We Need To Talk

Hi Strangers! January 2012 is almost over! Holy balls! If you asked Kanye what this month has been like, he would say "that shit cray."

The most exciting event of the month was that my sister FINALLY came to visit! February is my 5 year anniversary of living in Ohio. She had NEVER been here to visit until 2 weeks ago. It wasn't long enough of a visit, but we had a lot of fun and jammed in as much stuff as we could. Next up, we have to get back to Colorado. I haven't been there since Christmas of 2007. TOO LONG.

Biggest thing going on has to be school. On the 2nd, I started my 14 hours/3 classes of online coursework through Ohio University. I'm a bobcat! I've never been to Athens where the actual campus is, but I will go visit before I get my degree so I can at least say I've been there. My classes are HARD. And ridiculously time consuming. The three classes I am taking are: Communicating with People with Disabilities, Statistics for Behavioral Sciences, and Business Communications. First one is super interesting yet gets all controversial on discussion board. Not a lot of homework which is a bonus. Second one....the one I HATE. I literally cry and get diarrhea before I do my homework. And our assignments last about 4-7 hours. ON AN "EASY" LESSON. eff. Midterm is Thursday. Can't wait to cry in public. And then good old business communications. I'd say this is the third time I've had to take some sort of biz com. Only because it's required. Because generally it's all a bunch of horseshit and NOTHING that I actually use in work. Legal writing is 180 degree different.

Confession: I've saved and came back to this 3 times. Talked on the phone to my daddy-o. Then ate a giant dinner. Now all I can think about is the 20 pages I have open and things I want to pin. Pin as in Pinterest. LOVE IT. And while I am not one of the single girls planning an imaginary wedding, I am a married woman planning an imaginary baby. Along with clothes I will never fit in to, jewelry I can never afford, and recipes I'm too lazy to go to the grocery store to buy the ingredients. Pinterest is all things wonderful.

Oh, and I had my birthday. 29. Seriously. Apparently that is the age that I'll be saying is my age on my next 10 birthdays. I even had the manager of the restaurant where we were having my birthday dinner "jokingly" guess it was my 29th. Husband was like "yeah! it is!" And then I had to tell him that basically the guy just thought I was older than 29. Oh and I still don't have a baby. My raging hormones and god awful period are reminding me of that. RAWR.

I have a surprise for February. Not on the blog, but in real life. And I think since only 3 people read this, and you're real life people, then you'll just have to find out later.

Ta-ta for now!

Twenty Dozen

Balls have dropped (snort), champagne (sparkling cider for me) has been drunk, and the challenge of writing the date correctly is here. I had been fighting a cold since before Christmas, felt a little better, and then got way worse. New Year's eve I was in urgent care getting antibiotics. Needless to say I slept all day and woke up to hear Cee-Lo Green eff up the words to "Imagine" and watch Gaga awkwardly kiss Michael Bloomberg. Happy New Year! Snore.

I started my online classes with Ohio University on Tuesday. I'm taking 1. Communicating with People with Disabilities 2.Business Communications and 3. Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. First one is super interesting, lots of nice people and good topics on the discussion board. Second one-meh. it's biz comm. Stupid. And I have to read a 300 page book this weekend and start a book report due on Friday. Gross. And then we have Stats. ohhhh stats. I was taking a class very similar to this the semester my mom died while I was at KU. I ended up taking an incomplete in the class because I couldn't do the group project. Also, math is involved. So needless to say, this makes me nervous. Not just nervous, but I was on the verge of tears, heart racing, and in the bathroom after every 4 questions. My husband laughed, and apologized for laughing, but I told him that he is seeing first hand how awful my math anxiety is. Good news--Got 57/60 on the first assignment. I also had a lot of fun with it towards then end. If you follow me on facebook or twitter, you saw that I was asking for people to share their height and shoe size. I sent a tweet to Luke Russert, Tim Russert's adorable son who has followed in his footsteps with political news, and he answered with a retweet and I had everything I needed in like 45 seconds. Something that would have otherwise taken me all day. Incredible.

House is good--no major issues there. Tree and indoor decorations are down. Husband is taking down the outside lights today. I can't believe it's 60 degrees in January. I know we'll pay for it with a blizzard in March.

I have a lot of other stuff on my mind, but I've already stopped and started this post twice. My friend's baby is in the hospital and I think I'm just going to go love on her for a bit before starting that awful reading homework.