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Tomorrow is Cindo de Mayo and also Cootie’s birthday. He’ll be eight years old! I can’t believe he’s my old man baby. We are having my dad and his girlfriend over to celebrate by eating Carne Asada (Cootie’s favorite food which he only gets on his birthday) and drinking margaritas.
So hard to believe another year has passed. I find myself saying this every year, well every month actually. Time goes by so quickly. As as kid, adults would tell me how when you get older, time will go by faster and faster and I never believed them, because I thought it already was going by fast enough. But it was the truth. Every year I look back and say, “Where in the heck did the last 12 months go?” It’s really unbelievable.
I started my core accounting classes today! : ) I’m excited. I also have a Research Writing class which at first I was dreading, but it’s basically just an expanded version of the Critical Thinking class I just took, which I aced (I had a 99.2% last time I checked. That’s without the final project being graded though) and was actually fairly easy for me. In this Research Writing class though I get to pick a topic, and write a paper about it. I think I’m going to pick to write about how it is possible to be a feminist and a Christian at the same time. Waiting for approval from the professor on that topic.
That’s it for now. My new job that I started two months ago is going really well! I love it. So glad I decided to take the opportunity while I had it.
I”m going to try to attach a picture of my baby Cootie that I just took, the day before his birthday. He was napping.

So this is my first blog in quite a while, a few months I think. I had a crazy weekend and felt I needed to share. Have you ever known someone, or thought you knew someone, and then you saw them do something and you felt like you never knew them? I had a weird thing happen this weekend with a friend. I had been told by her and her husband that she had some mental issues. She came out to California and I was going to have her stay with me for the weekend and then take her to a mental hospital to stay for a while to get help. I didn’t think her problems were as bad as she was saying because she was known to tell stories, and to embelish the truth. So we were hanging out, having a good time, and Saturday she lost her mind. I won’t go into details but she threw a fit and lost her mind. She’s now in the hospital and her life is falling apart before her eyes. It’s really sad. Sad for her, sad for her kids, sad for her husband, sad for her family and friends. I never realized things were so bad with her. I never knew. I haven’t seen her since my wedding which was four years ago. This was just a crazy weekend and I feel like I went thru a break up, or a death or something. Very odd.
Other than that, been very busy with work and school. I start my core Accounting classes in May which I’m really excited about. General Ed sucks!
It’s getting to be summer…. it was over 100 degrees (103 degrees at 5pm when I was driving home from work) today….makes me scared to see what this coming summer is going to be like!
That’s all for now….

It’s been quite a while since I’ve written… yikes. Here’s an update:
I finished my first two classes of COLLEGE! So far I have A’s in both classes but the final projects havent been graded yet. I’m dreading my next two classes… Critical Thinking & Effective Essay Writing. YUCK!
I start a new job on Tuesday. I got tired of where I was working, learned a lot but it was time to move on. I cant wait to start my new job! More money, more vacation, 401k which I’ve never had, more hours, so excited!! It’s a bit farther away than my old job, but that’s ok. My old job was only 3 miles away from where I live and this one is 13 miles. But that’s OK, it’s in the same city in which my In-laws live so I can visit them more often!
That’s about it for me. I’ve been really busy with work and school.
Oh my husband got laid off on 2/13 (Friday the 13th!), I dont think I blogged about that. I cant even remember when I last blogged! LoL! He was doing some work for my uncle but that isnt guaranteed and it isnt every day. His company from where he got laid off has another job starting in April sometime, so if he doesnt find a job at a better company before that, he’ll go back to work for them.
Thank GOD for our big tax refund, we are living off that. We’d be poor & homeless if we didnt get that tax refund!! God always provides to those who are faithful!!! :)

Remember in elementary school when they had R.I.F. (Reading Is Fun(damental) )? I used to love that. I think they would give you one book of your choice, for free. Growing up, my mom always made me read. Mostly whatever books she had just finished reading which were usually books by Stephen King, Dean Koontz, authors like that. I was reading books that I should not have been reading at a very young age. At the time, I didn’t think anything of it but when I go back and read those books now, I can’t believe I read some of that stuff.
Anyways, I am blogging about reading because this week in school, there is a ton of reading. 60 pages I believe, and that is just in one class. It’s cool and all, but most of it is the basics. How to read, how to learn while reading, critical thinking while reading, that type of thing. It’s awesome to be reminded of it but it is hard for me to actually read it, because I feel like it’s stuff I already know and I don’t want to waste time reading something that I don’t need to read. So I read all of it tonight and will probably read it again later in the week when I’m not so tired.
I’m in my 6th week of school which is awesome. I keep thinking I’m farther ahead though, lol. I learned a lot the first two or three weeks but have not learned much at all the last two weeks. There are a few possibilities as to why I haven’t learned. I could be bored of school. I could feel like it isnt relative to me, and when I feel like something is unncessary, I have a very hard time hearing/reading/doing it. I know I need to get out of that mindframe because I’m starting to realize that everything they are making us learn so far is to prepare us for the classes ahead. I am only on my first two classes. I still have a long way to go.
I breezed by the first three weeks of school. Week four was ok, week five was the hardest I think. Hardest in that I didn’t want to do it but I had to, and I even slacked on one of my assignments and my teacher called me out on it! She said, “The amount of time and effort you spent on this assignment was evident.” but I still got 24/30 points.
Anyways… I honestly want to get to the interesting classes like Religions of the world, Introduction to Philosophy, Management of Information Systems, cultural Diversity, introduction to Behavioral Science, Intro to Sociology, Financial Accounting… that stuff. I could NOT care less about my next two classes which are Effective Essay Writing (yuck!) and Critical Thinking. Those start on March 1st I believe.
I think I’m dreading the Critical Thinking class because I’m not good at it. My reading comprehension levels are very poor so anything that has to do with it immediately scares me and makes me wish I were … I dont want to say dead, but ya almost.
I know I will benefit from all of my classes. I am excited to learn new things each week. This is for a good cause, getting a degree, a COLLEGE degree is a major thing and I will be so proud when I’m done (and this is what I have to tell myself every day to get thru it)!!

