Favorite Foto Friday...

Cotton Candy from the fair.....to a 4 and 2 year old, there is nothing better.
They decided to kiss to see if their faces would stick together since it was all so sticky!




Happy Friday everyone.....have a good long weekend! We are headed down to Jellystone and looks like we are going to have pretty decent weather!!

OH. my. Goodness.

So maybe I should have taken a chemistry class before jumping right into to A & P. Actually let me rephrase that I SHOULD have taken a chemistry class.
What you learn and then don’t use, you lose….its true.
Chemistry was 10 years ago, and I don’t remember much of anything about it.

So class the other night goes a little something like this.

“Take out your microscopes.”
What we are suppose to bring microscopes.
“They are in the cabinet beside each station."
Whew…thought I didn’t get that memo
“Turn them on; we are going to look at cheek cells”
What?!…turn it on…How?! ….watch the other girl, it will be okay….oh yes….plug it in…..wait mine didn’t come on…..oh the button, yes the on button…..hit the button…..where is everyone going?!? Follow them….oh to get a slide to look at cheek cells….how we going to do that….watch the other girl…watch the other girl….What, she is getting them out of her mouth, and putting on the slide….oh okay I can do that….whats that stuff they are adding to it….just add some who cares…..how are they getting the slides on the microscope……..mine won’t fit….…there is this big metal “arm” in the way…...really how did you get it on there?!? Crap going to have to ask for help?.....wait maybe I can just lay the slide on the top of this “arm” thing somehow…….wait…..the arm moves……oh yes I see….pull it out put the slide in…….it will hold your slide in place……makes sense, makes total sense……Maybe I am just thinking way too hard about this….?! Maybe I should just run out crying…..


Yes before taking a lab A & P class, taking a refresher in chemistry would be smart….learning how to use the equipment is important…They expect you to know this…They really expect you to know this….
Someone again, remind me….just why I signed up for this….
Oh yeah its that 8 hours between leaving for work and getting home….those 8 hours…I want to look forward to them!?!
Urg…so I carry on!!

Conversation with Kahne

Me: "Kahne, where'd you get that belly stickin' out from?"

Kahne: "From a garage sale"

Me: "Really, where'd you get those blue eyes from?"

Kahne: "I said from a garage sale"

Me: "Does everything come from garage sales?"

Kahne: "Yep, except suckers, they come from Wal-mart"

This kid is a riot and so much fun to have a conversation with!!

Got Ink?!?

Jason always has a pen in his pocket.

At any given time, just ask him, he’ll have a pen you can use.

But hopefully after yesterday he has learned to take that pen out of his pocket when he puts his clothes in the dirty laundry.

Yep an entire load ruined! We have a double washer and dryer so one load isn’t like20 pieces of clothes either, it’s more like a third of the dirty clothes! The real unfortunate part is it was both pair of my work khaki’s that I like. He didn’t think that was too big of a deal after all he was more than willing to let me just buy more. That’s much easier said than done. Finding work pants that fit nice and are comfortable is not an easy task for me. That’s why I only had two pair I really wore all the time in the first place. It was lots of mine and Jason’s clothes. Urg….I would have much rather it been the boys clothes, they have triple the amount of clothes we do in the first place and theirs is cheaper and easier to replace.I guess I get to shop now….just need to find the time!

Frustration....

So I took the plunge and signed up to go back to school. Reality is I am quite excited about it!! I am sick of being denied opportunities because of who I don’t know and not what I do know so I figured I should get a more definite degree and they can’t deny me. (Well they could, but I’ll cross that bridge when I get there)

I have had every reason to throw my hands up and be done with trying but I am keeping on, keeping on. First my transcripts got “lost”. Basically CVTC misplaced them, so after endless phone calls they all of a sudden located them and got that taken care of. My high school transcripts weren’t the easiest to get my hands on so the thought of trying to get them again made me just sick. It took forever to get in touch with anyone at my old high school as they are out for summer vacation and no one was ever there. Finally I got the principal and he must only have a 5th grade education, as grasping the concept that I moved to Wisconsin and I could not physically pick up the transcripts and it would do no good to have someone else physically pick them up as then they would just have to mail them was hard for him to get. When I did finally say “how about you mail them?” He was like “Yeah that’s a great plan, I’ll get them right out.” It still took a couple weeks. Not sure what the delay was. Anyways he was nice enough for sure and I got the transcripts.

Then I was missing my ACT scores on my transcripts….URG…..I guess my high school does not keep record of the scores broke down, they only keep composite scores. What?!? The guidance counselor is checking on it….but in the mean time I just signed up to retest. And have spent lots of time studying, as those high scores I had were quite a few years and brain cells ago.

And now my last frustration is basically ever general class I need is FULL. Most of my generals transferred, and I only need a few before getting to core classes…..and now all those generals are full. I shouldn’t say all of them, just the ones that are convenient. (Evening and weekend ones) So looks like I will be taking more day classes than I had planned and might not be taking as many classes as I had hoped. Oh well…keep on keeping on….right!?!

In the long run it will be worth the effort!