Well today i am going to be visiting with my sister leslie. we have a lot to plan for out annual vender's/ craft fair that we do each year. we are actually a little behind on the planning this year but then again we have had a lot of things going on in our lives at home. We have to figure out a date and get a hall together to have it at. then we have to to get participants to attend.

Along with all that I have been getting a head start on my macroeconomics class. I started by going through all the key terms and concepts as well as the chapter summary of each chapter.

I have a total of 5 chapters plus the appendix done so far. i even went as far as color cordinating the paper to each. one color for key terms and concepts and another color for the chapter summary. I am putting them in a three ring binder and leaving a section for notes that i will take in class as well as a section for assignments.

I am still waiting on my college algebra 2 & trig. bbok to arrive so i can take a look at that and get familarized with all the terms and applications that i will be doing in the class.

Along with all that we had our downstairs neighbors move out yesterday and while they were moving out the grandson decided he was going to take it upon himself to help himself to the toys in our garage without asking and eneded up popping the kids pool. So now my kids are without a pool for the rest of the summer and they were actuallu looking forward to going in it today. When i proceeded to tell the mother of the child she said well he was not suppose to be outside playing in the first place and went about her cleaning of the apartment. so when the mother who actually was renting the apartment came by today to get he last of her stuff i told her once again about the grandson poppin gthe pool wht a toy that he was not to have in the first place. she was very nice and said she would pay to replace the pool. Which i feel she should of done in the first place since it was her grandson that popped it. Actually the mother should pay for it but since the mother is not working, the grandmother is stepping up.

well i am going to end this post now since Leslie should be here very soon and we need to get to work on things.

Hope all have a nice and enjoyable day today.

Jump start on school

So you may be wondering why the title of this post. I got one of my books yesterday for school. My maacroeconomics book to be exact. Well i know classes don;t start till the 24th of August but since I am actually retaking this class since it did not transfer into penn state. I have decided to start going through the book already. I started going over the vocab in the book and taking notes on my own from the chapters.
I am also taking a pre-calculcus class which i am not to sure how i will do in. This is the other reason i have decided to start with my macro book already. I want to make sure i can keep my grades and my gpa up this semester.
Since i am not taking them online i am hoping that i will do better in them this time around and not have all the stress that i had with my classes at AIU. The stress had caused me to go to the hospital with what we had thought was a heart attack because of all the pain in my chest near my heart.
Thankfully the doctor told me it was all stress related and to reduce my stress level, which he knew was going to be hard expecially with being in school where the classes were only 5 weeks long, taking care of 3 kids, the house, and trying to juggle a marriage that has been on the rocks for quite some time now.

Well the 5 week classes have ended and I now have an Associate's Degree, the kids are getting ready to go back to school, they have even been helping out more with the house along with matt, the marriage is slowly, slowly getting better, since we started counseling.

That first night of counseling had some how made a dent in what was wrong. We go back on the 5th of august so we will see what the therapist thinks of how things have been going.

Today is going to be a long long day, as matt is working a 13 hour shift and he had gotten invited to go out with some friends and I had told him to go ahead since he has not been out with them in quite soem time. That and one of them is getting married in Nov. So i will be with the kids all day long and most of the night. they most likely will be asleep when he gets home. WE are however meeting up for lunch today so we will get to see him a little later in the day.

No Photography Class

Well I found out that I cannot take the photography class i was going to take as it looks like it is going to be cancelled this semester as there are only 2 students signed up for the class and i am one of them. So i decided not to wait and find out at the last minute and be stuck with no other class to take so I have signed up for the college algebra 2 with trig. class. So i will be driving down to the campus three nights a week but on the bright side i will have my weekends free now. Two of the nights i will only be in class for about 1 1/2 hours so not to bad and i will have all day long with michael and philip being in school all day to do my homework for both classes.

I am still going to take the photography class but just not this semester. I think i will sign up for it next semester as long as it is available. I am looking forward to taking the class that i am going to get a new camera just for the class and of course so i can use it before then.

I am hoping to take it in the months of jan - may. then i can use it for the kids birthday parties and other stuff.

I am just hoping that i do good in the college algebra with trig class as it is considered a pre-calculus class and i did not do to good in applied calculus class that i took. but then again since this is a class that is a level under that i may do alright and i might even do better when i have to take the calculus class later.