A Long Night
Woot! A little while ago I bought some stuff online, I bought a snowboarding jacket and pants. I got them in the mail yesterday and tried them on not too long ago. They fit pretty much perfectly and are absolutely toasty! I am happy with them especially considering I bought fairly cheap stuff since I have no idea if I will even like snowboarding. I am just hoping that I still like them this much when they are actually being used in the snow but I am one step closer to snowboarding for the first time so yay! If anyone has tips let me know because so far all I know is that I will fall…a lot.
I woke up last night due to a really bad dream. It was weird, in the dream I woke up with my husband next to me wondering if I still wanted to be married to him or not and then it shifted to me being in my apartment with him in California. I get call and find out he has been killed in a car accident. At first it didn’t really affect me much until I got a call from my mom, I thought she would want me to tell the family so I answered saying I wasn’t going to tell anyone yet. She responded by saying it was already done and the next thing I know I have curled up in my bed crying begging her and saying mommy, please tell me it is all a lie. I woke up and was crying and obviously not happy, I texted hubby and then called him, I think he figured something was up because he was at a party/kickback thing and I never bother to call him at those because he can’t really talk. So he answered kind of confused but talked to me for a couple of minutes but even after the phone call I just wasn’t feeling that great, I kind of moved from thoughts of hubby to thoughts of my dad and honestly I still haven’t handled my dad’s death. It was a really long night with a lot of crying, not fun. I think maybe the dream cleared some questions up for me but I really would rather have not had it.
I finally did get back to sleep and my cats decided that this would not be the day I slept in. At about 7 this morning I wake up to mewing at the door, some scratching and then some tearing at my carpet. I was a bit irritated to say the least I figured maybe they wanted to be fed but I walked out and they still had a bunch of food. I threw some more into their dish and they seemed content, I guess maybe they freaked because normally I am up and feeding them so early? They have habits and schedules and apparently I upset that schedule even though it is mostly sleep…brats…
A Little Help Please?
Alright people, I know I don’t have many readers here but I just need the right one. I want to try snow boarding, what do I need? I am a So Cal girl who never really made it up to the mountains and when I did I was very little and mom dressed me. It was easy, my job was simply making it down the hill. Now I have to buy the right clothes, figure out where to go, and lets not forget, pay for it all. I have been reading around online and I am discovering I am supposed to wear three layers of clothes? And I am looking at some things and pants that will cost $150…I don’t even know if this will be something I keep doing so is there a cheap option? Do I have to do all the layers? I want to be warm…and dry, I know I will be spending a lot of time on my butt, so do I have to have all the stuff? What do I do?! Has anyone snowboarded around Washington, any places you recommend? Places to stay too…once again, cheaper would be nice but as far as places to stay clean and safe are always top priorities. So, anyone, feel free to offer some assistance, I’m new.
I picked up my cats today, the entire boarding place has fallen in love with them. They dressed them up for Halloween and apparently the cats handled it pretty calmly. They said they were worried at first that they wouldn’t tolerate the other cats very well but apparently they were best buddies. All in all I am glad that it worked out so very well, I was a bit worried and now I know they will be ok when I leave them for the holidays. Now they have both re-explored my apartment, eaten my bribe of wet food for dinner (they probably didn’t hate me but I had to be sure) and are fat and sitting in my window. All is quiet on the kitty front.
