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Hey friends!
I wanted to drop in and say hello!
I've finally finished the history class that was taking up all my time. Thankfully this semester it wasn't a #historyclassfromhell. I actually really enjoyed it. It was History of Japan to 1800. It was a lot of fun and I feel I learned a lot. I got to write a paper on Buddhist influence on architecture and a also I wrote a paper on Samurai. Both were a lot of fun. I have a few days before I start my next crazy intense class, Which I am hoping is not that crazy and intense, but with my luck it will be.

We have been doing pretty good overall here in California. It's almost been a year since we left Montana. It's crazy to think that we've been gone for so long. I look at my Timehop and I am so relieved I don't wake up to feet of snow, or WAY below freezing temps anymore. In fact the weather here is really nice. I wear T-shirts or tank tops every day. I have a couple hoodies that I save for chilly mornings, but it's been a nice change.

Not much has been going on besides school . Well and we are all crazy sick right now. Paul brought home cooties from work and it got so bad it developed into pneumonia in Evey. I was really worried at first but I had her followup appointment with her doctor today and she is doing so much better. Now if we can all just kick this nasty cough!

I've also started running. I am doing a "walking for fitness" class and I have to wear a fitbit that tracks my movement, the teacher uses that info to see that I am completing our walks. Being sick has really put a damper on that though, I haven't ran in over a week. Even though the class is called "walking" we are allowed to run, jog or walk, so I decided to take the opportunity to start running. I have a goal of 450 miles by the end of the year. I am somewhere around 60 or 70 miles already so I think I'll surpass that goal.

I hope I haven't lost too much of an audience in my absence, I will try to update here more than once a month. Perhaps once a week will be my new goal.
And remember you can find me on Facebook and Instagram, I am always on there.

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School is a tad overwhelming

Man I am really no good at this. 

I have been forever absent again. 

School has taken precedence over blogging, and personal life, and social life, and everything. 

Last week was especially tough. I had a midterm paper to write and I was suffering from some sickness/stress/anxiety/women issues. But I got it done, and turned it in and got an 87%

I am a little over booked this semester. But now that that paper is over I can refocus, until my final paper in 4 weeks.
My classes are weird. It's hard to explain.
I go to 2 schools, one does regular 16 week semesters. The other does 4 sets of 8 week condensed terms per semester.

So I have 2 classes at the community college here, well one regular 3 credit class and one 1 credit class. (both online)

And then I have 3 classes at the university online. In the first second and fourth terms. So my next class will not start until my first class ends. Thank god, because I have a huge ass paper due at the end of this class (History of Japan to 1800) and I don't think I could handle starting another class before this one is over. 

Oh and I found out a class I took for fun, ended up filling a needed requirement, not just an elective! More time for activities! WooT! 

But things are going well.
Evey is doing great. She is getting bigger and bigger every day. She is talking up a storm. She is bossy, and determined. She is super smart too. She can count to 15 (most of the time) and she is working on her ABC's. 

We just had a wonderful visit from Paul's mom. We did so many fun things, beach trips, a trip to the Zoo, shopping. We had a blast. 

So really besides school, not much is going on here. 

I am thinking of doing another Vlog soon. The next Golden Vlog is up in a couple of days, So I need to film that. Plus I was thinking of doing a hair dye one.
I need to color my hair again, so why not film it? 

So that's all, I should be studying, but instead I am helping my sister with a paper, and writing here. 

I suppose I should go to bed, or study. 

So Sayonara! 

Oh and Aiko Says Hello! 

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Lessons I learned going back to school

1. I am really bad at time management

At any given time I can think of about two dozen other things to do, studying always falls low on the list. "Shit! dishes need to be done" or "We have no food, must run to the store" or the most common "oohh look at facebook, so shiny" (You can easily replace facebook with: youtube, pintrest, imgur, or the silly pirate game my sister made me download on my phone)

2. Really, really bad at time management.

I actually frequently end up doing my studying, reading, and especially online school work late at night and on the iPad while laying in bed. More times than I can count I have fallen asleep reading, or having Siri read to me on the iPad. 

3. No matter how hard I try to manage my time, the toddler has other plans.

Then there are days like today, where I am ready and rearing to go. Evey wants nothing to do with watching TV, or eating snacks, she is requiring 100% of my attention. So I stand in the kitchen, she can't reach me beyond the baby gate, but I can see her, she finally decides to play and I am able to stand there and go over my flash cards, while I load the dishwasher.

