Last Week

Next week is the last week of school for this semester. It is always a little bittersweet if you really like a class, but if you don't it is the best feeling in the world.

Intersession class

I am taking an intersession class this summer. It will be a week long from 8:30 to 4:30. I have never taken one before and I am a little nervous about cramming so much information in one week, but I am hopeful that all will go well. One stinky thing about it is that I have to take vacation days at work to be able to take the class. Oh well, it will be worth it since I need it to be able to take physiology this fall.

Kitchen

It has been three weeks and I am still without a kitchen...sort of. I have a refrigerator and a stove but no sink. Unfortunately there are many things a person cannot do without a sink, and you really would not know all of them until your are without one for so long. Hopefully it will be in this week, but I am not going to hold my breath.

Summer

It is so nice outside today. The wind is a little strong but the sunshine is great. This is absolutely by favorite weather. You cannot help but feel good when the sun is shinning on you.

P90X

I have ordered these workout videos called the P90X and I am excited to start using them. My boyfriend and his son got me introduced to them. They have been using them for four weeks now and I have noticed changes in there bodies. As I get older my body seems to be getting soft and I do not like that at all. I definately am in need of a change. I truly believe if I can stick to this I will be on an upward climb out of the softness. I can only hope.

Remodeling

I am so excited. I am getting my kitchen and bathroom remodeled. I currently have half of my kitchen completed and my entire bathroom gutted. Unfortunately, I do not have water so I have been having to shower, etc. at other peoples homes. It makes me feel a little bit like a transient. I hope to have it all completed in the next week or so.

Teeth cont.

I had the root canal and I feel ten times better. It is still sore but at least the throbbing pain is gone. I had to go to a specialist instead of my normal dentist because he did not do root canals. The Dr. did a fabulous job. Nothing hurt except for the shot in the roof of my mouth. The office itself was pretty fancy. In every "operating room" there were televisions in the ceiling that you could watch when reclined back. I'm not really sure how you are suppose to watch when the nurse and Dr's. heads were in your face, but it was a nice touch. I would say over all, the whole experience was pretty pleasant. Nothing I want to do again too soon, but still pleasant

Teeth

Tooth pain is absolutely the worst! I had a crown put on a back tooth last year. It seemed to be doing fine except that sometimes I had a little cold sensitivity, until last Sunday, then it all went crazy. I started having throbbing pain shoot through what felt like was my whole jaw. I thought at first I may have had something stuck between my teeth and it was irritated, but then it continued for a few days. On Tuesday I called my dentist so that he could look at it, and he told me that I had an abscess under the crown. YUCK! Now I have to have a root canal tomorrow. I so wish it were something easier. Oh well, at least the pain will be over.

Chickens

I have been going through books looking for chickens to raise. I know which ones I want for laying hens, but I also wanted a couple that I could hold and they not freak out. After much searching I have finally found the breed I want, silkies. They are originally from China, with very fluffy feathers on their feet, and with what looks like a feathered hat on their heads. My favorite part about them is that you can hold them. They are very people friendly. I don't know the reason I truly desire to carry a chicken, I just do. I also want to hold a penguin, but that is another story.

Facebook

I signed up for facebook a few months ago because I wanted to see a friend's kids. After that it just sat there. Well, a couple of days ago another friend asked my to let her on so I thought maybe I should go ahead an update things and try to be a active party. Today I went on and updated it a little. I am confused about what all a person can do on it. Do you write things? Do you email from it? How do you put on pictures? I understand the concept but I am a little computer illiterate. I know how to get into things I use for work, school and personal beyond that, not so much. I am excited about it. Hopefully over time I will learn to do more things on it.

Shopping

I do not like shopping. Let me rephrase that, I do not like shopping for clothes. I never can find the cute things that I see on everyone else. Even when I do find something that I like, at least on the hanger, it never looks good or right once I get it on. I really wish I had more of a sense of style so I can just easily see and know what works the best. It may would help if I went shopping more and tried on things more to see what works, but that is where the hate of shopping comes in. Maybe one day my thoughts will change. Who knows.

eBay

Last week I bid on an item on eBay and last night I found out that I won. This is great. I have never won any item that I have ever bid on because I didn't ever want to go as high as it sold for. I was lucky though the bid never went any higher than my initial bid. We'll see what happens next time.

Blogging

Oops, it is Friday and I have been so caught up in everything going on this week that I forgot to blog, until now. Tonight I am studying for mid-terms so I cannot blog any more than I have. Until next time...

My grandparents house

My grandparents house was torn down over a two day period last week. When I passed by their house last Saturday, part of the sides were gone and a lot of the insides where gutted out. It felt like my grandparents had just passed away again. It was so heartbreaking I just cried. I just wanted to fix it. The next day, I passed by again and it was just gone. I know that a house is not the "home" or the memories that you had. And really since my grandparents were gone, seeing the house, was not the same as when they were alive. It was still a big part of my past and was hard to see torn down. I think I would have been better off to have just passed by and it be completely gone than to have seen it partially gone. It makes me wish they were still here. I miss them.

Soldiers

I am watching a show on television where they are talking to men and women who have been injured in Iraq. I feel like so many people come back from war and get lost in the world. I don't know that I feel they get the proper treatment mentally to be able to cope the best possible way they can. It bothers me. It makes me wish there was something I could do to help. These soldiers go through so much for me and my family. They deserve the best possible to make it through. It's the least that can be done for putting their life on the line.

Weather

It has been so nice outside yesterday and today. I love it. I think it would be really great to live in a place where the weather was like that all the time. Of course, you would need the rain but at least as far as the temperature goes it would be great. Truly though, we are very fortunate to live in an area that gives us the blessing of such diverse weather and not any of it lasts extremely long. Its nice. I do like it even if I am a hot weather gal at heart.

Slowing Time

Most days, time seems to move so fast. I get up in the morning and before I know it twelve o'clock has arrived. I wish some days time could really just slow down. I don't know deep down if it would really make a difference but it sure feels like it would.

Soda

I am trying to stop drinking soda or at least not so much of it. I have never really had a problem of drinking it all the time, just maybe once or twice a week. It's just that I really want to cut back to where I am maybe drinking it once a month. This week, I have already had it once and today I am having Imo's pizza, which I love, and I cannot eat pizza without having soda. So, this week I will be off my course and have it twice.

Mexico

My sister-in-law just left today for Cancun. She goes every year with some of her girlfriends. Three years ago I got to go with them and it was GREAT. Now every year since then I have been asked but I don't feel I can really go because of my classes. I feel I made the decision to go to school and so I need to attend. It still bums me out a little though, but one day I will be out of school and can go again. Until then I will just daydream about it and live vicariously through her.

Vonnegut

I finally receive my copy of "The Sirens of Titan" so I can now start reading it for the book club. I will blog my thoughts on the book at a later date.