Thankful Thursday

Hi everyone!! Welcome to this week’s Thankful Thursday post. As always please feel free to play along in the comments or in a post of your own. If you do your own post please don’t forget to send me the link so that I can visit and read! Okay, here we go!

1. I am always thankful for God because without Him, I would not have this life.
2. I am thankful for Doug.
3. I am thankful for my First Amendment Rights. I recently was reading these again for school and I am very grateful for them.
4. I am grateful for all my friends online and off, without you this would not be as much fun.
5. I am thankful for my kids as always too.

2 In 1

As usual I will be doing Wednesday Wishes as well as updating you all on what I have been up to. So, on with the show! First the update… I am currently sick. Again. I am a gooey mess of runny nose and sneezing. I know you all most likely did not need to know that. School is going well for the first week and I am frustrated because I have not gotten my adolescent and child psychology book yet. It is on back order. The second week of school starts today. ::Sigh:: Hopefully I will know more about this stinking book soon.

After my first two seminars in my classes, I can honestly say that I like both of my teachers and both classes will be fun and interesting. This Sunday is a party with Doug’s Aunt and Uncle and various other family members. I am actually looking forward to seeing his Aunt and Uncle again. Hopefully I will be feeling better by then, if not I am still going because I made a promise to his Aunt that I would be there and I am not breaking that.

On to Wednesday Wishes…. As usual, you all can play along in the comments or in your own posts, just be sure to leave me the links so I can read!

1. I wish that I was not sick. However, since it is a bit late for this particular wish, I will just go with it.
2. I wish my book would get here already! I have no control over that either, so again I have to go with it.

It seems to be a short list today…Ciao!

Thankful Thursday

Hi everyone! Welcome to another edition of Thankful Thursday. As usual, if you want to play along, you can in the comments or in a post of your own. If  you do your own post, link me up here so I can visit! Okay on with the show!

1. I am thankful that I am smart and I know when to shut my mouth.
2. I am thankful that I can read
3. I am thankful for my friends online and off
4. I am thankful that for the most part I have a pretty good life
5. I am even thankful for Doug

We did not go with Doug’s sister to lunch yesterday because she double booked. (Nice, huh?) Apparently she made plans with us and another friend at the same exact time. She chose her friend of course. Oh well, it worked out in the end I suppose, Doug got to sleep. Ciao!

Wednesday Wishes and Other Things

Hi everyone! I will start this with the normal Wednesday Wishes post and then finish it with the other stuff. As usual, if you would like to play along you can in the comments or in a post of your own. Just remember to come back and leave your link for me to follow.

1. I wish that all my friends online and off are happy. I am working on that for myself and sometimes it seems so difficult, but in reality it is not. Happiness is the little moments that are perfect, like that perfect dish, the perfect kiss or hug, something that you love.
2. I wish that I can keep my 4.0 in school. I know that I can work on it and it might happen, but I never know! It is a great feeling to have a 4.0 right now so I will enjoy that while I can!
3. I wish that people would see my kids as I do. I know that no one likes everyone, but I think that if people could see my kids as I see them it would be great!
4. I wish that John( my ex who has my kids) would understand that if I don’t email him right back it is not because I am avoiding him or ignoring him, because I am not.
5. I wish that Doug and his sister could get along better. I know I am really reaching for this but I am tired of the constant fighting. I am staying out of all this because it is not my place, but the yelling has got to go!

Okay, on to the ‘other things’ of this entry. School starts back today and I am happy. I am grateful for the week I had off but I am ready to get back to work. I have missed it a lot.

So, as I mentioned as of right now, I have a 4.0 GPA in school. I love being able to say that! I am going to work my butt off to keep that but I am realistic. So, I am going to enjoy it as much as I can.

We are supposed to go to lunch with The Sister today and I have decided that I am going to enjoy the new experience. How many places carry meat around on swords and serve you from them? Not that many! I am determined to have fun and enjoy. I will let  you know how it goes. I have come to a conclusion, when Doug and his sister (The Sister) get together over food things go so well. If there is no food involved then things fall apart.

