This is my latest vinyl wall quote installation.  I put it in our bedroom, right over my night stand.  

Bill's deuce burger.  He wanted two patties, so i doubled it up when I made them.  It has a layer of cheese and jalapenos in between.  He thought it was super yum.

This is us at Stewart's flag football game last weekend.  :)

Me and the little troublemaker having breakfast with a new friend.

Tuesday, I sat in my office and did this and other dumbass problems like this.  IMHO, balancing equations is a big crock of shit.  So is stoichiometry.

Parker in his gymnastics class.  He is so enthusiastic about it.  I enrolled him in a more advanced class that starts in Nov.  He just loves rolling and jumping around the floor.

. . . in class.  Bored.  We are balancing chemical equations.  This is where I started flunking Chemistry the first time.  Oh Boy!

I am considering quitting Facebook - so I can post more to my page.  I mean, I have my very own .com - that's kinda cool!  So anyway, here are some random pictures that you have probably not seen before.  It's like bonus content for the 3 people that frequent my blog and facebook!  Enjoy!

This is my wal art project.  Looks fancy doesn't it!  It's one of those vinyl quote kits and a frame.  The original quote read "All because two people fell in love . . ."  It didn't fit inside the frame.  So I took out "all" and put the " . . . " at the front.  Holly and I both agreed that we like it like this much better.  I painted the background to coordinate with the darker paint I used on our front rooms.  I think the painted background really makes it stand out.  This is a frame from Hobby Lobby (YEAH!  We got one of those out here!  I'm still excited!)  It came with no glass and no back.  It think it looks nice

This is Bill pretending to the Captain Morgan while modeling my first knitting project.  I told him to give me his best Mark Wahlburg and I got the Captain.  Silly boy.  But damn!  that scarf looks good.  :)

My little boys at the park on October 4th.  I guess they aren't so little anymore.  Shit - Stewart is a young man.  Is it obvious they are brothers!?

Who knew it would be so hard to get them to #1. sit still and #2 smile.  I think this is the third take.  Parker wanted to immediately slide down and then he refused to smile because I wouldn't let him slide down.

This hairball on a purple metallic stick represents my second knitting project.  It should be a scarf made out of this funky yarn called Fun fur.  It's hard to work with - have you ever tried to french braid a Shih Tzu's hair?  Well, neither have I, but I imagine this is what it would be like!  I hope it looks decent.  I really want a thin and super long scarf this winter.  I tend to be ridiculously picky, so I'm just gonna try to make it myself.  I hope it works out!  Wish me luck! (PS - does anyone have any pointers on how I can remember where I left off on the knitting and purling of rows?)

This is what it looked like on Wednesday when I was in Chem lab.  Maybe it looks like it could have been fun - if your idea of fun would be making molecular models using the molecular models kit!  Not really mine. 

bad blogger!

This summer has just flown by - like at Concord speeds.  The month we spent in Oklahoma went by really fast.  And somehow - it's been almost a month and a half and school is about to start next week!  Yowzers!

Its been a fun summer - full of excitement, heat, sweat, swimming pools, fishing, rollercoasters, and a 40 hour round trip car ride.  And somehow, it is August 16th!  ABSURD!

Well my DMS plans didn't pan out.  The stupid school i was going to started to have accredidation problems (with their nursing program) and I think it snowballed from there.  I applied for the program anyway but I got an email saying they aren't enrolling a fall class.  OH.  joy.  I get to start all over again.  I just LOVE that I spent lots of money on fifteen prereq hours that I didn't really need!  YAY!

So here I am again, kindeve back where I was.  Sitting with a bachelor's degree in something I can't really do anything with and no real idea what I want to do.  Well wait - i can think of lots of things that I WANT to go but realistically, I need a career.  As much as I have enjoyed not working and being home for/with the kids - I am starting to get antsy.  I miss adult interaction, deadlines, tasks, email, calendars, etc.  The other day I found myself reorganizing the FILING in my office.  I printed up my beautiful labels and organized everything in alphabetical order.  And as I reflected on my hard work - i realized it was kindeve pathetic.  I love to file and organize things into cute little boxes and files with pretty little lables.  Usually, I get my fill of that at work - and now that I'm not working my mind created a need for "filing" in my office.  cra-zy.

So now, I'm looking at nursing school at Shepherd University.  I am a little (A LOT) anxious, nervous, worried, stressin' about going back to a traditional classroom.  I am a little miffed that I have to go through new student orientation on Friday.  Hello!  I am 32 years old.  I know what college is about, I know how to get around a campus, where to buy books, how to manage student loans, etc.  I am not looking forward to spending six hours with a bunch of obnoxious ass freshmen.  (Hopefully it won't be that bad.)

