Saturday, August 8, 2009

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.

Friday, July 31, 2009

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.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

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.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Changes in School

well not long after i posted my last blog I found out that i can not become a world campus student. they said i do not hav eth math credits to do it. that i must take a pre-calculus class first then i can become a world wide web student at penn state.

So with that said i ended up changing my schedule of classes. I am still taking my macroeconomics class but i have to take it at the campus which is not to bad since it is only on monday nights. and i also get to take a photography class as well. so in future post i will be able to post some the pictures i take for my class. this class is a saturday class form 9 - 12 so not to bad and i do not have to worry about a sitter fo the kids at all.

with my monday night classes they do not start till 6:30 and i can drop the kids off to matt at work before i leave and head to class or my mother- in- law will watch them for about an hour till he gets home so i can go.

i am getting really excited to start my classes expecially since it has been about 3 1/2 years since i have actually been in a classroom. all my other classes were online so all i had to do was sit at the computer and watch a videa or read an archived chat session form my class.

I am hoping my attend an actuall classroom with a teacher that i can actually see will help me to get better grades and an understanding for all tha material i am to learn if i wuold end up having a problem with an assignment.

That and my classmates will be hopefully be easier to talk to and get help form since they will be alot closer than most of my online friends from my other school.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

My acceptence into Penn State

well i finally got confirmation that Penn State accepted my application for admission. I will start classes on August 24th, two days before the kids go back. My classes will end 12/11/09.

I will be enrolled a bachlor's degree program for Business. I plan on doing the mgmt/mktg option.

My first two classes are Financial & managerial Accounting for Decision Making, along with Introductory macroeconomic Analysis and Policy.

they are online classes as I am a world wide student with penn state for now and i plan to switch wiht taking my classes at an actually campus in a classroom once all the kids are in school. so i will be going part time for now which is ok with me. the good theing is that all the classes are about 15 weeks long instead of just 5.

I am thinking that when Jacob starts preschool next year i might go from 2 classes to 3 this way I can finish a little faster and at the same time work my way up to taking 4 classes when he goes to school full day.

I will try my best to keep up with my blog here along with going to school and marraige counseling. which by the way we do not go back till Aug.5th.

so far things are going alright with us since our first session. it felt good to go and get things out in the open and actually be able to start dealing with all that has been going on. it kind of felt like a weight is slowly being lifted off my shoulders. I just hope it continues to be lifted and not end up come crashing down on me again even harder.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

first night of counceling, and an update

well as most of you can tell i have been away for quite some time. i have been going through a rough time here at home with my marriage again. we decided to go ahead and seek outside help this time. we are both in agreement that about seeing a marriage counseling. but the place we go to calls it marriage therapy.

It felt good to go lat night and get out of things out in the open to hear from someone else that we are not the only couple that have the same type of problems, and hopefully with some help we can work them out and move on.

As far as everything else in my life. things have been going alright. I graduated college with my associates degree in may of this year. I am also getting ready to go back for my bachelor's degree in a month. this time i am going to be attending a "regular" school. I will still be taking my classes online they just won;t be accelerated classes that last only 5 weeks long. Taking those classes like that was very stressful on my with the three kids at home at times.

As far as the kids go they are doing alright even with the tension between Matt and I. Philip is going into 1st grade and he is excited and keeps asking when school starts again. Michael is going to be repeating the second grade as we found out he has some learning disabilities and he is almost a year behind on his math & reading as well as being slight dyslexic. They are going to work on him with all this stuff this school year as well as Matt and I helping him at home.
Jacob turned three this past June. He is getting very big and he is actually pretty smart for his age at least i think he is. he knows most of his ABC's already and some of his colors, and he can count up to 7 already i believe it is. He can hit a baseball with throwing it up it them air and swinging a bat all on his own.

well that is about it.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

just rambling today.

well today i got to spend time with my sister, leslie, and her kids. we had a great time together.
We went over stuff for the business and jsut chatted about different things.

Hubby is working today for 13 hours, all overtime, at the LV car show. So it was really nice to have my sis visit and spend time with her. I even got a party booked from her for tastefuly simple.

