Optional Prompt suggestion

I have decided to write my last blog post on the optional prompt post that was suggested by Mrs. Chism.  I will have to admit that I am glad that Mrs. Chism was my instructor for this class.  She seems to be really cool, down to earth, and seems like she is one of the students she is teaching.  I have dreaded taking this class for so long.  I never thought that I would get through it.  Especiallly as well as I have.  I feel like I have so much to say about something, but I don't know how to write it all out on paper.  I know I struggled to be able to do that in my writtings and I know I still had a lot to say even when I turned my paper in.  Either I couldn't find the right words to use for it, or I didn't know how to express what I wanted to say.  I think that I was able to open up more when I would receive my grade for my paper.  I didn't feel like my work was good enough, but my grades opened up my eyes to see that I actually can do this.  I did not really care for the blogging.  I do not watch the news on TV much, so I do not hear about much going on except from what I hear on the radio.  I hardly ever surf the internet because I either do not have the time, or my spare time is spending with my family.  What other people are doing around the world is not much interest to me.  I would much rather have been given a topic each week and posted on the discussion board.  I will definately not keep blogging. 
I wish everyone the best!  Good Luck!!!!    

Sister Trouble

My baby sister and I have always been pretty close.  She moved to Sprngfield about three years ago so we don't see each other much.  She has been with a guy for 12 years and has two children with them.  She was working at a company for about a year and a half making VERY good money.  How she landed that job, without any college background, I have no idea.  She is very smart though.  She has to be, to be at the rate of pay she was at.  Anyways, she had a lot of trouble at work with her boss, and she walked away.  I don't know what she was thinking.  Jobs are not that easy to find these days, especially if you don't have a college degree, and they don't pay enough.  She has found a job, but has taken a HUGE cut in pay.  Since then, she has kicked her looser boyfriend out.  He hardly ever worked, and when he did, he wouldn't pay his bills.  (That's the main reason she kicked him out.)  He ended up moving in with a couple of different girls in the past year until he finally met "the one".  The kids hated to be around her.  My oldest nephew, that is eight, told me that she was mean to him and his five year old sister.  Tonight, I found out that she grabbed him by the arm and threatened to break it.  I was furious!  I guess their dad has moved out from her, but that was not the reason.  I called my sister to get his number, but he was at my sisters house.  She wouldn't let me talk to him.  She don't want me to bud into her business.  She promises me that she is taking care of it.  I just want to talk to him.  He should not let anyone do that to his children.  I feel like those kids need me to stand up for them.  I know my sister is, but I need to too.  It was very hurtful when she told me to stay out of her business.  There are too many crazy things that happen to children.  When they are my own flesh and blood, I want to do whatever I can to protect them.  I am disappointed that my sister thinks that that is getting in her business.  I hope that it doesn't cause problems with me and my sister from now on.  I love my sister and I will do anything to help her and those kids.  Sorry, just thought I would share.     

Exciting News

I am very excited to announce that my oldest daughter is going to have a baby.  I was a little heart broken at first since she and her boyfriend are not married yet, but they are getting married in October.  She is five weeks along now, so she will be showing in the wedding.  If she takes after me when I was pregnant with her, she will just begin to start showing.  I have been crying all day since she told me the news.  I have tried to be very happy about it, but I know the struggles ahead of them.  Although, she did graduate high school, has gone to college for two years, has her CNA, will graduate in December with her Associates, has a good chunck of cash in savings,  and has a good boyfriend that is willing to take care of her.  So, she is not following in my footsteps after all.  She and her boyfriend found a place in Branson that they wanted to get married at that cost $3000..  Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of money to give them.  Together, they both have managed to pay for it themselves.  Actually, they were going to get married on a Tuesday because it was cheaper during the week.  They sent out the "Save the Date" magnets, and now they have changed it to get married on a Saturday.  Along with another $500.  Now, there is a baby on the way.  She just got a really good job that pays very good and her boyfriend graduates in December with his Bachelors degree in Teaching.  I think they both have a good outlook on life and know what they want and what it takes to get it.  I couldn't be prouder.

Economy disaster

I am sure everyone is talking about the tragedy from the tornado's that has hit the Northeast.  We have a big customer in Cherokee, AL that got hit pretty hard.  We have had an employee go to Sams Club to get water, food, and paper products to take to them in one of our trucks.  You should have seen how much stuff we sent.  The semi was packed full of stuff.  I am very thankful that we could help them out after this terible disaster has struck. 