4. My brain isn't quite the sponge it once was.

I love to learn. But some things, no matter how hard I try I just can't get them to stay in my brain. I am really good at certain parts of Japanese, things you can picture, words associated with tangible things, nouns. But verbs, and parts of speech, are just hard. And without going into a Japanese lesson, Japanese verbs change depending on the use (positive or negative) and that just gets really confusing. 

5. Despite the fact that I know I could be doing better if I tried harder, as of this very second I have an A in both of my classes, and I got a B in my class that ended a few weeks ago (#historyclassfromhell).

I've got to be doing something right. I just hope that next semester I can assert myself better and manage my time at least a little better, and not go into finals fearing for my life.  

6. I am on track to graduate with my BA in History in fall 2016.

Unless I find some magic powers inside me that can push me into taking extra classes. Currently the university I am enrolled in does shortened 8 week courses, which sounds well and fine for someone in a hurry, but my poor brain just can't handle too much info at once. Also some of the classes (at the community college) I am taking are purely for my own enjoyment, exploring things that interest me, I have chosen to take advantage of some great grants offered here, and giving myself a well rounded education. But I don't want to overwhelm myself. Plus I am really in no real hurry. 

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Sister Smarty Pants

I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate my little sister. She received her Associates in History and Anthropology this weekend. 

I am so very proud of her!

You beat me this round sister, now lets race to the BA! 

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More random college thoughts.

A nice unrelated pretty picture, because I hate making posts without pictures. 

I am finally wrapping up the history class that has been driving me mad. If you have been following me on any other social media you know that it really has taken a toll on me. I have had little life outside of the house for the last 4 weeks, besides attending Japanese twice a week I barely walk out the door. I have dubbed the class #historyclassfromhell. But it's almost over. My final paper is off to my sister for revisions.

That's a great thing about having a sister who is in college too, she's a great spelling/grammar checker. 

But she thinks I use too many commas, screw that, I'll comma all I want, , , , , , 

anyway. 

I just submitted my last class discussion, and once I polish my paper and write a conclusion I'm done! I hope to submit it by tomorrow afternoon. 

Then I can focus on bringing my Japanese grade back up. My A dropped down to a B the last exam because I am really struggling with verbs, they all sound so much alike! 

I am also trying to plan next semester. I know I am taking Asian Studies online through the University, so I need to pick a another class to take online through the Community College, and I will take Japanese 102 face to face.

Yeah two schools, it gets confusing. But I'll explain how I am doing that eventually. 

I am so excited to be done with that history class. I have been neglecting so much, household chores, cleaning, my poor child who learned to count to 9 from watching the most freaky cartoon ever made. Seriously Charlie and the Numbers is scary. But she loves it. 

Last night to celebrate finishing my paper, I cleaned and rearranged the play room, so Evey has a little bit more functional place to play and what Thomas the Train. Next week I plan to tackle the upstairs, laundry, bathrooms, Evey's room still needs to be decorated. I have a whole list of fun things I want to do with all my extra spare time. 

My journey to finding a babysitter.

Last week I needed a baby sitter for the first time since Evey was born. Besides once or twice being left with immediate family, she has never been left with anyone. I wasn't looking forward to it, and even with a few weeks notice I was still unsure how to go about it.Paul came home from work with  bad news, shortly after I gave him my school schedule, telling him the nights I needed him home, he found out he was going to be gone for an entire work week. Not that big of a deal, I can miss two days of school. Wait.... Nope.,... Midterm that week. If I miss it, it can seriously negatively impact my grade.

Panic set in. What am I supposed to do? I need to go to class? First I asked my teacher if I could bring my daughter to class with me. HA HA HA! Yes I'm crazy. I can barely even get homework done with her around, let alone focus on a midterm. My Professor (obviously) said no. I was very concerned. I don't have many contacts here in California. I knew my parents were coming to visit the weekend before, but I didn't want them to delay and screw up their vacation by asking them to stay an extra 4 days.

So I turned to Facebook I know how crazy that sounds, and I didn't post in an open forum "hey what stranger wants to watch my kid". I have a group of ladies I really trust, we have similar parenting styles, and they are local. So I asked for recommendations. Right away I had a girl recommended to me. She is a Marine Wife, she previously worked in child care, and she was really close, like I could walk there close. Also she has her own baby, so Evey would have someone to play with. 

