Pray

I'm not too fond of the forecast for Friday. Ice and plane landings don't go too well together! Jeff is supposed to be coming in early in the afternoon. I will drive to St. Louis or Indianapolis to get him if I have to.

Wait...is that the finish line???

Four down and one to go! Tomorrow is my hardest final--Statistics. I have been taking it as an online course. I was a tad worried about not ever actually having to go to class, but so far I'm doing well. Unfortunately, one test can mess it all up. Any guesses as to how my night will look?

Why I sometimes hate technology...

Warning! Content below contains venting and possibly a bit of anger...

Spending three hours taking an on line test for school, clicking on 'submit', receiving an error message, and realizing the program just zapped half of your answers!

I'm here!!!!!

O.K. Like I said...Craziness confirmed!
My silence is not because I wanted to leave the blogosphere. Actually, I think my computer is now a permanent appendage. Five to six essays a week for just one class, 30 hours of classroom observations... It's almost over! One more week until finals. I won't even start on the rest of life. If I start typing now, I'll miss finals.
I just wanted to let you all know I haven't stopped blogging on purpose. It's been out of prioritizing necessity.
Blog you all again soon...hopefully!


To keep up with our life until then, Jeff has a blog and is more consistent lately:
buck-stops-here.blogspot.com

Craziness confirmed!

WOW! School is intense! Two weeks down, 14 to go!
I love my history class. My professor either taught or was principal when my in-laws were in his school! The class has an easy pace which compared to the rest is completely refreshing! My education class is good so far, but will get busy with 30 hours of observations and a group presentation due around Thanksgiving. My Spanish class is good but LOOOOONG 6:30-9:55. After only two classes I already have a test next week. My online Sociology class is KILLING me! Two chapters a week including just under 60 pages of reading, 2 powerpoints, 2 essays, a discussion essay and an occasional video. I just started Satistics this past Tues. It went much better after going and purchasing the TI-84+ calculator. Apparently my TI-81 from the early 90's is irrelevant. I was so proud that after X number of years, it still works!
Short and sweet. I'm going to go crash now. I'll be up by six to get the kids out the door and continue to make a dent in my homework!
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Another random Christi funny...

Tonight at dinner I made a family favorite, Chicken Carbonara.
Christi tends to be a grazer and not sit for meals. In order to coax her into coming back for a bite, we have lowered ourselves to telling her we will eat her food first. The scenario goes a bit like this:
Us-"Christi, come eat."
Christi-no response
Us-"Christi, I'm going to take a bite! My bite!"
Christi-"AHHHHHHH!" as she comes running with her mouth wide open.

Well, we wrangled her into the high chair tonight. I was busy feeding her, so Jeff jokingly took my fork to give me a bite of MY food. Christi grabbed his hand and began to shove my food into her mouth. Jeff tried to stop her, but the small and mighty overtook him and got it in her mouth. Jeff told her that it was my food and showed her the fork on her own plate. As soon as she realized that she had actually taken a bite of my food, she proceeded to spit it out! This resulted in a round of hysterical laughter. She is good for that every now and then.

Back to what?!

Today is the last day of Christi's summer vacation and mine as well. I can't decide if I'm excited or not. I know that it's the beginning of another year closer, but I may be biting off more than I can chew. (Jeff says I seem to like to do that.)
I am taking three classroom courses: World History to 1500, Exceptional Child (Edu class) and Spanish 2. I am also taking two online courses: Marriage and Family and Statistics.
What is your vote on my sanity?
Here is my thought on this though...
If I can complete these five this semester, it leaves me with only six left for spring. I know, six sounds absolutely ridiculous; BUT I will only have a Psych class and either a fine arts or humanities that are required for my degree. The rest are electives. Again, I KNOW, why am I not utilizing some of those electives this fall? Because the original schedule I was signed up for was dropped and by the time I figured out everything I NEEDED what I would have liked to have taken was gone.
Lesson learned...Get the WHOLE story from your counselor before creating your schedule. Don't just look at it a semester at a time. I would have gone to school M-F with my original plan and still had a semester to go in the fall before my Associates Degree. Now, if I can make it with a fuller packed schedule, I only have class T & Th this fall and will have my Associates the end of this spring!
If you see me talking to myself or twitching by Thanksgiving...you'll know.