I think that this horrible act of mother nature is going to hurt all of us in some way.  I have already seen the fuel prices go up again and can't help but think that it is because of the tornado's causing so much damage.  How much more of this can we take?  I drive 56 miles every day to and from work and it is really hurting my pocket book.  Now summer is coming and daycare is going to double.  Maybe I should learn to ride my husbands Harley to help save on fuel. 

Just Chatting

I know everyone is ready for the summer to be here.  Me, myself, can not wait.  So far, we haven't made any big plans to go any where, but to just take a week off of work and not have to worry about anything is relaxing enough for me.  The past few years, my husband and I have taken a trip on our motorcycle with my mom and dad for our summer vacation.  We rode 5200 miles in 9 days when we went out to see the Redwoods in California and circled back through Yellowstone.  It was awesome.  We try to rotate our motorcycle trips with a family trip.  This summer will be spent with the kids.  My husband has always taken his kids camping in the summer for a week.  That is all his kids want to do.  One year, we took them to Memphis, TN.  I had a really great time, but they really didn't.  They were upset because we had to stay in a hotel instead of a camper.  They are satisfied with swimming in the creek, sitting by the fire, and goofing off all day.  Plus, it's cheaper on us.  That fine with me. 

I have thought about taking classes in the summer to help me get through with school quicker.  I have so much left to do though.  I can barely find the time to get through with my classes now.  Between work, running after my son, house chores, and focusing on my marriage, it gets pretty exhausting.  It is going to take me for ever to finish if I don't change something.  I have only been taking two classes each semester so maybe I need to try to squeeze another one in instead of going in the summer.  I have always enjoyed the summer breaks.

My oldest daughter is getting married in October.  She has been asking me if I will help her make flower arangements in August.  I have never done anything like it, but I guess I will help her with what I can.  She also wants me and my mom to make 25 pumpkin pies for her wedding reception.  I know it is strange, but it is her day.  I can't believe she has grown up so fast. 

I guess I will quit rambling on.  Have a great weekend.

Retirement

With everything going on with my friend, I have really started thinking about retirement.  The company that I work for has just brought in their 401K representative to talk with us about signing up with the plan.  I have participated in a retirement plan before, but I lost most of my money when the crisis hit in 2008.  I am really too scared right now to put my money into a retirement plan.  But, I am looking at 27 years until I am 65.  That is even scarier.  My husband has been putting into his retirement plan for the last eight years.  I need to be thinking about my own retirement though.  I can't just count on him.  Who knows if we will even still be together in 27 years.  I think if I start small, I can afford to contribute something.  Something is better than not saving at all.  I am not very familiar with all of the different funds that I can put into though.  I know that this representative is willing to help, but I feel pretty stupid asking a lot of questions.  Especially since I am in accounting.  Right now, we already have a tight budget.  I have been told though, that I will only see a slight difference in my actual take home pay.  Also, my employer will match 10% of what I put in.  That sounds pretty awesome.  The employer that I was in with before did not offer that.  We also did not have any guidance on anything.  My company now, has a financial professional that will help in guiding me when the stock market down on what to do.  I need all of the help I can get too.  I do not know anything about it.  If I put money into a savings account, will that be easier?  I wouldn't have to worry about when the stock market is up or down.  I really think the best way to save for retirement would be to but a house or two and rent them out.  The guy that lives in front of us wants us to buy his land that has an old dump trailer on it.  We have been talking about it, since we could rent it out and the place would be paid for in three years.  Then that would just be extra income for us to put into savings.  I really don't know.  Any ideas??