Today was also the first day I turned on the heater. I am not used to cold weather, as I said above I am a So Cal girl, currently my former home is having 90 degree weather. It may not be super cold here to other people, I see people going around in short sleeved shirts and whatnot, but to me, it is freezing! I need to figure out what kind of normal cold weather clothing I am supposed to be and not just snow boarding stuff. I also need to figure out where to buy it for not so crazy expensive. Fifty bucks for a shirt is just something I won’t do unless it is an amazing shirt, I will freeze…well, layer on sweaters and curl in blankets anyway. And that is another problem, in Southern California I didn’t really need the sweaters to be super fluffy and warm so I have worn them all thin. It was ok before but now they aren’t as helpful as they could be. I started searching for clothes with basics, I looked for a pair of gloves…twenty two bucks. Really? For gloves? Things are totally different when it is your money and you have a very limited supply of it. I guess I will start slowly getting stuff to prepare for next year…
So I have been doing a lot of thinking lately but I don’t think its anything I want typed out quite yet. There is, as always lots of random thoughts running through my head and some interesting changes going on in my personality. My dreams have shifted and become quite random lately and about so many different things. Some were very personal and some were just WTF kind of dreams. I had one, most recently, that I had an added soundtrack. I google the only phrase I could remember of the song that it was and apparently it didn’t exist. I remember the song was good, good lyrics, good beat but I have never heard it before. I am writing music in my sleep! This could be good if I could actually write music or you know, even remember the full songs when I wake up but unfortunately as soon as I wake up it starts to fade. Honestly, this is the third or fourth time it has happened, it’s just the first time I have googled and confirmed it wasn’t anything I had heard before. Maybe I will start writing it all down now and in another twenty years have an entire album for someone to sing. That’s my new retirement plan! (please don’t think that was serious).
I’m Back!
I am home! I am so happy to finally be home. The whole inspection wasn’t anything like what I was expecting and honestly I hope we pass but a lot of stuff went wrong. I’m crossing my fingers we don’t have to go and do it all again but I will find out on Thursday. I got kind of screwed as far as coming home went, I didn’t get to process until about 8pm (Michigan time) and my plane didn’t leave until 1030 ish and I didn’t actually get home and to bed until 0130ish (thats after daylight savings kicked in so 0230 ish Washington time). I completely missed Halloween but I suppose it’s ok because I didn’t really have any plans anyway. I really had no reason to be there that long and the way they set up the plans for people to leave seemed stupid to me. They sent home the people who knew what they were doing first for the most part and left behind people like me who were useless and couldn’t do much. I also have decided that I had no reason to be there. I really didn’t do anything. I learned a lot from the inspectors so it is good I went but as far as helping out I don’t think I really helped much at all. Oh well, not a lot I can do, it’s over, I pick up my cats tomorrow then on to the next stuff.
I think that is going to be it for tonight’s entry. I am still super tired and just not in the mood for much writing but hopefully tomorrow I will write more and have a bit more to say.
Adventures
I had adventures today. What was my adventure? I had to get two cats into their carriers and get them to the boarding place. It was interesting, I thought that my cat would be the most difficult, I was wrong. I got my cat into his carrier fairly easily, luckily it is a hard sided carrier so I didn’t have to do much work. The other cat? He was having none of it and his was a soft sided carrier. I basically had to tackle him and lay on him while squishing either his head or his butt into the carrier (he was either trying to bolt forward or scootch backwards) and use my other hand to zip up the carrier. It was tricky but I finally managed it, they mewed the whole way to the boarding place, very, very unhappy fuzzballs. I hope they are doing ok now, it’s kind of odd to not have them running around right now. It’s nice to not have to worry about letting them out or watching out for them but it is kind of lonely. I hope they aren’t mad at me for too long and the boarding place keeps them fat and happy.
After I dropped them off I went shopping. I bought some snacks for the plane ride and supplies to cook. I made my lemon caper chicken so I could have a good meal before a week of MRE’s. I also bought books for the plane. It has been a while since I read anything and even longer since I read good classic literature. I bought, a book on Cleopatra (back when I hated reading I had a select few topics I would almost always devour books that had to do with it, Cleopatra was one of them, Queen Elizabeth was another and there were a couple others), Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and the Jungle Books. I have barely started the Jungle Books and I was sad to put it down. I need to save it for my plane rides but I forgot how much I love reading good books. I have missed it and I finally have new books but I have to wait. I have been reading some other books that are good and I love them but they aren’t quite as filling as others. I missed the heavy, thorough stories and intricate details, stories that one can just fall into. I have spent too much time in dark fantasies, I love the vampires and fae and everything else I have been reading but I forgot to keep up with the heavier stuff. Unfortunately, after this big inspection I have to go back to studying for my upgrade training which means reading anything other than my study guides is put on hold. Another few months and I should be good to go, then I can start school and read and branch out.
