Long time no see

yeah, so i just realized that i have not really blogged for a while, so i thought hey, i have a few spare minutes, might as well get it done right. lets see, it has been an exceptionally busy month, mainly because we got t0 go on vacation over spring break, so nice, so fun. but before we get to the fun part, it is time to let me vent.

caution, may not want to read, so skip down a bit for vacation info.

ok, so as i have mentioned before i think, i am a member of asa, which is all well and good, except that this board cannot be made up of college students, they have to be middle school aged at best, at least that is what they act like. there is more in fighting than i want to deal with, we are supposed to be doing things for the students, but we never seem to be able to get things done because people cannot stop arguing things that are done with, or cannot stop arguing over which university or district is the best. i could not believe the way these people act, the whole group should go to a mediation, but at this point, the year is almost up so whats the point right, anyways, i just had to get that out because i find it ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

vacation starts here

ok, now on to the fun stuff, we went to apache lake in the phoenix area for spring break, it was great fun. we rented a boat for a couple o days and explored caves and coves that can only be accessed by the water, we also got to see the two dams that are on either end of the lake, absolutely beautiful they were too. me being the clutz i am fell on the dock the first day we rented a boat, the bruises are great, they have been every color of the rainbow since i got them a week ago, till now, and yes, they are still there and probably will be for another 2 weeks or so, i bruise exceptionally easily, and i bet the people who saw me fall on my ass at the last abor meeting would be in no way surprised that i fell on a slippery dock, in the only hole none the less, oh well, it is what it is i guess.

anyways, we also went into payson and saw sara, michaels cousin at work, we were going o try to go back and catch a concert with her and her husband, and her brother and his girlfriend, but michael was not feeling good so we ended up going home instead. lets see, oh yes, we also got to see the cliff dwellings in roosevelt, though not up close because we got there about 15 minutes before closing time, so we did not get the chance of hiking up to them, that will be an adventure for a different day i guess, though i did get a few pics of them, like super zoomed up to.

we went to wet and wild phoenix, which could have been great except that my oldest son is a chicken and would not ride any of the slides without first throwing a tantrum, and then the actual pools were closed, so there was not really anything for the baby to do, he does not like water splashing on him, though he does enjoy sitting in it and splashing you. but i got to ride 4 slides, so it was not a complete waste, though 4 slides for the 100+ we payed to get it would argue that.

finally we went to the Renaissance fair, it was great fun, but exceptionally expensive, plus i had to interview people which i really hated, (i hope you are happy with that paper derek) but you do what you gotta do for your classes you know.

tomorrow i have to go to tucson and get my youngest son a helmet for his head, it is misshaped, just like his brothers was, so the helmet will make it be more normal than it would otherwise be. and then i also will be meeting a teacher at ua main, to see if she will let poor little undergraduate me in one of her graduate courses for credit, i hope she does and i hope she doesn't for different reasons, but those would be for a different blog.

my time is up and now i must go. love to you all

Graduation

I so did not want to walk, but it would seem that I have no choice in the matter. Everyone wants to see me and celebrate, I just want my important and expensive piece of paper, and a little bit of a break before I continue on for my next important and expensive piece of paper, it would seem that you can never have to many of them. . Anyways, today I went and got my cap and gown, and a few tassles, and of course that wonderful thingy that you put the degree in. Yay!!! =0/ notice the sarcasm people, notice the sarcasm. so now on a special day in may i get to walk down an aisle shake a bunch of hands, a plus to this is that i actually know the people who the hands belong to thanks to student government, and be forced to do this all in front of a large amount of people i do not know, nor do i wish to know them. you know the person is trips and falls and makes a general fool of herself when forced into uncomfortable situations, that is me. so i feel blessed to be able to do this AGAIN.....not. ok, i have vented enough for the moment at least. laters all.

AZ Tuition Hearings

Tonight i got to stand up in front of hundreds of people and share my story about trying get a higher education while being a mom and and a wife to a vet. I got to tell others stories about how they pay both their tuition and the tuition of their children, and about how, when these tuition increases go up, they are going to have to give up their education so that they can pay for their children. This is something that students of no age should have to chose. The horrible part is that everything I said, all of the stories I have told, they will not matter, because the ABOR do not have a choice but to allow tuition to be raised, the state has cut back our funding to the point where if they did not raise tuition than we would not be able to have the great education that we are currently recieving, that is of course if the University was still able to stay open. Arizona Legislatures need to get their heads out of their asses and realize that the universities and the students that go to these universities are the future of our state, without them this state will continue to fail, the economy will continue to decline, and people will not want to live here or raise a family here. What would the state do then I wonder, I do not know, and I would rather not find out.