Psychology

Turns out psychology has been my favorite subject for the last two semesters. I don't have a psych course for the fall, and I am rather bummed by it. This is a course that totally makes sense to me. I can see my life in hindsight and see where I've been screwed up and where I've screwed up myself. I love psychology and can see myself majoring in it.... oh yeah! except nobody would pay to hear my take on things... oh well! I see myself and my life so clearly as to how I got here and I can see my best friend as well. The triangle of love was so clear!!! I am so ready to move on, but I need a place to move to... so I'll keep on applying and hope a job opens up somewhere. At least I have 26 units of college down, that's always a plus. I need my life to turn around and after what I've been learning it's time for me to take the initiative. I had been scared of the "what if", but that ship has sailed. If I get something for me that will benefit my kids I'm all over it. One job opening is all it takes... and I'm gone.... to whereever the wind takes us. Interesting how my classes are rounding me out... Business Law, Psychology (x2), Accounting, Business Computers, Control Costs, Business, etc. I desperately need a job so I can support me and my two kids. I hope I can find something.... anything would be good at this point.

Rocky / Rodney

Issues... issues... so, as of about 7:00 tonight we have a temporary new member of the family... a baby squirrel. The neighbor's cat injured a baby squirrel - to the point that he was incapacitated. The neighbors thought he was dead and left it out to die. Once my kids saw that it started moving, every so slightly, it became a "rescue". Now, I have never lost a rescued animal, and I will not start now. Ok, so my rescues were kittens, but how far apart is the stretch---kitten - squirrel... not so far right??? So, the baby squirrel is now resting comfortably in the house and my son wants to call it Rodney, but my daughter wants to call it Rocky. We'll see what happens. I'll worry about names once it springs back to live. I just checked it and it looks much better than it did before. It is definitely a baby... it had a cut over the eye and I cleaned that up. The shock is wearing off and he/she is becoming much more alert. We are hoping for the best and we will see what happens in the morning. Cross your fingers.... Let's hope he is better tomorrow; except then I have to deal with "do we keep him or not". Goodness!!

Dean's List

Both my husband and I received a notice stating that we both made the Dean's List for the college we are at. Apparently it is a good thing; too bad nobody cares... Not one person is happy with the fact that we have gone back to school. Response has been to "oh, why" to "what a waste of time, you could be doing something more productive" so telling people we made the Dean's List would not be met with congratulations. Oh well, I'm pretty proud of us at least!

Dog

Why do we have a dog??? Worthless creature.... Now she's cute as can be, but what a brainless beast. She's blonde - lol. Why do I say this??? I am sitting on the bed and out comes a mouse... it was probably a rat, but I would feel much better calling it a mouse. We bring the dog up from outside and she wanders into the room. She plops right in front of where the mouse disappeared to and just starts chewing on her bone. Didn't act like anything was there - no hunting instincts whatsoever. Now, I feed you, I house you, etc. Can you at least try to earn your keep??? I don't ask for much, but I'm thinking rousting out a "woodland creature" as the Imagination Movers would call it, it not over the top.

Jay Leno

Are you kidding me? I love Jay and watch him every night. Tonight.... sadly disappointed... he couldn't show up on another talk show???

Grades

So grades are trickling in. I'm going to get an A in Business Law. I loved this class. It was so interesting and I could see myself in the law field... and yet.... My favorite class was psychology. It's not over until Friday, so it still is my favorite class. I am learning so much about myself. I'm understanding how I got this way in my life. Now if I could only figure out how to fix myself... lol. But grades... I'm going to get a B in nutrition. Ironic considering the fact that in real life my nutrition sucks. Hopefully, I can apply what I've learned and improve my family's nutrition and health. A "B" is huge considering this class was hard. I thought it would be learning how to eat this and not eat that. Turns out it was a science class and I learned way more than I wanted to about my body and it's internal functions and the biology if foods. Last class is Accounting. The one I thought I'd ace. We'll see what happens... took the final today.... we'll see.

Interesting

In a complicated, long-story I have been communicating with my step-mother in the last couple of days. Got her caught up on my life, school, etc. I just got an email from her telling me both husband and I should apply at her company. My step-mother is VP of Research Administration at Stanford University. She is encouraging me to apply, but also for husband to apply as well. Turns out dorms need cooks and the college pays well. Wait... it gets better... My husband's teacher was the head chef at Stanford. He loved the job and only left to become the Department Chair at the college my husband is going to. Plans could be changing again...