Here's the first prize winning group!

JTW and I are engaged!!! Here's a pic of the ring...story to follow. I've got to go study.

Hehe, Yaaay!! I submitted a picture of Lucy to the boston terrier LJ community for their annual calendar and she won for September. So, I now present to you Miss September:

She did such a nice job posing for her jack-o-lantern.

Here are a few submissions from Miss Lucy.

(The pic. below is not a submission since it has a hand in it...)




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I'm going to need to work on how to juggle school and work effectively. It will get better, I'm sure. It is taking a bit longer getting used to the rythmn of the online class. The one saving grace is that I find the class, psychology 100, very interesting. Well, minus the statistical, experimental part. It was interesting to learn that it has been proven that if you breast feed your baby, they are a little higher in intelligence by age eight.

First day of school! It's been nine years since I have been in the class room. I'm picking up my psychology books tonight and I have my first math class at 7:50pm-10pm. That is going to be a really hard time to do class...

The good news: They are mailing my first time home buyers stimulus out next Friday and adding interest on top of it because it took so long.

The bad news: the class that I've been trying to register for is FULL. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Ok seriously...why is this SO hard? I'm trying to register for my classes and they've given me four different codes to get past the pre-reque to a math class and all four have not worked.

Weight loss update: I worked out five days last week with the Slim in 6 program and did not lose a pound. I kind of feel like my body is on the verge of toning up. I'm going to continue the program and am going to work towards a goal of working out 6 days this week.

School: Tonight I need to find my transcripts from my undergrad classes. I'm hoping against hope that the math classes that I took will count as pre-reqs to the pre-req math classes that are required to get into the program.

This weekend was fun - went on a float with Jeff's brother and SIL and a few friends. I lathered up with sun screen but that didn't matter, the sun was angry and decided that I needed to be burnt to a crisp. I hurt pretty bad, so working out should be interesting.

It's so slow here at work and it's a little worrying. Jeff's brother has been out of work for quite some time now and he has nothing on the horizon. I don't think he's trying that hard since they prepped for the wedding and have their honeymoon in a week or so.

I keep having that reoccuring dream about pregnancy. It's pretty strange. Last night it was ghost_poop that was preggars and it was a VERY real dream.

Yesterday was day four in a row of working out with the Slim in 6 program. The program is super intense!! I weighed myself this morning and I'm a pound down. They claim that you will see results "after just six days". I'm really glad I didn't pay for the program. A friend of mine bought it and never used it so she gave it to me. Saturday will be my day 6. I'm also keeping a food journal since I want to take it to my dr. Basically, I want a cholesterol retest and what I'm doing is similar to flossing the month before your dentist appt. I want to see if my Aug. 12th - the day of my appt., if my number will be lower.

On the school front...I really wish my first time home buyers stimulus would come to me. I had to amend my taxes since I got the house in April and I filed them in Feb. and from what I've read, there is no way to track a tax ammendment and it could take up to 3 months. What makes me nervous is this administration is bankrupting us and I hope there is still money left...especially since the Cash for Clunkers program was handled poorly.


Ha, I just posted something on my facebook about politics that I'm hoping will irk my old neighbor that keeps posting things about her political views.

I think what makes me super nervous about this career switch, is what if I just don't enjoy the classes and it's a struggle? I feel like I struggled with my business classes and I would say that I really hated all of the business related classes I took. I do though notice that they really do not apply to the current position that I have. What if I spend all this time and money and don't enjoy it?? It is this thinking that has kept me stuck for so many years. I need to just take this one day at a time, not get overwhelmed and see the light at the end of the tunnel. The really nice thing is that Jeff supports me 100% in this effort. He sees how unhappy I am with my job.

I'm currently making out my class schedule for the pre-reqs. Since I was a business major switching to something totally different, I have 10 pre-reqs to take. The acedemic advisor was making me nervous by saying that taking two classes while working full time was too much. I have to remind myself that this is community college and their classes are pretty weeny. I took astronomy and sociology from this school for my undergrad degree and I wrote a paper without doing any research and got an A.

Another thing that makes me nervous is I would like to have kidlets in the next couple years and that means I'll be going to school with a job and with kidlets. I have a friend that is doing that and I'll need to ask her how she does it.

All this anxiety makes me glad I went back to citalopram. :)

I'm back - for several different reasons.

- I have major Facebook fatigue - the people that post, I don't care about and I really don't want the people that I know in real life to really know what goes on in my daily life. I'm super irritated with the neighbor I grew up with that keeps posting political things.

- I want to document a few things that are going on - I made a decision last October that I would completely change my career and after all of the research, interview of a person in the field, etc., I am really making the move and will start taking my pre-reqs in September. My goal is to get into the Occupational Therapy program at the University of Washington or University of Puget Sound and specialize in OT for geriatrics. This will really be a diary of a career changer.

- I want to lose 20 pounds and started on Monday with the Slim in 6 program. I am making a total commitment to this program and want to track progress here.

- I got a call from my Dr. that said she wants to discuss my unusually high cholesterol reading and I want to do a lifestyle change and hope to track the progress here as well.

- I bought a house in April and Jeff and I are making updates to it and I want to track progress on this as well.

- And, there are too many people I work with on Facebook and I want to have a place to complain freely about my boss. :)

 Holy moly...Heath Ledger found dead in his NY apartment. Go to msnbc...breaking news.

 Argh. JTW just isn't into traveling as much as I am. I think I'm going to have to have to travel on my own. We were suppose to go to Mexico but now he's backing out because of work stuff. Grrrr. This seems to be a trend. I think I may change the plan to go to New Mexico and check out Native American places that I've wanted to see. Did I mention that I love my job and the amount of vaction time we have?

I honestly think that myspace and facebook are only there to make me feel bad about myself and compare where I am to the people I've graduated high school and college with. Wow...a lot of people are either living abroad, have their masters degrees or higher, married, have kids, are traveling a bunch, etc. Those are all things that I would like to do and/or have.

Ask me to take pictures of any aspect of my life that you're interested in/curious about -- it can be anything-- from my favorite shirt to my cell phone. Leave your requests as a comment to this entry, I'll snap the pictures and post them.