I had her come over for an interview, I let her play with Evey and she told me about herself. It actually worked out perfect, she showed up just as my washing machine started to vomit foam, so I was able to see her occupy Evey so I could handle the disaster in my laundry room. Okay, maybe that's not perfect. But it worked out anyway. I really like her, and I could even see us being friends, because we both have similar parenting styles. So I scheduled her in. 

The week of babysitting was stressful, not only did I have a heavy workload for school, and a midterm, but Paul was gone from Monday morning to Friday night. But despite all of the stress and anxiety, Evey's first (and second) babysitter experiences went off perfectly. Neither of us cried. I really didn't expect her to, but I was pretty sure I would, if I hand't been so distracted by school I probably would have. And I am going to schedule Evey for a few more days, during the day, for weeks I have papers due, so I can focus without her getting into shit and distracting me. We are also probably going to have a play date so Evey doesn't think every time we go the sitters house she is being left there. Only time will tell, but I may have gotten a friend out of the deal too!

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Random thoughts from college student.

Taking two history classes isn't a big deal. Taking two history classes, which are both set in different formats (two schools, two different online programs) can get a little confusing. Especially when the assignments start to mirror each other. This last two weeks both classes have been focusing on sources. Where you find your history, and I keep mixing up the assignments. Or forgetting which class I am currently working on. The classes are totally different too, one is World history and the other is Historical Methods, so learning how to be a historian and analyze the information history gives you. The historical methods class is reaallllyy boring. It's also a condensed 8 week course, so it's roughly double time. Twice the boring work in half the time. Lots of boring articles to read.

One class the teacher does not want discussion submissions to contain attachments, in the other class the teacher encourages them. One class One teacher wants sources done in one way, and another teacher wants them another way, and the methods teacher says that all history papers (ever) should be sourced her way (and I remember another history teacher telling us this too, so she is right, I think). One class wants submissions on discussions and assignments all turned in my Sunday night (the end of the "online class week") the other wants initial discussions in by Saturday and further discussion with other students until Tuesday. I know I am going to drop the ball on a deadline and have no one to blame but myself. 



On top of all this silliness I am trying to keep up in Japanese, and doing quite well I must say. And trying to maintain a household and happy child. Who is causing me to be a little extra sleep deprived this week, Mini Me has taken to waking up about 3-4 AM and trying to stay awake, and it takes quite a bit of work to get her back to sleep only to have her wake up at 7am totally wide awake and ready to conquer the world. And I have been up studying past 1am every night this week.I'm a bit overwhelmed at the moment, that's why the blog is particularly sparse. I'm still here, holding on.

Google image search overwhelmed, this guy doesn't look as overwhelmed. as he looks like he just found nude pics of someone he didn't want to see nude. 

My thoughts on college as a 30 something

I have been in and out of school as an adult for about 7 years now. Since we left Okinawa in 2010 it's been strictly online. This year I decided to complete some lower level classes at a local community college, to save money and to get a face to face learning experience. Especially with languages, I need someone talking to me, no way can I do that online.

So this semester I walked into a classroom, at a community college, as a 30 something. My first thought was that I was the oldest person there, even older than the teacher. "OMG I am older than the teacher" I think is was the text I sent my sister after I took my seat. Although this ended up not being true, she is the same age as me, and there is also one student older than both of us, at 35. Still I feel very old sitting in a classroom full of 19 and 20 year olds. I also found myself looking at some of the students and just shaking my head, "who would wear that", or "gosh you are so immature" are some of the thoughts I have frequently.

My class, Japanese 101, is mostly full of first year college students, who don't quite know how to behave in a classroom, but my teacher has to shhh! the class numerous times a day. Also they frequently interrupt the teacher or speak out of turn. Many students have a basic idea of Japanese culture from anime, and lots of students make anime references in class. I try to not sound pretentious, but there is so much more to Japanese culture than anime. I usually keep to myself in class because I don't want to stick out as the older student that thinks she knows everything.

So far things have been going well, I have my first of 4 exams tonight, which I should be studying for, but instead I am writing about. At least I have my oral portion memorized:

Hajimamashte Alana desu. 

_school name omitted_ diagaku no gakuse desu.

san nensi desu. senku wa rekishi desu. 

sanjuni sai desu. Yoroshiku onegoshimas.

can you read that? I introduce myself, state I am a college student at _university_, I am a third year student, and my major is history, then my age and nice to meet you. At least that's what it's supposed to say. I hope that's right.

