Wednesday, December 12, 2007
It's almost that time!
Now, I am occupying my time with another final. This one is a take-home final. I made the mistake of thinking, oh it is a take-home, so easy! NO! Not al all! The final is extremely time consuming because I have to have research articles to back up everything I say. Grrrr.
I had a major freak moment after my MNT test today though-my car is acting up! Two days until I get a break and I won't be able to drive my car!! The diagnosis is a headlight that is out. The symptoms that my car is displaying are check ingine light flashing when I put the car into a gear, clicking in my dash and then the check engine light stays on. Weird!? Anyway, Ryan and I are pretty sure that my headlight is just burned out (which is weird because this is the same headlight they had to replace in June when that guy busted up my car) and we are about to go replace it. If we have complications, we will be notifying you!
(I don't know if you could tell, but I have MNT on the brain! I had to use some medical terms in that paragraph)
Friday, December 07, 2007
Two Sighs of Relief
Now, I have lots of new worries for this coming week. The first one hit me on this past Tuesday after my persentaion was finished. So, I keep saying my "semester long" project, but it was actually two months, anyhow I finshed the presentatino, then our teacher handed out our take home final. I was dreading it, but it was even more extremem than I thought. Just to sum it all up, I have to do my rpoject all over again on another population, with more deatil, and in six days instead of two months!
Another concern is doing that plus studying for the other two finals I have. Both of them I need to make an A on to guarantee a good grade. Plus, I really really want to start packing for home. Purposely, I planned on the 13th to be my packing day so that I would not pack at all until finals were over. It is just hard.
Here are some pics from last weekend. Yes, ANOTHER bachelorette party! One more friend getting married before me and then another got engaged this weekend and is planning her wedding already. It kinda sucks, but our wedding will be that much more worth it!
My first friend at Tech: Lauren
Amanda, Bailey and Ashley
Me and Bailey, Susie is "friends" with her now too! :)
Monday, December 03, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Feeling good
For my english teacher sister, I have something for you to help me with too! Time granted for both of us, I plan on having my letters of application written by the time I get home so you might be able to help me tweek them. (In other words, I need your help in making me sound smart!!) Don't worry I am willing to babysit, give you a pedicure or take you to a movie for your help! :) Plus Imight not acutally get them typed for you to read before then.
Finals start in one week, final projects have already started and I take the GRE in a week now. Time is flying! I have been dreading next week for a while now, but as soon as it gets here, I will conquer it. Then my next tasks will be taking three finals and packing to come home!!
Oh I have another Bachelorette party I am going to on Saturday. I guess that Bailey and I will be making more suckers on Saturday morning to put in our "goody" bag for our friend. Those molds have definitely gotten lots of use.
Our dryer is fixed now too, we think. It had tripped the breaker!! Actually just one of the two it is on. It was not getting enough juice to run the heater. That is fixed, so now we just have to figure out what the weird clunking/scraping sound is that we hear every so often. For now, I think we will just keep on eye on it and do some research!
Last thing, Raider has a new trick. I really like this one a lot though and I thought I would not be able to get him to do it. When Raider and Star need to go out, I let them out and leave the door barely closed. As Star finishes, she jumps on the door to open it and Raider pushes his way in with Star following. Then, (this is the cool part) I tell Raider to close the door and he does it! Now the next best thing would be if he could actually let himself out and then back in to shut the door!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Super Sunday and then the bad news...
Ryan is planning on looking at it tomorrow, so I will tell you what you decide to do. Wish us luck!! :)
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving!
It was only supposed to snow a little and not stick, but it ended up being about three inches that stuck. By nightfall, the snow had slowed and eventually stopped. The next morning eerything was melting and we had a great football day staying indoors and relaxing. I was lucky and got to read about the GRE! :) This is Friday now and we are all packed up to leave Saturday morning until about ten at night the weather was chaning again! Needless to say, Ryan, Allison and I drove home last night at about midnight and got home at two thirty. The roads were not icy, it did not start snowing until five minutes outside of Lubbock and watching out for deer actually kept us all entertained! We probably saw somewhere close to fifty deer on the side of the roads, but none of them seemed to care that we were passsing them. Mostly, they looked up, saw us, looked back down and kept on eating! The interesting part was seeing a group of wild hogs on the side of the road! (about 6) Raider and Star were extremely happy to see us too. Can you believe at three in the morning Ryan and I were giving them baths so that they could sleep with us?! Now Quala and Randy are on their way home. The original plans were for them to drive here to have a Thanksgiving with us and pack up some of Allison's stuff, but with the weather being so unpredictable, they left straight from O'ma and O'pa's. Now I get to cook a Thanksgiving feast for Ryan and I for sure and Allison if she can drive across town without worrying about ice. That is pretty much the extend of my excitement. I hope your Thanksgiving was relaxing and calm!
