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We're scrambling to take care of everything we need to do in order to be ready to move. Today we met with our new apartment manager, and he seems really great. The complex is small and I feel like he's invested in the comfort of his tenants. We got the keys, and the apartment is all ours :) Michael is there right now writing up the things that are wrong with the apartment so we won't get charged for them when we eventually move out. We also went to the electric company to get our electricity switched over to the new apartment. We still need to get our mail forwarded.
We're fucking nuts for traveling to Carlsbad for a few days right in the middle of all this, but we haven't seen our families in like 5 months and they were itching for us to come home. It's all kind of stupid because we'll be back in just a few weeks for Christmas, but whatever. We're actually going to celebrate Thanksgiving on Wednesday so we can get back here on Thursday. Friday morning Michael is going to do a little Black Friday shopping (he's getting a netbook) and then next Friday and Saturday we're officially out of here. I'm currently working on straightening up the whole apartment and getting everything in its place so that it can all be quickly and easily packed up. Yesterday Michael got his oil changed and his tires rotated in preparation for our drive to C-bad in the morning. We both have all of our clothes/stuff laid out for the trip but I haven't actually packed it yet.
To top it all off, I have a ton of reading to do for sexualities over the break, and I also have a bunch of online Spanish that's due November 30th, which is pretty much the most inconvenient day ever. Then I have a psych lab report due on Dec. 4th, which is the last day of class *pulls out hair* Finals are from December 7th- 11th. I need to study my ass off for statistics and for sexualities. And of course I need to study to a degree for everything else. But I really just can't even think about finals yet...there's just so much that needs to be done between now and then.
All of that being said, I am excited to see my mom, sister, dad, and step-mom. It has been quite awhile since I've seen them, and I'm missing them all. Plus Thanksgiving food is going to be delicious.
Well it was bound to happen with how busy I am now that I am a full time student on top of being a full time stay home mom whose husband is gone between 50-80% of the time. I am playing hooky the rest of this week minus going to school Friday morning to take a proctored exam for an online class.
I am starting to feel run down, stuffed up, and stressed out. Randy point blank said stay home! I am gone for two weeks, your parents moved to the city, and we are FUCKED if you go down with being sick if it isn't the flu!
I played pool last night and before hand went to a mandatory workshop for my TRIO program instead of just relaxing at home yesterday. I think that is what screwed me. I am being a typical groody house mom today! I threw on clean pants and underware but threw back on my pool tshirt (it's comfy!) and took the kids to school. When I got home, I did all the necessary emails and phone calls to professors, counselors, and recruiters (they are for my student ambassadorship).
For the last two hours I have been chit chatting with friends on the phone, cleaning my house back to the point I will accept it, and finishing up the winterization because it is getting down to freezing at night! That wind is cold during the day! Plus I am having issues with the dayum grain feed place getting my propane! I have been heating the house for the past week by doing laundry and running my dryer! Randy finally took that over this morning while on the road. He is getting them to get out here to fill our propane tank up but they are screwing around still by saying it might be tomorrow instead. If they dont' show up today, I am going to use who one of the Tribe's contracts out to! They are loving the fact it opened up a new customer base outside of the Tribe and Tribal memebers who receive tribe paid propane! They are comign down twice a week to fill up for Tribe paid accounts and are willing to give private paid Tribal memebers and None Tribal members the same price! So if the fuckers dont' show up today to fill up my propane they lost my business and then I go bitchy as hell on them! While getting CHEAPER propane from a different company.
So one less stress taking care of, but it isn't going to last. Once I get my hosue cleaned up today and tomorrow, I should be feeling better. But I doubt it!
I have a budding volleyballer on my hands with my daughter. She has played two Sundays so far and I have missed both of those games due to me having school obligations before her schedule came out. According to Daddy and Grandma, DeLaney is taking after her Auntie Theresa and is a natural born volleyballer. I can't wait to go to her next two Sunday's worth of games to take lots of pictures.
Then my son! My baby! He is a strong combo of smarts from his dad and mom! Don't get me wrong so is Mz Thang but she is more like her dad and could care the fing less about school. She is one smart cookie but she gets bored and looses focas really easy. She is getting all A's and B's but she has a very competitive class when it comes to grades. She will have to step it up a notch in the next few years.
Anyway we always knew our kids were high ability learners. And if the teachers would just fucking listen to me about DeLaney she would be where her brother is sitting at! With an invitation to the gifted program! That is right my son scored a 93% on his national tests OVER ALL! Only one other 4th grader had an over all compositie score almost as high as Coltin's! The other two 4th grades invited scored high in one or two subjects!
Now my Monday's just got that much busier until the end of April. Since the school is a small K-12th school, they don't have the money to do the program every day afterschool or even twice a week during school like my neice's program is, so after school once a week on Monday's, Coltin is now not going to get home till about 5:30 quarter till 6 at night. They make up the other days they don't do the program by holding special feild trips for the 3-6th Gifted program on weekends. Coltin is as bored in school as his sister is but he doesn't loose focas like she does. He takes after me in the aspect of being very competitive with his grades.
Both Randy and I are very happy that our kids are finding their niches in this school even if there are some social issues there (that is all because of how snotty the people are in this town the school sits in) but thankfully they have listened to me and say screw the snotty kids! I'll dress how I please, I'll do the things that make me happy and if you don't like it kiss my ass. I don't have to be a jock, I don't have to be a nerd, and I don't have to be the "popular" kid to have friends.
they kdis are still bugging to be homeschooled because DeLaney admitted she learns more when I teach them something. I think it boils down to that DeLaney needs to have more one on one interactoin and she would do excellent in a Charter School system. That girl is super smart! Especially when she is helpign me to study for Spanish and Math!:D
Anyway. I best get off of here so I can go clean up my kitchen and then sit down in a blanket with a book! Chatter at ya all later!
Also another news. I am also now on Twitter. Use the following link to find me.
http://twitter.com/justinsamthomas
Have to take leave now. Anyway this time i won't be abandoning mindsay. So remember I'll be back!!!!!
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Something that reminds me of how much I hate cancer happened this weekend.
I'm doing almost my favorite thing at Camp this week (my favorite is overnight counseling and assisting at the ropes course with my awesome friend Noodles - this week is just overnight, which is delightful*)
And irony hits as I learn that the one person who I didn't want to inform of my plans for next spring...is in fact doing something remarkably similar.
So, I spend a lot of time being really happy, and at random moments I get really upset.
Unexpectedly, one of my friends on staff, who hates being touched, saw me upset and pulled me into a very solid hug and let me cry into him for a few minutes. And then asked what was going on, and said he would pray for me.
*Delightful for me, anyways. So far, my campers think I'm weird, and I'm goofy, and I sing too much. Our program director says that's a good thing. :)
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