I still have school work to do but it was still nice to have company considering i have not seen her in quite some time. We talk onthe phone or ever the computer jsut about everyday bit not the same as actually seeing each other.

the kids had a blast together and of course my camera battery was dead so i could not take pictures. but i will next time we get together. they got to play outside or a bit even though it was a little chilly but hey they had fun.

i am hoping that over the summer we can get together more often hopefully on a weekly basis if possible. the kids would really like that i think, expecially the littler ones. I know i would.


well i guess i better get back to the school work since it is all due my midnight tomorrow.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Well today was my second day back in classes. They are going alright. I have biology and I am ot liking it one bit so far. I never really liked it in the first place.
My instructor is getting on my nerves already. he has us doing this assignment where you have to pick a food item and a portion size but yet at the same time you can not have one that someone else in the class picked.

well needless to say i picked strawberries and after i had gottenthe paper all written and was ready to post it I saw that someone else had posted their paper on strawberries. I am not happy, because when i started my paper there was no one else doing strawberries. so i emailed the instructor and asked him if i have to redo the assignment iwth another food item or can i still post mine since the portion size it different. So now i have to wait to hear back from him.

But my international business class is going alright so far. have not come aross any problems in that class yet. Another good thing about that class is that i have friend in class with me that happens to live only 20 miutes from me. I met her in my very first class at school. we try to meet once a week now for coffee or something else to eat. We are trying to help each other along in the class. It is nice having online classes and actually finding someone in your class that lives close to you and you can actually meet in person and do things with.

I have to say that by going back to school and taking all my classes online now i have made a few new friends from different states. we actually talk to each other on the phone every now and then besides emailing each other.

Other than that thing her are going great. the kids are excited that it is getting warmer out now but not much warmer. they did get to play outside for a bit over the weekend though. I am actually looking forward to the warmer weather to come and stay so i can get out of the house and enjoy the time outside even if it may only be sitting on the porch doing school work myself while the kids are playing in the yard.

Monday, March 23, 2009

In Memory


I am remebering my cousin Christopher Seifert today. He had died this day 6 years ago in the Iraq War.

He was one of the first LV soldier's to die in our area here. It was and still is very sad how he died. I mean he did die defending our country but not in the way most people think. He was killed by a gernade that was tossed into his tent while sleeping.

So my thoughts go out to the family and all friends that new and loved him and of course miss him.

I remember standing in line for his viewing out in the rain with Philip, who was only a month old. we had gotten taken in threw a special door so we could get in out of the rain since we had the baby with us. Just standing in that line made me feel sick to my stomach and once i got inside the church it felt worse. I remember standing there looking at his coffin and hearing the cries of his mother and his wife and the sad and lost look on his father's face as well.


The funeral was jsut as bad. the line of cars that followed to the cematary was so long. I never could of imagined that may cars going ot a funeral before. We were the last car in the recession line. It was a hot day that day and out car had no air conditioner so we had to put all the windows down.

standing there watching his cascet get lowered in the ground really brought the tears to me eyes and the 21 gun salute as well. It hit me that is really happening. It is all real.

It hit me then that I will never see Chris again anywhere. Just in old photographs that my grandmother has or ones from the school yearbooks that i come across.

I mean i never really hung out with him but we did ride to school in our early years. I would be standing at the bus stop and his grandmother would see me and stop and pick me up and take me with them to drop off at school. I also remember him in the band in high school. Seems so long ago. I was only on color guard for one year but i rememebr the times in the band room during study hall with a few friends ad he would be there as well. we would all laugh and joke around some days.

So today I remember Chris the soldier, father, husband, son, and friend. Rest in Piece Chris we miss and love you.



Tuesday, March 17, 2009

I'm alive and here

well i know it has been a few months since i been here to post, but i have been reading all yours jsut so you know. Thing have been hetic here the past couple of months. School has been a little rough on me. Classes are only 5 weeks long and i have 2 at a time. I am glad to say that i have three classes left till i get my associates degree. I am on spring break this week so i am trying to catch up a lot of things. I have been cleaning out the house. we have gotten rid of so much stuff i can not believe it. I am surprised that the garbage men have not said anythingj about how much has been out there the past two weeks.

I have even gone through my closet and got rid of aot of my clothes that do not fit and took them to a donation drop box. SO far I took 6 bags of clothes ( mine, hubby's, and the kids).

The boys are doing good. Michael turned 8 and Philip turned 6 in Feb. Jacob will be 3 in June.
We are planning a trip to NC to see a friend of ours over the Easter Break next month, just not sure yet if it is definate. Then in June we will go on a regular week long vacatioon to the poconos.

