hello again

so it is my least favorite time of the school semester, finals. which for me usually means lots and lots of papers. I hate having to research and wrote papers on topics that i am only a little bit interesting in, or worse yet when i am not at all interested in the topic. it is very hard to stick with it and do a good job, not just throw stuff together and end up with a 'ok' grade. i like my a's, but i am willing to suffer a b considering that i know i do not put the amount of work into my classes that i should. anyways, this semester i have 6 major papers due. one of which has already been turned in, and the rest which i have barely looked at. all of which are due within the next two weeks, i am burned out on school already, or again, or whatever, i was really looking forward to this semester too, since it was to be my last, but then i learned that they screwed up my transcripts and i actually need another 11 credits to graduate, so there is another semester, one i really really do not want to do, but i will because i need to be finished, and i mean NEED.

on a side note, my sons are both doing wonderful, i feel bad because my oldest could not go visit nini today, but he would not clean his room, he assumed cause she was family she would be an exception, and he has pushed us far enough that there are no exceptions now, so home he stayed with mimi while everyone else got to go and see the big dump truck, a very important thing to an 8 year old boy btw, and he had to stay home and clean. it went ok, and now that he knows we are serious about his room i suspect that it will be clean in the next few days. at least this is what i am hoping for.

michael has gotten a job, it is great, but i am not used to be home all day with the baby and no other adult to act as a buffer while i am trying to finish up my homework it definitely makes things far more interesting than they had been previously. it had been quite a few years since i had had to deal with homework and kids that you couldn't just set in front of the tv or send outside to play for an hour or so while you finish up, needless to say it has a definite learning curve.

oh, and i am looking for a new book series to read, preferably one that is complete, so if you have a recommendation than please let me know, however you wish it doesn't matter, i suspect that most of you know at least one way to get a hold of me.

i guess that is it for the night, i hope you all have a good night, and someone to share it with. i know i do and i will

Wow

yeah, so just a quick note to say, that I know I have responsibilities in lots of different areas, but i will put it in order for you, family is number one and will always be number one. next is friends, then school, student government and vfw stuff is last on the important to do lists. so if it is between a report due for the vfw or a 15 page paper due for school, then the vfw loses. and if it is between that 15 page paper and doing something with my kids, then the paper loses. that is the way that it is, and that is the way it has always been. i do not appreciate people getting angry at me when they throw something at me at the last minute and it doesn;t get done. niether do i appreciate being told that i am not living up to my end of a bargain when i started a project because major things have been going on in my personal life and i will not let that effect my kids personally. so get over it because it is not going to change.