Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Update on Life
I haven't had much chance to write. Just trying to stay busily on top of things.
I'm over the 'hump' of having my kids gone. That is they will be back with me on August 21st and it's sooner rather than later now.
I've moved. I'm almost completely moved out of my old apartment and into the new one. The new apartment has several features I love. Three bedrooms. Grass. Richland Location. $4 rent. That last one is probably the best feature of all!! :)
The kids will be homeschooled in the fall... well, sort of. I've decided to join a virtual academy. Something I would have been vehemently against 2 years ago. But it's a far cry better than shipping them off to school for 6 hours a day. And the $1200 per child allotment for expenses will sure be handy. I'm super excited about some of the 'subjects' we will be covering this year. And they will definitely necessitate a trip to the zoo and aquarium. :) The downside is I will still be going to school myself which means I need to find daycare for about 4 hours 3 days a week. But I think that's do-able.
I'm doing OK this quarter in school. Summer quarter sucks (I WAS warned) and for a while I felt burned out and like I wanted to stab myself in the forehead with a big knife. I'm feeling better about things now.
Actually right now, right this minute, I feel like shit. I think I may have mixed some chemicals with bleach that I shouldn't have yesterday while cleaning. I have this faint 'bleach headache' and I'm a little nauseated... Odd since it's been nearly 24 hours.
Maybe I just need to eat something.
I got a new car too and I'm enjoying the wonderful convenience of air conditioning!! Life is good. Can't complain. Off to math class.
Katie
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I'm over the 'hump' of having my kids gone. That is they will be back with me on August 21st and it's sooner rather than later now.
I've moved. I'm almost completely moved out of my old apartment and into the new one. The new apartment has several features I love. Three bedrooms. Grass. Richland Location. $4 rent. That last one is probably the best feature of all!! :)
The kids will be homeschooled in the fall... well, sort of. I've decided to join a virtual academy. Something I would have been vehemently against 2 years ago. But it's a far cry better than shipping them off to school for 6 hours a day. And the $1200 per child allotment for expenses will sure be handy. I'm super excited about some of the 'subjects' we will be covering this year. And they will definitely necessitate a trip to the zoo and aquarium. :) The downside is I will still be going to school myself which means I need to find daycare for about 4 hours 3 days a week. But I think that's do-able.
I'm doing OK this quarter in school. Summer quarter sucks (I WAS warned) and for a while I felt burned out and like I wanted to stab myself in the forehead with a big knife. I'm feeling better about things now.
Actually right now, right this minute, I feel like shit. I think I may have mixed some chemicals with bleach that I shouldn't have yesterday while cleaning. I have this faint 'bleach headache' and I'm a little nauseated... Odd since it's been nearly 24 hours.
Maybe I just need to eat something.
I got a new car too and I'm enjoying the wonderful convenience of air conditioning!! Life is good. Can't complain. Off to math class.
Katie
Sunday, July 01, 2007
30
So I'm 30 now. Have been for almost a week I guess. I've been floating around in denial. No, really I've just been busy.Here's a picture I took to commemorate my big 3-0. it would have been better of course if I had had another person to take the picture and if it hadn't been 5:00pm with terrible sun shinning in my face. But I thought it was cool anyway.
I got all legally divorced and everything on my birthday too. So now I'm truly single. Woo hoo...
Started classes for summer. So far so good. My math class is extra tricky this quarter because the teacher is Chinese and incredibly hard to understand. As my sister calls it "Foreign Language Pre-Calculus" :) Its neat though, the class, and very interesting. I actually know what the hell Sine and Cosine are now! Not to mention Tangent, Cotangent, Secant and CoSecant! Basically if you ever need to find the height of a window and you can't just measure the damn thing but you have a 22 foot ladder and something to measure the angle where it hits the ground, well I'm your woman.
I'm also taking InterCultural Studies. This is basically Chicano history. Interestingly I studied most of what we've learned in this class so far two quarters ago in world history. And then covered it all again in discussion in my cultural geography last quarter. But it's interesting. And I ran into a guy I knew in 6th grade in that class! Brooks Devary. Interesting to see him again. It's been almost 20 years if I'm not mistaken.
My third class this quarter is Marriage and Families. I always laugh when I tell someone I'm taking this class because honestly it sounds like such a BYU "I'm going to grow up and marry my eternal companion" class. It's actually proving to be a very interesting class. I've already firmly established myself as the radical old divorced lady in the class which is full of 19 year olds who are likely just taking a few classes while they await their transfer to BYU. I'm being mean. Actually most of them seem to want to be social workers from the sound of it. And my role I think will be to help them see that not everyone falls neatly into some category. Actually the book is very liberal and thought provoking. I think all in all I will be glad I'm taking this class.
In other news my kids are gone and I'm coping OK. Kathrynn is such a mother hen. If she calls and I don't answer she leaves a long message on the voicemail about how she's worried about me and hopes I'm OK. Aiden is doing surprisingly well over there. He's so much more adaptable than we all expected. Actually I'm sure it's he's just dealing with it all internally while Kathrynn wears her heart on her sleeve as usual.
I've decided we are going to go back to homeschooling in the fall. I'm not at all sure how I'm going to make that happen but I really think it needs to happen. It will all work out I'm sure. Kathrynn is going through a lot emotionally and I think school is just adding more layers for her to deal with. I would actually consider leaving Aiden in school but I know it would work for about a week before he wouldn't want to be going anyway. So one way or another I will make it work.
