School is Cool!!!

I went to school today! I am the oldest person in both of the classes I was in today, or at least close to the oldest....but ya know what? Until just now I didn't even notice. The instructor in my Comp 1 class is hilarious and I hope that amongst all that fun, I will learn something and become a better writer than I am now. The only negative thing I have found yet is there are 2 girls that were in my College Sucess class that are fresh out of high school, and very very giggly, they laugh about everything! The problem being they are in my Comp 1 class, when I saw them I went "oh man!" But I suppose I deal with my kids, and truly these girls don't act much older than them:) So I guess I will handle it ok.
I had homework for my Info Systems class, that I already got done....since Savannah is sleeping, and it isn't even due til Monday. The class is a Mon./Wed. class and the teacher has told us that we don't have to attend the Wednesday session as long as we email her and let her know that we are working on our assignments or that they are done. I am not sure though I may just go up there anyway, I am already up that early to take the boys to school and I do have a class at 10 after that one. Who knows?
Well I just wanted to pop in here and say hello, I am sure as the week goes by I will have more to tell you all. Have a great day!

I wish I could.....

Ok now today's blog is more of a bitch session than anything else, I am wanting to let the world know something that has always been a pet peeve of mine! There are some people in this world who love to treat service people like crap, it could be your waitress, the kid working the drive through, the person taking your dry cleaning, the list could go on forever...the point I am coming to is don't. If someone makes a mistake think of a tactful way to say "hey this isn't what I wanted, can you fix it?" 9 times out of 10 it is not an issue for that person to say "sorry I messed up, I will fix it right now." Instead there are those people who say something along the lines of "damn it I told you I wanted it this way!" with a very bad attitude, I can tell you that changes the response you will get from the person helping you. Now I ran across this the other day, and thought of all the people who are treated this way on a daily basis...although my customer not only treated me like a complete moron for messing up (which I fully admit I did...she wanted one thing and I was only half listening to her, my fault) later that evening she came back in for a pizza and made sure to point out my mistake while laughing at me and talking about me as if I wasn't even standing there. The truly frustrating part of customer service is the old saying "the customer is always right" this is not always true and when someone is belittling you and you can't say a word back it really gets you.
And now that I have bitched about this I feel much better about it.

Today is laundry day around my house....such a fun and exciting thing to do, and I was reminded by my eldest son today that they don't have school on Friday...so I need to get most of this house done before then, cause once they are home it will be hectic all day long. Especially since most of the kids around here go to another school, so there won't be anyone to play with.

Late Again...

Well it is the countdown to clean....I am beginning my clean sweep of my house today no matter what! I really hope to get at least 1/3 to 1/2 of the house finished by the end of the day! The kids were late to school this morning, it is so hard working until 11pm and then trying to be up and have them to school on time!
Yesterday I switched them to a different doctor office, see the kids have been seeing different doctors since they were born, CJ had a Dr. here in town who I really didn't like but that was who he was assigned to...Dillion went the same place I went while pregnant, and Savannah was required to be at a ped. office since she was a preemie. So I finally found a Dr. who could take them all, and hopefully this will be much better for me. Although I was on the phone for what seemed like forever trying to get it all switched and now I have to call 3 different doctors and have their records sent over to the new Doc.
I went to Baker yesterday and got my books, that was a long line....I can't believe that for 6-7 books my total was $360...but luckily for me financial aid covered it, and I still have enough left that I will be able to get a backpack (to carry all these heavy books) and some little things like pens, paper etc.
Not too much new to tell you all about. I guess I will try to write when I get another chance!

I am sleeping

Wow, my arms are killing me! We spent the day painting Claud's grandmothers house today, I am the type that only paints for a little while and then quits so helping to paint an entire house was very tiring. But the good part was in total there were 5 of us working on it which made it go a lot faster.
At the moment it is 8:30pm and I just woke up from a small nap, the bad part is later I will wonder why I can't sleep! I am hoping to get some of the house cleaned up before I go to bed, along with getting the kids clothes and whatnot around for tomorrow.
I have been hunting and running all last week, so not much got done around here. I really would like to get the house all clean and sparkly by the end of this week since my classes start next Monday. I am starting to get nervous about school starting now. Knowing that I have to carry a B- or better in all my classes to get into the surgical tech program is not helping me.
Oh and before I forget our 5 days of early hunting yeilded no results for me...so I suppose my sister will have to wait another couple months for her burger. Sorry Sis!
You guys have a wonderful week!

