Figured I ought to do this, considering my last post. First of all thank you all for your good thoughts, words and prayers. They're much appreciated. Before I get into that though I've got a request:

I've got a creative writing piece that I've written and am now polishing for a conference/judging/contest *thing* that is part of our grade in one of my classes. I need to turn this in by midnight tonight. I've had a couple of people look over it already but if there's anyone else that would look over it for me, I'd appreciate it. Just let me know here. It is about an abortion but it's not judgment of right or wrong. It just is and it's not terribly graphic.

Okay now onto Tony. Right now his left eye is getting worse. He's on medicine that is supposed to help slow and stop this but it's taking a bit to kick in. He feels a bit better about this after talking to his regular doctor. The likelihood of him losing his vision entirely is slim but it could be impaired a great deal. The whole thing is more hopeful than we originally thought and I think Tony does feel better about it now. It takes six months for the dead cells in his eye to be replaced. Worst likely scenario is he loses vision in one eye for six months. In theory he could lose vision in both eyes but the odds are against it.

School is going to keep me so busy the next couple of weeks. I've written the paper for the conference. I've got a response paper due on the 9th. An in depth research paper over Beloved the 13th and a book talk on the 16th. In that time I've got to learn a chapter of Spanish as well. The semester is winding down and all the papers are coming due.

Speaking of Beloved? So very weird and disturbing. It was a good book but not one I enjoyed. The chances of me re-reading it are slim. I read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimen (Book talk book) and I loved it. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes YA supernatural books. Right now I'm reading The Notebook (one of my favorite movies) and surprisingly, I'm disappointed. I'm not that far into it though. I keep hoping it'll get better. It's being told in all the wrong order and the love story is just skipped entirely. Like I said, maybe it gets better or it back tracks or something. I'm actually getting a grade for reading The Notebook though which I'm excited about.

We saw Knowing on Friday. I liked it. For what it was. It was a little creepy and a little weird but I enjoyed it.

SPN--I really liked this ep. Kripke surprised me. The trailers and the spoilers had me afraid. I laughed so much. The boys acted like the boys. That was nice. I needed less angst. I'm just ridiculously worried about the finale and what we're going to end up with but at least we've got a S5 to fix it.

Heroes--I'm so late with my talking about these things! I loved it. I laughed so much at Claire and Nathan.

Okay I'll leave it all at that. I should go work on school stuff more. Ya'll have a great day.

Kids are mean. I know this and I've known it for a while but I haven't had to deal directly with it. The Friday before Spring Break, Dustin got into a shoving/name calling match with a couple of boys at school. We talked about it and he was fine with it. Now I've known for a while that he occasionally dealt with kids teasing him/name calling but it was isolated events (according to him at the time) and not a big deal. My advice to him was to ignore it. Just leave them alone and ignore them. That was going fairly swimmingly. He has friends at school, everything was fine. This morning he wakes up and swears he's sick. Now we've had 'fake' sick days before. If I had doubt about his illness, I'd tell him to go to the school nurse. If the nurse sent him home, he could be sick. Usually it all proceeds as normal. I never get called, he goes through school fine. This morning he persisted and I couldn't find anything wrong with him. I had a sneaking suspicion it was due to the whole debacle with the boys but it took me forever to get him to confirm anything. He told me 'Mom you don't know what it's like. The whole fifth grade calls me names and teases me'. Well that just activated my protective streak and I wanted to kick some fifth grader's butts (which of course isn't the right reaction). Anyway, I got on the phone I called the principal we did lots of talking. I understand the other kids pov. Dustin does bring this on himself. He doesn't know the meaning of 'stop it, that's annoying'. He just keeps it up. He's a really sweet, tender hearted, sensitive kid so it really kills me to see him upset about stuff like this.

He told me this morning he feels like he really doesn't fit in anywhere. He's tried football, soccer and basketball and gotten teased a lot there. He's not terribly athletic or coordinated (Sorry kiddo you got that from me) so he doesn't really excel in the sports. He just hasn't found his niche yet. He's very good with computers and at video games but I do not want to let that be his only niche. Right now the plan is to put him in Karate. Tony has taken classes when he was younger as have several of our friends with kids. I know that will help his confidence and self esteem. Tony swears the instructor has enough of a hold on the kids that he won't get teased. If he can make some progress or succeed in some way in something like that I think it will really help him. Plus, he will learn to defend himself if he's faced with bullies again. Yesterday morning he cried and told me the boys he got into a shoving match with were going to beat him up. We took care of that (Principal is aware of Dustin's fear of this and is watching things as is all the teachers) and now we've moved onto I guess the 'lesser' problem in his mind.

So, any suggestions? I know I've got a couple of Moms/teachers/etc on my flist. I'm going to talk to the counselor at school as well and get suggestions from her.