My other two classes are online, both history classes, one is world history since 1400 and the other is historical methods, learning about why history is important and such. The methods class starts Monday and has it's first paper due Friday. The other one has a paper due this Sunday, and I haven't even started thinking about it. This is going to be a long weekend. Plus I need to find a back up sitter for when Paul has to work and can't be home when I need to go to school.

School takes up a lot of time, I didn't realize this until I recently, trying to do homework and study with a very active almost two year old, climbing all over me. Who is now waking up from her nap and I still haven't studied, or finished my homework. So I guess I shall sign off for today, I need to try to get her back to sleep and at least finish my homework. Tell me about your experiences going back to school as an adult. I'd love to hear about how you handle time management, especially with a toddler. 

How are we?

I feel like I haven't really done much of an update in a while. So here goes, an update, in mostly pictures

Evey has learned to be sassy and stubborn

"hey, at least i'm not standing on the table anymore..."

but remains cute as hell

We BBQ a LOT, like almost every weekend for the last month

ymmm Ribs

We have started to think about maybe potty training (someday)

We have breakfast with dinosaurs sometimes 

I am cooking much more frequently than in Montana

The weather is pretty nice 

I am still trying desperately to drop a few pounds

desperately

happy mornings (not too early usually, thankfully)

But all in all we are having a good time, and getting along pretty well in cali. 

It's not what we expected, but hey, it's not snowing either, so there's that! 

hiding those roots

Ikea is going to put me in the poor house, good thing it's over an hour away and surrounded by crazy traffic, or I would be there every day.

 I can't forget Little Red! We traded in my beloved Hello Kitty Mobile (Jeep Patriot) for a much more gas friendly Toyota Corolla! Also, Yay for no more transmission problems! (briefly mentioned here)

Oh and I am starting school soon. Gotta finish someday right? Two classes start this month, and one next month, and that's all I've got planned until spring. Wish me luck! 

Let Them Eat Cake: No-Reply Bloggers & CAPTCHA

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Naughty Doggies, Getting Schooled.

It's not a huge secret that I have two unruly dogs. 

They pretty much run the house, they do what they want, when they want. 

They don't listen much, they beg, 

They are redonkulously annoying when it comes to toys (AIKO) 

They run amok in the middle of the night (RENJI!)

They eat things that aren't food, and as I write this I just pulled two rocks out of Renji's mouth. 

But they are cute, and I love them with all my heart. 

Well my naughty doggies have never had any formal training. 

I got some training with Aiko when she was a babe, but I didn't keep it up. When we got Renji most of Aiko's training went out the window. She still will sit, and sort of stay, but that's it. 

When we have company over thats when it's most embarrassing. They jump and nip, and claw and climb all over guests. 

I have told myself a thousand times that I want to sign them up for classes. But I have been procrastinating big time. 

But today I did it, I took a big step forward in the schooling for my dogs. I signed them up for classes at Petco. The dog trainer is a regular over at Hastings, where I work. So I know her a little. She is really nice and she has met the dogs when we bring them in to get dog food. 

We start next Sunday and the dogs don't know it yet but I am sure they will be excited to go into town once a week and play with another human. 

Aiko has some social anxiety, you'd never know from seeing her in the house, her domain. A few times we have brought her to Petco and she gets all excited when people pet her and she has peed on the floor. She also hate tile. Petco is all tile. She gets really shy in public so I am hoping that she does well and that the prior training I have given her will shine through. 

*really mom? but I don't need no training*

*I'm plenty smart*

edumacation

I spent the better part of 2008-2010 busting my ass in school. I am not a great student but if it weren't for math I would have had at least a 3.5 GPA, but nearly failing one math class screwed that up bad.

The last class I took was History of the American West, earlier this spring. That class really burned me out. It was terrible, the teacher wasn't great. I don't feel like I learned much. Quite a bit of this was due to my own extreme laziness. Which I also partly credit to being a bit depressed, since we were still new to Montana, and I was still completely hating the bitter cold winter.

Well it's time to get back in the game if I ever want to graduate. Also I am currently living in a sweet spot for my Major- History/Environmental Management(minor in english), I want to work in the National Parks Service or Forest Service, or teach. My ideal position would be summering in a place like Yellowstone, or Yosemite and teaching visitors the history of the area, both natural history and early American history.

