Almost There!

I'm ready for the end of the semester to be here now, not Thursday. I took the first part of my DiffEq final today...yeah my professor thought he would be a "benevolent dictator" and give us a 2 part final. I'm still Switzerland about this idea. It makes the final twice as long, but it does give you a chance to go over what you didn't do so well on in the first one to make sure that just in case the same kind of problems are on the 2nd part. I think I did ok, I know I messed up some simple algebra on one thing, which is really frustrating me now. I don't know why I do it to myself, but after every test I have, if I was unsure on how to do something or what the answer is I'll look it up...this time I happened to be somewhat wrong, I forgot to put in the exponential part of my general solution to a spiral sink system of DiffEq's. I do feel smart talking about this, I'm sure someone that hasn't taken DiffEq that reads this is probably saying "What the hell is this crazy math major girl talking about?"

I finished my extra credit portfolio project for my Psych class last night, and I must say that my hole punching skills are quiet exceptional...I somehow can't find my 3 hole punch, and was smart enough to buy one last night when I went to pick up a 4 clasp folder and popcorn(my studying for exams must have snack). I bought the cheapest one at Target, which was probably a mistake, but I get home, finish my project and start punching holes, unlike my lost hole punch, this one doesn't have a bar/piece of plastic that sticks out to make sure that the holes are punched just right, and they don't stick out of the folder when you put them in it. So my project looks kind of retarded in it's folder right now, and me being a person that loves the trees and Earth I wasn't going to reprint the project, so the holes in the paper start getting higher...the groups that I punched them in look like they are kind of cascading in the folder. So Bravo to me and my mad hole punching skills.

This Saturday I'm going to be in San Antonio doing the Culinary wine run, it should be fun. My mom has made it into a family event, she somehow got my brother to say he would run it, but hey I'm in, anything to get free wine samples at 8am...it's 5 'o clock somewhere right ^_~ Plus it's only a 5k, I won't die, I'll walk along sipping my wine...and probably Tommy's because he's not a wine/alcohol person, strange I know...what's wrong with that boy?! I'll be sure to take my camera...see if I can juggle wine and taking pictures he he he, if they're blurry you'll know why he he he. I wish I had Sunday off...but I guess that would be something WAY too nice to do, giving someone a full weekend off. The only reason that I have this Saturday off (I haven't had a Saturday off in....forever...well a couple weeks when I asked for a Saturday off to do the Fiesta Fandango run...hmm pattern here?) I guess I'll be driving home Saturday night with my little backseat driver, as much as Harley seems to like the idea of car rides, she is so damn impatient about getting where we're going, she wines if we get stuck in traffic or if it's just taking too long, then when she notices that we are close to our destination she really starts complaining, and this is the kind of pacing and big sighing kind of complaining. Silly, spoiled puppy!

I apparently have next Tuesday and Thursday off...what am I going to do?! I can "sleep in," I can stay in my pj's all day, and completely veg, not that I could actually be completely non-productive, but the thought is nice. Maybe I'll go see a movie, there are a few movies out that I want to see...and my friends have totally bailed on me when I want to see them =p I guess we'll see he he he

I'm a bad blogger

WooHoo do I suck at keeping a blog! Not that there is anything super interesting in my life that anybody would want to read about.

I've come to realize that I really suck at doing online classes. When I set my mind to studying I can get it done, but Harley lately has found her puppy energy and has probably become the biggest pain in the ass/adorable distraction you could ask for. I opened the window above my bed to bring some light into my room while I was reading my Texas History and now she is COMPLETELY OBSESSED with looking at it. I get woken up every morning with her trying to move the blinds herself *insert eyeroll* It also doesn't help that she wakes me up every morning at 5:30, yes I know for some that's nothing but for it me it's a big deal, because my stupid neighbor is moving around in his apt. It's not like he's being super loud so I can't turn him in for the noise, but Harley has gotten into this VERY annoying habit of barking at EVERY SOUND that happens around the apartment, sometimes it's nice, like if someone is out front being super noisy, but when it's just a bump or anything else it gets on my nerves! I have no idea where she's picked this habit up either! I know she started the barking at my parents house because the stupid neighborhood kids think it's completely fine to run around and through everyone's yards, but it seems to have gotten worse since I got back up to Austin from Christmas break. I'm thinking I'm going to have to start taking my handy dandy squirt bottle everywhere I go with her, get her back to knowing that it's not ok to bark at everything X(

Other news...=\...this past weekend was fun, Heather came up/down/across (which direction is Houston from Austin?!) and I got to hang out with her, Chris, and Patrick Saturday night. We went out to Plucker(I'd almost forgotten how good their wings can be!) and then hung out at Chris's place and played Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride, there might have been another game in there but those where the main ones =p. Sunday was the Austin Marathon, Mom wasn't allowed to run it per doctors orders so since I didn't have them staying with me I took the time to clean/reorganize my apartment. It was such a pretty day for the most part, I was able to leave my deck get into my storage unit on the porch and put up and rearrange my Christmas decorations and then set up some stuff in my living room. Harley was, as always, the perfect supervisor sitting on the couch and out on the porch, out of my way for once...well that is until the evil cold front came in! And believe me that cold front was felt I came out of my room, wearing shorts and a tank because that's what I'd been cleaning in, and woosh nice burst of cold air right through the open sliding glass door...I'm completely and totally ready for the nice spring weather to be here...and stay! Ugg I just heard on a "news preview" there's another cold front getting ready to come through...WHAT THE FRENCH TOAST!!

