disappointed..

I'm disappointed in myself. On my first Business Statistics test, I got a 70... C.. which is kind of disappointing. I was really hoping to do a lot better. Given I should be able to get my grade up before the end of the semester seeing as it isnt worth as much as the other tests and if I work hard and study better I should be able to bring it up.. its just disappointing because i made a lot of silly mistakes.

Hopefully my Legal environment of business test went better, I felt more confident with it.

I also need to spend a hell of a lot more time on accounting and macro.. Mainly accounting. Both classes next week are for reviewing the material we've gone over and then tests the following week.. friggin AWESOME.. yea, ha.. almost!

So goal for the next few weeks:
Study more, go over notes more frequently, try not to let school kick my ass.

oh little me. little housewife cleaner me

I splurged and got new shoes and a bread maker today :-) It's going through a cleaning cycle right now and Brett and I are going to the store in a few minutes to grab the ingredients we need to make our first loaf, italian herb bread!! :-) I am very excited. If i decide i dont like it though, ive got 90 days to return it, yea yea.

I feel like I am turning into such a little house wife character. I suddenly feel obligated to clean and don't necessarily mind doing it. I don't mind doing laundry and don't feel as weird shopping for things like laundry detergent and toilet paper.. not to mention my excitement in getting something like a breadmaker, lol. I mean seriously, kitchen appliances?! thats the type of stuff house wives get excited over.. lol

I have my first two tests this week which i am somewhat nervous about but i think will go over okay. I am most nervous about my business statistics class test because he is a ridiculous teacher. ugh. professor el taha.

then i have a test in legal environment of business.. though this class should be fairly easy which makes me happy. most of the information is common sense or just the type that sticks in your mind because it makes sense and when given court cases its easy to pick out the reasons.

Well, i should probably go study.. woot woot.. ;-)

God I am so repetitive sometimes.

I keep saying I am going to do stuff and I never do it.. like eat healthier, start working out again, and just feeling good about myself. To a certain degree I am getting better at like feeling better about myself.. but nothing else lol.

Mental health is a huge part of it of course, and I think that besides stress from school I am doing okay. I'm even managing my stress from school better than I thought I would.. for now. It's still early in the semester to tell so we'll see how things go from here.

I want to just start running or exercising or some combination of both every day just to try to build up some mental and physical strength and start losing weight. My goal is to lose 10-15 lbs, I don't really care how long it takes me (well by Christmas would be nice, or around there. I think that is a reasonable goal if I work at it). I do not want to feel the burn in my legs like I did Friday night from working a busy double though, that was terrible. I felt the burn so bad it took me over an hour to get to sleep that night and I had to wake up early Saturday morning and go back to work.. eeekk!

My brother was going to move to Ohio on Sunday but was not finished packing and since the weather was bad anyways because of hurricane Ike he just kind of pushed it off and I think might be leaving this weekend now or sometime during the week.. but.. WE'LL SEE!

I need to go pick up tip money at Walter's. That makes me happy :-)

The past is the past but the future, holds my dreams

This is a picture summary of the things in my life lately.. I'm feeling the pictures because I just uploaded a bunch and there are too many cute pictures of Foxy to not post any haha:

The two adorable wonderful most perfect things in my life<3

The new addition to the family, Lynx.. My brother's new kitty!

Lols, Foxy playing with her ball



This is Foxy's true self.
Brett and Foxy being all cute


Candid, sniffing the fresh air and looking adorable

Being the charmer she is with that little puppy look that kills me everytime

A silly picture of here looking ghostly because brett isnt the best photographer ;-) but its okay. she's trying to bite me, an everyday occurrence, multiple times a day.


It's always a bad scenario for me to think about the past and what was. I used to have many friends and graduating high school really did kind of end a lot of those friendships for me which makes me sad. Life is too short to dwell on the past; people come and go from our lives every day for purposes that our way beyond us and it's probably for the better. Some people I just think left way too soon and a part of me will always miss them... It's important to focus on the future and realize that the here and now is what is important and live knowing that the choices we make today are the ones that will matter, not the ones of the past; they have already played themselves out as far as I am concerned. Each day is a new day, one of learning and one of making mistakes and I look forward to everything that comes with it; the challenges and the moments of perfection that make life the beautiful thing that it is. Dwelling takes way too much time.

