April 13th, 2010

Having one of my "OMG I am soooo overwhelmed, someone out there please just beam me up already!" kind of weeks. And it's only Tuesday. At least I think it's Tuesday, heck I don't even know anymore.
So let's start at the beginning.

Had to make a very last minute (and expensive) trip back to North Carolina the week before last. While the circumstances sucked, and I now have no grandparents left on this earth, it was nice to see family and friends. It had been a year since I had been "home", so to say I was a little homesick, would be an understatement. Got to meet Baby Taylor, Baby Clara, see Molly and the fam, Steph, Nate & Heather, my sister, my aunts and cousins, Mom and Dad, and LULU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I spent the entire week with my big baby Lulu and it was awesome. When I was at the house, she was pretty much always right there with me and following me everywhere. I hated leaving her again. Ate lots of Cook Out milkshakes, had some chips from Ham's, and finished the week off with Sushi Republic. Loved going downtown with Nate, Heather and Steph. It was like old times. The plane ride back was horrible and so long. I realized that I do have a slight issue with my anxiety when I fly. Of course flying down the runway on the verge of taking off and then coming to a stop only to be told there is a "malfunction" that needs to be taken care of before we take off, then sitting on the runway for 20 minutes waiting for the "malfunction" to be resolved, then smelling smoke for the first 10 minutes of the trip will do that to you. Then there was the man who stood up literally the entire flight with the exception of take off and landing. Even when the seatbelt sign was on, he kept standing up. Then his friend played on his CELL PHONE the entire time and the attendants said nothing to him. So yeah, I was just some turbulence away from a full on panic attack. I was so glad to be back on the ground and have my two favorite men in the entire world waiting for me when I got back.

Once I got back, the fun of catching up on everything began. Besides my entire suitcase of laundry to wash, there wasn't anything in the house that needed to be taken care of since John and Chance did a great job with that while I was gone and even washed my truck for me! Along with some Easter goodies and a super sweet card. While it was just one short week, I gained a little insight into how it must feel for John when he's away from us, and it sucks! I did miss my Tuesday and Thursday classes, and then one history class (luckily we had out that wednesday and friday). Came back to an exam in math that I wasn't prepared for. It was supposed to be Thursday but the class decided to move it up to Tuesday. Wasn't expecting that! Bombed it. Made a 70, if not lower. Luckily he said he just looked at a few of the tests and said he had a bad feeling (clearly he saw mine with two questions left blank, another one fubarred and probably another wrong as well) and asked if we would like to take a retest on the following Tuesday. Heck yes! Was able to get him to explain briefly the section I missed (well more like he went over one problem on the exam that I left blank and I pretty much understood how to do it) so I felt more prepared when it came time for the retest. Took that exam today and I am pretty confident about how I did but we'll see. I don't want to get too excited over it. Wish I could say the same for the music test we had on the same day last week. I even studied but it didn't do any good I guess. The highest grade was an 86 if that tells you anything. He had me down as making a 68 (OMG....lowest grade in two semesters!) but he marked one wrong that I actually got right, so whooohooooo...that brought me up to a 78 which is a C! I'm still not overly thrilled about it but a C is better than a D. We have a group project in Educ1300 and well, I am not even going to start down that road tonight. Then today in class, my music teacher informed us that we would have a quiz on Thursday. I am not even kidding when I say that if I went back and looked at it, we would have had a quiz or an exam EVERY.SINGLE.WEEK since the start of school. I remember one week where we had a quiz on Tuesday and then an exam on Thursday. Who does that? Well I can tell you who does that. Figures the one teacher I thought would actually be okay has turned out to be the worst one yet. Seriously. His latest thing is making everyone move as far up to the front of the classroom as possible. Really? Why not just whip out the crayons and give us assigned seats. I can't wait to be done with that class. The performance review paper I had to write, which is also the one I waited to do until after spring break since I refused to so much as pick up a pencil on spring break-wowed him and he commented that it was excellent college writing. I made a 100 on it which is great since that counts as a major exam. I could say that I just BS'd my way through it, which I somewhat did, but I did work pretty hard on it....just in a very short amount of time.

So let's see.
*Chance was sent home early from school Monday with a slight fever and a red throat.
*Spent 4 hours at the ER. He has strep throat (WTF!?) and we convinced him to get the shot. He's feeling so much better and will be back at school on Wednesday.
*Had math retake today, thankfully a great friend offered to watch Chance so I didn't have to miss school since I really can't miss any more classes after my trip the other week
*The jackass told us we'd have a quiz on Thursday
*Have a history test on friday, still working on my terms and need to study the mult choice
*Saturday is Chance's first karate tournament!
*Birthday party on Saturday
*need to work on my educ1300 portfolio. Must get the entire 300 pts that way my grade won't completely go down the toilet thanks to the group project
*have to do the entire power point presentation for said group project and guess who doesn't know how to use power point?
*pretty sure I have an ear infection in my left ear, that's a blast
*my neighbor asked me if I could start taking her son to school when she needs me to, so he's over here right now sleeping over because of her crazy work hours and I'll take him to school in the mornings with Chance
*Chance has regular karate 2 days a week, Team practice 2 or 3 days a week, then weapons 1 day a week and then demo 2 days a week. So on days that I go to watch him practice, I haven't figured out a way to multitask and do homework or study, so I lose that time to get much needed homework done.
*I'm just so incredibly stressed, that I can feel it in my neck and back and it sucks.

All that is just the immediate stuff. Thankfully today our educ teacher said we would have another week to finish our projects since there was an issue with the room she wanted to use for the presentation. Which is good since it's been difficult to get stuff done.

May really can't get here soon enough. I have plans to do as little as possible during the summer and I am scaling back my classes in the fall since it's really hard to keep up with four classes and life at home. John is also starting in the fall, so that's exciting! He has taken his placement test and placed in the same math class that I took last semester. He has his orientation next week and then he can finally be a step closer to registering. I have already registered for fall and signed up for three classes, but I think I may drop one. I sighed up for another math (ugh! but as much as I hate it, I know if I take more time off between math classes, all the info I have already learned will go right out the window) I might try to take Frank's class since even though I didn't see eye to eye with him in the beginning of the semester, he's turned out to be okay afterall. Plus he lets us use note cards on the exams. Signed up for a geology class and then an American gov't class which if I do drop-will probably be the one I drop. Right now I think i'm set to go MWF, but if possible, I would love to have it to where I just go on Tues and Thurs. But we'll see. I need to get the financial part figured out first, then I'll figure out if I will go half or 3/4 time.


Anyways, so that's my monthly blog. The next blog I make will probably be the "hot dog, it's summer vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!" blog. Time to go to bed and get some much needed sleep. History in the morning, then coming home to do HISTORY! Haha, imagine that!