Surgery

Well the grand ol' wisdom teeth surgery is in 2 days. I didn't think I'd be nervous but well, I am. Maybe it's because I went through a major surgery just over a year ago and it was not a pleasant experience. I mean, not that surgery is supposed to be fun, but it was definately much harder than anybody told me it would be. I'm hoping that this will be the last surgery for awhile. My family gets all weirded out when I have surgery because of my heart--it does weird stuff during and after surgeries. Add to that the fact that I'm the only person in my immediate family to have ever had surgery and well, yeah--I'm like a side show act at a circus. Everybody comes over to see me, then tells me how horrible I look, then leaves because they 'can't handle it.' Anyways, I'm just rambling now.

B and I had a nice Christmas. We went down to his dad's house and stayed for a few days. We saw a bunch of old friends, and one who is in the military :) It was a lot of fun. But now we're back to our little old apartment. I worked 4 hrs today and tomorrow I'm working for 2 hrs, then heading to my dad's house because my surgery is being done where he lives. I'll be on the road for about 4 hours tomorrow. Not too long, but long enough to think about every possible thing that could go wrong on Thursday. I'm like that, I tend to think about everything that could go wrong with the surgery--and I have issues with people sticking things in my mouth anyways. Alright, I'm rambling again.

I hope everybody had a safe and happy holiday. Be safe for New Year's, I'll be laying on the couch recovering. I'll post when I get back, on the 4th. Until next time!

Do Teacher's Get Breaks?

I'm just curious what all you teacher's out there think. It seems to me like every decent break I get I have a million teacher things to do. Thanksgiving break is anything but because college professors seem to think that they have to give massive amounts of homework/papers/research/etc. to their students so I have spent the majority of my last 4 Thanksgiving's typing, reading, or running statistics on various research projects. But what about Christmas break? There is no homework because, well, the semester is over with. So you'd think we'd be able to relax right? Well not for me. This Christmas break I will be putting together file folder games and creating thematic units. Now for those of you who have put together a thematic unit, you know how much work it is. A thematic unit can easily take 2 weeks or more to put together. So I'm aiming to get 2 of them done in a 3 week period, call me crazy...but I think it can be done. Add to that a surgery and crazy work schedule and well, there goes my break. So for those teacher's out there, do you ever get a break? Or is it just that we do teacher stuff without the kids?

One Long & Busy Day

My day started out at 6:30 this morning. I hate being up before the sun, it's so depressing! So anyways, I did my normal routine while I was half awake, fell into my car, and headed off to work. I got there and the dog greeted me in the yard by jumping up and knocking my bottle of pop out of my hand. Great---now it was all fizzy so I couldn't drink it. Grrrr....anyways, C came down the stairs after being yelled at by her mom-(she was doing cartwheels off of mom's bed and crashed into the dresser)-to bother me. Then the never-ending day began.

7:45--cartoons for C, coffee for me in a sad attempt to wake up

8:45--Breakfast for C--little pancakes, each with a letter of her name spelled out on her plate in a circle with banana slices in the center sprinkled with powdered sugar-(am I good or what?)

9:00--Bath for C

9:30--Dress C and mop up the bathroom

10:00--Go to see her old preschool teacher and have 3 parents ask me to babysit while I'm there-(I used to work there)

11:00--Back home

11:15--Make frosting for cookies

11:45--Frost cookies

12:30--Snack

12:45--Run around the house like maniacs and dance to really bad 70's music

2:00--Lunch with my mom

3:00--My house to play with Anikan and raid my books

4:30--Back to her place

4:45--Short movie

5:00--Computer game

5:15--Spin each other around in the computer chair until we almost tip over the fish tank.

5:30--Snack

5:45--Get her ready for dance class

6:10--Leave for dance class

6:20--Get there and find out dance class is cancelled

6:30--Hand her over to mom and discuss next weeks schedule

6:45--Get home, have dinner, clean out car, make schedule adjustments for next week

8:15--Go grocery shopping

9:30--Get back

10:00--Write blog post

?????--Bedtime

I'd write more, but that about says it!

Great Birthday!

Well I am pleased to announce that I had a splended birthday thanks to my wonderful boyfriend! He bought me a cake-(my favorite kind!)-wrapped my gift in birthday paper, bought me a card, and last but not least....he got me a rose!!!!! I love that man!!!!!!!! And some of my friends called me to wish me a happy birthday. It was all good :):):):):)

I'll post pictures later, when I get some batteries that last more than like...an hour.

Birthday Blues...

I'm a little down this evening. Tomorrow is my birthday and everybody who was going to come see me-(mom, dad, friends, etc.)-has cancelled. I didn't think I'd be this down about it but alas, my emotions have gotten the best of me again. I'm remembering why I used to be so bitter about Christmas-because everybody would forget about my birthday, or be too busy to pick up and phone and call, or even send me a card. I cannot tell you how many times growing up we would get Christmas cards from friends and family with a little "P.S. Happy Birthday Jenny" squished in the corner under all of the Merry Christmas and Happy New Year wishes. I rarely ever had a birthday party--all of my friends were already away on vacation by the time my birthday rolled around. Instead, my birthday bash was lumped together with Christmas dinner. My family would shove a lone candle in the pumpkin pie and sing. Nobody would get me a birthday present, they would just tell me to pick one of the Christmas presents under the tree that was for me and open it on my birthday.

I know it sounds petty, and it is. I just kind of wanted someone close to me to put a little effort into my birthday. A simple birthday card would be nice. A birthday gift wrapped in birthday paper, a phone call, something!

So now you all know I'm a scrooge. Bah-humbug!

