My knee was still hurting when I got up. However, I did get up still, and did homework. I finished my reading for Saturday (well, did more than I needed to actually, since were only required to read 1 article or the equivalent of about 25 pgs for Saturday. I ended up reading the whole book [225 pages]). I've also finished 1/3 of my online class and taken the test. I missed 4 questions because I ALWAYS get fooled by those all of the above choices, and 3 of them were the all of the above one (where all of the above was the correct answer). The other one I missed I just wasn't thinking all th way through with it. Good thing is, we can retake this over and over until we get 100%. This is because we do not pass the class unless we have passed the test with a 100%. (It's an APA professional writing skills class). We just can't take more than once within 24 hours. So I'll take it again tomorrow and get that 100%! YAY!
I've realized I've got some things to review for my assessment class, such as the public laws dealing with education/special education as well as the presenting of data through various forms. For my other class I need to review the different theories of how children acquire language starting at birth (studying the old ones as well as the new ones). So really, it's not so bad. I'm loving the classes so far. Saturday is just a little tough. It's only a term class (1/2 semester), so it's 6 weeks long. She has no exams for this class, however, we have a quiz at the end of each class. This is ONLY tough because class is 4 hours long. From 9 AM to 1 PM on Saturdays.
I guess I should say what I'm taking... :)
Obviously, my online class. Tuesday night is Functional Communication for Children with Disabilities. I absolutely LOVE this class. I love language and love learning how we acquire it and use it. My Wednesday class is Assessment Principles in Special Education and Inclusive Education. I know this will be my hardest class already. The lowest grade I got once I was officially in my major was in Assessment for my undergrad. That was a B+, and I worked hard for that class. So we shall see how this goes, hopefully I understand things better this time around since I already have had a class and have experience with it from teaching for a year. My Saturday class is Development Constructs from 0-5. Basically, we go through the physical and mental developments of children starting with pre-natal to 5 years old. I really will enjoy this class, just a lot of information to go through in 4 hours, with only 6 or 7 weeks of it. That's the only reason why that will be hard.
That's all I have this semester. I was supposed to take another class, but my Early Childhood adviser told my Special Education adviser that I should take it later after I've had a chance to take another class. So yeah, a light semester, and I'm glad.
All of my classes are undergrad/grad combined. My online class doesn't require any extra work for grad students, so that's nice. My Functional Communication, as well as my Assessment class requires a research paper. That's not a big deal because both papers only have to be 5-6 pages long, and I already have my topic. My Development class requires that I teach a 20 minute seminar to the class. I haven't decided what topic to do for this yet. I need to soon.
Anyway....yeah, this turned out to be a lot longer than I thought :)
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Excuses Excuses
Didn't make it out exercising today....with good reason
I had class from 9-1 today, then I came home. I ate some lunch and watched a show or two with Bryan. Then I went and donated blood. There's my reason...donated blood. I haven't done that for awhile. What's been even longer than that is that I haven't passed out from donating blood in about 5 years (I used to donate quite a bit, then did plasma for awhile. I've also done quite a few blood tests). Today...man was I close...twice. It wasn't until towards the last minute or two that I was feeling really woozy, I had to stay in the chair for about 20 minutes before I could get up. I almost passed out once, then she laid me back. When she sat me back up, I was getting worse and really thought I was going to lose it. However, I did not. I was very happy about that. So afterwards, I was completely exhausted from it. I just woke up from a 2ish hour nap where I had just conked out on the bed. It was nice...but now, I've got more than enough to do.
I had class from 9-1 today, then I came home. I ate some lunch and watched a show or two with Bryan. Then I went and donated blood. There's my reason...donated blood. I haven't done that for awhile. What's been even longer than that is that I haven't passed out from donating blood in about 5 years (I used to donate quite a bit, then did plasma for awhile. I've also done quite a few blood tests). Today...man was I close...twice. It wasn't until towards the last minute or two that I was feeling really woozy, I had to stay in the chair for about 20 minutes before I could get up. I almost passed out once, then she laid me back. When she sat me back up, I was getting worse and really thought I was going to lose it. However, I did not. I was very happy about that. So afterwards, I was completely exhausted from it. I just woke up from a 2ish hour nap where I had just conked out on the bed. It was nice...but now, I've got more than enough to do.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Fridayisms
I have worked out this week/ I did Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Didn't get the chance to do so last night because Bryan and I were running errands as soon as I got out of work and didn't get home until 9:30, and I still had to do the laundry. So, really, no time to work out since I also had to go to Park city in the morning to do an errand before work, and had a half hour in between that and work. Today, I went to work early so that I could go to my brother's white coat ceremony.
