Next few days

Ok, so here are the next few days: Ecology today then Forensics test tonight, NO lecture so I will be home before 8 I think. Thursday maybe meet for debate project (haven't heard from 3rd person, UGH), present posters in SPED class (no test this week yay!), puppet practice after class. Friday get up EARLY (be there by 7:30)and go to STEAM conference, here are my chosen workshops: Mat/sci applications in water industry, podcasting in your classroom, lunch, Come Wii with Mii -and I think I'll skip the last one so I do not have to worry about a babysitter (it ends at 3:30). Friday night go to tex with DH and buy freezer, saturday school stuff then Campmeeting. Sunday reverse that :-)

AHHHH Quiet

It's been a quiet day (other than Shawn's dog which barks incessantly for no apparant reason!). It's nice to have the entire day at home, I get few of those. Next week, I really need to schedule my last observation. It'll be nice to have that done! I got a 111 on my ecology test (out of 125), that is unless he changes it, we did a group 'peer' type grading. Whew, that is a load off. This test ought to be easier to tighten in on without 50 million videos to watch. Blake seems to like Youngs so far. Funny, you ask them if they like it and they say yeah, we get free food or cokes, lol, BOYS! Shawn jr. will be 18 this sunday, you can tell he is ready to 'make his own decisions', it's funny they think 18 is a magic number. :-)

I'm contemplating getting Hughesnet. It's about 40$ more a month though and money is tight, but it sure would help me out with school stuff. I am thinking of maybe dropping my phone and just getting one like Amberly's. I have to check and see for sure when my contract is up. I also am not sure how it would affect the boys phones. They are running a special so it would be nice to make up my mind by tomorrow, but I am just not sure that I can. Expenses are really heavy this year with senior ring (blake), TWO letterman jackets (sjr changed his mind), senior pic's homecoming, prom& all that stuff, plus a new freezer this weekend, I could go on and on. (You have kids, you know!)

This week, Amberly is going to Laura's but I don't know Blake's reg. schedule yet and I am not sure how she will get to church on wed. Just taking it one day at a time right now! Shawn might could swing through to church that way, but I want to make sure she gets her hw done.
Well that's enough of a break, back to work. I'm tying up lose ends on my ESL reading poster and then back to study environmental history and laws. (exciting stuff, lol)

Upcoming week

This ought to be a decent week, it's not too packed (praying it stays that way). No observations on tuesday, no doctor's appointments. I do have a conference friday, it's called STEAM, it's a math conference, I get extra credit and hopefully I will get there early enough to get some goodies (they usually give out boxes of manipulatives of some sort). I only have one test this week, so I hope to finish up some more work on projects and get ahead a little. I managed to get some progress done on a few projects and all one needs now is tidying up. I have a lot coming up that is due at the same time and the next few weekends will be busy. We've got campmeeting this weekend, Komen next weekend and mom comes the following weekend. We are planning on having a BBQ that weekend, if Shawn can change his work schedule, or we might have everyone out and do hotdogs or potluck. It's hard to believe he will be 18 and graduating. I get plenty of reminders though, Senior this senior that, lol.

interesting

So yesterday, my whole morning was wasted. I showed up at the Lake like we were supposed to(yes I complained the entire time) and I waited. Finally another student arrived and we waited, drove around a bit to see if we were in the wrong area or something....then 2 other students arrived and we waited. The professor never showed up, the Corps guy never showed up. So 25 min after we were supposed to have started I left (after waiting an hour because I left early in case I got lost). He says he had a flat tire, but I am not buying it. He thought the corps guy would be there. I was furious. This man is driving me bananas. I have to stay home this morning to catch up on stuff. Had he not done that, perhaps I would have gotten enough done that I could enjoy church and fellowship this morning. What did he say? oh maybe it was fate GRRR. It was hard not to give him what for. I don't usually get angry easily, but this guy makes me flat mad. He needs another line of work.


Anyhow, despite Mr. Prof's best attempt to keep me behind, I got one project finished and teh second one is well under way. I also started studying for my Forensics test. So today I will finish my reading project, studying a bit for forensics and start on my IS395 project.

