Fair Pictures

Reggie, Benjamin, Mom and I went to the fair last weekend.  Here are some pictures!

Moved

I'm moved into the new house with my Mom and brother. Reggie and Donnie are here eating hot dogs and talking to Mom.  They are supposed to move more stuff and put some stuff up on the walls for Mom.  I'm kinda stressed, but not as bad as I was.  I've been taking naps every day and getting good sleep at night.  Except the cats got me up at 4:30am one morning and 5:30am today. They are going to be in the house for awhile before we let them outside. My room is a disaster.  I brought up a lot of clothes.  I've been sorting them out.  I got to call Jean Jeanie soon and see if she will come over tomorrow.  I have an extension on my homework, thank goodness!  All for now.

Progress

I'm almost finished with Prehistory class!!!  I've just got to finish the poem I wrote last night and finish my process notes.  I turn those in with the photos of the Stonehenge model I built yesterday and voila!  I'm done!  Yay!!  The model didn't turn out quite the way I envisioned it, but what does? 

Watched Iron Man 2 with Reggie last night.  Pretty good movie.  I'll give it to my brother to watch today. 

My family is moving into a rented house together.  Mom is really stressing about it.  Me not so much.  We had a spaghetti feed at church on Saturday night.  It went pretty well considering the weather.


What's next?  Four craft and writing projects for the New Testament class.  Hmmmmmm....!  I'll have to do some studying about that.

Call Me Irritable

OK, I'm kinda pissed off tonight for a couple reasons.  I did my friends, Donnie and Reggie a favor by putting some of their stuff (with pictures!) on Craigslist.  Now it's just one computer favor after another.  I told Reggie that if Donnie doesn't thank me for selling his damn boat motor, then no more Craigslist.  So nothing today.  Maybe tomorrow will be different.  Hmmmm!  How hard is it to say "Thank you"?  It must be as painful as passing a kidney stone... or having a baby.  Since I've done neither I can only imagine.

And then there's I Ching 1 and the case of the missing homework.  No one, but me, has turned in their homework for the week.  I turned in mine a day late!  So I have nothing to respond to.  So, in fact, I can't finish my tasks for the week until the other students, all 3 of them, wake up and post homework.  OK, so I realize I sound like an anal Virgo who would like the world to be polite, at least a few people, and others to complete their assignments.  The second is so I don't get too lazy and fall behind. I need the peer pressure.

I mostly embroidered today and played on the computer.  I did study for awhile and watched LOTR 1, the first half.  I had dinner at Mom's.  She is depressed, so I gave her some hugs.  I guess I did other stuff too.  It just seems kind of unimportant right now.  Don't you love it when people have the bass turned way up, at midnight, driving through a residential neighborhood. 

Birthdays

I haven't written on this blog for awhile.  Reggie has a bad cold, the one that's been going around, so I won't be seeing much of him.  Star's computer is in the shop, hopefully she will get it back today.  Jed is coming over later today to play on the computer.  I'm making my brother a decoupaged photo on wood for his birthday in October.  The kitties will be 10 years old, Oct.1st.  That's Reggie's birthday too.  He is vain about his age, but I found out how old he is anyway.  Hee hee! 

I have homework today for I Ching 1.  I'm avoiding doing it by blogging.  And starting new craft projects. *sigh*  I may have to drop the Counseling class because of the workload for I Ching.  We'll see.  That class doesn't start for a couple weeks anyway.  I have a lot of energy today.  That's good because the night before last I didn't sleep at all.  And I got sick. :(   I only got about 5 hours sleep yesterday.  But I slept good last night.  These are a few of my favorite things:  printers, social networking sites, grad school, crafts, birthdays.  Just thought I'd let you know!

September News

I've been seeing quite a bit of Reggie lately.  That's all I'm gonna say about that for now.  Star and her boyfriend, Yeti are really cute together. I can call him that because his nickname is Sasquatch, but that's someone else's nickname too.  Not here, in real life. I think I want an excuse to get a new computer.  Miss Thing is great, but I'd love a faster, more powerful one.  She's running great so I have nothing to complain about. :)

My Happiness Project is going great!  This doing homework every day is really helping me keep up with stuff.  I finished the Uffington Horse craft/writing project and got some positive feedback on that.  Tonight I turned in the proposal for the last project, based on Stonehenge.  Cool!  That one will take some planning.  We are finishing up the first year of Ancient Rites.  I have one more paper due on Thursday so will work on that tomorrow.  Dean Dharma is going to mail each of us certificates for the first year.  My Mom will be happy about that, proof that all this work is good for something. 