Spring Break: So sad it's over but it was nice. I did very little of anything until Friday when we drove to Santa Fe and went skiing. I had so much fun. I haven't been skiing in over ten years but it all really came back to me. I tried to ski a whole day and my body hated me for it. I took several breaks in the base lounge. I'm most definitely not twenty anymore whether I want to think I am or not. Dustin was in ski school the day I skied and he had a lot of fun. He did pretty well at it too. He wants to go back and we're considering maybe a Thanksgiving trip since my family doesn't do a lot on Thanksgiving anyway.

So I'm back to school and trying to wrap things up because really, there's not much time left until the semester ends. I'm kind of surprised it's gone so very quickly.

Those of you on my flist that RP, I've gotten involved in a panfandom that's really a lot of fun shakeitup_pf. Come play with me.

SPN: Holy Frickin' Kripke. That's all I'll say because more would require a post of DOOM and would be fun but I don't have time right now.

Castle: Still love. Him and his daughter make me want to squish them.

Dollhouse: HEE! Yay! Really hope Fox gives this show a chance.

Hrm, I think that's it for now. Ya'll have a great day.

ETA: lol! Emmett is annoyed at you (moodtheme) I have Twilight at home but I haven't gotten a chance to watch. Should do that tonight. Can't wait to see all the extra stuff.

SPRING BREAK

omg I needed you so badly. And my classes have been sort of nice. I've got reading to do but it's actual book reading (Have I mentioned I love being an English major) as opposed to text book reading. I need to get off my butt and decide what I'm going to do for this stupid conference presentation thing that we have to do for one of my classes. It's a paper you present to a panel really about anything you want. We can even do a creative writing paper. The problem with that is we have to read it out loud. I'm not really comfortable reading in a group of people I don't know. Yes I did drama in high school but that wasn't *me* in front of other people. That was a character. I bombed the UIL speech things I did because I got so nervous. Go figure. Let me be someone else I'm fine, make me be me, not so much. ANYWAY, I also have an analysis of Coleridge's Pan and Luna that I did last semester. If I beef it up a bit I can use that. I just don't know that I *want* to do that. I really need to talk to the prof about it I think.

Back to Spring Break and fun stuff. We're going skiing on Saturday! Well we're driving on Friday but I won't have time to ski. I'll just have time to enjoy the condo and the ski place. I'm putting Dustin in ski school and Tony may or may not ski with me. He hasn't decided yet. Skiing is kind of a solitary thing anyway so I'm not upset about skiing by myself if he doesn't want to ski. I'm excited but I'm a bit nervous too. I haven't skied in like...fifteen years? Something like that. I'm fairly certain I'll remember how. I'm a bit worried I'll kill myself in the process. I'm still excited.


Now TV: Dollhouse: I like it. I'm not super super psyched yet. My favorite ep was the whole Target one. I think you have to suspend disbelief on a lot of things like why would someone hire an active for that instead of a real *fill in blank*. That's fine. I like suspended disbelief.

Castle: Okay I love this one. And I love it because of Rick Castle. It's a crime drama. I think there are more than enough of those on TV and we need to get away from those but Rick Castle is too cute. Also, it's Nathan Fillion. What's not good about that?

SPN...I'm so worried. Kripke...I have 60 acres and a shovel.

Lisa was here this weekend. We had fun. There was a great deal of wine and cake consumed. Girly movies were watched. Nights in Rodanthe? I liked it but omg sad and I didn't expect that really? No I haven't read the book. Girly movies are totally my thing. Girly books aren't really. Several guy friends of Tony's came up too and I was ridiculously amused at them. They came home Friday night fairly smashed. TOny and JW wrestled in the kitchen and knocked over a coke. Then they argued about who should clean it up. Tony said JW knocked it over. JW said Tony knocked it over with HIS arm. I cleaned up the coke.

That's all. Have a great week!

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And there are so many reasons why this is true. I ordered that Then Buffy Staked Edward shirt. I will wear it with pride. We discussed Twilight in Teaching Child Literature today. This one girl confessed she's in love with Edward Cullen. She's at least twenty. We all laughed and had a good time talking about it.

Number one reason I'm a dork though, I get geeky and excited and damn near giddy over Wuthering Heights, which is what we're reading in Women Writers right now. I just adore Heathcliff. He's so fucked up and dysfunctional and I want to squish him in a hug sort of way. Broody Boys always pull me in. It doesn't matter if they're TV, books or movies. We were talking about the pros and cons of the book and I said I don't like that guy...I can't remember his name but I wish the book didn't have him. They said Heathcliff? I was like omg noooooo I looooove Heathcliff with like tons and tons of love. It was Lockewood I'd like to get rid of. Sometimes I have doubts about teaching kids but every day at school it is confirmed that English major is definitely where I need to be. I love that part of it. Spanish I could shoot in the head. Although I'm getting better. I can read whole paragraphs in spanish now, provided they're the right level and contain the words I've learned.

