Long time no blog...

So... I haven't been a very good blogger lately. It has a lot to do with school & a little to do with forgetting my password (Teehee... don't you HATE it when that happens?). That is about to change, however, because...

it is finally finals week!!!

Thank the Lord... I didn't think this week would ever come! It has been a long semester & I have been in a bit of a proverbial ditch lately & not feeling very inspired to write about anything anyway. Why? Mainly because I have been so busy & tired.

1.) My mom had back surgery to correct a bulging disc. I have tried to spend as much time as I can helping her out. It went very well & her recovery time has amazed me. I am not a very good patient, so I know had the roles been reversed I would probably still be on the couch. :)

2.) I have a sick horse. I don't know what is wrong with him. He has lost a lot of weight & has a lot of blood in his urine. Not a good sign. The vet is tip toeing around, has been doing a lot of tests, & has basically told me nothing I didn't already know. (Of course he is anemic... he is peeing blood!) So, after a gallon of red blood cell builder and a course of antibiotics... we have made no progress. She took more blood yesterday, so if she doesn't find anything this time we may be taking him to the University of Florida so I can get some damn answers.

3.) School sucks. Well, I take that back... biochem sucks. I have been spending most of my "free" time (when I haven't been writing papers, working on projects, & writing lab reports) studying for it. UGH!

4.) My baby brother is on the last leg of training before he is shipped off to Afghanistan. I don't want him to go.

So that is pretty much a summed up update of my life at the moment. After this week I will have a lot more free time to play around & write. I have plenty on my mind, I just haven''t had the time or energy to sit down & write about it.

Here's to the end of another semester!

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades...

I met with my advisor yesterday who gave me the wonderful news that...

I have enough hours to graduate after this semester!!!

I am ecstatic. I am so ready to have that sought after piece of paper with my name on it. I'm ready to have a physical something in my hands to make all of the time, stress, & money I have put into the past years worth it. I'm ready for a sense of achievement.

Isn't it funny how a lousy piece of paper can make you want to shout from the highest roof-tops & dance "Singing in the Rain" style down the streets? That's pretty much how I feel right now. :)

I have, however, made the decision to stay one more semester (in the fall) to take some super easy classes to boost my gpa up a few more notches & study like a mad woman to make a good score on the GRE... which I need to get into graduate school. I'm ok with that... you've gotta do what you've gotta do, right? All I care about right now is making high grades & getting my shit together... I'm ready to put my big girl panties on & get on with it. :)

Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing all right, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

~ Timbuk 3

All work & no play makes Michelle a dull girl...

It seems like all I have been doing lately is school work. It's like I can't get ahead. I work & study & lose sleep only to go to class the next day & have even more loaded up on my plate. Why can't professors realize that their class is not the only one their students are taking? (136 power point slides for one chapter? Is that really necessary?) It's almost ridiculous. I feel like I am being spread to thin & there aren't enough hours in the day for all of the reading, studying, typing up lab reports, collecting bugs for my entomology collection, homework, flash-card making... & still getting enough sleep to function. The only thing that keeps me reading, studying, typing, etc. is knowing that there are only...

21 class days until Spring Break!!!

I don't care if we don't even go anywhere for the break. Not having to go to class is enough of a break for me!

In other news, the weatherman apparently thinks we have a chance of snow tomorrow afternoon... 2 to 4 inches, to be precise. The last time it snowed here I was 3, so I'm a little doubtful. I wouldn't mind a light dusting, though. I would love to take a few pictures of my dogs playing in the snow (something they have never seen).

I wouldn't really mind being stuck at the house all day, either. I have plenty to do here, including cleaning, laundry, school work, studying, cooking dinner.... the list goes on & on. We will see how it turns out... maybe I will be pleasantly surprised.

Rain, Rain go Away!

Another rainy day...

This is starting to get annoying. It only seems to rain on the weekends lately... when I want to go outside or to town & enjoy myself. My yard can't take much more rain. Everything is soaked & soggy... yuck. I'm all about wearing my rain boots (Lord knows I have gotten my moneys-worth out of them the past few weeks), but this is getting a little ridiculous. I want sunshine!

I had a lot of good intentions for today. I went to my 10 o'clock class & made up a whole list of things I needed to get done in my head on the way home:
~Clean up the messy house
~Do a little laundry
~Read a little in my BioChem book
~Type up my Physics lab
~Go to the grocery store

I didn't get any of it done. I came home, ate lunch (a spinach-artichoke-chicken leanpocket... SO good!), sat on the couch, & fell asleep watching re-runs of CSI.

Dangit.

The reality of my situation is that school is really taking it out of me this semester. By the time the weekend gets here I don't even feel like doing anything because I am either exhausted or have more school work to do! Is this going to be my life until May? I don't know if I will make it!!!

I'm tired of the rain & ready for the rainbow!