Here are some pictures to describe all the snow and whiteness.
Oh and we have an 80% of snow tonight and tomorrow! Good thing I am at home and don't have to work! :)
Friday, November 16, 2007
Changes
It has also been an adjustment for me to be at home so much. Last weekend was the first weekend where I did not work. It was really nice, plus I had five assignments due last week. This weekend I am focusing on my big test on Tuesday and recommendation letters for my internship. Next up on the list to do-finish my power point on my community project, study for my GRE, get all my transcripts and maybe relax a little too.
I would love to come home for Thanksgiving, but after seeing how much stuff I have to do before Christmas, I think I had better stay up here to get it all done. Ryan and I also want to spend time with his grandparents up here. It will be a mad crunch for me to get everything together for Christmas, but I am sure it will all be worth it! :)
Monday, November 05, 2007
A little of what we have been up to..
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Leave of Absence
Here is the good part for everyone else...I get to spend as much time at home or wherever as I want!! Now Ryan won't be able to make a weekend trip home without me! :) Honestly, I think my jealousy of him just driving home to see everyone set off my homesickness and now has triggered the deep thoughts about work.
I am getting back to homework now....even thinking of not working is mtivating me to do my homeowrk!!
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Man...I love Gameday!!!!
The Goin' Bank taking the field at the beginning of the game.
The Masked Rider is running across the field in this one, making his grand entrance. The masked rider is really cool this year. It is a guy intead of a girl and he has a spanish mustache and goatee!!
Ryan and Allison showing off their guns..
One of the last plays of the game....Michael Crabtree received the ball in this play and ran it down to about the 15 yard line!! Whenever Ryan used to say "He is a really good player" I was like yeah, okay. Seriously though crabtree is amazing! I can actually see it myself!
Thursday, October 11, 2007
I have good news!!
Today has been a really long and tiring day though. I have been going since 6 AM this morning. Class at eight to twelve, errands to run next, then class from 3:30 to 5, got a smoothie, meetings from 6-8. Finally I am at home watching Grey's and trying to get ready for volunteer work and work tomorrow! Woo Hooo! I hope you had some good news today too!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 15, 2007
The week in Review
I have my first test next week and it is guranteed to be a doozy. The teacher said if you have doubts about something now to come talk to her because if you wait until after you get your first test score back, then you might as well plan on failing! Thanks for the encouragement, right?! Good things to look foward to! :) I really hope all of your schedules are more flexible and easy going than mine. Enjoy the fresh start to a brand new week.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Just a Real Quick List...
-started school
-majorly stressed already
-overworked from having the pleasure to work 5-eight hour days in a row ontop of all the school
-bought new tires today
-starting on homework for next week
I know I really haven't put much up here lately, it has just been really hard to make extra time so far. I still don't have all of my finanacial aid in so I have been working with fixing that and I am in the process of getting all of my "school supplies." You know the usual....white dress shirt, books, a scarlett tie, binders, black non-slip shoes, etc. I am working in a restaurant for part of a lab that is why I have some funny supplies thrown in there. I actually have to wait tables this semester. Fun fun!! I gotta get back to some online homework! Have a great end of the week!
Monday, August 27, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Finally Something to Look Foward to!
Can you see the amazing canyon behind us? It is really hard to take a picture yourself and try to get a great background too.
Here is the view without us hogging the frame.
Just a pretty background:
Can you see Ryan in this picture? He is wearing a red shirt and kahkis shorts. I had to yell at him to come back because I thought I heard a rattlesnake! I guess it was just me being a pansy!
Now you see the "cave" from the outside or from the road...
Now you see it from the inside....
This is the Cadillac Ranch. I thought the cars might be kinda old and rusty since they have been there for so long, but the paint was so thick on them that you counldn't even see the lug nuts on the tires!!
I decided to get inside the car to paint something. Less likely that someone else will paint over it!
I figured that the cars would be pretty much multi-colored and no matter how dark you sprayed something on, it was not going to show. So, Ryan and I bought black paint to put a backdrop and then red to write ontop of black. It was a good idea since the most popular colors on the cars were red and black!!! Ryan did a really good job painting after all his experience painting racecars.