That was super exciting and sort of unrealistic. My oldest brother (the oldest in the kid) is going to be a doctor. Today was celebrating all those who got into the program for med school. My brother who is currently on a mission is also planning on med school once he gets his undergrad stuff done. I was talking to dad about it afterwards and he never once thought that he'd have kids that went that far. I asked him if it felt weird having two kids who plan on being doctors, he said yes, then said he could have three if I got my doctorate. I laughed. :) Not doing that, not worth the time when the pay raise is only from about five or ten k from a masters. it also just means more school, I want to get right to work when I'm done. He agreed that a doctorate might not be worth the time. It was the first time he didn't encourage for more schooling, it was weird, but nice not to feel pressure to go further.
Another person I saw at the white coat ceremony was our home teacher from Provo. He was our home teacher right before we moved to SLC. He did recognize me and we talked for a second. It was really cool seeing him, and I'm excited for him as well. He's really one of THE nicest guys I've ever met. Things will go well for him, I hope.
Bryan stared his application for pharmacy school last night. Feels weird. We're being grown ups, I still see myself as twenty years old and Bryan as like twenty two. we are definitely not that age anymore. :)
Today, I haven't gone to work out yet because Bryan is pretty much stuck on a bed today. He did something to his back, and it's just worse. We went to the doctor last night, and she gave him some meds, but they're not helping. So he's just getting bedrest. I hope he starts to feel better soon, I hate seeing him down and not able to do anything. Life is extremely boring without him up and about with me. :/
Hmm...Nachos sound good. So VERY good. I haven't had nachos in a very long time.
hmmm, I guess that's all I have to say...yeah, I'm a pretty boring person :)
That was super exciting and sort of unrealistic. My oldest brother (the oldest in the kid) is going to be a doctor. Today was celebrating all those who got into the program for med school. My brother who is currently on a mission is also planning on med school once he gets his undergrad stuff done. I was talking to dad about it afterwards and he never once thought that he'd have kids that went that far. I asked him if it felt weird having two kids who plan on being doctors, he said yes, then said he could have three if I got my doctorate. I laughed. :) Not doing that, not worth the time when the pay raise is only from about five or ten k from a masters. it also just means more school, I want to get right to work when I'm done. He agreed that a doctorate might not be worth the time. It was the first time he didn't encourage for more schooling, it was weird, but nice not to feel pressure to go further.
Another person I saw at the white coat ceremony was our home teacher from Provo. He was our home teacher right before we moved to SLC. He did recognize me and we talked for a second. It was really cool seeing him, and I'm excited for him as well. He's really one of THE nicest guys I've ever met. Things will go well for him, I hope.
Bryan stared his application for pharmacy school last night. Feels weird. We're being grown ups, I still see myself as twenty years old and Bryan as like twenty two. we are definitely not that age anymore. :)
Today, I haven't gone to work out yet because Bryan is pretty much stuck on a bed today. He did something to his back, and it's just worse. We went to the doctor last night, and she gave him some meds, but they're not helping. So he's just getting bedrest. I hope he starts to feel better soon, I hate seeing him down and not able to do anything. Life is extremely boring without him up and about with me. :/
Hmm...Nachos sound good. So VERY good. I haven't had nachos in a very long time.
hmmm, I guess that's all I have to say...yeah, I'm a pretty boring person :)
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Weekend update
So I'm gonna talk about the weekend, without being on ambien (unlike bryan...)
We did go and see Hairspray Friday night. That was an awesome show, we both loved it as expressed in Bryan's journal. Very very fun, and definitely a movie that we are going to own. (I have a hard time convincing Bryan to buy movies, so I'm glad we'll be getting this one). We didn't see it with caption, however, it was wonderful and I was still able to understand a good portion of what happened. They really did pick the perfect person to play Tracy. Just flat out good, REALLY good.