I would love to share my love of the outdoors with other people. I'd love to give future generations the education on preserving our nations history.

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So that brings us to now. I am trying to decide where to jump back in. I am about 40 credits in on 120 required for a double major with a minor. Gah! 81 credits to go! So most classes are 3 credits each, thats 27 classes to go. If i do two classes a term thats 13 terms. 5 terms in a year (Spring 1&2, Summer, Fall 1&2) So I could theoretically be done in 2 years. 

Well thats not as bad as I thought. 

Assuming I don't fail math again. 

And I can maintain a GPA. 

And I don't die from exhaustion.

3 classes a term is considered full time for my school, because they are shortened terms, 8 weeks long I think. 

So yeah, what to do now? 

I am thinking to get that Math out of the way, also since the local University is in session right now I could probably find a tutor for relatively cheep, which I know I will need. 

As much as I hated my other writing course, I may want to just get it out of the way too. Or I could do something like humanities, or a computer class. 

le' sigh

or I could take another class for my History, or start classes on my EM, because I haven't even started those yet. 

or I could work at Mc'Ds when I grow up. 

History class has ruined my day.

** final update 6pm: My teacher got back to me, she hadn't gotten my test, the testing centre had to email it directly to her. she got it put in the system and I now have an A. Hells Yeah!

my day just went from awful to fabulous.

******

I am so terribly upset, anxious, angry, sad, furious. I can't even think of enough words to describe the train wreck of emotions I am feeling right now.

On April 29th I took my proctored final exam, I had some problems with submitting it and they had to exit out completely and I had to finalize it on another computer. I had this overwhelming fear that all my work had been lost.

The day I went in to take my exam I had a 68% in the class, I could have not taken the final at all and left with a D. Today (yeah a whole 3 weeks later) I finally got my grade. It was a D. Panic, anxiety, fear, anger. Something must have happened to my final exam. I am so upset, mostly because I e-mailed the teacher 3 weeks ago and told her what happened and asked her to notify me if my exam was blank. That is the only thing I can think of, because there is no way, none whatsoever, that I completely failed the exam. I would have had to get a zero, and that's not possible.

I have put in a call to my advisor because my teacher doesn't reply to e-mails (i did send her one anyway, but don't expect a response) They have contacted the testing centre and the history department. I hopefully will have an answer by early next week. I just hope the answer isn't "re-take the final."

This single class had made me re-think my working on my Bachelors with UMUC. I am going to go to Carroll and see if I can transfer in the fall, if they will take my credits. I only have 3-6 credit hours towards my Major and the rest are gen. ed. which I am pretty sure will transfer. But I am totally sick of the shit I have gone through this semester. It's been a huge stressful pain in the ass. The teacher was inattentive and didn't seem to give a shit about even us learning. She also couldn't spell to save her life.

I admit I slacked off a little in this class, I don't think I earned an A, but I certainly did not earn a D.

Hopefully I'll have a followup Monday or Tuesday.

*update 5pm friday*

I just got an e-mail back from my History teacher, she is looking into my grade. I hope it's just an oversight on her part and not anything more.

It's Over!

I don't talk about school much, especially this semester, because it's just been pissing me off. I think my teacher is lazy, can't spell, and is terrible at keeping the lines of communication over. Now I understand that Proff.s with multiple classes are busy people, but it shouldn't take a week to get back to me on an e-mail that is important, silly stuff yeah, but important stuff that requires a simple yes or no should be answered. It's also an online class and the teacher didn't really participate, add any sort of lectures or insights, it was mostly "read x chapter and tell me about why xy and z happened" I really don't feel I learned much because I wasn't stimulated. I found the class INCREDIBLY boring, as well as frustrating. And I love history, it shouldn't be boring.

But yesterday I had my final exam. 10 essay questions. 8 I knew mostly the answers, 2 I had no idea, 1 of those I was able to BS enough that I think I'll get partial credit, but 1 I had never even heard of. I am hoping that everyone misses that one and maybe the proff will drop it from the test.

But as of today it's over, at least until next semester. So we celebrated last night.

Oh and it's freezing again today, welcome to Montana I guess.