Troubled Friend

I have a very close friend that I have been in touch with for many, many years.  We met while I was in grade school in a small town in Kansas.  Some how, we have managed to stay in touch after all of these years.  When she was 23, she moved to Wichita and met a wealthy guy that seemed to be pretty good to her.  Shortly after they got married, 14 years ago, her husband joined the army.  As military life is, they have moved all over United States, and they lived in Germany for three years.  She actually had her third child over there.  Being away from her family and friends, she has been very lonely.  She has made  a few friends, but no one she can get too close with since they move all of the time.  Her husband is some Sargeant or something in the Army and he is also an alcoholic and abusive to her.  They have had many struggles through out their time together.  He is always spending money and not leaving much left for her to pay their debts or buy groceries.  He loves to play golf and drink lots of beer.  Even when he is away in the field, he is spending money.  He has been to Iraq twice and he has blown a lot of money while he had been there.  She has to take care of the children and everything around the house while he is gone.  It has been a lot of stress on her.  When he comes home, she has to deal with him constantly going to the golf course, drinking, and being abusive.  She has called the MP'S on him several times, and has gone to counceling, but nothing has helped.  Just before Thanksgiving, he had punched a hole in the wall beside her head and held a gun to her.  She has had to go to the doctor because she is so depressed and has been put on medication.  About a year ago, she started crying one day and could not stop.  She was having suicidal thoughts, and ended up going back to the doctor.  She ended up admitting herself to a Psychiatric hospital for a week.  She is not doing much better today.  Her husband has been hitting on her and calling her names.  When I talked to her tonight, she said that she had got the kids ready for school this morning and when she got in her vehicle to leave for work, she closed the garage door, started her vehicle, and just sat in it with the windows up for a while.  She was thinking of dying.  She is so depressed and I do not know how to help her. She don't see how she can leave him.  I have begged her for years to come stay with me, but she just stays with him.  She always thinks he will change.  I feel so helpless.  I wish I knew what I could do to help her.  At least something that I know would make her get away from him.  She is going to end up killing herself.

School Conference

I just came from my parent/teacher conference with my son's teacher.  He has three C's, two B's, and an A.  I am very disappointed in this school's policies.  When I was in school, parents could go visit their childs classroom whenever there was a problem and see for themselves what was going on.  They do not let you do that anymore.  It is due to the child's privacy.  If I go and observe my child, I might see another child do something and comment on it.  I do not agree with that.  I think it is to cover the teachers butt.  The teacher tells me one thing and my son has a different story.  I don't know the truth because I can not go and find out for myself.  His teacher said that he does not turn in all of his work.  He has missing assignments.  I have repeatedly ask for some communication when he has missing assignments.  He has a journal that he brings home everyday with her smart remarks in it.  There is very little positive feedback from her.  If she notes in there that he has missing work, the paperwork or books are not there to go over it with him.  She tells me that he doesn't put it in there.  She will not do it for him.  He tells me that she will not give him anything.  I have given her my e-mail so that we can communicate privately, but she has only e-mailed me once.  I ask her if she could have my son miss recess or come in early to make up any work that is missing.  She said that the school will not let her keep him in from recess because he needs to run out some energy and she is not always there early enough to come in before school.  I feel like I am trying here and not getting anywhere.  When I get a bad report in his journal for talking, my son gets a spanking or grounded.  If the teacher will not give me the assignments by sending them with him, or e-mailing them to me, I can only punish him at home.  I have had to keep all of his papers that he brings home because when he started having missing work, I could go through the stack and find a couple that was supposed to be missing.  The paper would not be graded, so I would send it  back with him to school with my note on it showing that it had not been graded.  Two of the assignments that she shows as missing, are in her pile of work to grade.  I am really lost here in how to help the teacher and my son.  My stepson went to this school and because he had missing assignments, he would have to have the teacher sign his journal in each class stating that he had no homework due or missing assignments everyday.  He was in 7th and 8th grade.  My son is in 3rd grade.  If anyone has any suggestions, I am all ears. 

Teenagers

My younger daughter just turned 18 at the end of January.  She graduated high school early last semester because she wanted to start college a semester early.  Her boyfriend in going to college in Indianapolis and will not be home until December.  She was hoping that she would have her nursing classes done by then so they could start on their life together.  You can't tell them.  They just don't listen.  I tried to tell her that it would take longer for her to get through her classes, but she just wouldn't listen.  She had it all fighured out for herself.  I think she is realizing it more now, but she don't admit it.  I am happy that she is trying to get a nursing degree and do something with her life while she is still so young.  She is definately not following in my footsteps.  By the time I was her age, I had quit school, got married, and had a baby.  Now, she wants to move in with her girlfriends.  She has been wanting a different car, but she don't make that much money.  I told her that she couldn't afford to have a new, or newer, car and be able to pay for rent, utilities, and food.  She agreed with me.  Boy, was I shocked.  She has been a really good girl.  She don't go out hardly ever.  She don't stay out late.  She watches Ghost Hunters with her little brother.  She even lets him fall asleep with her and then takes him to his bed.  She helps out around the house with the laundry, dishes, and vaccume.  She don't ever ask for money.  I can tell that I have managed to lead her in the right path to her adulthood.  I am very proud of her.  I hope it will be this easy when my son gets her age.  I might need all the help I can get with him.