I emailed my Aunt that I haven’t talked to in a long time. A couple of years apparently according to my email dates. I feel bad that I hadn’t talked to her but I was miffed at how she acted before my wedding, polite but still badly in my opinion, and then she never emailed me so we just fell out of contact. It happens, I am bad about keeping in contact in general if people don’t send me stuff, I don’t like talking to myself so if they don’t send me stuff then I tend not to either. She was happy to get the email and hopefully we can stay in contact. Maybe we can visit each other at some point, we will just have to see. Other than that today has just been laundry and getting ready to go. I have to do another load or two and then finish packing and I should be good.
I Forgot.
Don’t you hate those times where you had something to say and you totally forget? I keep getting that with this blog. I discover something interesting and something I want to write down but by the time I sit down to type it out it’s gone. Poof. Maybe I am just too tired. I know I feel wiped out and recently I have been, I can always tell I am exhausted when I don’t wake up when I receive a text on my phone. I normally wake up when my phone is on vibrate but last night I was out. Guess I will start out slow and see what happens.
I love Friday’s. I can PT on my own in my apartment’s gym and on the Wii fit and it’s Friday, the weekend is about to start and the PT makes it a shorter day since I don’t have to be in until later. Today actually went by fast too, there is so much going on that, though it wasn’t a great day, it at least went quickly. Now all of the stress of this big inspection will soon be over and the world will be a happier place, I can move on to having my wisdom teeth removed. That is my next big challenge and change, it may end up waiting until after the holidays though I really hope I can get it done in early November because I am really tired of waiting. Anyway, the cats get dropped off tomorrow and I have the weekend to relax and clean and pack and get ready before I am out and off on the inspection. I have learned a couple of new things that will hopefully mean I can be somewhat useful and not cause a ding in our report. I have heard rumor that since I am so new they will take it lightly on me, ask me when I got out of tech school and kind of ignore me, I am all for that but in case they don’t I will try to be prepared.
So I was having a discussion with someone from work about his situation with his kids mom, I realized some similarities between the situation with them and my current situation and almost got myself in trouble. I started to debate and I realized before I got too stupid and mean that I was projecting some feelings and thoughts I didn’t even know I had about my situation. I was fighting for this woman I don’t even know and don’t even know how she feels but I was fighting because of how I feel. I managed to catch it before I got too far but still, it was interesting to be mid debate and see something like that. I keep finding new things in my personality that have sprung up from all of this and it is getting kind of annoying. I find new things I have to be careful of and watch, and maybe it’s not just things I am finding caused by this situation, maybe I am just more aware of myself and realizing things that I just didn’t see when I was younger. Whatever the case, sometimes new realizations are awesome but sometimes they bite and leave marks, I have to watch myself now and the next time I try to fight for someone I should be sure I am fighting for them and not for myself.
Sorry for the Delay…
Been a while since I posted and I am kind of surprised to see I still have some daily views, nifty. I love page views and seeing that people actually read, it’s just kind of fun and lets me know that I am at least kind of sort of interesting (sometimes at least).
I don’t know where I have been really, I just haven’t been online. I guess I just got into a mood that I didn’t want to play in the virtual world for a bit. I have been slowly but surely getting various stuffs together. I got my cat the shots he needs so he can be boarded and now both fluffies will be dropped off this weekend. I also got the certificates that state that both cats are neutered for my apartments so I have a cheaper pet deposit. My mom sent the money she owed me and some extra so now I can afford to eat, board the cats, pay the pet deposit and do what I have to do. Thank you mommy, I love you lots and appreciate it (she won’t read that, she doesn’t know about this blog but I promise you all I have told her that and she is aware of it).