I'm starting I Ching 1 next week and Foundations in Counseling in early October.  I've been so bored, stressed out and confused this summer.  It will be nice having that structure back in my life with deadlines too. No one understands that, I swear.  I'm a Virgo.  Indy is sleeping on the fuzzy blanket Star made me for my birthday.  I'm listening to George Michael videos.  I watched them for awhile while I was working on an afghan to match my furniture, crochet.  For someone who's sick I got a lot done today.  I'm getting over, hopefully for the last time, this dang cold.  My cough has mostly gone away, thanks to large doses of Vitamin C. 

I'm actually going to set foot in church tomorrow.  I'm definitely going to Bible Study. I finally feel good enough to go.  I watched The Book of Eli the other night, very good.  I'm getting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo tomorrow, the Swedish one with subtitles, and will probably watch it on Thursday night.  Netflix, of course.

Summertime is Social Time

I spent the weekend on the hot side of the state.  I went to a NAMI conference with my friends Jean Jeanie, Donnie and Reggie.  Luckily we had air-conditioning.  The classes were cool and we met some cool people.  It was the girls vs. the guys though when it came time to leave.  Guess who won?  The girls!  My car and Jean Jeanie was driving.  I've been feeling under the weather since I got back.  Must've wore myself out. 

My mom's birthday is coming up this week and my birthday is coming up pretty soon too.  Luckily, I already have Mom's present.  Just have to wrap it and get a card out.  I've been making plans for my birthday too.  I'm trying to figure out what we're gonna eat.  Pizza maybe?  If I have a bunch of people it will have to be at my house.  I'd like to have a group of friends over beforehand, but I don't know if that will work out in any real fashion.  In other words, I'm not so good at planning.  I love parties!  I love going to them and throwing them.  My inner hostess comes out to play...

The Parable of the Busy Student

I just spent a week going to Vacation Bible School for adults at my church.  We did some creative stuff and learned about the Parables.  I even wrote one of my own! I went with my mom and sat next to Reggie.  Some of the stuff we did was really stupid.  We sang songs.

I saw Snow Dogs on Friday, that was a silly and funny movie. I made brownies yesterday with walnuts and chocolate chips. 

As far as school goes I turned in my 3rd craft/writing proposal for Prehistory. Ancient Rites will have me busy this month and the next as we are finishing up our first year.  Papers to write, journeys to take! :)

I just finished my first month of my personal Happiness Project.  July's focus was Energy.  I don't know if I have more energy, but I'm a little more happy.  The four things I did and will continue with were: Getting to bed before midnight, taking a nap, exercising, and tackling a nagging task.  Not that I did all four every day! For August I'm doing Spirituality.  We'll see how that goes...

The Man or the Monster

I screwed up my life recently.  I don't even know why I did it.  There was a lot of miscommunication going on, but half of that was mine.  It takes two to tango...  Tonight I had dinner at Mom's and afterwards my brother came over and we watched The Wolfman, the new one.  A classic tale told well.  Plus there were some really great transformation scenes.  I went to bible study last night and it was pretty OK.  I helped Reggie order some business cards on the internet.  He doesn't have a computer.  I'm going to a NAMI conference on the East Side in August.  Reggie and Donnie are going with me and Jean Jeanie.  She is going to drive my car as I'm not up to interstate highways yet.  Maybe someday!  It is going to be really hot there.  I'll bring my credit card in case we end up in a hotel (with A/C).  I signed up for Adult Bible School during the last week in July.  Hopefully I can go.  I also signed up for a tele-seminar for 12 days in July on body image issues.  That should be interesting.  The recordings are available for 24 hours after.  I've only made two posts (now three) in July.  This month is kinda messed up.  I hope things return to normal soon or improve.  "Any improvement is an improvement." - Denver, one of my chat buddies. 

The Day After the Party

I had an Independence Day party yesterday.  My brother and Donnie were both sick so it was just me, Jean Jeanie, my mom and Reggie. (it's kind of fun making up names for people!) Star didn't call or show up.  She just called and had to cat-sit, as her cat, Speed, was going nuts because of the fireworks going off.  The party was a success!  We all talked for hours.  There was grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, macaroni and potato salad, baked beans, watermelon, 4th of July Cake and pop, lemonade, and ice tea.  Mom and I did a little decorating too, plus she helped me clean up beforehand.  I have to play catch-up today.  I started a Happiness project and I haven't been doing much with that.  I have four things to do every day for the month of July, which is the Energy month.  1. Go to sleep earlier. 2. Walk, swim or bike today. 3. Tackle a nagging task. 4. Take a nap.  Needless to say, I haven't done #2 yet. One day at a time. :)  I picked a life category for every month for a year.  Seems kind of a crazy thing to do, huh?  Oh, Star and me started a self-help book club.  Last month it was The Happiness Project.  This month it's Life Makeovers.