Hunting! Do not read if you are anti hunting...please

Yesterday Claud and I spent a good majority of our day in the woods. We got up at 5:30am and headed out, at around 7:30 I glanced behind us and saw that there were a whole line up of deer headed our way. This is highly unusual since in all the years we have been there they have been coming from in front of us, Claud planted food plots in the field this year and I guess the deer must like them because that is where they were coming from. Anyway, I got into the window and got my gun up, I watched them as they walked in and waited....breathing as much as I could to calm my nerves. I watched as the first doe approached who seemed to be a good size, I waited until she was in my sights and fired....I saw her kick a little as if she had been hit and Claud told me to rerack and hit her again to be sure...so I did and then I watched her limp off towards the south. Claud fired a lot and did hit one doe which dropped right where she was.
After a little while we got up and went to see Claud's deer and look for blood on mine. After we saw where Claud's was laying I started looking around for blood, and found a nice amount...we followed a good blood trail for a long ways, including finding a couple spots where you could see air bubbles in the blood, which means I hit her in a lung, I know she is going down now that I saw that! My excitement was very short lived however, we followed the blood trail until we came to the place it stopped...directly in front of the swamp which is very flooded and impossible to get through. I am a firm believer that if you shoot a deer you should track it as far as humanly possible...and we did, but unfortunalty she somehow managed to elude our efforts. I feel terrible that I was unable to find her not only because I know I killed her and she would be my first deer, but because I hate leaving deer lying...I hate hunters that shoot a deer say "must have missed" and never try to find it. This has always been my pet peeve and now I am stuck knowing I had to leave one behind.
So I suppose you can say I shot my first deer, but to me it wasn't tagged and I didn't bring it home so I can't claim it.
We also went out last night but all we saw was the same huge buck that has walked past us at 150-200yards and waved every year for a lot of years....he is a beautiful deer but he is also very smart and the chances any of us willl ever hit him are slim!
We are going out the next two evenings and Sunday morning. I am hoping for better luck, once I get my deer we are calling it quits until season however, we really don't want to spook the deer this early anymore than we did yesterday.
Well have a great weekend I will write more when I can!

Lots of Things Running Through My Head.....

At this point I have a whole slew of things that are running through my brain, it is terrible! First and foremost is that I am trying my best to plan a suprise party for my dear husband for his 30th birthday (not worried about posting this as he doesn't read my blog) I have the hall all set and I am working on the guest list which is an ongoing process as when you make a list like that you undoubtly forget someone along the way only to remember them later. Lucky for me this won't be taking place until Dec. so I have a long time to remember all those people I will forget. I do however think that he knows I want to have a party for him, even though I have assured him that I don't want to upset him anymore than he already is about turning 30 wink wink!
The second thing at this point is the fact that thanks to the no work situation we went through awhile back, I am still trying to dig us out of that hole...which seems like a neverending process, but I am making progress slowly but surely.
The last thing is that my depression issues are back in full swing I believe, I find myself dying out at about 1pm everyday and my brain is very foggy, not to mention the irritablity. I have fought to control this problem for 7 years now without meds. I was on them for a short time after Savannah was born, but I have tried to maintain this on my own. But with school starting and all the new responsibilties I am going to be taking on I think it is time for me to go to the doctor and let them help. I know I can't keep on living this way.

Tomorrow we will be attending a funeral in the morning. I can't imagine losing my parents and the more people around me that lose theirs the more I think of my own parents. Don't get me wrong my parents are in pretty good health as far as we know, other than my Dad has serious eye problems that require injections every 6 weeks. But I also know that they are not spring chickens, they are 61 and 62. I was born 12 years after my sister which makes me the child of much older parents than most people my age, over the years I have thought about the fact that because my parents are older there is a chance that I will lose them earlier in my life than I would like. But I just live everyday and try my best not to dwell on it, that is until something happens that makes me remember.
Other than this there is not much else to say, I hope you all enjoy your day, mine will be spent cleaning and laundrying.

Better than expected

Last night didn't go as badly as I thought it would, in fact not one person complained about the prices! And according to my Dad nobody complained during the day either. So either they just didn't notice, or they understood...either way I was happy.

Before I went to work however Claud gave me some bad news a friend of ours lost his Dad this week, he was a nice man and a friend of the family. He was always at our functions, while he could still get out, unfortunatly his health has been fading over the last few years and he finally lost the battle. I am asking you all pray for his family during this time of need.



As for me I am going to be spending the day doing all the things that I didn't get done yesterday, like the cleaning and whatnot. I was hopeful all night that my wonderful husband would suprise me while I was at work and clean the house, but alas it is still messy. So I am finishing my coffee and going to do what I should have done yesterday.