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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!
enjoy!
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i was supposed to post this yesterday, but i passed out. then aj called and texted but i was soooooo far gone [into dreamland] that i didnt even notice until like 10:30 this morning... and when i woke up the laptop was still sitting there right in front of my face where id left it and gary was pretty much almost dead because he had been off the charger all day and night :( [poor thing...]
we [aj and i] woke up at around 5:30 and left for orlando. it took us a couple of hours to get there. by the time we were actually within the city limits it was about 8:05am. we were feeling pretty smug because we were 45 minutes early for the orientation, but then we realized we were going to the wrong campus, so we had to go to the wrong campus, and ask for directions to the east campus D:
i ended up being LATE for orientation. i waltzed in there at 9:00 and everyone [about 54 other prospective students] was in this big hallway and as soon as i arrived they all turned to stare at me and then this professor guy called me UP TO THE FRONT to sign in. it was pretty humiliating...
aj decided hed wait in the truck... i dont think he realized i would be in orientation for 3 hours...
after we left at 12:00ish we went straight to the gated community i wanted to move to and took a look around one of the model homes and it was AMAZING! there were 2 pools and a fitness center and a computer area and all these other really nice extras. and the house itself was gorgeous! theres 4 bedrooms in each house [equals 3 room mates...] and im getting the downstairs bedroom because it has its own bathroom ;D
thennnnnnnn we proceeded to get taco bell. meximerican food. we'll get back to this in a minute...
we had to go to the mall so i could talk to my future manager at the hollister there [waaaaay prettier mall and the store was amazing! i cant wait!!!]. id been really nervous about meeting her but she was REALLY nice and told me to take as long as i needed to move in and get situated then i could call her and she would start scheduling me! :D then we went shopping there just to prove how much we loved her [and hollister]
movie time was next. we watched district 9 [highly recommend that movie it was EPIC]
but during the movie the taco bell [told you id come back to it] started giving us hell. we both started feeling sick... i took of my shirt and slumped in the seat and he just groaned the whole time. it was horrible. but it passed right around the time we started making our way home
when we got to ocala we went to my mall and got reimbursed for our purchase at the other hollister and went to american eagle to get some jeans for the boyfriend. whilst in ae this girl with amazing hair was cashing us out, and we both remarked on the aesthetic value of her hair. she gushed [heh heh beccabooskii] so aj got a free shirt because he bought a pair of jeans. i smiled at the lady with pretty hair and she gave me a shirt too! its pretty cute too!
at the end of the day he drove me back to my apartment and we tried to part ways... it was hard... i gave him a shirt of mine and serenaded him with the guitar and my voice. in the end he still left. and i was sad...
fin
heres a video we made before he left. enjoy <3
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Monday: Rescued my nephew for the day. Hijacked Kelly's family picture day. Took the three kids for pictures, rides, lunch, swimming in the backyard.
Tuesday: Had a girl's day with mom and Kelly. Ate dinner at The Blue Door. Went to the Twins game. Interleague play. Vs. the Pirates. Crushed them 8-2. Hung with Jan and Marie (also at game)....they're awesomely fun.
Wednesday: Went in to work early for a meeting. Had family drama.
Thursday: Had a loooong but extremely fun day of shopping with mom. We went to the Mall of America because she needed new work shoes (at Skechers). I needed nothing. Came home with two pairs of shoes, makeup, a christmas ornament, and new perfume. Fun. Super Fun.
Friday: Worked then home. Em and Chad came to visit. Found out that my aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer this week and is having surgery next week. Mom and Dad are heading to Alabama to be with her. Please keep her and my family in your thoughts and prayers.
Saturday: Picked up Simon and went with him, Mom and Dad, and brother-in-law, Chad, out to the State Fairgrounds to the "Back to the 50s" car show. It was fun. Developed a charley horse that has yet to go away. Less fun. Later, went to Elena's house for her father's memorial service. We drank and toasted his life. It was a fitting memorial.
Sunday: Father's Day. Belated wishes to all the wonderful fathers I know. (you know who you are!). Especially my own father.(I bought him the Ultimate John Wayne video collection--he loved it!). And my cell phone is broken. Dammit!
Monday: Watched Simon during the day. We went to story time at the library. We toured a school bus. Went to the mall and rode the carousel. Visited Pa at work. We were headed to the park when his mom called, she came early to pick him up. So now I owe him a trip to the park. And I'm at work again. Meeting Justin in amatter of minutes. (Hopefully....not having a cellphone sucks!)