Ok, time for more pair skating and reading about Human Sexuality

T

So I suck at keeping up a blog =p

What's been happening, school, school and more school. I had my first test on Tuesday. 5 question differential equations test took me an hour and 15mins. I think my TA is not helpful what so ever with this class. He even told us in one of our sessions that he wasn't sure what he was doing and he should actually attend the class so that he knows how to answer our questions...very comforting. When the university is hiring TA's why don't they have a screening process. All the TA's I've ever had for any of my math classes have been horrible. 2 of them knew what they were doing but they SUCKED at teaching it!

I had a German paper due on Monday. I hate writing papers in other languages...I feel like I'm back in elementary school writing simple sentences. The paper was a response to a video that I watched on YouTube. It was so freakin' complicated trying to explain what the people were doing in the video, what I thought it meant to them and then what I thought about it and if the video should be considered a piece of art...

Other news...nothing really happening...I LOVE the weather. With the first day of fall came actual fall weather 0_o it's amazing! I actually went to Starbucks after my exam and got a Peppermint Hot Chocolate and right now I'm drinking a hot apple cider XD I even made a super tasty Tortilla soup last night.

I'm going home this weekend...I have about 3 weeks of laundry I need to do =p Mom said something about maybe making a trip over to Fredricksberg! Yay for pastries and meat!!

Ok, well there isn't really anything else to report, i'm going to go and work on my Probability homework.

<3

T

This is more fun than studying

So Charlie is still in the shop, they haven't called to tell me whether he's ready to be picked up of not.  Mom's driving around in the rental car, a convertable Mustang, and I'm driving her car around.  I'm hoping that they will be finished with Charlie soon and that my parents will be nice and come bring my him up to me instead of me going back down there, I don't really want to go down there and visit them last weekend wasn't very fun and I'm afraid with both of them in town the weekends are just going to start getting worse and I don't really want to deal with that.  I like being in happy moods and my parents seem to rain on that parade.

In other news my interview with JC Penney went really well, the 2 ladies that I talked with were really nice and I'm actually really excited about working there!  They had originally offered me a position in the accessory which would get me 20-25 hours a week, not as many as I would have liked, so when I called and accepted the job I asked if I would been able to get more hours once I started.  So Kellie, one of the ladies that I interviewed with, said that they could put me in the juniors department getting 30-35 hours a week.  Not too bad, it will be a nice paycheck.  I'll be making a little over minimum wage, so hopefully I'll be able to make rent and all that fun stuff without my parents help.  But i've done the math and if I work 35hrs each week I'll be making about $1100 a month, which is pretty good, it will help me save money for next school year and pay for our disney trip and apartment stuff.  Also working there I'll get discounts on stuff which will help with anything I need for my new pad...when I actually have one.

Other then that my life has been blissfully boring.  I really don't want to study for my 2 finals that I have tomorrow.  I have high A's in both of the classes and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be getting A's in both of them so I guess I'm just not worried like I should be.  I'm going over to Edward's today at 2 to study for my Stellar exam.  It shouldn't be too bad, whatever.  

Harley has been a big help studying as usual, she sleeps on the foot of the bed while I sit in her spot with my study stuff all around me.  She's really good at telling me when I need a break too.  I'll get up to go to the bathroom or go get a snack and I come back to her in her spot sleeping on my book or notes.  Silly puppy, she leads such a hard life, and thankfully she doesn't drool in her sleep!

ok I'm going to actually try and study now.

XOXO

T

Procrastination at its best

OK, so nothing exciting has been happening in my life lately.  I got my test back.  On my Solar System exam I got a 94 an then on my Stellar I got a 101 *woot*!! I'm pretty sure that it's the highest grade in  the class, I'm excited.  

The guys from the construction company are going to be paying for a new hood on my car.  I need to ask my mom if I can borrow her car while mine is in the shop.  They people that gave me the estimate said that it would be a least a 3 day job...I figured since mom will be going to Hawaii to visit my dad for a week I can get it in then, that way the guys don't have to pay for a rental car...and i don't particularly want a rental car.  The people that did the estimate said that it looked like something metal fell on my car and then bounced...or as Oscar put it, someone sat on the hood...poor Charlie.

