High school troubles

Hey Ladies,

I need to check in more!

Last week Mr. Q's Grandfather pass away. It came as a shock because he was only 68 years old. I am sorry I only really spent one day with him, I wish I could have gotten the opportunity to know him better. Even with the little time I spent with him, I found him to be a loving man, that reminded me so much of Mr.Q.

I figure I should post about high school at some point. Going back to finish this education as been a challenge, but on the hold going very smoothly. Until two weeks ago, my English grade dropped from a A, 100% to a C 78% in one week. (that equals one class) One of the major hits to my grade was a movie analysis. I got a A on the ruff draft and failed the final draft; in fact the hole class failed the final draft. How does that add up? This week my grade is dropped again to a 72% because she put the assignment that was done in class last week, (that I missed due to a death in my family) in as a 0%. I'm not accustom to this grading style, but I guess it a good idea to see what my grade is with out it turned in. For the first have of this class the teacher was happy go lucky " I want all of you to pass"; and now she is grading with a vengeance. I have raised my concerns with my counselor. This teacher is new to the school so the office is watching her closely. Tomorrow I will be showing my counselor all of my papers from this class and see what she recommends I do. I have to have a C to pass, and with out this class I will not graduate this semester. Its ironic because I only need a History credit to get all of my credits for a diploma; but the school requires that I complete two classes at their school. History is going great, and that is super nifty! The teacher in that class has yet to lexure, its rather amusing; we read our books and watch movies. To graduate high school these day you have to pass a exit exam, for two months I have been asking when this has to be done, each time I have been told i had plenty of time. Today I found out they are due by Friday, two weeks before finals. Wish me luck! Since I have proven myself to be a smart cookie I have to take the hardest version of the test. I failed the grammar portion of the test today, but its no big deal apparently; I just keep taking the test until I pass it. Its like The Price is Right! Only I don't get people shouting out the correct bubble to fill in. I am hopping they do not make me bang my head against this test all week, but I don't think I am that lucky.

I have a craft sale this weekend, I just about sold out of everything I had at the last sale. I was hopping to sew all week, but now its looking like I will be testing all week and writing a kick ass final paper for my English class. Its all worth it, I just wish some one would throw me a bone and let me finish high school. I feel I have more to offer this world, than a high school drop out. I am thinking I am jumping though a lot of hoops for this piece of paper. I'm ready to jump though hoops for a fancy collage paper.

I'm sure everyone will be studying like mad for the next too weeks! Good luck surviving all of the torture your teachers have in store for you. We are gonna survive this semester!

How to Heimlich a Cat

For anyone who didn't know, this is how you Heimlich a cat:

http://www.petplace.com/cats/heimlich-for-your-cat/page1.aspx

I never knew. I found this out while watching Gretal coughing up a hairball and wondering what I would do if either of my cats ever did choke on something.

McDonald's is offering free glassware with the purchase of a large Xtra value meal (price ain't bad with the glass included) and the glasses are really pretty nice. Our tall ones keep breaking in the wash so this has been a sweet deal for us.

School: All homework and no play makes Alula a dull sister. So I am thoroughly denying that I have finals due and decorating my home for the holidays, writing, and finally reading Eragon.

Career: Today I thoroughly considered my job options. I came to the conclusion that there is, in fact, a job I would leave my job for, and it's to work as an intelligence analyst. However, there are no government positions for this available in my area, so I'm good.

Mr. B: ...is out of town again. Lonely, lonely, lonely.

Happy Birthday Fuzzy!

hey,

Happy Happy Birthday to you! I hope you have a wonderful day!

Happy Thankgiving, All!

Well, here I am, in Oklahoma with Mr. B's family again. His grandparents (paternal side) gave us our own room, which was good. It's the only room in their home with a computer (hence, internet) which is bad.

Mr. B's younger early teens cousin has a friend with apparently no family to eat with on Thanksgiving, so he came over last night. I got to come back to our room, where unbeknownst to me the 2 teen boys were doing good knows what on the internet with the lights off. Next to my open suitcase, where my unspeakables were in plain view.

Good Grief, Charley Brown. The lack of consideration for privacy in this family is astounding.

I delayed going to bed last night by an hour so I wouldn't have to have the hey-you-get-the-BLEEP-out-of-my-room-I-need-to-undress conversation with the orphan boy.

Both of Mr. B's parents have iPod Touch's now, and I reeeeeallly want one. (They have Kindle for iPod Touch now too!)

My sister sent me this website, where you may take a quiz to see how likely it is your cat is trying to kill you (Count and Gretal scored a combined 91% -- the house sitter has been warned):

http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php

But on this holiday, whether you are cooking or not, I hope this day finds you all surrounded by friends, family, love, and good food.