A Few Changes

I have decided that instead of graduating in May 2007 with a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education with a minor in Psychology, I am instead going to graduate in May 2008 with a dual degree in both Early Childhood Education and Psychology. I am only 6 or 7 classes away from getting a degree in Psychology so that is my current plan of action. This change has completely changed my class schedule which has completely changed my work schedule. In addition, I am going to take a granwriting class and some business classes in order to be able to run my own child care center in the future.

In other news, one of my friends who had a baby in October asked me to babysit for her 2 boys last night. The 5 year old was sleeping the entire time but the baby decided to only sleep for 15 minutes of the 4 hours I was there. He's a little sweetie but I ended up walking with him for 3 1/2 hours becuase he had a belly ache. I woke up today with a sore back, ouch! She also asked me if I would be interested in watching the little bugger in the mornings next semester. As much as I need to money, I'm still deciding if I really want to work 2 jobs, and take 4 classes, 2 of which are graduate level. Hmmm...decisions decisions.

Other than that, my birthday is in 3 days...YAY! I'm not planning on doing anything because it's during final exam week and I'm going to have my nose in a book when I'm not working, but it's my birthday and I just wanted to point it out.

I guess that's about it. Have a great weekend everybody!

Show Me The Money!!!

No, not the game show. The real stuff, the green stuff, the stuff that pays the bills. And that my friend, is the purpose of this post. We are once again facing the 'pay the bills or buy food' dilemma here. Pardon my non-politically correct statement but, THIS SUCKS!

The worst part is that we would qualify for public assistance.....not in any major way, and we're not trying to drain the system but a little assistance with food would be nice. And, like I said a few sentences ago, we WOULD qualify, IF I hadn't been claimed on my parents' taxes last year. Granted yes, they do pay for my tuition, but there's loans for that! I mean, I would rather have loans than not have food.

When does it end? I mean really, are we going to be scrounging for food for the rest of our lives, or does it get better? Please, somebody tell me it gets better!!!!

The Vet Visit

So Anikan had his first visit to the vet today. He was not a very happy bunny afterwards either. He's been following me around the house since we got back. I don't know if bunny's can have attachment issues, but if so...I think Anikan has one. :) The good news is that he doesn't have pneumonia, the bad news is that he is sick and I have to give him medicine twice a day for a week. It's liquid, and I have one of those little dropper things to give it to him with, but it took me 30 minutes to get 40 ml of medicine into him, and then he chomped down on my hand and hid from me for almost an hour. This should be a fun week, I can't wait until he's better.

In other news, I got into a baking mood tonight. I made a pan of Christmas Fudge and an apple crisp. I know I know, it's horrible for my diet and all, but hey....it's cold outside and I'm stressed out. Final exams are 2 weeks from Monday and I find out on Friday if I'm even going to pass my spanish class this semester. If I'm not going to pass, then I won't be getting my bachelor of arts degree and will have to settle for a bachelor of science, plus rework my class plan for my last semester. Should be fun.

Speaking of fun, I ran into my old boss at the vet clinic today. If you remember, she's the one who played the mind games with all of her staff and beat around the bush with me when I flat out asked her if I had a job or not. And then after she finally told me that yes, I did have a job, she 'forgot' to put me on the schedule. So she informed me today that she was working on the schedule for next semester and that she would let me know what days I would be working. I 'reminded' her that I didn't work for her anymore and found a better job that I love. She didn't take to kindly to that, but whatever. After that whole thing, I came home and called the assistant director at the center where I used to work and reiterated to her that I DO NOT WORK FOR THEM ANYMORE. So we chit chatted and she completely understands where I'm coming from because I'm the 2nd person she's done this to. So hopefully I won't be getting a phone call the 1st week of next semester asking me why I'm not at work--even though I haven't worked there since July.

I guess that's about it. My teeth are finally feeling better. The abcesses drained, which was absolutely gross, but they feel better. I'm working on eating solid food again, since it's been awhile, but I'm getting there. Have a great week!

Apparently 3 wasn't enough...

No, I'm not talking about kids or anything like that. I'm talking about my darn old wisdom teeth again. I had 3 of them coming in, and apparently my brain decided that 3 wisdom teeth coming in at the same time just wasn't quite painful enough. So here comes the 4th one. It hasn't poked through yet, as the other 3 have, but it's there and it's going to come through soon. I would also like to point out that the drug concoction of 4 ibprofen's every 8 hours and the extra strength tylenol every alternating 8 hours is doing nothing for the pain. I feel drugged, that's about it. On top of that, I split my lip, both top and bottom, because they were so chapped and I tried to smile-----I have since decided that smiling is evil. Here is my new look :/

In other news, Anikan is finally home :) He's not well at all though, I have to call around for a vet tomorrow. I don't even want to know what that's gonna cost me, I'm guessing a lot. I feel bad dragging him out in the snow when he's sick, but oh well...it's gotta be done. Speaking of snow, we got something like 6-9 inches yesterday. Yeah, that was fun. I think it should be a requirement that everybody who has never driven in snow before MUST take a road test IN THE SNOW before they are allowed to drive in a city with an annual snowfall of 250 inches. I say that because on a 5 mile drive home from work I was rear ended not once, but twice. TWICE! Once at a stop sign-(the big red thing that says STOP which apparently the guy behind me couldn't read) and again in a left turn lane-(because apparently the person behind me thought that I was going to pull across a lane of traffic so they wouldn't have to stop) That's just my opinion though.

Well it's almost 11pm here and I have homework to do, a test to study for, and more medicine to take. Have a safe and happy week everybody.