a very ugh day

It's only 11:30 and I already feel depressed. I think I've failed another Spanish test. I don't think I would feel so bad if I didn't have ANOTHER one on Thursday. Midterms REALLY suck. I am currently working on a exam paper that has to be turned in tonight--Very nervous about that one. Then I have a paper due tomorrow and two on Friday. Fun stuff. Hopefully the week will pass quickly and SPRING BREAK will pass S L O W L Y. Speaking of Spring Break that's NEXT WEEK! Oh man, SOOO ready for that. I'm getting a "Road Trip America" book today and hopefully we'll "plan" our roadtrip tonight.

We have FINALLY gotten cell phones people! If you are someone that needs to have our phone numbers, or just wants them, then e-mail me and I will e-mail you the numbers. We are getting rid of our home phone line this week and getting internet when we get back from our road trip. So, love you guys lots, but I gotta finish some papers.

toodles!

SHOUT OUT AND LAUGH OUT LOUD

I want to give a shout out to my friend Adam Delezene as he has FINALLY replied to my comments on his blog. Thank you VERY much, it has been a long time in the making I'm sure, lol. Considering I am the one and only person who comments on your blog I feel privileged to be the one you replied to.

I also wanted to point out something else to all of you who also know my husband (yup, think that covers everybody).
Please note his last two blogs have included these sayings, and I quote, "I learnt to snowboard in West Virginia," and "we overhere this women." I seriously am NOT teaching him this stuff. He's gone country (as the country song says), but he doesn't have the boots yet. lol I'm trying to teach him how to speak regular English but I think he's learning it too quickly from his mountain buddies for my teaching to do any good. Just thought I'd point those things out. They sure made ME laugh!

Adios! I am off to study Spanish and write a science paper.

SINGING IN THE RAIN!

Well the snow melted and now it's hotter than 60 degrees here now. Ugh, I miss when winter was 4 months long. So the interview went very well and Dave is now a conditional permanent resident. YAY! This means that we can travel out of the country again! Well, I could before, but Dave can come with me now. So, for all of you Canadians we love so much, we'll hopefully be seeing you later this year! And, for our family in Ireland and other parts of the U.K. we'll be seeing you this Christmas! YAY YAY YAY!!! Traveling again! Speaking of traveling Dave and I have decided what to do with the time I have off for Spring Break. We're going on a ROAD TRIP!!! Wuhoo! I've actually never been on a proper road trip before. Sad huh? We haven't planned it out yet but it will be the March 4th through the 11th. Just in case you were wondering or were trying to find us during that time. HOPEFULLY by then we'll have cell phones, so we won't be COMPLETELY cut off from the world. Well, just thought I would give you an update. Gotta get home and work on my lesson for tonight's girl's small group. Love ya!

p.s. I'm wearing my KICKIN rain boots...oh yeah baby!

snow and Valentines day

Dave and I celebrated Valentines day last Saturday because we were both busy on Tuesday. When I woke up Dave handed me two strips of paper and told me to pick one. He said I could choose the one I picked or vito it and choose number two. I opened the first one and it said, "receive roses." I picked that one. Then he brought in a breakfast menu that he had typed up. I "ordered" pancakes and bacon with hot chocolate and whipped cream. Then he brought me another two slips of paper. One said "breakfast in bed." The other said, "breakfast by candlelight." I chose candlelight. We had an amazing breakfast and lounged around for a bit. Then we decided to go sledding! It snowed all weekend (Friday through Monday) and we had gotten quite a bit of snow. Well, we drove up to the church and decided to sled down the big hill behind it. Well, that would have been ok, except we really didn't look at the bottom of the hill before we got on the sled. Right before we got down the hill I noticed that there was a ditch at the bottom. I noticed this a few seconds before we hit it. It didn't feel good to me, but I wasn't badly hurt. However, Dave wasn't so lucky. He scared the living daylights out of me! So, Dave is quite sore. He compressed his spine pretty good when we hit the ditch. I think we'll be utilizing the chiropractic services here next week sometime. So, we didn't do all that much for the rest of the day. We stayed in and watched a movie and pumped Dave full of IB Profin. He was feeling a bit better that evening, I think the medication was helping, and we went out to dinner to the Italian restaurant in town. We had a great dinner, very nice.

For the rest of the weekend we played in the snow and babysat the Pastor's kids. Dave helped their lil girl build a snow fort while I entertained the baby. The baby wasn't too keen on eating his baby food, so I got to wear quite a bit of it, good stuff.

Yesterday Dave got his Valentines presents. When he woke up he had a scavenger hunt through the house to find all his cards. His cards had coupons for different things he likes in them. One of them was a long back rub, another his pick of the movie next time we go, and another his choice of home cooked meal, among other things. Then, when he came home from work he had a card and some slippers. He kept wearing my pink bunny slippers, so I thought he might want some more manly ones, lol.