IDK if I wrote something about finishing up the third season of FNL or not? I won't spoiler but I really loved it. I have read that if they continue to get the ratings they have been on NBC it seems likely it will be back for a 4th season. I really hope so. I will watch for Coach and Mrs. Coach alone, although I have others I'd like to have in the 4th season. I was going to wait and watch them all on NBC when they aired for the first time then last week they did that 'everything changes next episode' trailer and I couldn't resist. I have no will power or self control or patience. I'm like a three year old. It's awesome.

SPN 5th season!! I know my entire flist has squealed about this already. I haven't because I haven't updated so there's my squeal. I'm wicked excited, a little scared and so glad there's more boys. I'm not ready to not have them on the screen once a week (or there about)

Lesse...I think that's it for now. Have a great weekend flist!

First of all new layout. Yes it is Eliza Dushku and while I loved Dollhouse tonight (Yay! Joss on TV again) mostly I picked the picture because it's pretty.

Now Dollhouse, no spoilers really because I don't have deep thoughts on it or anything but I enjoyed it. A lot. It was so fun to hear the grrr arrrg on TV again. I was totally pleased with the ep and have set up my timer to record it because usually Friday nights are spent doing something besides watching tv even if it's just watching movies.

FNL:

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Today was good. I had lunch with the hubby, went to Ulta and got some new makeup. Red nail polish because the 53 bottles I have aren't enough or weren't the right shade of red. Also went to the kiddo's Valentine Party. He was happy to have me there.

Yesterday was good. Discussion in Women Writers about Gothic literature and its elements. We discussed the elements in some of the various poems we're reading now. We're going to dive into Wuthering Heights soon. Someone asked if Gothic literature was waning and the professor laughed. She said noooo read Twilight. It has classic Gothic elements and it's huge. I'm amused that she's such a fan.

Spanish I think I'm still struggling a bit but I do think I'm getting better. I'm waiting for this click where it all makes sense. I'm getting there. I'm more encouraged than I have been since starting.

Wednesday was day of suck. It was day of MONSTER curb at school vs my car. Basically I curb checked which isn't usually a big deal. I don't do it often anymore but I do it. My depth perception SUCKS. Anyway, car met monster curb, scraped up the spoiler thingy on the bottom of my car. It's really low to the ground so no goodness there. The rest of the day was just rotten in general. No big reasons why.

I finished my creative writing paper on Medea. I feel like I got the formatting for it all wrong but MLA doesn't exactly have a format for creative writing, original character dialogue plus quotes. Anyway, I'm throughly pleased with it. We're taking first drafts in Wednesday to let her look at them. She'll tell me then if the formatting is wrong and help me figure out how the heck to fix it.

Tony bought me a Kindle 2. I was a bit surprised. We'd been discussing me having one since Christmas but things were uber back ordered and it was expensive and nah. Anyway, he bought it. It's supposed to be here around March 2 (doesn't come out 'til like the 24th or something). I'm quite excited about it and I'll let ya'll know what I think.

Oh! I bought cute clothes at Target the other day. A really cute denim shirt dress and a grayish skirt and this cute ruffle top and some awesome strappy silver sandal/heels. The skirt, top and heels were supposed to be for V-Day. Of course it's supposed to be cold here. I'll probably do skirt, boots, light sweater instead.


Also I got a steal on Ebay. Guess black leather jacket for 23 bucks, including shipping and handling. Technically it's used but the only mark I can find on it is a small stain on the inside of the lining. It's beautiful. I'm so pleased with it.

Lately obviously I've been about a lot of buy buy buy. Huh. That's kind of unusual unless you're talking groceries. Which I'm not. I did those too but not fun. Right, rambling.

Lesse...I think that's all I've got. Ya'll have a great weekend and a very happy Valentines Day.

So I'm finally mostly well. I've still got that nagging cough and gunk clogging up my throat (TMI, I know) but I feel fine. I pulled a huge OOPS shit this morning. On Mondays and Wednesdays I have to be in class by 8:30. College is an hour away. I woke up this morning at 7, got the kiddo ready and out the door on the bus by 7:15. Now on Tuesdays I do this and I go back to sleep for an hour before I get up to go to class. This morning I went right back to bed. I knew it was Monday. I apparently did not remember that class was at 8:30. Sooo skipped class. What saddens me is because of being sick, I've missed nearly all the talk about Frankenstein. I'll get the end portion but that's about it. I'm not worried about it. I don't have to do a paper over it. I just hate that I missed it.

Anyway, on to Kristi isn't a ding bat.

I got nothing. No really, we're looking at replacing my couch. My couch is not that old right now. Like four years but it is absolutely the worst furniture purchase I've ever made. It's poorly made and it's too big for my living room. We bought Tony a recliner (he's wanted one for years) and now we're looking around at new couches. Right now we have a sectional that only fits in my living room one way. We're looking at a sofa and loveseat combo. We just can't find anything we really like that is decently priced. We've only looked one store though. We'll just have to look around.