Other than that it has just been work, running around stressing out and going crazy like everyone does before a major inspection. I have been promoted (kind of, not in rank yet) and have gone from supervised instructor to just an instructor. My supervisor evaluated the last class I taught which was only the second one I have taught and gave me the passing grade that lets me teach on my own now. I still have stuff that needs work but it is just stuff that comes in time. I also have more responsibilities at work now, a bunch of things that go into the training stuff and it’s kind of nice. I actually have a job and am making a place for myself. I still may not be doing a lot but I am finally doing something and slowly gaining more.
As far as socializing I got out last night with some people and it was fun. I was the DD and I am glad I was. Drinking has never been my thing but I am a people watcher and watching people drink and be drunk is hilarious. They got to shots after going through a couple beers and the conversations going around were awesome, some of those buzzed/drunk conversations that are too random to come up sober. We are having another party in a couple weeks so I am looking forward to it.
I booked my plane tickets back to Cali for the holidays. I guess the house is going to look completely different when I get there so I am excited, I like new and different things. Apparently they also have a lot to do to it though, they just found a couple of termite infestations so they have to tent and fix what is trashed. Hopefully everything will be put together by the time I get back. I decided to not cut the trip short and miss my family’s big dinner and I am happy about that. I am looking forward to it and one day, eventually I will pay for it. Maybe this year I can figure out how much it is (without being rude about it, I will have to try to be sneaky) and figure out how much to save for whenever I host. I also have to sort through all of the rest of my stuff when I get there so that I can figure out how much I still have to move up here. I love my husband but from what I can tell he totally half assed the packing and now I have to hassle with it anyway. It was something I really wanted to avoid, the Air Force was taking care of it so I wanted to just let them but in the end I am still moving myself. Bah, whatever. If he decides to move up here then he can pack it all up and move it and I will just sort it when it gets here.
That’s pretty much it, really not a very interesting bunch of stuff. I had a bunch of epiphanies a couple of days ago and I was so ready to write some amazing post but I lost it. By the time I had finished work and driven home I had no motivation left and my mind had lost some of what I wanted to write. I am hoping it hits again this weekend and I can put out something interesting for everyone before I take off for the week. Topics anyone? Questions? Anything? Guess we will just have to see what I can come up with…
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness.
Life is so much easier when stuff is clean. I used to be pretty messy, I had a ton of stuff and not a lot of space to keep it and cleaning was always just such a pain. I have realized the problems I had, it wasn’t clean to start and there was too much junk. Once stuff is clean it is just a matter of maintenance which isn’t nearly so bad. My apartment is way cleaner than my bedroom ever used to be. I just did a quick run through today, took me maybe an hour at the most to clean everything (that of course doesn’t count laundry time because the washer and dryer takes its own time to run). I got my kitchen done, vacuumed, cleaned up the cat box, it was just easy. I must admit I have a lot less stuff than I used to, or at least a lot more space for it so it is all less cluttered and easier to get around so that can be a problem too. I am glad I have certain things back but some of it was just a waste of space and it is kind of nice to live lighter. I was a pack rat, still am I suppose but no where near as bad now that I have realized the beauty of clean.
I got to sleep in late yesterday, it was awesome. I woke up on and off but over all I made it to 1130, the cats were totally confused about why there wasn’t more food out by 0700. I woke up occasionally and there would be a cat scratching at my door or mewing and when I actually went out my door they were sitting there staring at me. It’s not like they didn’t have any food in their dishes, there was some but they didn’t like that it wasn’t filled up, fat fuzzballs. I didn’t get to sleep so late today but that’s ok, I guess I wasn’t up late enough. The night before I was DD and went to hang out with a group of friends at a pub place, it was kind of interesting, it cleared out surprisingly early considering it was Friday night.
