger for a week. If her nail turns black or if she complains that she can't move it at all, then we are to take her back up to get the nail taken off and then get some xrays. The doc did clean out the dent and put a small gauze wrap around that and suggested we keep that on for about 3 or 4 days so it doesn't get infected.
What a day.
I treated the kids to what Randy calls "Dog Food" aka McDonald's for an early supper. When we got home, I dosed DeLaney up with some Motrin and made her ice down her fingers again. Then we went about our afternoon/evening chores.
I did manage to get a few more loads of laundry done, fiddled with my sewing machine (it is acting up) and managed to get one panel of a set of bottom curtains done for my kitchen.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that we have no more incidents of injuries at school this year. DeLaney is really worried about testing now for our next taekwondo rank. We have a couple of finger tip punchies that we have in our form and have to demenstrate on the bags. I told her not to worry if her fingers are still hurting when it comes time for testing we will let Mr. Johnson know that she can't punch with her left hand and he would understand. He is allowing mommy to forgo the jump kicks and take steps instead so I dont' injure my knee.
She seemed okay with that.
Now I am off to procrstanate some more.
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