Valentines is coming up. I got the hubby a really nice black leather carry on. I know! So romantic, huh? Seriously though he travels a lot with the referee stuff and his carry on isn't great. He knows I got it for him because he's hard to buy for and I called him and said hey would you like...he's really happy about it. I told him 'I know it's not romantic'. He gave me this look and said 'I'm not a girl'. It made me laugh. We're going out to eat and to a movie (Probably He's just not that into you). For the first time ever we're leaving the kiddo alone at home at night. We'll have our cell phones and he'll have a phone. He stays home every Tues/Thurs by himself for a couple of hours so I know he'll be fine. It's still a little nerve racking.

New Heroes tonight. I so love this season and that's such a change from what I was saying about season 2. I hated season 2 with a vengeance. I'm looking forward to Dollhouse on Friday. I'm quite sure it'll be canceled after four episodes but I have hope that it won't. Fox is doing a butt load (which is just shy of a shit load) of advertising for it. That's a good sign. Hopefully they're committed to the show and hopefully Joss will make it awesome.

Spanish is so kicking my ass. I get the vocabulary and I sorta even get the verb usage (sort of) but actually using the language and making sentences out of it and writing it down? Kicking my ass. I mean my instructor hasn't come to me and told me 'you're sinking, let's get you a tutor' and she promised she would do that for us so maybe I'm on par and I just don't realize it. IDK. I'm just so damn thankful the rest of my classes are English. They're just like water to me, or something like that.

My writing has plummeted. Mostly because of Spanish and a great deal of reading in the English classes (Contradicting myself much here?). It's not for lack of interest. I want to write and I have ideas but by the time I get time to flesh out those ideas, my brain is so fried. I've been rping more, I think because it's sort of writing but with less brain power required. It's fun and stress free which I need. I'm not stressed really, just brain fried. If there's a difference.

Speaking of writing and fanfiction and just writing in general. Excellent points made by jleemoffat

Okay, I really think that's all I've got right now. Ya'll have a great day.

Yes! I has cold. It is not fun. It's all in my nose and throat right now. I'm OD'ing on vitamin C and I think it makes me hyper for reasons I can not explain. Of course I'm chugging the coke/hot tea because it helps my throat. Tomorrow, my LONG FULL day of school is going to suck outloud. I'm not looking forward to.'

Heroes was made of awesome last night.

Hubby is watching FNL with me. He loves. He thinks it's very accurate on football stuff, as far as the small towns and stuff. He does not like Timmy Riggins. I am not surprised. I like the broken ones, he doesn't.

Errr lesse...I got nothing. I blame my cold.

Have a great day!!

Point of interest, the key words for my icon are: in serious need of ice cream. That is me. NAO.

I don't know about the rest of the world but in Texas we get warnings Tuesday and Wednesday we had ice on bridge and road condition warnings. We have nifty digital signs that warn us about this on our highways. And well, the Texas Highway Department obviously severely underestimated the hacking ability of people in general. Not to mention the creativity. So along with ice and winter road conditions, we had Zombies to worry about.

Busy busy busy. School has been keeping me. I did my first Spanish test. I think I did okay. I know I messed up some verbs and tenses but over all muy bien. At least I think. We won't get our grades back until probably Tuesday. The vocab isn't a problem for me, it's the grammar rules. Drive me nuts why don't you 'cause I'm not quite there yet.

We also finished Pride and Prejudice in my Women Writers class. Not a big deal. I've read the book at least twice and seen the movie multiple times so I knew what was up and to be honest I was slackerish with the reading. I did my first paper (short one about a page) and we're moving onto some poetry.

We finished Medea in my critical reading class. I've heard the story before, knew what was up with it. We're doing something really cool (or we have the option to) and she warned us it would be one of the few creative writing papers we'd get the opportunity to do so I'm snagging it. We get to write closing arguments as a defense lawyer for a character in the play. We treat the play as 'prior' testimony and use quotes from it to support our closing argument. I think it'll be a blast. She told us to really go crazy and be dramatic and creative and stuff. We're starting Frankenstein Monday. Another book I'm looking forward to. School this semester is *a lot* of reading but it's interesting and I love reading so I'm enjoying it even though I'm pulling my hair out because the amount of reading that has to be done everyday.

Uhm...lesse, Friday Night Lights. Love. Just love. I've finished s2 and gotten caught up to 3X02.I *may* check out the other S3 eps that I know were pre-released via DTV or whatever but for now I'm happy to watch it as we get it. I kind of like stretching it out when it's current and I know I'm gong to get weekly doses of it. I like that anticipation and wondering. I'm a dork. I know this. I still friggin' adore Tim. I'm not crazy about where he's at right now (Because I still think Lyla sucks donkey balls) but Tim is love regardless. I can never figure out exactly how literate he is. I err on the side of not terribly but obviously somewhat. I could say more. I'll spare the flist. I'm sure that will *not* always be the case.

hmmm uhm...okay. That's I need I need to read some stuff for upcoming class. Ya'll have a great day and southernbangel have a great birthday!!