In life, you can not worry about the people who won't accept you for who you are because there are plenty of people who will accept you. Effort of course is always required but there is such a thing as too much effort and I'm sure everyone has put too much effort into someone at some point in their lives... I mean honestly, who doesn't? But we learn from that and that is the important thing.

Things I want to do in the future:
I've decided I want to become more adventurous and I want to try to get some money saved up between Brett and I so we can take a little trip somewhere, just the two of us, and be really cute and adorable. I think that would be really fun for us :-)

I've taken one more step towards selling jewelry by posting it on a blog but we will see how far that gets me.. so far no where, but who knows, it's new!!!

I want to experiment and try new things. I want to live life a little bit more on the edge and not play things so safe.

I want to do new things and try being more crazy, wild, and outgoing.

I want to make new friends at college, there are a bunch of great people in my classes that I've talked to so far and I really need to pursue some of them into friendships because who knows, I might meet someone unexpected... one of those people who are in my life for a specific purpose. yay! I sure hope so..

Classes

So after my first week of classes, I have decided I think it will be a good semester and I am really happy that I decided to transfer to USM.

I love most of my professors (only one who i will talk about later that is kind of iffy) and they all tend to have that ridiculous teacher sense of humor. I find all teachers have a ridiculous witty kind of silly sense of humor and it makes me giggle.

My only professor, Prof. El Taha for my business statistics class (which is supposed to be my most difficult class) has so far proven to be very easy. Although, he is a very soft spoken man and with the accent that I am not used to because I am ridiculous culture sheltered I guess from living in Maine my whole life. I feel kind of bad because I can't understand him but hey, so far it hasnt really affected me and everything seems to basically be a simple review or seems quite basic to me; it's mostly pretty common knowledge as far as I am concerned. I don't see this class being that difficult in all honesty like everyone told me.. let's hope it stays this way.. He is also one of those teachers that goes to the very last minute of class. UGH. He's a nice enough guy and knows its not the most entertaining subject so hes got that teacher humor where he tries to throw in random not funny jokes, he's the least funny though and gets the least response.

My legal environment of business professor is very cool. He's definitely got that teacher humor personality except he's a little bit more funny I think. He's a great teacher and his class is really interesting. Its also nice the only homework he really assigns is reading, he posts his powerpoint lectures online so i can print and take notes on that, and i dont have to bring my book to class.. YAY! He doesn't take the entire class time either. YAY FOR PROF. MANNY!

My ABU (excel class basically) teacher is ridiculous. He's kind of silly and has a ridiculous long gray biker beard with a pony tail and its hilarious, totally cracks me up. He is kind of confusing and its kind of hard being taught a computer skills class for excel in a non computer lab classroom. He shows us everything through a projector and then we are expected to do the work at home on our own. kind of ridiculous but whatever. Hopefully it's an easy enough basic class.

My Macroeconomics teacher is very sweet and she is very passionate about what she does, you can tell that right from the start. She is a very sweet woman and it should be a great class. Its an awkward time once a week class on wednesday's and she said she almost never goes the full class length which will be extremely nice.

My Accounting teacher is really nice but she is a BIG talker. She talks ALOT. She takes the whole class time and its a 700-930 class which makes it a long thursday night. kind of icky but whatever. Only once a week class and shes a nice enough teacher.. Mel is also in my class so its nice that i will have a friend.. I also like the people who sit in my row in that class, we already had to kind of od a bit of group work so i got to kind of introduce myself to them and they were nice. so yay!!

Looks like it will be a fun semester, I'm glad.

Check it out

Check out my other blog, I made another one to post my bead jewelry on..

please check it out!! I've posted some prices and such. If anyone has any custom made designs please let me know and we can make an arrangement.

there will be an extra fee of a few dollars probably for custom made designs, no more than $5.

Please take a look, trying to find some new ways to bring in a little extra cash!!

I'll try to post a lot more later but here is everything.