Today we're heading back towards my parents for the weekend. Tomorrow is Dave's visa meeting in Charlotte. Please pray for a good outcome. We're quite nervous about it. It's 8:30 tomorrow morning, so remember us during that time.

Ok, I've got to start paying attention to my Environmental Health class. See ya later!

OH! One more set of good news. We're going to get rid of our home phone and get cell phones...FINALLY! We're also going to have internet through our cable company, so we'll be able to talk to our overseas family whenever they are on the internet through Skype (the internet will always be on since it's through cable). We'll start this process in the next couple of weeks, but we'll make sure all who need to know know our new phone numbers.

check these out!

Thought I'd post some pretty funky pictures that my lil sis sent me. The first one makes me dizzy just looking at it!

78

I MADE A 78 ON TUESDAY'S TEST!!!! That, is freakin awesome. We had the other part of the test today, dunno if I did as well, ugh. Guess we'll see next week! OH! It snowed like crazy here last night! We had a couple inches of snow on the ground when we woke up and all the schools were closed for the day. Schools not including universities that is, cause I'm at school now. But oh well. I gotta get home and study for my environmental health test tomorrow. Should be a breeze, it's ALL mutiple choice!!! Also, I'm starting to to get pysched up for Survivor tonight! Yes Candice, I AM watching it!!! WUHOO! Wouldn't miss it for a blizzard. toodaloo everyone!

This picture describes how I feel right now

p.s. I had amazing chicken and dumplins for lunch....good stuff

OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!!

I have FINALLY passed a Spanish test!!!!!! I'm SOOOOO EXCITED! Well, I THINK I've passed it anyway, I just took it about a half hour ago. I have such a good feeling about it though! It MAY even be "C" material!!!!! WUHOO! I know my grade expectations have fallen quite a bit, but it's only for Spanish, that's my only exception. The rest of my classes must be "A's," or very high "B's". Wow, I can't stop smiling! It's amazing what happens when you're not stressed anymore! Of course that's just for the moment, it'll return shortly I'm sure, but I'm savoring the happiness right now. I'm going to celebrate by going out to lunch!!!

~skips around sings~ "oh HAPPY daaay, Oh happy daaay, oh HAPPY HAPPY daaay"

It snowed last night! It was really beautiful. It actually lasted quite a while! But, it's too warm to stick much, so it's mostly gone now. Tonight it's supposed to snow again though, but we'll see. Well, I'm headin to lunch, maybe I'll even have sushi!

on the verge

I am on the verge of withdrawing from Spanish. I feel like nothing good can come out of me staying in the class. The only reason I am staying now is that IF, and it's a big if, I pass this class, I will get credit for Spanish 1 and 2, so I won't have to do another class. I'm even allowing myself to get a "D" in the class, I think it'll be great if I can just get that! However, I am thoroughly confused and behind most of the class. I'm hanging in there grade wise, but I feel like I'm a fake. If I REALLY wanted to learn the language, I'd go back to Spanish one I suppose. I hate quitting, but it really is making my life a living hell. I'm constantly stressed about Spanish. I haven't even started studying for the big teacher test I have to take yet, because I'm always bogged down with homework from Spanish! I heard our teacher is one of the hardest, how come I ended up with her? Oy vay. Help? Anyone have any suggestions? I have to go write a paper, then study for a spanish re-test, and finish my spanish homework. ugh. I have a great day ahead of me ~said in the most extreme sarcastic voice I can muster~

here I am

So here I am at school eating day old popcorn (which is the best kind by the way) and chilling for an hour for lunch. I refuse to do any homework in this hour, I'll be doing it for the rest of the day anyway. I finally went and worked out yesterday. I always say I'm going to, but then I just keep doing homework and fry my brain completely. I've got to stop taking everything so seriously. I know that sounds weird, but I'm gonna have a mental break down if I don't. I'm still going to study and do my homework and try hard, but I'm going to stop stressing. Well....I'm going to try anyway...it will probably be easier said than done.
Ok, I'm going to talk about a subject that just popped into my head. Being a teacher's pet. I like being a teacher's pet. I thrive on being the teacher's pet. Let me give you an example. The other day in class our teacher asked us to rate a short story on the amount of joy we had derived from the story. Several people said 5, some said 6, there was one 9, and then it came to me. Well, I thought, if I say 10 then he'll ask me why, and I'll get to talk in class. So, I did. And just as I thought, he asked why. So, I had lots of interesting details to list of to my professor. Now, don't judge me yet, I liked that poem alot! Maybe not a 10, but if I had said 9 he might not have asked me first! He's my favorite professor by the way, great class. So, how do you feel about being a teacher's pet? Do you think the smartest kids are the teacher's pet, or just the one's that suck up the most? I have to say he likes my writing as well, he always tells me so. I love it. Really, it's amazing how a compliment on something you've worked hard on can boost your ego! Course it doesn't take too much to boost mine, buying a new pair of sunglasses does the job just fine. Or maybe that has more to do with my confidence. OH well, what do you think?