Mom

I don't know what I would do without my mom.  She is the smartest person that I know.  When she was 14, her mother passed away, so she did not have her mother to go to when she needed to.  I can't imagine what that would be like.  I can't go a day without calling my mom and asking for some kind of advice, or just to talk to her.  There are so many things that go on in life that I know she will have the right answer on how to handle it.  When I was younger I thought I knew the right answers too, but I was wrong.  There have been many times that I kick myself because I should have listened to her.  I know if I ever need anything she would do what ever she had to to see that I was ok.  My mom tells me when I do something that she doesn't approve of.  She talks to me about it so that I can see her point and think of a better solution.  No matter what though, she has always took up for me.  She will not allow anyone to talk to her about her kids.  Even if someone was trying to tell her the truth about something that I had done, she would not listen.  She will come and talk to me about it later.  I will always love my mom for the way that she has brought me up and has guided me through a rough life.  I will always look up to her.  She is my HERO!

My education

How many of you are glad that we are almost halfway through this semester?  I know I am.  When I started going back to school, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do.  I quit school when I was 16 and waited eight years before I got my GED.  A year later, I decided to take a few college classes.  At that time, I really wasn't focused on school, so I quit.  Then in 2003, I decided to buckle down and get my education so I didn't have to work in a factory for the rest of my life.  Because I worked during the day, I had to take night classes.  It was hard to take care of the girls, work full time, and go to school.  After taking all of the keyboarding classes that were offered, I decided to go into the Accounting field.  I graduated with my Accounting Associates degree in 2009.  There were a lot of classes that I took that I didn't need, which is why it took me that long to get it going part time.  Now, I am working on my Bachelors degree and I need all of my core classes.  I hate to admit it, but I dreaded taking this class.  I did not think I would like it at all.  My mom and my daughter are the writers in my family.  I don't think it has been too bad so far though.  I have really surprised myself in what I have done already.  I think writing on this blog has helped me to free write on different things that come into my thoughts.  Really, I thought it would just be a waste of time.  But, it hasn't.  I hope I can get through the rest of my classes that I need to finish my degree and say the same thing about them. 

Fireman's Wife

I met my husband 11 years ago.  We dated a while and then went our seperate ways.  During out time apart, he decided to persue a career in firefighting.  When we started dating again and finally decided to get married, I didn't think the it would cause too many problems in our everyday life.  Well, let me tell you.  It is very worrysome, lonely, inconvenient, and relaxing all mixed together.  We have a scanner that I listen to some times so I can follow most of what is going on if he gets called out on a structure fire.  That is when I am at home and not trying to work on homework.  With our city cutting jobs recently, it has made it very dangerous when they get called out and don't have enough manpower to watch each others back.  My biggest fear is that he is going to go into a burning house to save someone and loose his life in return.  It is also very lonely at times.  He works 24 on and 48 off.  It was very hard to get use to at first.  I like to come home and share with each other on how our day went.  When he's not home, and I have had a crappy day, it can be a lonely night.  I can not ever plan anything ahead either.  Most of the time, he is working one day of the weekend.  It really stinks around the holidays.  It seems like he has had to work all but two of the last seven Christmases we have had together.  Either he has had to change shifts, or it falls on his shift to work.  There are also times when I can't wait until he has to go back to the station.  I get to where I enjoy some time to myself.  It seems that I can get more homework done when he is not home than when he is.  He does help out with the kids, but they all carry on and make a lot of noise causing me to get distracted.  It has been rough, but I admire him for what he does.  As long as his job is there, he will always be there. 

Work Drama

How many of you have a Drama Queen at work that you have to listen to all of the time?  I have to listen to this lady talk about every detail from the time she left work until she came back to work the next day.  She goes on and on about everything.  I am the type of person that goes to work and leaves my personal home life at home.  I do not get involved in all of the gossip around the office.  She don't care though.  Even if you are totally ignoring her with your back to her, she still continues to talk.  It doesn't matter what you ask her about a certain job, she can somehow get back to talking about herself.  She wants everyone to feel sorry for her because she has had a hard life.  She is on her third marriage, which her first two husbands have passed away, and she has three kids.  I think she is on some kind of medication because she acts like she is having panic attacks or something.  I don't know, maybe she really is.  It is really affecting her work though.  With her being in accounts payable, she really needs to pay attention to what she is doing.  She has caused other people to have to correct her mistakes because she doesn't know what she is doing.  I guess I am just blowing off some steam with this one.  I hope you all don't have to deal with someone like this.  If you do, how do you handle them?