With any luck, life will slow down this week. Tomorrow I will go see if my guy can get me a new phone...stay tuned.
Craving: ...Chicken?
Hoping: My driver's test tomorrow ends well
Annoyed by: Mother's nagging, my laptop being stupid
Lurking: the forum
Need to do: Dust the tables, clean up that sticky mess from god knows were, vacuum, shower, lineart for RG's pic, work on my fanfic
Wondering about: what to make for dinner, how hard the JP11 form is to fill out, my new hours at work, when the lab opens
Kitsune no Tora is feeling: Strangely tired, moody
I haven't really been sleeping well. The past few days have been better than earlier this week, as I actually slept, but those nights have produced some rather odd dreams.
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights I hardly slept at all. I just hovered around the area that you're dreaming, but you know you are and are awakened by every little sound, and don't actually get much rest. Those days were the ones that my fanfic was weighing especially heavy on my mind, and I was especially frustrated that I couldn't get anything out.
Wednesday and Thursday nights I managed to get out of my fanfic-funk and actually sleep, but I had some rather strange dreams.
The first one makes me wonder about my sanity, to be quite honest. ^^; In the dream my extended family and I had been kidnapped by a rather strange looking man who, after thinking about it, is quite similar to the demeanor and appearance of the Millennium Earl from D.Gray-Man, which I have been reading recently. Although I don't think he was as extreme in his appearance, definitely more human-like. XD Anyway, we were being held in a house that looked strangely similar to my grandmother's, only much larger and with a few rooms I didn't recognize, and we were being constantly watched by video camera held on tripods, cranes, etc. At one point we left down this tunnel to join hundreds of other people I will assume were in the same boat as me in some auditorium, where a floating dog that acted like a mascot ran around and introduced us to our captor, who came on a big screen in the front of the room. He announced a contest of some sort. One person from each family would be chosen to participate, and the final winner would be able to take their family and leave.
I was picked, of course.
And, of course, the contest games were terrible, horrible. I don't remember what really any of them were, I just have a very deep impression that they really weren't pleasant. Cruel, and even sexual at times. Thinking about it, I get the feeling that I would rather have it blocked than not.
I woke up in the middle of one, so I don't know the ending. XD
The dream I had last night wasn't as bad, but still pretty bad. It started out at some school, like a community college. I guess I was taking classes there. It wasn't like the one I go to right now. Anyway, I was taking a Trigonometry classs. For some reason, it was held outdoors. It was constantly windy, so windy that it made it impossible for me to hear the teacher. Either that or there was music blasting (lol, it was Gackt), but no one else seemed to care about it or have trouble listening, either. I was totally lost as my teacher showed us some random thing.
Eventually my protests got through and we got moved indoors, but we got moved to this pool area. It wasn't very large, and the entire area was covered in this pinkish-beige tile, even the ceiling, and the pool was in the middle, with this huge tile half-wall surrounding it from the outside. We all sat around the pool with our notebooks while he taught at some random whiteboard in the front of the room, near the door. It was a very inclosed space, I remember.
Then, it went all zombie apocalypse. Think Highschool of the Dead, if you've ever read it. It was almost exactly like it. We all hunkered down in the pool area, crunched together on the half-wall. I nearly had a nervous breakdown, I did. I hated going to that school, and had wanted to go home ever since I got there. And then I couldn't, ever again, most likely.
Eventually we were found by the zombies because this doofus (as always) decided to check outside and had shouted that it was all clear, and being that the entire area was all tile the sound echoed and amplified and attracted them all. There was a big fight, with my classmates (and me, somehow I had gotten a hold of a pipe) were fighting off the zombies, both of which were being thrown in the pool, which turned a sickly, bloody color. Me and (my suddenly appearing) friend from high school, Venneta, managed to escape the pool area and get somewhere quiet with a group of other kids. I had to constantly remind them to be quiet or we'd attract them, the idiots. >.> (Luckily my friend listened to me and helped, haha.)
We were in the middle of a food raid (which resulted in having to explode a car to distract all the zombies from us) when I woke up. The first thing I did was shudder, then joke: I really need a zombie plan. XDD
Anyway, those were my weird dreams. I usually don't get nightmares, which is why this is strange to me. I wonder where they came from.
PS: I managed to start something I like for my fanfic, but it's starting in a rather abstract and philosophical tone, which I don't like much. I guess I'll have to deal with what I have, and then change it for subsequent chapters. Hopefully I won't confuse anyone with the sudden change of tone. XD
Goodnight, digital abyss.
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