My brain is broke. Pretty sure of it anyway. So I switched classes and ended up in a class that had already had two classes, right? Right. That's my Teaching Reading class. Anyway, we do literature circles where basically we split into groups, the teacher assigns each group a YA book (usually like preteen, a bit younger than what I usually read) and we decide how to divide it up and then discuss it. So Tues I find out my group got a book and decided to read the whole thing and discuss it Thursday. Yay...except they had a week to read their book. I had today. I tried to buy the book yesterday and my barnes and noble didn't have it in stock. They could order it for me and get it to me next week. Yeah, no. So today when I went into school I checked out the Hastings right next to the college. I snagged their last copy. And spent all day reading it. Well, a good part of the day. My right eye is weak. I read fast but I have to take frequent breaks and look at something besides pages and pages of words or I end up with my weak eye turning into a lazy eye and I see everything a bit crossed eyed. So ANYWAY, I read all day and read the chapters in the standard text book I need for tomorrow morning's class. And read a good part of the Pride and Prejudice I need for tomorrow and studied Spanish. So we're back to brain broke. However, Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen is an adorable book. Written in a back and forth pov that works perfectly for it. It's about eighth graders so it is a bit young but it's adorable. I enjoyed it and will probably read it again at a later point when I don't have to hammer through it and can actually enjoy it.

Now, I shall cut for Friday Night Lights ramble. Although it's still first season so it's not really spoiling anyone who's up to date on it.

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Uhm so mostly I've been watching FNL and reading. I suck I know. I did get S2 of Heroes, S1 &2 of FNL from Barnes and Noble's site today. I had to take advantage of their sale. Yup I do not have S2 of Heroes yet. I hated the season that much. I have closure issues though. I like having complete sets of things.

Okay, night guys. Have a great day tomorrow!!!

ETA: LOL I'm amused that my moodtheme icon is Rosalie and I changed it to brain broke. Because she's so very...not bright.

Most of the time anyway.

S'okay uhm so this weekend I've spent doing a lot of reading and a lot of tv watching. Kind of. We'll get to the reading first. I have to have Volume I of Pride and Prejudice read by Tuesday. No big deal. I'm over 100 pages into it with less than 60 to go. I have to have a good deal of Medea read as well. Again, not worried. I was actually a little scared of the amount of reading that my classes were going to require because holy hell I've got a lot of books but I think I underestimated how fast I read? I've just got to make sure I retain enough of it. I've read P&P before so I do think it's faster for me to read.

TV Show! So I've seen several people on my flist go on about Friday Night Lights. I decided to see if I could check it out and what I thought of it. I'm watching it on hulu (which is kind of the greatest thing ever) and so far...I really think I like it. I hate Lyla. She's a hypocritical, self righteous, holier than though cheerleader. I have NO problem with who she's sleeping with. (In fact, likely to NO ONE's surprise, Tim Riggins is my favorite character. He's all kinds of messed up and broody) I do have a problem with her acting like she's so much better than that. Also, I have a lot of love for Tyra. This could be rub off from SPN with Jess and everything but I like her. Coach and Mrs Coach are adorable. In short, I'm gonna keep watching it. It's not OMG Best EVAH yet but I'm entertained and pleased with it so far.

Really, this weekend has been very lazy. Tony has been working the entire weekend on a project for a big client that needs it done by Wednesday (he found out like Thursday it needed to be done). It doesn't happen often, usually he gets more notice and can get it done with minimal work nights but this week, not so much. It's let me do a lot of lazy stuff though so that's okay.

We went and saw Defiance on Friday. Really good movie. I enjoyed it. The woman who plays Gwen in Angel (Alexis...Davalo? Something like that) is in it. I swear it's impossible to make that woman not pretty. She had no make up on for the movie and she was dirty at least half of it. She was still pretty. We took Dustin with us. Went through the whole deal about explaining how it's based on a true story. I like for him to know about things like that and see it through more than just a history book. I know it's probably not 100% accurate but accuracy isn't so much the important thing I don't think for something like that.

Dustin finally went to Best Buy and spent his gift card from Christmas. He got Call of Duty:World of War. It has zombie Nazi's. So not kidding. Also kind of hilarious. Apparently Nazi's aren't bad enough, we need to turn them into zombies. I got Serenity on Blue Ray there. I haven't watched it yet but probably will on Monday. We had it on regular dvd but now we have a blu ray player (PS3) and we're slowly replacing action/special effect movies that we love with blu ray.

So that's my weekend. Hope ya'll are having a great one!