Ans yes I will be in School during all of this becasue after I finish my associates Degree in May i have another week off before i start in with Bachlor's Degree classes. At least these classes are only one at a time , but yet they are still 5 weeks long.

So I am going to try to post here a least once a week for now on. I am usually on facebook all the time so if you ever want to know how i am doing inbetween post feel free to find me there.

Monday, January 19, 2009

well i have been busy with classes to say the least. I am starting my third week of classes this term. And of course I am having computer issues once again. My computer keeps telling me I have a hard disk error and we are not sure what it is


I have tried two anti-virus softwares now and neither of them are able to find what it is that is wrong. The one that we have purchsed work great on hubby's computer but not on mine. It goes for like 10 minutes and then shuts done giving my a message that it stopped working and windows shut it downa nd would report the problem and get back to me with a solution to it, but i have yet to get anything back.

the second software that we have tried to use makes my whole computer lock up on me. so i am at lost as to what to do. Not to mention that i have 2 assignments that i need to get in from last week and the 4 for this week.

I am hoping that i can figure out what is wrong with it and quickly so i can get it fixed before the whole computer crashes on me in the middle of a project.

as for the family we are doing alright. hubby started back at school again for the semester, but this time his classes are all online. so he comes home right from work and goes on the computer for school work. but it is nice to have him home earlier at night now each day even if he is busy with school work.

well that is enough rambling for now. i'll try to get back and post again real soon as long as my computer lets me.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

well now that i got my internet back and i know it is working jsut fine i promise to try to get in here on a more regular basis.

well my classes for school officially started yesterday and i am happy to say i have all this weeks assignments in for my computer class already. so now i just have to work on my management and leadership class assignments that are due no later than sunday at 12:00pm CT

The kids ended up having an early dismissal today. they got out 2 hours early. wait till you here this, well actually read it, They ended up getting out at 1:30 instead of 3:30. the superintendent of the school called and left a message on my answering machine to let me know about the early dismissal. the call came at 2:07pm. Now remember the kids got out at 1:30 today. so i ended up getting the call AFTER they were already out. How stupid is that. well anyway i knew about teh early dismissal since i was on the computer i was keeping a watch on it.

I am tired right now form being up earlier that normal the past two days now. I have a chat session in my one class that starts at 7am. So i have been getting up around 6-6:30 to make sure i have coffee in me so i am awake enough to participate in the chat. Now usually Matt lets me sleep in a little longer in themorning while he gets the coffee ready and michael ready for school. so i usually do not get up till about 7:30-8:00 am. So needless to say the pot of coffee i make in the morning is a fuller pot that matt usually makes and i noticed i have been making an extra pot later in the afternoon as well jsut to stay awake and fuctional throughout the day.

By the way some of you may remember be saying about birthdays coming up soon. Well Zachary's is tomorrow and we are suppose to have sleet and freezing rain through out the night so i am sure i will not get over to see him tomorrow but i am planning on calling him either way.
He knows he is not getting alot from me tomorrow and i will make it up to him with the income tax money. He is going to be 17 tomorrow.

well that is about all i have to say for today. but i should be blogging again real soon expecially if i get all my school work done ahead of time each week.

One more thing. WELCOME BACK ONLINE SIS!!! If you are reading this I have missed talking to you online. the days seemed longer for some reason with not talking ot you. Hope CJ feels better soon.

Monday, January 5, 2009

I am Still Alive...

well it has been a long time since my last blog. but we have been doign alright. the kids were sick again over the holidays but we are all better now.

well first let me say that thanksgiving was good and went alright. then right after that is when michael and jacob got sick.

the finally got off the antibotics on christmas day. so we had a nice christmas. Kids enjoyed themselves very much and got way to much stuff from everyone.

As for school for me i ended up having to repeat my two classes form last term. I am retaking these classes because i ended up without internet for almost 2 weeks if not a little longer, and since my classes are only 5 week classes it was hard to catch up. So i am taking computer applications and management and leaderhip classes over again this term.

I did however get set for my bachlor's degree and am set to start in june of this year with classes. Once i get into them i will only have one class at a time to take instead of the two.

So now i am preparing for birthdays now that am coming up soon.

but other than that i have been doing alright.