Shouldn't this be a party day? I mean it only happens once every four years and I think we should close every thing down and dance in the streets, no?
Well, I must say I am glad that we are heading towards spring..mind you, I said heading, as it appears March will be coming in like a lion around here anyway. But I am looking forward to warmer, longer days for sure. Don't get me wrong I love winter as well...just as much even, but I have not enjoyed this season's sleety/icy precipitation nearly as much as I would have snow.
Anyway, now I can look forward to the beach...on which I will be traipsing in just two short weeks. I can not wait to feel the sand underfoot and the sun overhead! That and...ok, I like that I get tan and my hair gets even lighter, but no worries, I always wear sunblock 45....I plan on being around for a long time and not being leathery to boot!
Sooo, I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Blog ya next month--LOL
Friday, February 29, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Beyond Frustrated
I have completely lost it now.......
After having a wonderful first semester back to school last fall....ok, it was incredible- challenging, frustrating and exhilarating all at once and I had a wonderful professor who was understanding and completely realistic about every single student's time and ability. This one has been quite different. Now I get that students should have to meet the professor's requirements....but I wonder if somehow there shouldn't be a check of sorts so that the professor should also have to meet the student's requirements?!?!? Something along the lines of...I am paying your freaking salary...actually paying cash from MY, not my parents and not a scholarship, but MY bank account and therefore maybe you should give me a little leeway when let's say ...oh...I have to attend a funeral, and then another one and then my kids get sick...seems like that might be the time for professoral discretion as to allowing me to physically hand in the bibliography for my paper that is not itself due until May 15th(don't even get me started on that!) But....I have run into someone who won't bend any of her rules and I have multiple theories as to why......but I'm not going to discuss those....at least not in this post:)
Soooo..at this point since I have actually done the math and IF I get 100% on every thing else in the class and I don't miss any other days then I can achieve exactly 81%........a B-....and yes I realize that is not bad at all, but I am bit of a perfectionist....and knowing that it was nothing I did per se or even that my actual grades on assignments wouldn't even reflect that.....I just can't tolerate it and so am withdrawing.....and to say I am a tad pissed...well that's a bit of an understatement.
Here I am....having gotten off to a wonderful start...finally....and then it has come crashing down because life is not perfect and throws you curve balls from time to time.....it's quite distressing. I can only hope the professor never has her life, or her children's, so adversely affected by someone who is oblivious to reality.
Oh....and...we had another snow day and I am about to kill the kids and hubby....
Blog ya later-
After having a wonderful first semester back to school last fall....ok, it was incredible- challenging, frustrating and exhilarating all at once and I had a wonderful professor who was understanding and completely realistic about every single student's time and ability. This one has been quite different. Now I get that students should have to meet the professor's requirements....but I wonder if somehow there shouldn't be a check of sorts so that the professor should also have to meet the student's requirements?!?!? Something along the lines of...I am paying your freaking salary...actually paying cash from MY, not my parents and not a scholarship, but MY bank account and therefore maybe you should give me a little leeway when let's say ...oh...I have to attend a funeral, and then another one and then my kids get sick...seems like that might be the time for professoral discretion as to allowing me to physically hand in the bibliography for my paper that is not itself due until May 15th(don't even get me started on that!) But....I have run into someone who won't bend any of her rules and I have multiple theories as to why......but I'm not going to discuss those....at least not in this post:)
Soooo..at this point since I have actually done the math and IF I get 100% on every thing else in the class and I don't miss any other days then I can achieve exactly 81%........a B-....and yes I realize that is not bad at all, but I am bit of a perfectionist....and knowing that it was nothing I did per se or even that my actual grades on assignments wouldn't even reflect that.....I just can't tolerate it and so am withdrawing.....and to say I am a tad pissed...well that's a bit of an understatement.
Here I am....having gotten off to a wonderful start...finally....and then it has come crashing down because life is not perfect and throws you curve balls from time to time.....it's quite distressing. I can only hope the professor never has her life, or her children's, so adversely affected by someone who is oblivious to reality.
Oh....and...we had another snow day and I am about to kill the kids and hubby....
Blog ya later-
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Not my fault
I swear I haven't been dancing.
Haven't had much to dance about as of late.
And when I do my patented "snow dance" it is for SNOW...none of this freezing rain/ice/sleet crud. It's not pretty or fun and one certainly can't go play in it. Which...totally stinks for a "snowday" for the minis since they can't go outside and have already been sick this week and so are basically going stir crazy which is in turn making me totally and completely certifiably insane! That and I realized this morning that I have had to dumb myself down over the past 9 years.
Now you may be saying....what do you mean K? Allow me to explain-
Kids are smart, yes, and mine are scarily so, but...they are lacking vocabulary. Which means when I talk to them I have to use the easiest word or the most common. Which is especially hard when I am angry because they won't shut up and kept me up all night by sleeping in my bed and wriggling all night, although they managed to sleep just fine! And I realized, that generally speaking, saying something at an "easier" level actually means saying many more words to explain what one big word sums up.........so I have decided to start playing the dictionary game with them. It should be quite interesting as they love nothing more than to mess with me and try and fool me anyway and here I am giving them license to do so! Of course....I get to pick the words...... (slyly evil grin appearing on K's face now) which means they will soon learn what incorrigible means.