Sunday's at Tiffany's

I know I am waiting untill the last minute to post on my blog, but I have been extremely busy for the last two weeks.  I know it is not an excuseable line, but at least it is the truth.  Anyways, I have started a new, I guess you could say, hobby.  I don't even know how long it will last, but for now, I have stayed on a routine of doing it every day.  It is reading.  I have always hated to read.  I bet I haven't read a book since I was in grade school.  It is called "Sundays at Tiffany's" by James Patterson.  I found it in my daughters book collection and thought it would be interesting, and so here I am.  Reading it. It is about a little girl who has an imaginary friend as a child and when she turns 9, he has to leave her.  She is very upset because her parents are divorced, her mother is very rich Broadway producer who is never there for her, her father has a young beautiful girlfriend who he takes to Nantucket, and the only one who listens to her is leaving her too.  I haven't gotten real far in this book, even though I am on chapter 28, but it skips ahead 23 years and her imaginary friend spots her in New York.  He is between assignments.  I am not real sure if this guy is real or not.  Has anyone else read this book?  Everyone else can see him now, but I don't think they could when she was young.  He keeps following her around, but he hasn't let her see him yet.  It is kinda interesting.  My nephew had an imaginary friend when he was about 3 I think.  My sister would go to put him in his car seat and he would scream at her to buckle up Erman too.  One time he cried his eyes out because he said that she sat on Erman.  He was devistated.  I can't waite to see how this book turns out.  I guess that is why I can't put it down.  It has only been three nights of reading so far, so hopefully it will only take another three nights to finish it. 

Worn Out

I am very tired tonight.  I have worked 60+ hours this week and I am very worn out.  I do not have much more strength to keep my eyes open.  I know I am supposed to keep up with these blog posts, but I do not see how I am going to be able to do it this week.  Right now the only thing that sounds interesting enough for me to post about is how good the bed is going to feel when I lay down in it.  It has been a long week at work.  We have had the auditors there all week and I have been getting so much stuff for them.  Today, they wanted some of the same stuff they asked for yesterday.  The good thing about them being there is that we go out for lunch.  It gives us a little break and we are able to relax and enjoy other conversation than so much accounting talk.  Anyways, have a great night and weekend everyone!

K-12 Future

I am soooo sick of this weather.  Maybe if I could get back to my own home, it would be better.  We had to come stay with my parents because we live out in the middle of no where and couldn't get in and out of our drive.  Don't get me wrong, I love my parents, but I like my own space.  It has been nice though that my dad has dinner ready when I get home from work.  He is the best cook around.  Anyways, since the accident with my son's collar bone, he has now been out of school for three weeks.  He did go Friday, two weeks ago, but he has missed so much.  That being said, I think we should have been able to get some kind of help from the schools.  Even though the kids couldn't make it to the school, why couldn't the schools have something set up online where we could get some kind of homework assignment for them to do in times like this.  How are they ever going to make all of this missed time up?  What about for the future.  I wonder if in 10 or 20 years from now if there will be online classes for K-12?  It would save a lot of money.  It would also be pretty hard for almost 100% of us parents that have full time jobs.  When we would we ever have the time to help our kids with their homework or make sure they have it done.  It would be a big responsibility for us on top of everything else.  I guess I am just thinking about this and have not really made up my mind on which way I would want it.  I know with me working late, getting my homework done, cooking dinner, laundry, and spending time with my family, I really wouldn't have much time to help.  But in our current condition, some extra effort would keep the kids from having to go to school even longer into the Summer.  This is just an idea that popped into my head and I wondered if anyone else has thought about it or has any thoughts of their own on it.