Even on a semi regular basis. I got out of my news reporting class. That's a good thing 'cause I was gonna hate on that class and it was going to take up a lot of time. My adviser suggested I take Desktop Publishing next time. The class was closed at a time I could get into so instead I'm in a teaching reading class. Which is good. I need it and I think it'll be more interesting than the other one. My adviser was great about it.

Supernatural is back. Huge YAY as far as I'm concerned. I've missed my show.
( Spoilers for last night's SPN )

Other things....hmmm IDK I'm considering watching Friday Night Lights. I don't know why. It keeps trying to intrigue me and I'm still not knowing why. I know I'd have multiple seasons to catch up on so we'll see whether I do it or not. Thoughts? Suggestions? Yay! Neigh?

I got a good bit of original writing done for findyourwords last week. You can find it here if you want. I don't expect to get as much done this next week because I've got a lot of reading to do for school. My writing has gone to almost a screeching halt. I'm generally pretty fandom prolific. Not so much lately. I'm hoping I can just keep plugging a little at a time on it mostly just to keep writing.

Uh...okay, that's all I've got today. At least I think.

Oh in other news, I can't figure out twitter. I think I've got posting down but getting it delivered to LJ? Not so much.

So yesterday was my first day of classes. I had Spanish and 19th Century British Women Writers. The Spanish is overwhelming right now. I know eventually I'll 'get' it and it'll be alright but this is my first exposure to a foreign language at all other then y'know listening to people speak words that I can't comprehend. I like the teacher though so that's a bonus. My Women Writers class is going to be awesome. I'm terribly excited about it even though it's a lot of reading. She had us talk to each other, find out things about each other and then introduce the people we talked to. The girl I talked to and I got to talking about books. She mentioned that she was a Twilight fan. We sort of went all fan girl after that. So before I introduced her I asked 'Can I say that you're a Twilight fan or is that kind of a guilty pleasure kind of deal you don't tell people about?' She said 'oh no. I've seen the movie six times. You can tell it.'

Come to find out in the introduction and conversation that followed, my professor is a Twilight fan as well. Dorkily so. She's read all the books and she dragged one of her colleagues to see the movie. Keep in mind this is a woman who is early forties (my estimation), married with a child and she's got a doctorate in Romantic Literature. So it's not just for sixteen year olds and other fangirls who just think their sixteen. (Kind of including myself in the latter there)

The best/worst thing about classes; I have quite a bit of downtime on both Tuesday/Thursdays and Monday/Wednesdays. However, there's free wireless in the student center, comfy couches and a TV not to mention food and all that stuff. What I need to do (and intend to) is find out about student memberships to the gym here on campus and I need to make sure I go spend sometime on the treadmill/bike/something or the the other. I'm losing weight just by watching what I eat but it's only like a pound a week. If I actually exercise I could step up the weight loss.

Last night I watched American Idol. The auditions always crack me up. I usually watch the auditions and then slack off watching the rest of it. Hmmm okay I think that's all I've got. Ya'll have a great day!

Today and yesterday have been busy and filled with productiveness. Yesterday I went to the college campus (four year university) and got registered. I got my parking sticker and my ID, all that good stuff. The ID picture is actually decent so yay! for that. The parking sticker is a laugh. There's not near enough parking and I'm going to end up parking on someone's curb and walking a lot. On that note, I want a mild winter. Today I spent my day getting in touch with the English chair and instructors and trying to get into a fourth class that was full. I ended up not getting into the class I wanted to but the chair gave me permission to sub an English class that I think I'm really going to like. It's 19th Century Women Writers. The books I have to buy for it are Austen, Shelly, Bronte, Browning, people like that so I'm all yay! My husband doesn't understand it. It'd be hell for him. I love it. It is a lot of reading though.

My schedule is all over the damn place time wise too:

Critiquing English 8:30-9:45 MW
Newswriting 11:30-12:45 MW
Spanish I 1:00-2:15 TTH
19th Century Women Writers 4:00-5:15 TTH

The campus has free wireless so I'll be toting my laptop to school a lot and using it during downtime, which I obviously have a lot of. On Tuesday and Thursday the kiddo is going to be home for an hour and a half by himself. It's not that big a deal. He's 10. I think he can deal with it. My grand dad is just down the street if he needs an adult.

I signed up for findyourwords and committed to writing 35K this year, which isn't much. It's less than 100 words a day. I'm putting the restriction on myself that this has to be original fic because I'm not counting fandom stuff. It's a small commitment but I figured with school I need a small commitment. On that note, I wrote 577 words of original stuff today. It's in the same verse I was going to do my nano in and if you'd like to read it you can find it here.