The rest of the weekend behind the cut.
As Bryan said, yesterday we did apartment shopping. We didn't find anything within our price range AND had air conditioning or was reasonable with the price it was at. We REALLY would like to move away from here because of all the robberies going on. We had our car broken into (well the rental car) last year. The car right next to ours was broken into and had his stereo and speakers stolen. Another car was actually stolen that's right in our parking lot. Also, apparently there have been a few more break ins on cars since then. We REALLY want to move, it's just not comfortable here anymore. Our Landlords here are awesome, but the management sucks. (It's a homeowner thing so the landlord and management are two completely different people.)
After we got tired of it, Bryan got his eye exam, as said in his post, then we went to the store and came home. Then went out to Italian, and Bryan's right. You haven't lived until you've had GOOD caprese. I hate tomatoes, but this, I'll eat all day long if I can. I had a yummy chicken ravioli dish with creamy marsala sauce. So good. What Bryan didn't mention was our service. Our waitress was really nice and fun. However, she had accidentally put down the wrong order on my dish (Bryan's was right). THis is no big deal, she still apologized a bit for it. Didn't make us mad or anything. However, she still felt really bad that when she brought our check back, she brought back a piece of chocolate cake from their dessert menu for us for free. She was really sweet. She did get a good tip. :)
Then we came home and watched a few tv shows and went to bed, or so I thought. I did sleep, but Bryan apparantely did not. :)
Speaking of ambien though, things have improved a lot since I've been on it and it's only been three nights. Mood wise it has improved a lot, I'm not nearly as moody or distressed. I'm a lot more chipper. It's REALLY nice. The only bad thing about it, I hate that I can't remember aything I did for the last ten minutes before going to bed. If I hate something, I have no clue that I ate it and so forth. It sucks, but the pros outweight the cons in this case.
We did go and see Hairspray Friday night. That was an awesome show, we both loved it as expressed in Bryan's journal. Very very fun, and definitely a movie that we are going to own. (I have a hard time convincing Bryan to buy movies, so I'm glad we'll be getting this one). We didn't see it with caption, however, it was wonderful and I was still able to understand a good portion of what happened. They really did pick the perfect person to play Tracy. Just flat out good, REALLY good.
The rest of the weekend behind the cut.
As Bryan said, yesterday we did apartment shopping. We didn't find anything within our price range AND had air conditioning or was reasonable with the price it was at. We REALLY would like to move away from here because of all the robberies going on. We had our car broken into (well the rental car) last year. The car right next to ours was broken into and had his stereo and speakers stolen. Another car was actually stolen that's right in our parking lot. Also, apparently there have been a few more break ins on cars since then. We REALLY want to move, it's just not comfortable here anymore. Our Landlords here are awesome, but the management sucks. (It's a homeowner thing so the landlord and management are two completely different people.)
After we got tired of it, Bryan got his eye exam, as said in his post, then we went to the store and came home. Then went out to Italian, and Bryan's right. You haven't lived until you've had GOOD caprese. I hate tomatoes, but this, I'll eat all day long if I can. I had a yummy chicken ravioli dish with creamy marsala sauce. So good. What Bryan didn't mention was our service. Our waitress was really nice and fun. However, she had accidentally put down the wrong order on my dish (Bryan's was right). THis is no big deal, she still apologized a bit for it. Didn't make us mad or anything. However, she still felt really bad that when she brought our check back, she brought back a piece of chocolate cake from their dessert menu for us for free. She was really sweet. She did get a good tip. :)
Then we came home and watched a few tv shows and went to bed, or so I thought. I did sleep, but Bryan apparantely did not. :)
Speaking of ambien though, things have improved a lot since I've been on it and it's only been three nights. Mood wise it has improved a lot, I'm not nearly as moody or distressed. I'm a lot more chipper. It's REALLY nice. The only bad thing about it, I hate that I can't remember aything I did for the last ten minutes before going to bed. If I hate something, I have no clue that I ate it and so forth. It sucks, but the pros outweight the cons in this case.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Went back to the doctor
This is a summary of it, what I typed to Bryan in an e-mail
So, she has no clue.
