A couple of weeks ago, my mom asked me what my school plans were for the fall. I had to be honest and say that I had been absolutely loving my time off from school. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go back. I wanted to use every minute of spare time to write.
But I knew that wasn’t the whole truth: My house is still half finished; I haven’t really touched it since we put the kitchen cabinets back on. I’m an interior design failure due to my own laziness.
My school has a few good looking writing classes, and even some available online. Kerry and I had a brief chat this morning about how much he really loves the online classes, and it encouraged me to give it a try. In the back of my mind, I was ditching the whole interior design idea.
Then I looked at my degree spreadsheet.
I keep an electronic document of what I would need to finish the Interior Design AA degree (yeah, nerd alert). The classes I’ve taken are greyed out. I guess I had forgotten that I am almost half way through an AA degree in Interior Design. Now? Well, now it’s a different story. I am encouraged. I can do this.
I just registered to take Ancient Art History, a required class for the Interior Design degree. I’m really looking forward to it and I can’t wait to get back into the grind. Some people don’t do well with structure, and some people do. I think I’m one of those who requires it. When I don’t have a lot of stuff going on, I get lazy. If I have structure, then I work harder to find personal time to accomplish things. That probably sounds crazy, and it’s because I am a little! Back to school… And it’s going to be great.
This was emailed to me — I have no idea if it’s authentic or not, but it’s funny so I had to share.
“A First Grade school teacher had twenty-six students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It’s hard to believe these were actually done by first graders. Their insight may surprise you. While reading, keep in mind that these are first-graders, 6-year-olds, because the last one is a classic!”
Here they are — the first graders’ additions are italicized.
Don’t change horses until they stop running.
Strike while the bug is close.
It’s always darkest before Daylight Saving Time…
Never underestimate the power of termites.
You can lead a horse to water but how?
Don’t bite the hand that looks dirty.
No news is impossible.
A miss is good as a Mr.
You can’t teach an old dog new Math.
If you lie down with dogs, you’ll stink in the morning.
Love all, trust me.
The pen is mightier than the pigs.
An idle mind is the best way to relax.
Where there’s smoke there’s pollution.
Happy the bride who gets all the presents.
A penny saved is not much.
Two’s company, three’s the Musketeers.
Don’t put off till tomorrow what you put on to go to bed.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you have to blow your nose.
There are none so blind as Stevie Wonder.
Children should be seen and not spanked or grounded.
If at first you don’t succeed get new batteries.
You get out of something only what you see in the picture on the box.
I’ve become a You Tube addict. Here’s something funny by Ryan Higa, a dude I subscribe to. Sometimes he comes out with “Movies in Minutes”, his own take on movies that don’t last more than 3 minutes. The one for Saw is pretty funny.
Twitter
I’m back on my Twitter kick and have pretty much abandoned Facebook. I don’t get Facebook; there’s just way too much going on with that website. I try to tweet at least twice a day on weekdays, so if you feel like following me, you can find me on Twitter. I’d also love having more people to follow. Let me know if you’re on Twitter.
Worship
Things have been going pretty well, except for a couple of people who decide not to show up for things at all. This is starting to wear on me. I feel as if all my time is spent nurturing people and no one ever does it for me. After every event, I say “Thank you!” and “Great job today!” But what do I get? Comments and critiques about what we should be doing differently. No one ever thanks me, and if I mention that, then it just sounds like I want praise and adoration, which isn’t the case either. Getting sick of this. We had a leadership meeting at church yesterday and I had expected to say many glowing things, but I had another no-show that morning and by the time I got to the meeting, was very disgruntled. I don’t even remember what I said, it was just vague unpleasantries about having to deal with people who don’t respect the time and energy I put into this. It’s a totally thankless job and the majority of the church takes me for granted.
I’ll be okay about this tomorrow. Just give me another 24 hours to stew about it.
Gaming
Since quitting World of Warcraft, I’ve been into a couple of different online games (Lord of the Rings, EQ2). Tom just canceled our subscription to EQ2, and last night I got an email from Bob saying he resubbed. Figures! Since he’s back to playing, I’ll resub so we can hang out. Other than that I’ve been playing Titan Quest again (more on that later) and Ken got me into Free Realms, an online game geared toward kids that has a lot of fun puzzles and bright colors and teaches kids how to play online games — because it’s a Sony product and it’s molding the minds of children to be future purchasers of Sony games. A clever maneuver from evil gaming overlords. A game review on this is coming soon, hopefully this week. I need to gather my screenshots.
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