Hmm...other news...I got a fish today.  He's so cute in his 1 gallon tank, he's so tiny that the filter pushes him around. ^_^  I'll have to try and take a picture of him.  I was out looking/trying to get ideas for Jenny's Graduation gift.  I have Tipti's and Heather's all finished/figured out, all I need is Jenny's...and maybe Chris...Anyways I was near the Petsmart on 51st and decided to go in and look and see if they were having any specials on Harley's food and look at the fish...and then I ended up buying one and an orange tank to go with it...now all I need is a name for him.  He's a Black Moor goldfish.  Any suggestions?  

OK I've got nothing else interesting happening in my life,

XOXO kids

T

Soo..

So life has been pretty boring of late.  Didn't do anything exciting for Spring Break, except work for mom on soccer because all her coaches and people are stupid and either can't read or just don't listen.  

My 2 test from the week before spring break I got a 90 and an 89...yay.  Other than that life has been very boring, go to school, study, sleep...you know the norm.

I did decide that since everything has been kinda boring lately to watch Sailor Moon Live Action...and let me tell you, the live action version is WAY better than the anime, and almost as funny as the Musical(yes there is a musical, I can't watch it with a straight face!)  But I've decided that the guy that plays Mamoru has the best facial expressions, especially his range of disgusted faces(wtf pic) EVER! His pained face isn't bad either.  I wish that I could find more pictures of him, he puts a smile on my face, and I can't help but laugh!  What are your thoughts?  If you want to see the best facial expressions watch Act 48 (I think that's the number, it's the episode before the last act?) 

Ok here is part of the best facial expression episode, it starts at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ELlfRgChXw

The beginning of this one continues the funny faces!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td0bPhD_de4

Go watch them, his outfit is funny, looks like he has a penis or something coming out of his shoulder, and he looks constipated!

WOOT WOOT

Got a 96 on my other Astronomy exam WOOT WOOT!  I thought I had completely bombed it, but apparently my bs-ing was pretty good.  I completely pulled the 2nd essay question out of my ass, but I got full credit for it...yay!  So next week, Thursday, I have 2 test...eww!

Blarg

So my teacher didn't get our test back to us today.  He's taking his time grading the test.  He says that he's about 3/4 of the way through, meaning he graded the scantron part and is about half of the way through the essay part.  He also told us that the grades so far are as he expected them to be...what kinda crap is that?!  He refuses to tell us what the grades are looking like letter wise, so now I have to wait until Tuesday to get my grade back.  >_<>_<

I did get my fixed test back, he said that the key was right, but the scantron machine was counting 2 questions wrong...so HA!  I got 5 points added on to my grade so I got a 94 muaha ha ha ha ha.

Good news, last Friday at work some milk, about 200 pounds, decided to attack Tommy and in order to save his head he put his arm up and then also landed on his other arm.  So he landed real hard on his left elbow, and smashed 2 fingers on that hand.  He went to the doctor on Saturday and they thought that it was possible for him to have fractured his elbow, but since it was too swollen they couldn't take an x-ray of it.  So poor Tommy got to wear a fiberglass cast and arm sling.  He was able to get the x-ray FINALLY on Tuesday and he got the results on Wednesday...yay for Tommy, his elbow is VERY bruised, so the doctor told him that he's not really supposed to use it...How do you not use your elbow?!  Now, lucky Tommy, gets to wear a brace/sling that keeps his arm close to his chest, that way he doesn't use his elbow...good thing it wasn't his right arm, I would love to have seen him try and do everything with his left hand/arm he he he.  The only let down is that I still won't have an answer to my question of how do you take a shower/bath with a cast on.  I know you can wrap it and whatever, but I want it explained...perferably with pictures of it wrapped in plastic wrap and duct taped. ^_^  Tommy did say that it was interesting putting his seat belt on and driving though, since we drive with our left hand.

I would like someone to please explain to me why it's almost 90 degrees in February?!  I almost died last night, I had my ceiling fan on and my desk fan on high and I was still burning up...sometime during the night I even opened my window and it was still really hot...WTF?  It was 80 in the house last night until all the windows were opened downstairs.  I had all the windows opened in my room, but had to close them because people were walking their dogs and making  A LOT of noise and Harley was having a freakin fit, barking and buffing and talking every few minutes...I was getting ready to KILL her!  It's really hard to concentrate on doing Astronomy calculations

**Reason for the picture...its Wall-e...and it's cute...and I want Christmas to be here now since its the funnest season like ever =p

Good Start of the week ^_^

So I got one of my astronomy test back today, I'll get the other one back on Thursday *shudder*, I kicked butt on the test though!  The score that I got was an 89, and when we were going over the test today in class most everyone noticed that there was a 4 point discrepancy on the scantron part. So I was thinking yay if he goes back and credits the 4 points to everyone I have myself a 93...not bad, but I would have liked higher.  Then as we are going over the essay part of the test on one question he had given me 3(out of 5) points and a question mark next to picture that I had drawn.  So after class I go up and ask him about the question, I mean everything was right just not the picture I drew...which is good, I mean I even put the equations on there, so he said that he would give me another point and only take a point off for the picture.  So *totting my own horn* I got 1 point shy of a perfect score on the essay part of my test *toot toot* So I got a 90, and if he gives everyone 4 points a 94 AWESOME!