I've been re-watching SPN and I have thoughts and ideas. I need to do one big post for it. I might get that done tomorrow or the next day. Anyway, ya'll have a great day!!!

so like two days ago my left hand shift key decides to pop off. i think oh i'll just keep pushing on it and it'll stick down eventually. noooooo. well i remembered my laptop is still under warranty so i call support and say hey do ya'll cover this. well turns out they do and my warranty expires in five day (go me for having awesome timing with the calling) but since i called before the expiration the new keyboard is under warranty. so they're shipping it to me and tony will put it in. if he can't he works at a place that can. i'm happy 'cause i don't have to ship my computer off. kristi without a computer would be an unhappy person. and dude the guy pushed me like hell to renew the warranty.

uhm...i don't think i've posted here since before christmas so now we shall do christmas 'cause i know ya'll are rocking the whole reading things with no caps dealio. it was good. i got a ton of books which is awesome. i have already read one that i really loved called valiant by holly black. she writes young adult and it's our world but there are faeries not usually seen by most people. the books are really gritty and dirty, very urban. i enjoy them. i've previously read tithe by her and liked it and now valiant which was better than tithe i think. i'm ready world war z right now and so far enjoying it.

dustin had a great christmas. he was so excited and he really enjoyed his presents this year. he asked me this year if santa was really real. i told him santa was as real as he believed he was. he didn't push it any further. i think he knows he just doesn't want it to be true. my parents never had the santa's not real talk with me. i just figured it out so i'm just going to let him do the same thing.

we're having people come here for new years eve. it should be fun. right now lisa lisa is sick and i'm threatening her to get better stat because otherwise i'm here with two other girls that kind of drive me crazy. most of the people i really like but yeah...i'm sending her get well vibes. send some to her too. she's supposed to be here tomorrow. as of today she was still only sitting up for like fifteen minutes at a time. outlook is not good.

uhm let's see what else. i need to register for college for the spring semester soon. i think the end date is jan 13th. i figure i'll do that as soon as new years is over.

ya'll have a great great new years if i don't post before then.

My Christmas shopping is done. Everything is wrapped. I'm all yay! I have still have to decided what I want to make for Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner. Probably green bean casserole because it's easy and everyone likes it. I want to make something else though. In addition.

Birthday was good. It was quiet and nice. Tony got me chocolate cake and he and Dustin sang Happy Birthday to me. I got presents and we watched A Nightmare Before Christmas. Last night we went and saw Seven Pounds. Very sad but very good. I love Will Smith. It always amuses me because I remember his first rap song 'Parents just don't understand'. I also got to do a great deal of Christmas shopping on my birthday and that was fun.

I have a new layout. It's made from various manips I've found over the years (if you made one of them and you want credit, just yell. It's been so long I can't remember who made them) and yes it's Gaspard/Emily. I have too many fandoms and they're all pretty so I chose to make a header of pretty people. And let's face it, those two are awfully pretty together.

Dexter Season Finale? Awesome. In fact the whole season was amazing. I want it on DVD NAO. Thanks.

Hmmm, kiddo is out for the holiday. He's excited. I'm happy because I'll get to sleep in mornings for a little while.

Pretty much nothing else interesting. Ya'll have a great day!!

I finished my finals! Math is OVER and I got an 81 on it which kind of shocks me, 'cause it's math. I ended up with an 87 in that class for the semester. Again, color me shocked. The best thing though? I never have to take a math class again. That is so much Win. Grades are supposed to trickle in all day today and tomorrow [Supposedly they have to have them in tomorrow] but so far I've got a B in Biology lab (should have an A in the lecture part) an A in English (no surprise I aced that class) and the already mentioned B in math. History and lecture officially still has to come in. I'm guessing an A in history but it could be a B.

So now other stuff. I'm kind of all wrapped up in school and have been for the last couple of weeks. I haven't gotten a lot of Christmas shopping done but I usually do wait until like the last minute. I'm bad.

I got a new dishwasher. This has been such a long time coming. The old one is like 30 years old (literally) so anyway, new dishwasher. Got it home. Tony pulls out the old one. Of course it wasn't that easy. This house is never ever this easy because it's literally falling apart most of the time. We knew it was leaking. I had to put a towel underneath it every time I washed dishes. So anyway, Tony goes to pull it out and discovers that it was also leaking underneath/behind the dishwasher. The floor is rotted underneath it. It's not like rotted through where anything is in danger of falling through but it needs replaced. So then he goes to turn the water off so that he can disconnect everything. The knobs that turn off the water under the sink break off. OFF. Sooooo then we're checking to make sure the knobs broke off while the water was still ON and we notice the water under the sink is leaking. So now we're up to replacing the dishwasher, the floor and the plumbing under the sink. I swear one of these days I want to knock this house down. Right now we're going to redo the pipes and put the dishwasher in. When we've got more money at the beginning of next year we'll redo the floor. It's not going to fall in and we won't have a dishwasher that's leaking and making the situation worse.

Tomorrow Lisa is coming up to see me. We're going out to celebrate the no more math (well the whole graduation thing as a whole) We're also slave laboring her husband into helping Tony. Should be fun.