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

Alula

Everything back to normal somewhat

Well Mr. man has decided to talk to me again and he even took me to dinner and a movie last night. He still won't let me forget my out burst but hey he is talking to me. My mother is in town and so guess who is cooking Thanksgiving Dinner? ME yes scary right now its going to be a ham and other things not sure yet what else. But hey its fun to be lazy.

It's Christmas before Thanksgiving! Yay!

Ladies,

Yesterday I came back from a meeting at work and found the following message on my phone from my husband: "Hi Alula, I hope you get this message before you go out to lunch because Credit Card Company X pissed me off so I canceled the card a few minutes ago. I hope you didn't need it for anything because if you did I guess you're just screwed."

Yup. They "pissed him off" for refusing to remove the late fees he generated by being a slacker. And I am the one who gets "screwed" by all of it, apparently, and didn't get lunch. That's my life.

And I am supposed to write a final paper today (an annotated bibliography, actually), but thanks to the incredible stress I'm feeling having to pay all of our bills out of my college fund for the next however the hell long until Mr. B decides on, orders, and receives a new credit card, I am declaring Christmas before Thanksgiving.

Thoughts on the new blue-spring-night-whimsy theme I hunted down based on Fuzzy and Munchkin's suggestions?

Hang in there, Fuzzy--you're in one of the most difficult situations I think I've ever encountered in life. It's never been easy for anyone I've ever known who had to decide to stay or go, because both of the options suck, and there's not much to do to change that. No one can tell you what is the "right" thing to do here. But we love you, and we love little man, and we'll do whatever we can to help you out as you try to decide what path to take in proceeding.

Alula

Well It Finally Happened

OK so this is what happened I have been living off Mr Man For the last 5 months every penny I spend is his. Well yesterday I broke he accused me of not doing anything in the morning and well that hit a nerve. And I had a complete melt down, and told him how frustrating it was to live off someone else and that I didn't like it, I also told him that I didn't like this not business he signed me up for, well he had nothing to say to that. And then later that night all I wanted was a hug and him to tell me that he doesn't mind me living off him. And that turned into a chase game and then me jumping on him and I got a "back off Woman" from him and that's the last thing he as said to since then. I get a nod or head shake to questions I ask but that is it. And I don't know what to do, just proving that I mess up every relationship I've ever been in. I guess I have to wait until he decides he has punished me enough and talks to me again. And my birthday is on the 29Th I guess I'm going to have another rotten birthday. I can't leave because I don't have any money and I'm afraid Mr Man will fight me for custody of little man and win because he has the money, job and they share a last name. What do I have? Debt up over my head and no job prospects and no babysitter and no friends up here to help me. I just don't know what to do I can't tell my mother because i would just get an I told you so. And I don't think I can handle that right now and she is going to be up here at the end of the weekend and I have to get it together enough to not let her notice. Well just so everyone know life just sucks.

OMG FREE BOOKS!!!

As a bibliophile and a technophiliac, I have to tell you all about this. Yes I know you already got the email.

Amazon is now in Beta for their new Kindle for PC! If you don't have it yet, you need it. It's free and takes about 30 seconds to download. Get it here:

Amazon Kindle Store

After you download it, look through the books for Kindle here:

Kindle Books

Now, here's the thing: when you select a genre, you can sort it lowest to highest by price to view the free books. Yes, free books. And many are very cheap (under $1 to download--cheaper than a garage sale practically). I like the Science Fiction books (there are many fantastic fiction and fantasy titles as well, and non-fic like cooking, history, and autobiographies):

Science Fiction Kindle Books

The fantastic part is that all of these titles are transferable, which means when I eventually upgrade to a Kindle anything I downloaded (free or purchased), I can move over to my Kindle! How cool is that!

Once you "buy" some free books, you go into your Kindle for PC and select "Sync and Check for New Items" in the Menu tab at the upper right hand corner, and all your downloaded stuff will pop up on the Kindle for PC home page area, ready to read. (Note: there are thousands of free and under $1 books, as well as non-Amazon books you can find elsewhere that are compatible.)

Also, today is my 2-year marriage anniversary with Mr. B. Our 8-year anniversary was back on the 9th. However, he is out of town. But later, I will be treating myself to our traditional fancy dinner at Subway and watching FlashForward with him over Google chat. We're very tech-nouveau as couples go. :)

Happy (FREE BOOKS!) Downloading!

Alula

Lonely...I'm so lonely...

I'm sitting here listening to my Blue October channel on Pandora, being lonely. I looked through a friend's wife's photo album of their kid born last July, and suddenly realized, I think, why people have kids. Damn she looks happy.

No, I do not want one anytime soon. (Nor am I drunk right now. Yeah, I can see you thinking it!)

