So I almost messed up my comeback. I haven’t posted in a good week and I didn’t realize it until tonight.

First off, I wanted to do my usual mention about Veterans Day. Call me an army brat, I don’t care, but my support and love for the military will never falter. These men and women who go out and serve our country have a lot of guts (bravery) to do what they do. Most do it to support their families, others do it because its “in their blood” while others do it because they just feel its the right thing to do. My dad, uncle, aunt, cousin and lots of friends are in or were in the military and though its corny to tell them everyday, I do want to tell them how much I appreciate what they do. I’ve grown up military and it will never leave my life, even after my dad retires. It’s apart of who I am and apart of this country and for that I support our troops! (now the “upper management” who makes the decisions….hmm…maybe not so much).

On that note, I’ve been patiently waiting for December to come because I will find out the sex of this baby. My mom is absolutely positive its a boy and its blasphemy to mention the baby as anything but boy. But I can see how excited she is and it really makes me heart warm up. I am also super excited that she is 100% on board for breastfeeding (actually she said something along the lines of …. you better be breastfeeding…). She helped me picked out stuff for my registry and even commented that she hopes I don’t have any problems. She even said she’d be only be watching my breastfeed to make sure I am doing it right lol. I also decided to go with gDiapers to try out but I am also cloth diapering too. I just want to get a feel for whats out there. My reasons for not doing disposable are mostly environmental but I do understand and note the benefits of cloth diapering. I even found out my grandma used cloth diapering for all her kids so that very insightful (though she did have her gripes about it). Otherwise, I am pretty sure of my plans and luckily I have all my family (that matters anyway) behind me on it 100%.

As far as work and school, I don’t feel like I am doing so hot. It’s mostly because that first few months I really did not want to do anything but puke or sleep. Luckily I have had understanding profs but I don’t know if that means they’ll go easy on me or if I really will get Cs (and as a grad student I cannot get anymore than 2 Cs in my whole program). We shall see what happens! *nervous laugh*

So question for the day:

What are you looking forward to most in 2010?

Wow. So sorry guys! It’s been waaaaaaaaay too long! In the middle of transitioning between no school and no work to work and more school, It seems I’ve abandoned my duties as blogmaster of this here site! And actually, nothing new has really been up. Last week I was sick with sinusitis and had to take big yucky tasting antibiotic pills and sleepytime cough medicine *grins* After that I felt just peachy! I still have remnants of a cough but otherwise am feeling SOOOOOO much better. I also managed to get two part time jobs, one back in the lab I used to work in and the other working with a girl’s day camp. So, I’ll be busy this summer but definitely will be worth it for the moolah!

Anyways, my sisters are also coming to stay with me over the summer. It should be interesting and I might go a bit crazy. But it’s okay, because one of them has a car here and I can just send her on random errands or something =D Ha no but I am looking forward to it. It will definitely make Marcus’ and my house a bit less quiet. Which can be a good or bad thing, depending on how you look at it. I’ll let you know in a month.

Because of my sickness last week, I have not been eating very well as I should, though I have tried to at least incorporate more veggies and fruits in my diet. According to my scale though, I’ve lost some weight so I am hoping that starting this weekend I can at least become more active so that I don’t gain any weight until I can get my eating back on track. Ah, the life of a chick trying to lose weight. It’s an everlasting struggle it is! But it’s so frustrating!

Question of the Day: What’s your absolute worst bad habit? Mine – > I crack my knuckles and it’s actually made my knuckles larger so let’s just say that I have an interesting time with rings…

So prior to almost one week ago, I took a nap everyday and those naps lasted about 1.5-2 hours and sometimes even 3 hours. I hadn’t taken a nap since last week and decided to take one yesterday. I slept 3 hours! Does anyone have this problem? I just don’t understand why I can’t wake up!

And speaking of sleeping, even when I get about 7-9 hours of sleep, I still cannot bring myself to get out of bed. Any suggestions about getting my ass out of bed?

But otherwise, the last few weeks have been easy going. Well I can’t lie. They really haven’t. We are having the worst time financially. I feel like I should be way more stressed and upset then I am now, but (and maybe it’s the pills talking) but I feel interestingly calm. WHY. Who knows. But I know one thing: I hope we don’t get evicted =/ We will see what happens. We have tried to trim where we can, but it doesn’t seem to be working in our favor. Everywhere we turn, there’s some kind of money due. Not to mention, we owe $200 to two individuals and have no idea when we can pay them back. I am really hoping that I get awarded Summer Financial Aid very soon so I can at least budget that in. It will make life SO much better. Until then, we literally have NO money. Ugh. At least I have other things to keep my mind busy. *snicker*

So, this past weekend has been CRAZY. It’s been a whirlwind of crazyness and drama. I’ll probably post a private post to talk about it but WOW.

Other than that, today was pretty cool. I got to go to a high school (it’s an arts academy) and watch in on an AP Environmental Science class. It was pretty neat and boy, I forget what it’s like to be in a classroom with high schoolers. But it was a fun experience and got me excited (and nervous) about teaching. One of my classes requires that I go in and do “assessments” given to the students. It was pretty funny, because they looked at me like “why are you making me do stuff…” Oh high school. But it did make me realize I really want to teach! (still lol)

Speaking of classes, I never really mention my classes, so I figured I would this time around. I’m doing a graduate program called the MEd with Certification: Science Education. It’s an online program which makes it awesome and it’s also taught by great teachers. My school apparently has one of the best teaching programs in Arizona. So what I am taking now is Secondary Science Techniques, English Immersion and Evaluation of Learning. All really neat classes, but I feel there is so much information that I don’t think I could keep it all straight! Regardless, it’s a great program and I am loving it.

Money’s tight. again. I’m one of those people who realizes what one must do to save money and how to do it, but fails to actually implement it. That’s why we are broke. We spent money where we shouldn’t have and it really blows to see how much money we could have had saved but we just decided to blow it. ARGH. But can’t undo the past and can only improve the future.

I think I am done ranting so I will start on my private post now