Shawn Jr.'s Senior pics from school came in and they are decent(sp?? my mind has no time to spell correctly these days), maybe not the most creative, but I am going to see if he would like to just order from these. It will be hard to hook him up with Sissy Welch considering his current schedule. Speaking of schedules, Blake starts at youngs Monday afternoon. I've got to figure out where I will send Amberly. I have options, I just have to figure out which will work best, and wait to see what days he will have to work.

My family helped in the house again yesterday and I sure do appreciate that. Still plenty to do, but a little help goes a long way. Well that is my allotted time, so I need to go read my bible now. That way I can be angry and sin not :-).

Projects, projects, projects

This will have to be a speed blog so I can get right to work after I get done with my PB & apple lunch, so blunt and to the point, yeah I know, so unlike me haha. Went to the gastro. yesterday and she put me on align, says she has had great luck with it. We also talked about art. sweetners and well something that has just left my mind. I bet it will pop back in in a minute. Got the dogs taken care of and Bear had hookworms. I have wormed that darned dog so much. Well I bet he gains some weight now! Ok so projects projects that is this weekend. I have an ELL project and two papers to get done, study for only ONE test this week ;-), read oodles and oodles, clean house and OH BTW what am I doing saturday morning when I should be home cleaning and then studying?? I am driving all the way to texarkana to lake wright patman to put up birdhouses, yup. Sure I have time and the gas for that really yeah. :/ Football tonight of course so I want to finish my poster today (that is right after I get done eating) and start on my readbility project, then start on my debate project, the topic of that, well we got a doozy- "Is NASA doing enough to protect us against coment/asteroid strikes?" HAHA and we are CON. Why couldn't we get an easy one, lol.


Dh took his BP yesterday and said it was 120/80... I'm not buying it and will have to see it for myself. We also have to pick up a freezer saturday a lowe's before anyone gets a chance to kill a deer. So, looks like I may have to stay home sunday, but that is very hard for me to do. I def. need to get some 'monkey's' off my back though cause my cup 'overfloweth' ;-). End of the week is always rough, I don't get enough sleep so I should be recouped hopefully tomorrow.OK so there is my speed blog, I feel better already.

question

Ok, I can't put this on fb yet, but here is the question, I thought you might get a kick out of it: How can we know what the ecological niche on Mars is? (Yes, I said Mars). Guess and see (Julie you probably know so wait, lol)

observation

My observation in DeQueen went well (even though I needed some hand holding to find it-turns out I was only two blocks away though). I observed an ESL class. I got to help one girl with her chemistry (she was in there for tutoring with a migrant worker), that was nice, I actually remember it too. I should get my reading test grade today, so I'm waiting for that and going to study for my ecology and sped test. Tomorrow, I have an hour of volunteer time at the fall fest (science club for educators) and then my test and forensics class. This weekend will be spent on a couple of projects (3 actually) and starting my reading for the next ecology unit and of course the GA lesson. I'm about burnt out on this unit (ecology), I wish we would have had our test Monday. But I will review everything at least once today. We did a leaf lab monday. I love labs, they are fun, we just looked at stuff however. The next lab is at the cemetery....hmmm...

We are still working on potty training Freckles, but I think she is getting close. She has probably doubled in size! Thursday she gets her shots and Bear gets nipped. (SHHH don't tell him that). I am supposed to have an appt with the gastroenterologist, but I am not sure if I am going. We've had 3-4 dr.'s visits in the past two weeks and those $30 copays add up. I'm not having any issues now, so I'll probably call and cancel it this afternoon.

I've been spending my quiet time just praying for others and my days have sure gone a lot better! Funny how when you stop thinking of yourself everything else falls into place...I also talked with my 'mentor' (and the head of the biology dept') about my 'professor issue' and I feel better about that. I think it has about resolved itself, but it was still nice to have voiced my concerns( even though they already knew what was going on) . Well my internet connectin is VERY slow today, so it's a good thing I don't have to do anything on blackboard. I am contemplating getting a laptop, but I just don't want to shell out the money and it would not help her at home. It would just allow me to stay at one campus on wednesdays and bring all my stuff with me instead of using a flash drive.