I finally hopefully have things settled with the cats and their boarding. I need to get one of them his shots because they need proof and the other ones records should be faxed to me tomorrow along with proof for both of them being neutered (that’s more for my apartment managers). Wednesday is going to be a pain because I have to try to round up the cat and get him in his carrier, find the vet then bring him back and rush to get ready and go to work but it will be worth it (I hope) and he will have any shots he needs for the next time I have to board him. So, finally things will be taken care of for them and that will be one less thing to worry about and hassle with. I had an offer by someone to take care of them but honestly it just seems easier to board them, more expensive, but easier. that way I don’t have to worry about them escaping (I have very tricky little cats) and I will know for sure they won’t get forgotten or be alone or anything, not to mention I won’t be hassling anyone who doesn’t already get paid for it.
I am finally getting some plans together for the holidays and after, a lot of it depends on a bunch of things but they are at least starting to form and I have back ups. It will most likely be a very expensive season (flights, boarding the cats again for longer, gifts, etc) but I am really looking forward to it. I was thinking of shortening the trip and missing our families annual dinner but in the end I have decided that I really want to go and have been looking forward to it for a while. My mom says she will for sure be in town so it will be all of us together again, maybe for the last time for a while so I definitely want as much time as possible. Not to mention I have tons of stuff I want to do in California and I don’t want to just cram it all into a really short period, I always end up missing stuff that way. I am making my lists and making the plans and talking to my mom and getting super excited, December is going to be interesting but hopefully it will turn out awesome.
I think I can, I think I can…
Another weekend almost, yay! I am so ready for it. I am trying to get everything set for when I leave for the week and it is so much more to deal with when you have pets to account for. I love them but man, they were being a pain in my neck today. First I need to make reservations to get the boarded, then they need proof they have their vaccines. Fine, I totally understand that and I can get proof for one but unfortunately the other one hasn’t had shots for a while and I don’t even remember where he had them. So now I have to try to schedule him to get his shots, the vet down the street is booked on Saturday so I have to try to mix my work schedule (right before a crazy important inspection) with a vet schedule and do it mostly on my stupid phone that gets pretty much no reception on base. Very frustrating. I finally got him booked, now I just have to get hubby to fax the shot records for the first cat and actually get the other cat in his carrier and to the vet for his shots. Not to mention spend the money, which I really don’t have. I then came home to the cats who are cute and cuddly and sneakily bratty. I was trying to make myself some food so my little one stats twirling around my legs as he always does when I have food (I do not feed him my food, that is bad for cats, but it doesn’t stop him from begging and trying to convince me otherwise). After I finally convince him that he won’t be getting anything he runs over and starts tearing up my couch. This is the first couch I have ever bought myself and one of the first pieces of furniture and I want to keep it nice. I yelled at him, he ran before I could do anything else but I think they are making this a habit when I am at work which is not good. I keep discovering new little holes in the material. They have a little scratch pad but it has cat nip in it and my cat gets so tripped up on it he goes crazy and flips the mat and then can’t scratch it. Well after he gets yelled at for that I sit down to eat and the little fool jumps on my counter! I have been trying to train them not toand the other one gets it but mine is just special and slow, I love him but anybody who knows him knows he is. Pain in the butt! Both of them! I love them but sometimes, arg…
