The Fintons

Started School

So I started school on Monday, and so I have experienced all of my classes thus far. It appears my Philosophy class is my favorite, but I’m not surprised by this. Even though it’s an online class, and that’s not my favorite kind of class. The readings and the topics are the most interesting to me. I have to take a writing class again, even though I have already taken it. SU doesn’t allow you to transfer in their required writing course, so, I get to do it all over again. Not cool. Oh well.

Amy and I were chatting online today and there is this interesting feature called screen share. I tried it, and she said she could see my screen. How freaking cool. Gotta love Mac. I want to get an iPhone so that I can have all of my music there and be able to sync it all together. Since I have a mobile me account again too, it’s just easier.

I have decided to be as anti consumer as I possibly can. Yeah, I know it’s weird after saying I want an iPhone, but, it is my goal. To live more simple. iPhone and I’m done. I don’t let Erik watch any t.v. with commercials in it, because I believe it turns children in to being too materialistic. Then they can never be satisfied, because they always want more. I wonder if it will still be like when we went to school and he won’t fit in because he doesn’t really know about the new fads, or if society will have changed that much that it’s cool to not be cool, and not to know. Hmm…who knows. I hope the best for him, regardless.

Tags: Friends, Mac, School

Christmas Eve

So on Christmas eve Brandon and I got the honor of spending some time at the Chateau Dusseau winery. The winery is owned by my friend Shawnessy’s father. Shawnessy was my childhood best friend, and I hadn’t spent any real time with her in 15 years! It was so great to see her!! We really enjoyed the wine there too. We ended up getting two bottles to go home with, and have already finished off one. So I highly recommend it for anyone who is in to wine!!
After the winery we headed up to Brandon’s mom’s house. There we discovered the Kristen and Dave were engaged (Congratulations!!) We mainly sat around and enjoyed each others company with lots of different fun foods. I got to watch the “Honeymooners” with Jim. I had never seen it before, and he was shocked. I honestly thought it was funny.  We got home around 9 and put Erik to bed. He got to wear his candy cane P.J’s He didn’t want to go to sleep…but he has been doing that a lot lately.

Tags: Family, Friends, Holidays

Moved

So we’re living at the lake now. We need more space for our clothes. I got all of Brandon’s clothes away, but most of mine are still in a suitcase, and I ran out of dresser space. Great…. I’m going to have to become creative or find some new dressers with more space. The walls are so empty though it’s driving me nuts. I’m going to head out to Wal-Mart today after Erik takes his nap so that I can get some picture hangers. I need to find a hammer though….this may be a daunting task! Once everything gets moved in and gets organized maybe I will feel better. Right now I feel completely chaotic and that there is nothing I can do about it so it stresses me out. If anyone knows me well knows that I have to have a clean house, with no mess, and complete organization. I HAVE to know where everything is. Right now, things are everywhere. Poor Erik, found the Shrek case today, but the Shrek movie is in the dvd player at the house in Binghamton. He started crying when he opened it and it wasn’t there. *sigh* Hopefully Brandon remembers to get it today when he stops at the house.

I still haven’t gotten any of my paperwork from SU. I’m half tempted to call. I don’t want to be an annoyance though. Early registration starts on the 12th, and I really wanted to do it then because the classes that I need to take, there is only 1 of each because I’m taking them at night. I want to hopefully get into 3 classes as well so that I can get my degrees done and over with sooner. At least Erik has a stay at home Mom now. The only time I won’t be here is when I’m at class but Brandon will be here. It will be nice to have something to do. I need to get Erik into a play group or something. He needs some social interaction. Hell I do too.

Well my good friend Steve shall be coming home from Aphganistan soon. Don’t know when, because as he said wouldn’t want terrorist killing a whole bunch of Joe’s on a plane. Didn’t know he was with a bunch of guys named Joe but whatever. Okay lame joke, all I have been doing is watching Sesame Street, Dragon Tales, and cleaning. I can’t even paint or draw or try and learn things with Erik because everything is everywhere, oh, and the table is at the house!!!!! No table kind of, deters a lot of fun tasks one can do with their child. *sigh* Hopefully this weekend. I want my couch too. And my curtains. I realllllly want my curtains. I hate having open windows. Every time anyone walks by they can see in the camp completely. It’s fun.

I’ll take pictures of the camp once everything is in here and it’s done. It’s all painted, but it’s a huge mess, and everything is everywhere, and it looks like chaos, so no pictures just yet. Oh and no curtains, did I mention that?

Tags: Friends, House, School