But I am is sick of school. My give-a-damn's broken, as it were, and I think I'm okay hitting an 80% for my final projects this semester--none of them are particularly inspiring to me.

However, I have been given a lovely opportunity at work to beta a really cool product that's getting released to the public on December 3rd, and that really has been inspiring. I swear I love this job so much it's the only thing keeping me in school through these rough times.

Today we had the first big Christmas craft sale of the season, and Q really raked it in yesterday. Today was a bit of a bust due to heavy snow last night and this morning keeping the crowds away. We collected a bunch of cards and I had personal conversations with some of the crafters, getting email addresses for our online site. Fuzzy noticed early on these people don't like the word "consignment", because those businesses "screw them over." All in all, a pretty successful endeavor, as it looks like there is a lot of interest in such a site.

But I am now in an overly sentimental mood and my husband leaves again tomorrow. Poop.

And I have homework to do. Double poop.

I'm going to write a book this week. And I'm probably going to put up the Christmas decorations on the site early. I'm sorry if this annoys anyone; read my post on Slacker Productivity for the reason why this happens every finals season, and doubly so during holiday sentimentality.

In which DoHP makes a post about WoW

Fuzzy: don't pay attention if you don't want to. I know the rest of these goobers play.

I don't want to make another work post, and my knitting is nothing paticullarly exciting at the moment, and I haven't gone through my pictures from my tourist trap weekend, but I want to post something. And my dryer is sloooooooow.

So y'all get a World of Warcraft blither.

I've been feeling kinda meh about my hunters lately. One of them can go do big epic shiny things, if anyone ever needed dps for them, or if my connection to level 80 dungeons wasn't like swiss cheese. The other one is kinda stuck in Theramore (I still swear there's a "where a bear? There a bear!" joke in that name somewhere).

But I have a druid. She's spoiled as all get out with a dual spec (balance (pew pew lazer budige!)/resto (imagine the tree dance to this, also healy goodness)), and heirloom shoulders (nom nom 10% xp bonus!). She is also crazy fun to play. She's currently 5 levels into Outland (went at 58, will stay 'till 68, No, I don't care what Mr. B says) and is instancing her little leaves off. Yes, PuG healing is significantly less stressful than work, that's how bad work is.

Sometimes I feel like the worst tree in history, like that one BRD run, but BRD. That dungeon is just painful. And we kept having to replace people that either d/c'd or left. I went through it 3 times before actually killing the last boss. I really do like the bite size of Outland and Northrend instances. You can take a short break from questing, do the instance in about 30-45 minutes and go back to what you were doing. Oh, not old world instances. Those you have to go, "what do I want to do with my game time? Hmmm, I want to do an instance." But over 60 instances have DKs. Which vary from competant job doers to "Omg I death gripped that thing off the tank look at my awesome bad dps lol!"

There was more to this, but my dryer just beeped at me to come help it. May be more later...

Socks!

I had two 10 dollar coupons for a clothing store, Mr. Q is in desperate need of new socks. I though getting a pack of socks for 10 dollars would not be a problem. At the store I discovered that mens socks go up to size 12, Mr. Q is a 13! Then I remember his mother telling me, " Its really hard finding socks big enough for Mr. Q and his brother". I spent 30 min looking for socks and finally found three pair for 18 dollars! GOOD GRIEF! They had better be made of gold! Twenty dollars off, and I still paid 16 dollars for 6 pairs of socks.

Business Idea

Ladies,
I got just a random idea that popped into my head yesterday. For the online store what about turning it into a online craft sale and I can market to the other crafters we all see at the craft sales? People that don't want to manage their own website and Ebay is a little congested, its just an idea and I have to work out the details. Well let me know what you think.

Fuzzy

I found the edge.

Ladies,

I will not be going into details of the last week. Let's suffice it to say that the universe has taken from me, and I am waiting for the laws of karma to giveth back. In abundance. The universe owes me in abundance.

I just got back from the grocery store after buying food for movie night tomorrow. I squeezed this in after work and school and an emergency trip to the bank and dropping off our voting ballots. I ate dinner in the car across from another young woman dressed professionally who looked like she was also freakin' exhausted and not able to eat an actual meal. I thought about the Lakota translation I have to do tonight for Thursday because I have work straight up to my group project meeting tomorrow night for the project which is due Friday and presented on Saturday at class.

Then I got home and realized that movie night happens on Tuesday, and today is Tuesday, and the next movie night isn't for a week.

I've found the edge, and I am backing away slowly.

Alula

If you need a good giggle!

Hey Ladies,

I stumbled on a web sight today. I was trying to figure out how to say a name, and found this link.

Turn on you speakers!

Load this page!

Sit back and get ready to wounder who thinks of these things!

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