Day 33

Tried to take a picture of the blizzard going on outside my window, didn't work too well. Guess who gets to drive in the blizzard because she has to go to class? Yup. Not quite sure what I'm going to do but I have to go. There's no question. I already know that one of the other girls isn't going because she's sick, and then the second girl said she might not be comfortable driving in the storm. So I might be all by my lonesome tonight. I can do this. I drive a Jeep. It has 4-wheel drive. I don't know how to use the 4-wheel drive but I bet I could figure it out if I had to. Husband has shown me, do you think I remember? Nope. 

Oh, I feel much much better today, but I sound like a monster. Whatever has been affecting me targeted my throat and voice. Everyone kept asking me what was wrong. Come on people. 

I finally went to the after-school program today, I didn't go yesterday or Monday. When I walked down the hall towards the kid some of them came running up to me and gave me hug saying they missed me. It made me feel special. Later I had one boy completely act out and not listen. It got to the point where another teacher walking by took over. I was embarrassed. I should be able to handle a 6 year old even if he is almost as tall as me. Ugh, sometimes I feel very inadequate but I have to remind myself that it wasn't anything that I was doing wrong. I just need to be braver and ask for help.

I read the Hunger Games again and am reading Catching Fire right now. I don't know why I love these books so much but I find myself smiling when they come up with ways to rebel. There is a down side though, I've started to have nightmares where I'm in the arena. Those are no fun. 

Happy Leap Year!

**UPDATE**
I made it to school in one piece! I even got to use my 4-wheel drive, someone who loves me decided to teach me again, just in case. Now I get to sit here, maybe relax a little bit, and then hope that the snow isn't too bad when it comes to drive home. 

Day 32

Good News: one on my professors liked my paper so much that she wants to use as it an example for future classes. I've never had this happen before

Bad News: I'm still sick, worse even. My ears feel clogged, my throat is beginning to get sore, and my body aches all over. Yuck

Dear Wednesday, please be nice to me and my sickly body

Day 31

Sick.

That's all I have to say about today, and most of yesterday. Want to know how many naps I took today? 5

The worst part? I wasn't able to go see my sister for her birthday.

Happy Birthday you pretty lady you. One day I hope to be as classy as you are

Day 29

It's birthday weekend in our family. 

Today is husband's little brother's birthday and Monday is my sister's birthday. We're going to dinner with the in-laws tonight, sister is having a birthday bash at her place also tonight and then Sunday dinner with the family tomorrow. I'm going early to help my Mom make her delicious oriental chicken. I can't wait!

Same sister mentioned above and I went to a middle school girl's basketball game this afternoon. Want to know the final score? 10-11, our team. It was riveting. Because they won that game, it pushed them into the finals but they weren't going to play for another hour and a half. So to kill some time, I treated sister to a birthday pedicure. We made it back just as the first quarter began. We had decided that we were going to do lots of cheers and chants, ones that we learned from going to Utah State University.

 For examples, check out this and this.

Well, things didn't go according to plan. You see, the team we were up against, they were pretty darn good. They were ahead by more than 10 points the entire game. At one point, our fans were chanting "We can't hear you!" and the opponents responded with "Scoreboard, scoreboard." There's no comeback to that. I believe the final score was somewhere around 31-10... might be a little off. My favorite though was the lady sitting behind us kept asking why the girls were crying. This was her first girls basketball experience. All in all, it was a great Saturday afternoon.

As a follow up to yesterday's post, I think I'm going to offer to babysit Tobster more often. We played with dice, smashed some Play-doh, colored pictures, practiced letters, made mac-n-cheese, watched Cars, ate popcorn, jumped on pillows, and made a fort. I kept asking him what the purple die was because he says "purpur" and it cracked me up each time.

We're now off to Ruby River for a birthday celebration!

I'm spending my Friday night with this little handsome devil.

Have a great weekend!

Day 27

Where to begin?

Well for one, it's after 10 p.m. so it's well past my bedtime. Two, I just sent out a power point presentation that I have been working on as a group project to my fellow group members. Here's hoping that they look at it before 4 tomorrow so that we can submit it. Let me just say this, group projects in an online class are the dumbest thing. There, it's out.

I was feverishly working on this power point trying to combine everything from Google docs into another power point presentation so that I could make sure it looked all fancy. It wasn't working. My palms were starting to sweat and my heart was beginning to race. I finally gave the reins over to our friend for help. His suggestion? Download it. It's in Google docs, so all you have to do is download it and save it. 

Well why didn't I think of that? He probably just saved me 2 hours of pure nightmare on Elm street.

Tonight we went to a wedding reception for a friend who is our friend in a circular way. The groom is friends with our close friend (the one I scared), and the bride is best friends with my little sister. It was so so pretty and elegant. I'll admit there are days where I wish husband and I could throw ourselves another reception, just for the heck of it. My memories of my own are a blur, and there wasn't time for dancing, which now I know was a huge mistake but back then we were clueless.

Oh yeah, we have our tickets to Hunger Games.... do you?

Day 26

I almost lost it today. It got to the point where I was grinding my teeth because I was trying so hard not to say anything. The worst part? I was frustrated with the husband.

Now that I'm out of the situation and have had time to cool off, I know I shouldn't have let it bother me. But I'm human. 

I'm a believer that it's sometimes better not to say anything than to "talk it out." Others might disagree, and before I got married I might have been on the side of you should always talk it out. Tonight is a great example though. I think we avoided a death match by not talking to each other. Now when I get home from school, things will (hopefully) be back to normal. 

Alright, can we talk about The Biggest Loser please? I am sick sick sick of Conda. That girl is driving me crazy. I hate when the seasons are like this. What happened to just doing your best and losing the weight? When the game gets involved, I get frustrated. It makes me want to gain a lot of pounds, go on the show, and teach them how it's done. Do you think anyone has done that? Gain some more so that they can try out for the show? 

As I drove away from the apartment to come to school, I had a strange memory of one of our old neighbors. He was an odd one. You could see his balcony when you pulled into the complex, and more days than not, he was out there doing karate. Those were the best afternoons when I would come home from work and see him up there. He had a long version of a mullet, always had his shirt off, and always had some type of stick with him. It was like the Karate Kid, only ridiculous. 

Well, I'm sitting in class, and so far I'm the only one. Please please please let it stay this way. Remember how I had to do that suicide role play? Well, my partner and I were talking afterwards, and not only is she pregnant, but she is having a home birth. A home birth!! To me, that is so scary but she seems so calm about it. Her mother-in-law is a part time midwife so that's why they are having a home birth, it's going to be free. So in that aspect, pretty awesome. The other aspect, not so awesome, at least in my mind.