I won't know how my credits transferred until Friday but doing my own evaluation, I'm pretty sure I will have to take Chemistry I & lab, Chemistry II & Lab, Microbiology, STATISTICS (OMG), a general class on nutrition, and some general class about nursing.  The idea of having to take a year of Chemistry is enough to make me not want to do it - but I have always viewed Chemistry at SWOSU as one of my biggest failures.  Having to drop that class was the moment that I realized I couldn't be anything I wanted - which meant I couldn't be an epidemiologist for the CDC.  I have to take it.  Again.  Its enough to make my palms sweaty.  It's kindeve freaking me out.  I won't even get started on a statistics class.  I am mathmatically challenged.  Big time.

Hopefully, they won't come back and make me take a bunch of ridiculous crap that I have already taken.  That might make me reconsider the program.  But at this time, it's my best option.  Hopefully, I won't have more than a year's worth of prereqs that I would need to take - and then the nursing program is a 2 year program.  Viola!  I'll have another bachelor's degree - hopefully one that will be useful.

Wish me luck on Friday - my patience levels for the younger generation are almost non-existent.  If I have to sit through HOURS of dumb questions, gum smacking, texting - ugh.  At least it's Friday and it will be over in time for me to meet Bill for happy hour.  ;)

I've reached that part of my education where all I can do is sit and wait.  It's kindeve hard for someone that is notoriously impatient and demanding. 

I just finished my last 2 classes that I need to apply for the DMS program.  I can apply this summer and will know by August if I am accepted.  If accepted, I will start in September.  I am really nervous about it.  It's like sending out resumes.  You always hope for the best, and even though you think you totally nailed the interview, you may not get the job.

So I have to wait for them to send me an application in July.  And then I have to wait to be interviewed.  And then I have to wait for their decision.

UGH.

I guess I can finally sit down and read one of the MANY books that I have stacked up in my office.  My super favorite author's, Jen Lancaster, new book just came out.  I've only had time to read a few pages.  This is her first fiction novel (is that redundant?)  Her previous FIVE books were kinda memoirs.  To be completely honest, all of her other books had me hooked by the second paragraph. I am about 25 pages into "If You Were Here" and I'm hoping it gets better.  I can always relate to her snark and cynacism - I'm just waiting for it to get good.  (LOOK!  More damn waiting!)

Hell yeah.  Physics is over.  If I could make up some lyrics, it would be to the tune of the wicked witch is dead song - but I'm just not feeling that creative.  Not at the moment.

Never in my whole entire life have I ever wanted to "just pass" a class.  I don't know if my brain is less than it was when I was in high school or if my brain is just strong in other subjects - but holy crap.  I hated every second of that class.  Even the seconds when I was excited about getting a problem correct or getting a C on a test - I still hated it because I hated the fact that I knew that mediocre was the best I could do.

Oh well.  It's over for now.  I think I have another physics class that I have to take but that one might be easier.  It focuses on the physics of sonography - wavelegnths and stuff.  It might be easier for me to visualize the concepts.  Some of the concepts in this intro class were just so abstract, I couldn't understand them at all.  

So - I'm all finished.  8 weeks went by very quickly - not that I mind - and I find myself sitting here on a Sunday evening not frantically trying to finish an assignment.

Looks like I'm gonna be able to kick back, enjoy this Sam Adams White Ale, and watch the Walking Dead - and I don't have anything hanging over my head.  All of my assignments are complete for the week.  

To quote one of my favorite cartoon characters, "OH JOY!!!"

A few weeks ago, I blogged that I was on the hunt for a hobby.  I took up knitting and after SEVERAL hours and 3 books, 2 magazines, and numerous videos online I figured it out.  I can knit and purl.  (I hope I haven't forgotten already!) I have been working on a gray scarf for Bill - it's my very first knitting project.

Everything has taken a back seat to school and puppy.  I think my new hobby is potty training Parker and Madison.  Both of them are sucking the energy out of me.  Friday, I almost had a nervous breakdown because I realized the dishes hadn't been done in 2 days, I was behind on laundry (when am I ever ahead?) and I had assignments to turn in.  

So I have no time for a hobby.  The time I used to have to relax and sit down and watch TV or do something mindless like knit or read - it's all gone.  I now use that time to suffer through Physics.  The down time that I used to have when Parker takes his nap - I am trying to preserve that because I need that time for homework and to decompress.  I put Madison in "her room" (a nicer term for her crate) and I will put Parker down for his nap.  Madison is getting used to her room, but she doesn't like it yet.

I don't even have time to finish a good book that I started.  It's going to have to wait for Thanksgiving or Christmas break.  So is the scarf.  Oh - and Bill still needs to have his stocking made.  I'm not sure I will even be able to do that this year.  CRAP!  I guess Madison needs one too.  sigh.  I need a stunt double.  I don't have enough time and energy to get everything done.  Who the heck knew that being a wife/mom/student would require more prioritizing than I ever did when I was working. . .