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.

"reality continues to ruin my life"

I found that cross-stitched on one of my Flickr groups.  I figured out tonight I have to take 10 more classes plus do a Master's Thesis to get my Master's Degree in Interfaith.  Four of those are creative approaches to traditional religions, the rest are regular classes, all general electives except for one.  I'm finishing up one class right now or it'd be 11 classes.  I'm closest to getting my Divination Certificate, but even that will be awhile.  Almost 3 more years for Ancient Rites, Shamanism.  I haven't made any progress on Modern Rituals, Shamanism, for months now.  And here I am gleefully considering getting my MFA. :) I don't think I'll be applying for that until I finish something!  I feel kind of pathetic.  People are always asking when I'm going to get my degree or what am I gonna do with it. When is anybody's guess. Frame it and hang it on the wall!  This is all happening, or not happening, depending on your POV, because I take whatever I'm interested in.  Actually, I take "degree" programs in what I'm interested in.  And also because I pace myself and don't take 5 classes at once.  Well, I sorta am taking 5 classes at once, but not really...  Ancient Rites, I Ching, Runes, Prehistory, (Modern Rituals).  More like 4.  I must be nuts!  Oh yeah...

Play Month

I don't want to jinx myself, but I've been posting every week for the 52 Weeks of Creative on Flickr.  That's 10 weeks in a row!  I gave up goal-setting awhile ago and am working on a Happiness Project.  I started in July with Energy, August was Spirituality, September was School and October's was Writing. Well, I tried to do all the activities for each month and it finally piled up on me in October.  So the Writing month was pretty much a bust.  November's subject is Play and so far is much easier, as you can probably guess!  I'm already in a much better mood so maybe this project is finally working.  I'm just going to do one subject a month and not try to do all of them. 

On a more somber note, I will probably be moving with my family or getting an apartment soon.  I'm not really sure what's going to happen.  I already went through this once when my mobile home was up for sale, but nothing happened. We'll see!

Spooky Weekend

What to talk about?  School I guess.  I'm having a hard time getting motivated to do my schoolwork.  I may be a little depressed.  Plus things are piling up on me.  Halloween!  Our adult youth group is going to have a pumpkin bowling booth at the convention center for the kids on Halloween.  I'm going to watch a scary movie tonight and a slightly less scary one on Halloween night.  Still not getting along with Star.  I hope she's OK.  I'm listening to AC/DC and blogging.  Hee hee!  A missionary had a presentation at church last night.  It was pretty interesting and not the usual message.  All for today.

Anne

Fun computer programs...

I haven't posted here for a long time I guess.  I had a really good time tonight just playing with a couple new programs and investigating others.  One is called simply Stickies and puts Stickies either on webpages which I haven't tried out yet or just on your desktop.  So much fun!  The other is a free chat program called Chatzy, also fun.  A few of my friends have played on it with me.  I finally figured it out and created a chat program for my Divination group.  Other than that, life is going pretty good all the way round.  Except I've been awake for a long time today, since 4:45am Saturday am.  I have to go to bed by 4.  I don't want to stay awake for 24 hours, I'll just get myself in trouble.  I got up early to go to a church conference in the southern part of the state.  It was a pretty OK time for our group.  I'm glad I went.  Also my poetry group might be just that much closer to publication.  That's all I'm gonna say for now.  Have a good Sunday!

Anne

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!