His sister enlisted the help of a cousin to help with the cleaning of the house. Which is good for us because the week days are hard to get any kind of cleaning in because of his work schedule and school for both of us. The only thing I am not liking is that they are sanding down the floors and resealing them. This will cause havoc with my asthma. Ugh. I have inhalers so I will just have to be careful. This weekend I have to go through the pots and pans.

A friend of the family came over last night and took a lot of furniture and other stuff, which made me happy because I would rather that she and her new husband use it than to give it away. I think that she is coming back for more stuff later.

I guess the idea is to retile the kitchen, vestibule area, and what was their dad’s room. In the computer room the carpet is coming out and the wood floors will be sanded with the rest of the floors in the house. We are waiting until they are totally finished with all of that until we move upstairs so that we are not in the way and all the floors get done. Well, I think that is it for now. Gotta go do some school stuff. Ciao!

Answering Reader’s Questions

Okay, so this is my first time actually doing a post like this. A reader has asked me some questions and instead of just answering in the comment section, I decided that since I have a few new readers over the last couple of months that I would actually answer these as a post.

Breazy said...

I just started reading your blog and had a few questions. I hope I don't come off offensive with them, I guess I'm just curious. I have tried to find these answers myself by reading past posts of yours, but they don't have much context and seem to just repeat the previous day.
Who exactly is Doug? some of the ways you speak of him he seems like a brother, other times not.
What is it you do for work? Are you just a student?
Do you have some kind of illness that causes you to sleep so much? you always say you need more sleep.

 

First of all, it is not offensive to me to ask questions about something you don’t understand, so let me see if I can help you out here.

1. Doug is my boyfriend who I live with. Sometimes when I am frustrated with him, I do notice that I write about him as if he is a brother. He is not my brother. I am adopted and have no idea who my birth parents are. Doug’s dad just died this year on Father’s day, so we have been cleaning up the house lately and sorting through his stuff. It is very emotionally draining, which is why I feel like I need more sleep.

Doug also works at night so my sleep patterns are not what most people would call normal I guess.

2. I am a full time college student, which takes a lot out of me mentally because these classes are not all that easy and sometimes stressful. I am working on my bachelor degree in psychology right now. My next two classes start tomorrow.

3. The sleep thing. I do have insomnia sometimes, which makes me very tired. Also the last couple weeks with dealing with Doug’s dad’s death has been very draining. My patterns of sleep are not really normal either. Most of my entries are done early in the morning like around 4amish which is when I am getting tired. Sometimes, I do write entries in the evenings, but we normally go to bed about 10pmish because he has to have a nap before he goes in at 2am. Sometimes earlier than that.

I hope that this has helped answer some questions and thank you for asking!! Ciao!

Plans

So yesterday the Sister never came over as she was supposed to. She made some excuse and that is fine with me. I know she does not want to help clean anything. She would rather leave us to deal with it all. Having said this, I hope that she realizes that if that happens, pretty much everything except for what we want to keep will be thrown away.

Doug and I are apartment hunting and have to seriously downsize all the crap that we will take with us. Of course the furniture that is ours is going, but all the rest will be gotten rid of. My clothes and his are of course going. We are donating his dad’s clothes that are good enough to be donated. We found a lot of new stuff still in the packaging. New shirts and such. We are going through the kitchen stuff and keeping what we want and getting rid of the rest.

We are going to this Brazilian steak house with her on Wednesday for lunch apparently. It is all you can eat meat ( all kinds, pork, steak, chicken, etc…) and then you get the sides. I have never been there but she goes a lot.

I just had dinner with her Saturday. I can not wait until school starts back and she has to work again. Well, this is it for now. Ciao!

Monday is Just Another Day

This week the Sister is supposed to be here to work on the house. Not sure how this will work out because Doug needs to sleep during the day.

Where I live here in Michigan, they are having the 4th of July stuff today. At first I was like WTF?! But I guess technically because the 4th was on a Sunday, most people have Monday off. So not such a crazy thing.

I am tired today. I am going to sleep well in a bit. Gotta run. Ciao!