19 Days!?

How did that happen!? What is it about numbers that once it's lower than, say 20, suddenly it's such a small number? It's only a value of one different, but it seems like such a huge one!

I'm not working on school stuff right now, so I should be cleaning and packing.

Just for kicks...lunch...cheesy peas! :)

21 Days

Wow! 3 Weeks. That sounds a lot shorter than 21 days.

Guess I should be packing instead of writing.

I wonder how many people actually read this...

22 Days

I started packing up some books and movies today. There is so much to do! Trying to pick which books to keep with me and which to put in storage can be difficult in some cases. I'll have to put them in the bookcase I'm not putting in storage and see how everything fits and figure it out that way...that's actually a pretty good idea.

Samson seems to want to help, but I'm not sure how much help he would be since he seems to like chewing on the box under my desk and otherwise is afraid to go near them when his toys accidentally get behind or inside one.



The choir at church offered to fly me back here for Holy Week. I have no idea what to do. It's an amazingly sweet offer and I would love to sing with them...only one week for recovering from all that's going on at the end of March, though? Tough to do...tough to decide...

We're having lasagna for dinner tonight. I'm trying to use up the lasagna noodles I have in the cupboard.

My learning team for class still sucks. No one has posted anything since yesterday and that was just to say she would post her portion today and there's still nothing. I'm starting to freak out about this assignment. I'm afraid it won't be done. I'm trying to get my grade back up and they are making it quite difficult. At least the instructor is aware of the problems and we get to post our first team review this week.

So much pain today! I think I need a nap. I'm cranky!

23 Days

I think that movie "23" is on the Netflix list...or did I already watch it...I don't remember. Not important!

What is important is that my current teacher is proving to be cooler than I first anticipated. She gave me a B on last week's completely botched individual assignment. So, I have an 88.53% for the class so far. Phew! It's still a B, but it's high enough I can probably get it to an A before the class is done in 3 more weeks.
Also important is that I'm logging off class for today because I'm being a smart ass and getting people all fired up about stuff they think I think. I will inevitably get myself in trouble if I don't stop. Besides which everyone is getting way off topic. If they were all literate and not so easily set off...I think I've now offended both my teammates without trying because they can't read and be objective at the same time. (Hope they don't try chewing gum and walking!) One gal probably thinks I'm prejudiced and the other probably thinks I'm a naive (or ignorant) little optimist in denial while everyone suffers...and tonight I wrote a post about "can't we all just get along" and another one basically saying "hey, sister! at least you have a job! quit your whining!" I'm really disturbingly excited to hear what they (and/or others) will have to say.

Some pain is less today than it was yesterday. Other pain is not.
It's 7:00 and I have no idea what to do with myself for the rest of the evening. I suppose I should go to bed early so I will wake up for church in the morning. Where's the fun in that!?

24 Days

Today has been rough. Health stuff. Homework stuff. House stuff...I hereby declare the alphabet has only 25 letters instead of 26. It will now go: ABCDEFG...[NO H]...IJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

There's so much to do...I'm totally overwhelmed. I made myself a list, but all I seem able to do is read it. A shame that doesn't equate to actually accomplishing anything.

Yes, I am whiny today. I'm also tired and have rehearsal in the morning. Time to shower and go to bed.

27 days

So, last night I learned one of the more obscure benefits of being in an online class. That is: you won't end up going to jail for killing your teammates because you never come in any kind of personal contact with them. I have a B right now because I apparently have been doing my papers wrong all this time and no one told me. I spent too much time trying to drag work out of people for our team project due by last night. So, my individual project didn't get done...not that it was working anyway.

Seems like every day I find errands I have to run. I know I have chores to do. And there are things to do in preparation for moving. I keep thinking of things I can throw out or donate -- which is good! Some of them I just wish I'd thought of it sooner. :p

Meanwhile, I think my system is finally adjusting to the medicine. I'm not feeling as tired and woozy after taking my medicine in the morning. That is good.

I've been asked (more like begged and pleaded with) to stop by choir rehearsal tonight about 8:00 so the choir has a chance to chat and whatnot. I haven't really given them the chance before now. I asked Lyndsay to tell them not to inundate me with "we'll miss you" and the like at church on Ash Wednesday and they were very good about it. We'll see how tough I can be tonight or if I'll get all sobby on them.

Well I need to go get ready to pay my electric bill and put money on our electricity monitoring machine thingy (which is really cool, by the way). And buy milk...and fill the water jugs...and probably other stuff I am forgetting and will have to go do later.

28 days and counting

There's a movie called "28 Days". Never saw it. Don't really care to. Anyhoo...

I feel like I've been doing homework for 3 days straight. And I don't like it. The projects due today are just not coming together the way I think it should. I am dealing with very un-participatory team members (there's only 3 of us). I hate it when it comes down to the wire. I tried to get them to start earlier, but no one did anything until last night. I think one gal expects me to take the stuff from her post and add it to our document. She'd better figure out that's not how this works. I don't want an ugly grade because she couldn't do her work right. I'm looking forward to giving her a very low score on the team eval we have to do at the end of the class.

And, while I'm babysitting my teammates (using the term loosely) I have my individual project to work on and it sucks. I don't get it and I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall on my nose again. This teacher loves my discussion posts but doesn't seem to think to highly of my ability to use APA style. I don't blame her, but the last class I never got marked down for it, so maybe she's just pickier.

I think my body is getting used to the new medicine, but not sure. I'm not as tired at least, but still get kinda' that "medicine head" that usually goes with cold medicine.

I am supposed to be getting ready to go to my meeting with my Thrivent guy. I'll be driving back and forth and back and forth between Tempe and Gilbert. Better put fuel in the car, I guess.