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted a blog…so it’s time for an udpate.

On 12/29/08 my dad had surgery to remove a massive tumor in his brachial plexus which took 7.5 hours. My dad’s girlfriend and I took him to Los Angeles to get it done and he was able to come home the same night, which was good. The surgery went really well and today he went back down to Los Angeles to get the drains taken out, and the bandages removed. So far, so good.

I started school again this week after a two week vacation for the holidays…it was a bit hard getting back into it. I felt like I had never done school before LOL! I felt like I had lost my brain or something over the break, it was like I had no idea what to do and what things meant and where to find assignments. It was not good. But thanks to help from fellow-students, I’m back on track!

It’s been pretty dang cold lately here in SoCal. Two mornings ago it was 39 degrees when I was driving to work. I know for those of you back east and in the mid-west, that’s nothing, but for SoCal, that is COLD!!! I can’t wait for summer again.

So that’s about it…I’ve been busy taking care of my dad and busy with the holidays but hopefully now I’ll get to start blogging at least a few times a week again.

I hate using spell check. I feel like it is almost insulting to use spell check. I know how to spell. I have always been great at spelling and grammar, so for me to even entertain the thought of spell check is insulting! Of course, unfortunately for me I am a fast typer and though I am quite acurate, I am not 100%, so there sometimes are typos that I don’t catch, and others can mistake a typo for a spelling error…which is also an insult.
I recently posted an assignment for school and got docked one point for a typo. The teacher said I misspelled the word “joining”…. I went back and re-read my assignments and didn’t see where I had even typed that word, but whatever. I know that it’s my bad for not using spell check, or for at least not triple checking my work before I submitted it, but dang. Cut me a little bit of slack? Every single thing I’ve posted in the forums and threads and discussion questions and assignments have been perfect as far as spelling and grammar, it was obviously a stupid typo mistake. I know there should not be an exception for me, that’s not what I’m asking. I guess just the way the teacher said it was insulting. She could’ve said something more along the lines of, “I noticed you had a typo so don’t forget that it’s always a good idea to double check your work with Spell Check.” That would have been way less offensive.

I’m enjoying school so far. I’m trying to be ahead of the game and do all of my reading and assignments way ahead of time. I’m actually already done with everything for this week! I was surprised though to learn that because of the holiday, there is no school next week and the week after. For some reason, I guess I thought since I started at a weird time that I would be exempt from holiday breaks, but I’m not!

It’s also kind of disappointing to have two weeks off of school. I’m about to complete my first week of school, and I’m getting into a groove and then it has to come to a halt! I hope that doesn’t ruin my groove. So we’ll see how that goes. Plus even if I wanted to get ahead & do as much school work as I possibly could, I don’t think it even counts if you log into the website and do the work when school is not in session.

I guess I’ll just have to learn to be patient for the next two weeks! I almost feel like I will be missing something or doing something bad by not having school for two weeks. To me, it’s not a ‘break’ - it’s a punishment. I don’t think they should force us to have two weeks off for the holiday. What if I didn’t celebrate holidays? PLUS that adds two extra weeks onto when I finish my first two classes!

OK I’m done griping. School is cool though!

Tomorrow I have my “walk to class” with my enrolment councelor for school. Basically I have to wake up at 7:45am, get on my computer, and have my councelor walk me thru the school website, and show me how to download my books and everything else I will need. We were supposed to do it this evening but she wasn’t able to make it…so now it’s tomorrow. That should all take about an hour.
I’m excited! One step closer to becoming a full time student! As of Monday I will be officially a full time student. The only thing I wonder about is - will I get student discounts? Don’t some businesses offer student discounts? I don’t get a student ID (which I SHOULD!) so I don’t know how they would know I was a student. That’d be cool though.