I was crunching numbers yesterday and I am so beyond broke it isn’t funny. I have enough to pay my bills but anything beyond that will be a struggle. I should be ok, usually when I am accounting for bills or extra expenses like gas I round up, better safe than sorry, but still, it will be tight. My mom is supposed to be giving me money to pay me back for a tire I put on her car while she was out of town but she hasn’t done it yet. I am trying to not be pushy but I really need the money so unfortunately I am probably going to have to do that horrible thing where I call her to ask her about money. Luckily her apartment is rented by apparently awesome people so she will be ok and I need to talk to her anyway so I can just do it all at once. I need to figure out how to shop really cheap, I think it is going to turn into some crummy food for the next month. After a month I will be set but starting this payday I am struggling. I have pretty much nothing in my fridge, really I think there are a couple of lemons (that probably need to be thrown out), some green onions (that also should probably be thrown out) some V8 that is my breakfast tomorrow and will probably be gone along with my last yogurt, some spaghetti sauce, various condiments and honestly I think that’s about it because I just ate my left overs. Oh! bean sprouts, artichokes and eggs. My freezer has some cookies (Iced oatmeal cookies are best when they have been frozen, a lesson from my grandfather), taquitos (enough left for one serving), a bag of mixed veggies and ice. I think tomorrow I will make bean sprouts, rice and mixed veggies, that should last for a couple of days, or at least dinner tomorrow and lunch maybe dinner the next day. Then I will move on to the rest of the random stuff, the taquitos will go quickly, then some mac n cheese easy mac things and yummy, Ramen with eggs and a can of mixed veggies (I actually really like it, I have used it to survive often and it is still really tasty). I think I have some cous cous left and last but not least, spaghetti o’s. He he, I have an interesting mix of stuff coming up but if I minimize the shopping I will be able to make it and it will be interesting to see how well I do. Also, on the subject of finances, I am trying to switch over my accounts. I have wanted to switch around for a while but was always too lazy because everything for my bills direct debits so no worries for me, well because of stuff going on I am switching around and it is really the pain and hassle I imagined it to be, especially when I am already juggling my money. So, I have to wait for some bills to get paid and then switch them to direct pay from the new account and I have to hope that my direct deposit goes into the new account as soon as it is supposed to because otherwise there is no cushion and things won’t get paid. This just means I have to pay close attention to things that I normally glance at to make sure nothing funky is going on and go on about my day. I have to now watch it constantly to make sure that if something goes wrong I can fix it before everything costs me more (stupid overdrafts). blah, I am trying to streamline this whole being a grown up thing and it is a twisted process, but it is slowly smoothing out…I think…
Been fighting to have time to talk to hubby. He is now working and is apparently pretty busy and unfortunately as a mechanic he can’t really talk on his phone or text so that has lessened my time. After that I don’t know, he works until about six, showers eats and then I go to bed, lol. I go to sleep early and he is usually kept busy anyway so *shrugs* we try but it’s a struggle. I just can’t wait until this whole mess is dealt with one way or the other. December…only have to make it to December…At least he has a job now, it makes him happier and it means I get to keep more of my money. Now he will be able to pay his half of the bills and whatever else he needs and I can pay a chunk less, yay for more money! So in general things should start going better soon, this new year should definitely be a whole new beginning one way or the other. I don’t make resolutions, I make big changes.
So, I think I can make this money thing work, barely but I can do it; I think I can make it through the craziness at work and deal with my pets and I think I might even be able to make it to December…but I’ve been wrong before…
What a Pity
Aw, my weekend is almost done, it’s kind of sad. I am not too excited to start this next week becuase it is the start of stress and insanity. Then again the sooner I start the sooner I get it out of the way and move on to better days. I start teaching tomorrow. I am nervous but I think tomorrow I will just sit down and try to figure out more about the material and how I will teach it. I have a couple of hours before my class so that should be enough time hopefully. I can’t wait until I am at the point where I am used to teaching and ready for it, bleh.
I cooked Asian chicken and bean sprouts a couple of nights ago, it was so yummy. It has been way to long since I had that. I have some extra edamames that I will be munching on for a bit too, yay. Once I finished that off I moved on to tonight’s meal, sloppy joe’s and cous cous. An odd combination but still good, the random combinations are just what happens when you are trying to be on a budget. I went to the store and probably spent more on cat food and cat litter than actual food, the little fat fuzzballs better be happy.