Ah the games we must play as parents to help our kids along:)
Hope everyone stays safe today.
Blog ya later-
Haven't had much to dance about as of late.
And when I do my patented "snow dance" it is for SNOW...none of this freezing rain/ice/sleet crud. It's not pretty or fun and one certainly can't go play in it. Which...totally stinks for a "snowday" for the minis since they can't go outside and have already been sick this week and so are basically going stir crazy which is in turn making me totally and completely certifiably insane! That and I realized this morning that I have had to dumb myself down over the past 9 years.
Now you may be saying....what do you mean K? Allow me to explain-
Kids are smart, yes, and mine are scarily so, but...they are lacking vocabulary. Which means when I talk to them I have to use the easiest word or the most common. Which is especially hard when I am angry because they won't shut up and kept me up all night by sleeping in my bed and wriggling all night, although they managed to sleep just fine! And I realized, that generally speaking, saying something at an "easier" level actually means saying many more words to explain what one big word sums up.........so I have decided to start playing the dictionary game with them. It should be quite interesting as they love nothing more than to mess with me and try and fool me anyway and here I am giving them license to do so! Of course....I get to pick the words...... (slyly evil grin appearing on K's face now) which means they will soon learn what incorrigible means.
Ah the games we must play as parents to help our kids along:)
Hope everyone stays safe today.
Blog ya later-
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Just another manic Tuesday
The minis are home sick.....again.
I am still not dressed at 2:34 pm and all I want is to step into a hot bath and forget for a few minutes. I am tired of hearing, "Mom can you get me....." They seem to relish waiting until I've sat back down to make their next demand. I do feel bad, I wish they weren't sick and they are rather pitiful but........I need some me time too. I am going stir crazy and after the past two weeks I just need to not be the one who is the rock. I need to be able to go let my hair down and not have any worries for a few.
Of course...I know that won't happen any time soon and I reluctantly accept that as the reality in which I live, but one can always hope, no?
And.......it is less than one month now until I will be on the beach in PC and I can not wait. To feel the sand between my toes and fingers and the sun beating down on my body.......I can make it till then.
Happy Tuesday all-
Blog ya later
I am still not dressed at 2:34 pm and all I want is to step into a hot bath and forget for a few minutes. I am tired of hearing, "Mom can you get me....." They seem to relish waiting until I've sat back down to make their next demand. I do feel bad, I wish they weren't sick and they are rather pitiful but........I need some me time too. I am going stir crazy and after the past two weeks I just need to not be the one who is the rock. I need to be able to go let my hair down and not have any worries for a few.
Of course...I know that won't happen any time soon and I reluctantly accept that as the reality in which I live, but one can always hope, no?
And.......it is less than one month now until I will be on the beach in PC and I can not wait. To feel the sand between my toes and fingers and the sun beating down on my body.......I can make it till then.
Happy Tuesday all-
Blog ya later
Monday, February 18, 2008
So Sad
What do you do when one of the most constants in your life goes?
How do you heal from that?
Replace that empty hole in your heart?
He was my "Man". He greeted me everytime I came home and snuggled up to say hi. He would gently bump my head and then rub my face and let me know just how much I was loved and wanted and needed. If he knew I was upset he would stretch his paw up and softly caress my cheek as if to say, "Don't worry K, things will get better I promise, and in the meantime, I am here for you." When I was sick he would lay by my side and just be there to help me feel better. His purring worked wonders for me and it always made me happy to know he was happy. He slept with me every night, graduating from my head to the side of my pillow as he got bigger, but he was always there. I didn't even have to speak..all I had to do was think his name and he would appear in the door and cock his head sideways and say, "Murrrrr?" and then he would run and jump into my lap or run up to bump my head. He was always with me and now I feel very alone.
I knew this day was coming......but I never thought it would be this soon. I just wanted one more chance to snuggle, to rub his head between his ears and under his chin, to have him climb my back and wrap himself around my neck like a stole.....just one more day, hour..minute, so he would know for sure just how much I needed him too. And so I could thank him for always being there for me.
So M-man-this is for you-I love you and miss you and always will.
How do you heal from that?
Replace that empty hole in your heart?
He was my "Man". He greeted me everytime I came home and snuggled up to say hi. He would gently bump my head and then rub my face and let me know just how much I was loved and wanted and needed. If he knew I was upset he would stretch his paw up and softly caress my cheek as if to say, "Don't worry K, things will get better I promise, and in the meantime, I am here for you." When I was sick he would lay by my side and just be there to help me feel better. His purring worked wonders for me and it always made me happy to know he was happy. He slept with me every night, graduating from my head to the side of my pillow as he got bigger, but he was always there. I didn't even have to speak..all I had to do was think his name and he would appear in the door and cock his head sideways and say, "Murrrrr?" and then he would run and jump into my lap or run up to bump my head. He was always with me and now I feel very alone.
I knew this day was coming......but I never thought it would be this soon. I just wanted one more chance to snuggle, to rub his head between his ears and under his chin, to have him climb my back and wrap himself around my neck like a stole.....just one more day, hour..minute, so he would know for sure just how much I needed him too. And so I could thank him for always being there for me.
So M-man-this is for you-I love you and miss you and always will.
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