His finished product:
Ryan helped me stand on the top of the car to reach a place that was still blank.
Ryan didn't need my help climbing up his car to write on the top. Ryan was in a big climbing mood today...everything he saw he told me, "hmmmmm I wonder how I can get to the top of that!" I told him he must have that in common with John!
We had someone take our picture, thankfully. You actually get the whole view!
Friday, August 17, 2007
It is good that I work in the morning tomorrow since Randy, Quala, and Allison will be in town tomorrow night. They are moving Alli up here. The plan right now is work, nap, then they get here, move in, eat, sleep, etc.... I am really looking forward to seeing all of them. I guess I will get to see Alli a lot more now since she will be up here with us! Cooking supper for three some nights?? We shall see.
Classes start in a week. It is crazy to think this is the last fall that I have in classes and even here in Lubbock. Exciting!! Bailey and I are going to go on Monday or Tuesday and look at Tech rings so that we can get one!! This is my senior year! It might be a tough one though with all the classes I am taking-15 hours. It really doesn't sound like a lot just thinking about the hours, but the classes are all really involved. Plus, I might be working Saturday and/or Sunday mornings this semester, which will give me time in the afternoon to do homework, as long as I am not dog tired from getting up so early.
I better go. I need to call John back. Have a great weekend.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Out with the Old, In with the New(er)
I had a big issue today too. When I was home in Houston, Mom, Dee, Sue and I went to a jewelry store. There was a necklace that I bought that was glass, which I have only worn twice since I bought it, and it was my favorite necklace! Well, today I was putting it on and I had a vision of my dropping it and I told myself don't do that. Do you know what I did next? Yup. I dropped it. The glass pendant shattered all over the bathroom floor. I was so pissed at myself!! That started a series of brain farts for the rest of the day.
Everything else around here is business as usual. Ryan is supposed to be part time at his job and this week he was scheduled for 47 hours. He has already talked to his manager about it and they told him until they find him help, that is how it is going to be. I feel really bad for him. I know exactly how that feels and I wish that I could do something to help him with homework or work. The best I can do is just keep washing his clothes and make sure he wakes up on time. :) He will see my crazy side once school starts. One of our supervisors at my job is most likely leaving(the one that works like 50 hours a week). That could make an even tougher fall for me if they rely on my to take most of those hours on myself.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Making it through-
I cut my hair yersterday too. Nothing really different, just a trim. I actually wanted more cut off, but Ryan said he likes it a lot plus it is easy for me to fix. Bailey got her nails done while I got a haircut. Tuesday was her last day at work, so after work we all surprised her by having a get together at my house after work. She had no idea it was coming. Usually for someone's last day we have cake, so all night long she was hinting how disappointed she was that noone thought to celebrate her leaving. I think she rethought that when I opened the door to my house though! Good food and good friends!
I already told Sue, but if anyone else has read 'My Sister's Keeper" you might be interested. They are making it into a movie. Cameron Diaz will play the mom. Something else for me to go see!
Now, I have to wash some dishes. I made crab stuffed salmon last night, but I didn't do any of the dishes yet. Some nights I feel like Dad and do the dishes right away, others I am Mom and just rinse and finish washing in the morning! Thanks for the great mix of both of you!
Friday, July 27, 2007
First Day Follow Up
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Backl Down to Two
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
We adopted another one!
Once again one of our neighbors got a pet they couldn't keep. They told us they had gotten a kitten this past weekend and already last night they were talling us how they didn't want the kitten. So this morning Ryan and I are leaving and see the kitten on our front porch(we share one with the neighbors) by itself. We played with it for a little bit and then walked to the car. Well, she followed us! I put her back on the porch and ran to the car, but then she chased us into the road and sat there waiting for us to come back! We turned around, knocked on the neighbors door, and somewhere in the short conversation we had, I had volunteered for us to take the kitten. Ryan and I weren't planning on gettting a kitten, but we didn't want to come home to kitten splat either. The neighbor actually told me they had left her outside hoping someone would take her or she would wonder off!!! Anyway, we have her now. She has already taught Star a couple of things, (since Star acts like a cat half the time anyway) like how to meow! Plus, being a typical cat, she has already found the aquarium all by herself! We have named her Scarlett. Sue wanted me to post a picture of her so that she could tell me if the name fit. So what do you think? Is she a Scarlett?