Keep on truckin

Things have been very busy here the last few weeks. Paul got word he has recruiting duty orders, currently he is set to report in August, but he's applied to have it pushed back to the following class that would be the end of October. About 4 weeks into the 7 week class we will find out where we are going, then Paul will be allowed to come back here and get me, and together we will move to wherever. I am totally nervous about it, and I want to be prepared and proactive, but how can I plan ANYTHING when I have no idea where we are going? Thewhole set up really sucks.

School is going well for me, I think I have 54 credits, I got an A in my last science class, that was really hard! I think I am going to take the summer off because they canceled my botany class and I have no backup plan, I also really would like to sit down and just read for pleasure, enjoy my time. I haven't had a real break from school in 2 years. just holiday breaks and breaks between classes so it's time for me to rest I think.

I've been neglectfull

I apologize for neglecting you blog, and blog followers. Since Paul got home I've been super busy, he's been working less than half days so he's home at about 12 every day (which makes me happy) I will work this week at updating, with pictures, our adventures over the last week. I also had school sneak up on me, I thought I had one more week before my online class started but I was wrong and last monday I started Natural Science, which frighteningly starts the first chapter of the text with some physics. Scary Shit! I am sure I'll do okay though. I have also been riding a whole lot, I rode 56 miles last week, I hope to do 60+ this week. The weather is supposed to be terrible this week though, and I have a hard time riding in the wind, but I'll try. I may get to the gym and do the stationary bike if need be.

half-assed update attempt

Damn I miss him.

Two weeks until our official half way point.

Finals are this week, so you'll have to wait one more week for photos from Paul's R&R leave, unfortunately there has been nothing going on since he left due to Andrea and I having Epic Illness. (or a routine cold, but we are huge wussies)

expect updates around this time next week, sooner if I get around to it.

picture credit *EpiCute

First Day of School

I'm a dork, and I took pictures of my first day of school, last week, like my mom used to when I was a kid.

The only difference between that day and when I was a kid, mom didn't send me to school in wrinkled clothes.... I need to work on my laundry doing skills.

yeah, I know, I need to clean.

I also got a hair cut. last time super short I think. Pretty sure I will grow it out a little now.

Goal

I need to find my focus, I've never been able to focus. I barely graduated HS. I don't know how I graduated HS, luck, pitty from teachers, I dunno. College is a whole different game. Even though my classes are small it still not like my teachers go home and worry about particular students, I'm not going to get extra help if I fall behind. I need to get my ass in gear and do it myself. I slacked off summer term and while I did great in my writing class (B final grade), I sucked ass in the class I was most excited about, I don't know how it happened. yes it do. Geology was so exciting, I was so looking forward to it, but I did it online, more or less self paced. I can't do self paced. ADD doesn't let you just decide to do homework it makes you a procrastinator. I am a professional procrastinator (like now I should be reading history or oceanography, not blogging) I can't only blame my ADD, many times I thought, I should be doing school work, reading, out doing field work. but instead I focused on Paul and the deployment and after he left I just sat around being sad. C that is what i got in Geology, I am so disappointed in myself, that class was cake, I could have easily gotten an A, no papers to write, no major research. just answer questions and read the damn book, and I couldn't do that. Well it's not going to happen again, that will be the last C, I am going to kick ass this term.

I am not sure yet my exact plan but i'd like to get my Bachelors in History & Environmental Management with my minor in Natural Science (I think, may change minor again) by the time we leave here, so I can go to Grad School when we get back to the states.

Coming Soon

I've infused some olive oils. 

They will take about two weeks to set, but I am really excited. 

but tonight I need to sleep, I am seriously lacking on sleep. It's been close to three weeks since I have slept more than three consecutive hours. I was blaming Paul but I don't think it's his fault. It's really starting to take a toll on me, today I was so physically and emotionally drained by the time I got out of school at 2:30 pm I was ready to cry, just because I was so exhausted. Now it's 9 pm and I've got my second wind. 

I just finished cleaning most of the kitchen because, well because despite the fact that Paul just cleaned it yesterday we have a minor ant infestation. I'm attempting to deal with it on my own, but they are coming from the island between the Living room and Kitchen so I'm not sure if I can stop them, I may have to call the housing agency. Who are already gonna hate me when I get done with school next week and call them with the list of things that needs to get done, that I've been putting off because I don't want them alone in the house with the animals, not that I think they would hurt them or anything, I just worry about them getting out. Now that I'll be out of school for the summer (online classes) they can take their time completing my list of demands :)

And that's all I've got. 

Have a lovely day. and comment, it's good for you :)