In other news Harley has been diligently protecting the house, she lays at the foot of my bed with her front paws on the footboard and her head down looking through the window and buffing and watching everyone and everything that may be out there.  She starts grunting, her way of talking, and buffing anytime the squirrel, that barks at us when ever we go outside,  is in the tree, on the fence...or worse on the roof.  When he was on the roof the other day she stood up and put her front paws on her crate and knelt down to look out the window, all the while just a talkin the squirrel, I wonder what she would have done if the window had actually been cracked?!  Anytime certain people get home she starts barking, grunting and buffing, its kinda funny, but when that person gets home late at night/wee morning hours it's not fun.

Hmmm...last piece of "news" I got a futon this weekend, a lady at my mom's office is moving to New Orleans with her boyfriend and is selling all her furniture and stuff, so she sold us her couch originally and then she sold us her all wood futon (for $80...awesome since they are usually $400!), so my parents are letting me choose which one I want to take and then Tommy and Ana might take the other since their futon is poking them with the springs...fun.  So I've decided that the futon might be better.  All we have to do is buy a new pillow thing because the one it came with is all stained and gross.  Awesome, I also got a 4 slice toaster, and then someone else at mom's office has offered to give me their kitchen table because they are getting a new one, but mom's not sure about it because (1) they don't have anywhere to put it, they don't even have room for the futon and (2) mom's not sure how it looks, she doesn't want to get a table that's all beat up and stuff, plus I have until July/August to get all the crap I will need for a new apartment.

Now I'm off to "do my homework"

XOXO

T

Who says she's not spoiled?!

So this is what I wake up to almost, if not, every morning.  Usually before we go to be Harley and I will snuggle a little bit and then when I start to fall asleep she moves down to the floor and sleeps on her pillow(A pillow that was technically mine, but she has claimed as her...you should see the dirty looks she gives me when I sit on it!).  So sometime during the middle of the night, I'm never sure when lately she's been doing very stealth like and actually not stepping on me when she gets up and makes herself comfy.  So this morning I wake up to the same thing, Harley laying like this on one side of the bed and me as diagonal as you can get in a twin bed.  Except this morning Harley was kicking me!  I guess I wasn't as over as her highness wanted me to be so I wake up with her kicking me in the lower back because I've curled into a ball and it's in her bubble...little brat!  So I get up and go to brush my teeth and I come back into my room and Harley has moved...on to my pillow where it's all warm, since the weather people lied to us today, it was 29 when I woke up not in the upper 30's low 40's like it was supposed to be.  So when I walk into my room and tell her to move since I still have a couple hours before I have to head off to school...and I'm FREEZING, she just stares at me, with a look in her eyes that says 'What mom, this is my spot?'  So I start getting back into my warm spot by pushing her over she starts grunting at me, which is her way of talking to you, but she eventually gets the hint and moves to the foot of the bed where her blanket is and with a BIG sigh she plops down, and once she comfortable she glares at me.  Now she's laying at the foot of my bed dreaming...cute lil puppy, it must be a good dream too, she has a cute little smile on her face! ^_^

In other news, while I was sitting listening to my iPod and reading my textbook waiting for my class to start today, one of the rudest guys is pacing the hallway and keeps looking in the classroom(I found out later that he had missed the class and wanted to talk to the prof.).  All the sudden he stops in front of me and starts swinging his arm, yeah I just ignored it thinking...some people are just weird, well he keeps doing it, so I pull out one of my headphones and stare at him and he say 'Can you move down?' Apparently he wants to sit down, on the bench that I'm sitting on, where there are a few more seats a little down the hall.  So I stare at him for a moment..I can't believe how rude he is and he goes 'If you don't mind'  I swear there are like 3 mins until the class gets out...why can't he stand.  So I kinda scoot over, and he just sits on down without a thank you or anything...what kinda crap is that, I mean I know your kind of an ass, but you could at least say 'Thank You' for me moving over or even paying attention to you , but I guess in this world that is just tooo much to ask for. *sigh*

I also dropped a stitch on my baby blanket of doom, it wasn't very far down, and I was smart enough to not get the yarn all knotted up, like the mass that still resides on my floor, yeah I gave up on it yesterday and just threw it down there and it will sit there until I have the patience to deal with it again. *blarg*