And the rest of my life continues as normal, still having troubles with my marriage, we fight we figure something out, make a little progress and then sit. I got to hang out with a friend a bit on Saturday, it was interesting. I left a little early but it was two couples and I was a fifth wheel and it was a bummer so I headed home. They were getting all mushy together and it made me think about everything, I am so worried we won’t ever get that back. I am just worried in general. Plus, both the couples I was with were overcoming some major issues from what I could tell but they were still there together working it out. I, on the other hand, am here while he is in Cali. I am sure he has to work on his own issues but ugh, I just can’t get over the idea that when there are problems like this you work together to make it better. I worry that we won’t get better, there is no guarantee’s especially because I may know how I feel but I really don’t know how he feels and I don’t know what is causing his problems in the first place. Will we both be able to overcome the walls and blocks we have put up and all of the fears and everything else? I know that I am all sorts of screwed up since all of this started which just adds to everything. I know that worrying won’t help anything but I am sure I am going to worry forever now. We used to be so happy, I wasn’t worried that we wouldn’t end up together, yes we had our problems but we were doing ok and most of them seemed to stem from our situation, once that got better we were supposed to be golden. He didn’t tell me what was going on, he didn’t tell me the truth and now I don’t know, even if we do end up together, if I can fully trust him again. Every time he says he loves me I will question it and I will wonder and think, it’s not pure love anymore and I don’t know if it ever will be again and that hurts a lot.
No use worrying now if I can avoid it I suppose, just have to make it to December…
When Plans Fall Through
Today I was supposed to go hang out with some friends at the golf course while they drank and played. I was mainly going to be there as a designated driver for them and I was going to get crazy amounts of entertainment out of it. Considering i really didn’t have much else to do it sounded like a good deal. Those plans unfortunately fell through, one of the guys had a family emergency and everyone else decided to just be lazy instead. That’s fine by me, honestly, the guy who had the emergency was the really funny one of the group and he amplified the funny of the other guy I know so it would have been a lot less fun if he weren’t there. I ended up cleaning, like super cleaning. I moved the catbox which I had wanted to do for a while, I just wasn’t sure where to put it. unfortunately that is the down side to cats and the down side to a smaller apartment. I ended up just shoving it in the guest bathroom and whenever I have guests I care about I will shuffle it somewhere else. I want to get a cover for it so it looks like an extra table thing and covers the cat box but I am, for the moment, broke; the guest bathroom will just have to do.
I scrubbed my bathroom, got all the cat litter and cat food (my cats are fat and messy) vacuumed, scrubbed my kitchen and am now doing laundry. I need to wash all of my blankets still and vacuum my room but other than that I am pretty much done. I also managed to go shopping, I got breakfast stuff finally and have some stuff for dinner. Tonight I am making chicken and bean sprouts with rice and some veggies I think. It should be good, the chicken is marinading now and will for about four hours, then it shouldn’t take too long to cook hopefully. I haven’t made the bean sprouts in a really long time so I hope they turn out right but I figured my mom bought me a wok I better use it.
Once everything is clean and food is cooked I have nothing to do but sit back and enjoy my weekend. this was the day that I got everything done so the next two can just be enjoyed before a high stress few weeks of work. I start fully teaching entire classes next week, I am excited and nervous, I need to sit and look over everything I need to teach. I tend to get through my lessons really quick, I think it is just a lack of experience and time with the subject matter. Not to mention I like to just cut to the chase and get through it, I am pretty sure the people don’t really want to be in the class and don’t really pay attention anyway. Why not just give them the information they need and send them on their way? No reason to fluff it up in my opinion. Whatever, hopefully I will learn to stretch it out because I think I have to but I will just have to see how it goes for the first few classes. I also have to try to be funny and out going right off the bat. I usually have to get to know people before I get the way, that let’s me guage them and judge their humor and personality. I guess I just have to learn to do that instantly or figure out how to make it all funny in a way everyone can be happy with.
Also in the next few weeks we are going to be getting ready for this crazy inspection exercise thing. Everybody is already stressing and going crazy and if last time was any judge people are just going to get more and more panicked and crazy until it is all over. I can’t wait until it is though, partly because everyone will be stressing less but also because I haven’t actually seen my shop and base out of this high stress mode. This is apparently the insane year where we get hit by everything important and major so it will be interesting to see what happens once everything is calmed down.
Interesting times are ahead but for now, I will enjoy the peace.