So I've done this whole 'I need to lose weight' a gazillion times. I still need to lose weight. Tony got me on this web site www.livestrong.com and it's pretty cool. You tell it how much weight you want to lose in a week (up to 2 pounds) and it tells you based on age, weight and height, how many calories you can have a day and succeed at that. This week I'm not working out. Mostly because I was completely involved in school. However, I have decided I have to work out because I do not get enough calories per day. IE I can't go have a cinnamon dolce latte and actually eat anything else (ok it's not that bad but that's the idea) I'm pretty sure that's not why you're supposed to workout but hey whatever works. Anyway, I'm trying to work that and be good.

Uhm....I think that's all I've got.

Have a great weekend.

I've been worse but my posting rate now isn't great. Anyway, what's going on:

*I graduate "officially" Friday. I've got 2 finals this week. History and Math. Math worries me BUT I'm comforting myself with the fact that even if I do horrible, I'll pass. Just not with a B, which is what I want.

*Kiddo is doing better-ish. We still have things. He is lying to me something awful right now. He cut up an ink pen and it got on the dining table. I asked him what happened. "I don't know! I didn't do it." There's one kid in the house. He's the only one who could have done it. I finally got him to admit it by threatening grounding. He lies about little things. We're working on putting an end to that.

*Christmas shopping is commencing. I always do it late. I always swear I'm going to do it early. I never ever do.

*Have you guys seen this thinkpad commercial. Granted I was drunk when I first saw it but I laughed so hard I hyperventilated. I want whatever crack the people that thought this up are on. Thanks.

*I saw Twilight. I loved it. I had high expectations and worries but I thought it was a really good book adaption. Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart really did a great job with their parts imo. I will be getting the dvd and rewatching a lot. Lisa and I went with our husbands, a friend (who's actually this huge burly, 6'4 or something bodyguard looking intimidating guy) and my son. We walked in and two girls in the first row whisper to each other 'There's boys in our theater!'

Pat (the burly guy) liked it a lot. The husbands were only meh about it. Dustin was okay with it but it was mushy. I can't wait until New Moon now. I'm worried and I have concerns about Taylor being able to be post!wolf!Jacob just because he's young and he's not big enough or burly enough yet.

*SPN I still love. I still hate the new Ruby. Heroes, I still love for the most part. I like Peter's storyline. I like Claire's storyline. Everyone else I'm meh about but then I don't need anyone but Peter and Claire's storylines to be awesome.

*I'm sad Lipstick Jungle got canceled. I liked it. It was like a guilty pleasure girl show.

*I'm looking forward to Dollhouse and Castle. Which means they'll be canceled in short order.

*Okay, so I think that's it. Here's my Writing Roundup for the month-ish

*And I got busy and forgot to post this: My Entry for the IWRY marathon

Have a great week!

I am an epic fail at updating my LJ. I'm kind of an epic fail at commenting most of the time too. I read entries and I think they're interesting. I just don't comment. Meh. Who knows. I'm busy, busy, busy lately. I'm graduating Dec 12 with an associates so I'm trying to wrap everything up with that and figure out exactly what I need to do to get transferred and enrolled over at the four year college near here. School is going well, it's just keeping me busy alongside kid stuff and life stuff.

School Stuff: We're going to watch Apocalypse Now in English Class. Apparently the teacher believes it's an excellent adaptation of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I've never seen the movie and I'm sort of looking forward to it even though I'm not a fan of war movies like that. Everything else is going really well. I've still got a high B in math which is still amazing to me. Most of the time I understand it pretty well. Everything else in school is fine.

Kid Stuff: He's doing a lot better. Honestly? I think the child needs to be grounded and in trouble on a semi regular rotation to keep him in line. He's excited about Christmas. It gets harder and harder to buy for him though because he's getting older. I can't just go in the toy store and go crazy. My Aunt called yesterday to see what kind of toys he might like and really we're down to like Bionicles and video games. He doesn't like clothes yet so yeah, he's at a difficult age.

I took him to get his hair cut yesterday and for the first time he wanted input in it. He wants it to grow out longer. I've always kept it super short because it's easier when it's short. He's nearly as tall as me. It's kind of scary how fast he's growing and yet in some ways he's still very much a little kid.

Writing Stuff: I tanked Nano. Big time. I knew going into that it'd be difficult with all the school stuff and everything going on but yeah I had no idea I'd tank it so bad. I still think I like the idea and I love the characters so I'll work on it again just not now.

Other Stuff: So Lisa Lisa is coming up on Friday and we're gonna go see Twilight. I'm ridiculously excited. Reason #215 my kid is awesome, he wants to go see Twilight too. Of course it's just because the movie trailers but still. He's awesome. We're also going to go out and watch The Iron Bowl then proceed to either celebrate or mourn, depending on the outcome. I'm hoping celebrate. It should be a fun weekend. I'm looking forward to it 'cause I haven't seen her in a while just because things have been so very busy.

I think that's about it. Ya'll have a great rest of the weekend and week to come.

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