ADHD

I am not a supporter of diagnosing children with ADHD.  My son is in the third grade and he is very alert.  I mean, he is active all of the time.  Since the first of school this year, his teacher will write things like, "he can not control his behavior, he can not sit still, he is being disruptive".  I feel like he is a boy with a lot of energy.  I have read up on symptoms of ADHD, and I think that most kids would be categorized as having ADHD.  I looked at this site:  http://ezinearticles.com/?Diagnosing-ADHD---What-ADHD-Screening-Test-Tell-Us&id=4343328
and I do see these symptoms in my son, but I also see it in most kids.  My son's school wanted me to do this questionaire to see if my son could have an attention deficite, but to me, I feel like it is the teachers that do not want to deal with the children.  They want them to be on medication so that they do not have to deal with the ones that need a little more attention.  My son does not make bad grades all of his work.  He does struggle in some things though.  I have been very shocked at a lot of the things that he is learning at such a young age though.  The school thinks that he does not listen and gets distracted easily.  If he wasn't listening, he couldn't tell me some of the things that he is hearing and learning.  He is very smart and amazing.  When I was young and in grade school, we had kids in our class that always caused problems.  They were not catagorized as having ADHD.  I know it was not a diagnosis back then, but the teachers dealt with them.  Sometimes they had to have their desk right beside the teacher all year.  My son does not need medication so he can function in school.  I did not fill out the questionaire that the school wanted me to.  I have observed my son and have talked with him on his behavior at school and he knows the consequences when he does not control his energy at school.  I know a lot of people that has their own experience with this subject and their personal opinions.  I, myself, do not agree with the way it is being abused.

Disciplining your Kids

I have always disciplined my children when it has been needed.  I was disciplined a lot when I was a child.  Even now, I am disciplined when I do something wrong.  I believe I have learned a lot from my mistakes, and I believe my children will to.  You have to teach your children right from wrong.  Maybe spanking them is not the correct way to do it, but let me tell you, I have had a lot of spankings in my lifetime.  My husband always yells at his kids and say, "it better not happen again".  Well, it does happen again.  They know that is all that dad is going to do.  Since he is working 24 hours every third day, he is not home enough to follow through with much discipline.  As me being the bad stepmom, they don't listen to what I say either.  I try to tell my husband, that I am not trying to be mean, but they have to have discipline and respect.  It is our responsibility to teach them.  I found an article that has some tips on discipling your child at:  http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/discipline.html#
This article has tips on discipline at different ages.  It also advises that spanking your children should be avoided.  I have tried some of these tips already, but I am going to try the ones that I haven't yet.  I hope my husband will be willing to try along with me.

Growing Up

You know, when I was a kid, I always liked to play outside with my boy cousin Tracy.  We would ride horses, play cowboy and indians, ride the three wheeler, shoot birds and rabbits with our bb guns, and we played with cars and army men in the dirt.  We always had a lot of fun playing together.  We very seldom played anything inside the house.  I guess you could say that I was what people call a tomboy.  I did play dolls and house with my sisters, but I would much rather be playing outside with Tracy. 

I watch my son and my step children now, and wonder how they can all be so different.  My son is a lot like me when I was young.  He would rather be playing with something outside, or looking for bugs.  My step kids on the other hand would rather be sitting in their bedroom playing video games.  It drives me crazy for them not to go outside.  I know they would have a lot more fun playing out there.  We bought a trampoline and a basketball goal to help my step sons be more active.  It only helped for a little while.  Again, they spend their time inside playing video games. 

I know I wish I could go back to being a child and playing outside again.  I have many memories of all of the fun that I use to have.  The spring and summer time gets me excited because I know I will be outside taking care of the lawn and garden, and planting flowers.  I am looking forward to it very soon.

My crappy week

I have had such a crappy week.  First of all, my son started running a fever last Sunday.  I am lucky that my dad was able to keep him while I worked all week though.  He ran a fever until Wednesday, so I took him to the doctor.  He had a touch of the flu and a bad sinus infection.  He has never been this sick.  I was not able to get hardly anything done when I come home from work since I had to take care of him.  You know, hold him and rub his back.  Second, work has been really crazy too.  I have had so much new, odd stuff that has come up and now I am behind with my normal work load.  Don't get me wrong, I like to learn new stuff, but when I am so far behind in everything else, it makes it really frusterating.  Third, I have nelected to keep up with the house work.  Thank goodness I have taught my children well, and they have helped out a lot.  Lastly, I am behind with all of my homework now.  I am still not sure if I am doing this blog right.  No one has posted anything on here.  I guess I must be doing something right though because I do have followers. 

Tomorrow, I am going to go into work and catch up on some things.  Sunday, I am going to take care of things around the house and catch up on some homework.  Hopefully next week will be a lot smoother.

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