The really sucky thing about this is, I've gained NINE pounds in the last two months. Nine!
I just started bawling in her office, and we talked about it. I did have trouble GOING to sleep this past week, two weeks, and with how distressed I am about it, I may have to go on depression meds.
The hair loss thing should go away, same as the sex drive, she hopes.
Since I've had trouble GETTING to sleep,. she actually prescribed me ambien, so I'll be taking that for a bit, heh.
She wants me to do that for a month and then go back in. I'll go back in the last week of August for an update.
She recommended going on a diet program, I explained that we couldn't really afford that, she understood and said to just do what I'm doing now and see how it goes with the sleep thing.
If things don't get better, we may have me on depression meds.
*sigh* I want to just give up :(
So, she has no clue.
The really sucky thing about this is, I've gained NINE pounds in the last two months. Nine!
I just started bawling in her office, and we talked about it. I did have trouble GOING to sleep this past week, two weeks, and with how distressed I am about it, I may have to go on depression meds.
The hair loss thing should go away, same as the sex drive, she hopes.
Since I've had trouble GETTING to sleep,. she actually prescribed me ambien, so I'll be taking that for a bit, heh.
She wants me to do that for a month and then go back in. I'll go back in the last week of August for an update.
She recommended going on a diet program, I explained that we couldn't really afford that, she understood and said to just do what I'm doing now and see how it goes with the sleep thing.
If things don't get better, we may have me on depression meds.
*sigh* I want to just give up :(
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Ponderings
If there was one talent I wish I had....it's dancing. I've always LOVED dancing. I've always wanted to be with cheerleading/drill team/dance company, etc. However, my flexibility DEFINITELY limits me in being able to do any of that stuff. If I could just give up some of my music abilities for dancing....I just might do it....I know it's not possible, but man, I wish I could do performance dancing!
Weight problems
So, 7 weeks ago, I went in to get my thyroid and several other things checked. I also started working out everyday that week and trying to eat better (smaller portions and at least slightly healthier food, from what I can afford anyway). I was told I have hypothyroid, so I'm on medication for that now (going in tomorrow to get a blood check up to see if we need to do anything more).
Since then, I have gained, yes that's right, GAINED, 5 pounds. It's just so darn frustrating. I've been taking a spinning class and missed a few classes due to being sick and accidentally scheduling a workshop I taught at the same time as the class. Other than that, I've been every single darn time. And that class...KICKS butt. Seriously. Go ahead and blame some weight gain on muscle, but SEVEN weeks?! I should have lost SOMETHING by now! I also go jogging on the days that I don't have spinning. Again, with the exception of being sick and holidays, I haven't gone (oh and when friends were staying the night). I slept in yesterday because I was so stinking tired from stupid nightmares all night long, so I didn't go jogging yesterday. But still, I should have at least lost ONE pound. But...NO. NOTHING!
So frustrated. I can see that I've gained weight in the past two years, and it really bothers me, so thus I take the initiative to make it better....this is just HIGHLY discouraging. It doesn't help that I was so bummed about it last night that I ate a frozen pizza....oh well...
Since then, I have gained, yes that's right, GAINED, 5 pounds. It's just so darn frustrating. I've been taking a spinning class and missed a few classes due to being sick and accidentally scheduling a workshop I taught at the same time as the class. Other than that, I've been every single darn time. And that class...KICKS butt. Seriously. Go ahead and blame some weight gain on muscle, but SEVEN weeks?! I should have lost SOMETHING by now! I also go jogging on the days that I don't have spinning. Again, with the exception of being sick and holidays, I haven't gone (oh and when friends were staying the night). I slept in yesterday because I was so stinking tired from stupid nightmares all night long, so I didn't go jogging yesterday. But still, I should have at least lost ONE pound. But...NO. NOTHING!
So frustrated. I can see that I've gained weight in the past two years, and it really bothers me, so thus I take the initiative to make it better....this is just HIGHLY discouraging. It doesn't help that I was so bummed about it last night that I ate a frozen pizza....oh well...
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