The Fintons

The fear before the flames

So, my newly favorite professor of all time (sorry Dr. Fitz-Gibbons), extended my midterm paper due date.  Sad thing is, I’ve been done with it.  I even have it all printed out and ready to hand in.  Now it’s not due until after Spring Break.  *sigh*  I put many many hours of work into it (sorry Brandon, I know you kinda missed me), but now I can wait to hand it in.

So you know what this means, right?  That I will be neurotic and obsess over it and go back through and fix it and add things and take things away and be generally all too crazy over it.  Why can’t I just have a normal brain?

Tags: School

Without her in my life I will be doomed

So have you ever had to change where you park because of creepy parking lot guy?

I have.   Sucks.

I’m currently working on a outline for an intervention I have to create.  I want to do self-injury, but my professor isn’t so fond of the subject.  He wants me to do domestic violence, so he agreed to look over my outline for self-injury, but be prepared to do DV anyway.  So, that means I get to do TWO outlines.  For the price of one!  Lucky bastard professor.  Hrmph.

Today has proved to be interesting.  Work hard now, play hard later, right?  Yea, wrong here.  Saturday was busy, with dinner for Suzie and Erik skiing.  Sunday was very…unbusy.  We did pretty much nothing all day.  I messed around with pictures (and my new love, Aperture, <3, or less than 3).  I did do the dishes, some type of domestically gendered duty that I’m supposed to fulfill. I made dinner too.  I’m a total rockstar.  Other than that, yep, we did nothing (Brandon successfully built a firehouse out of Trio blocks).

So, with all that crazy busyness that we had, I had absolutely no time to do any work!  Right.  Heh.  Okay so I was totally lazy and slacked off.  I studied for a test about 4 hours before the test, and now I’m doing an outline that’s due tomorrow (well I have 1 done, just gotta knock out another).  I still have stats homework to do too.  Haha.  I’m never this much of a procrastinator, and it’s still the beginning of the semester.  Oy vey, this is gonna be a long one.

Tags: School

Muse

Today was Erik’s third birthday *kindofparty*.  With Suzie being in the hospital, it was only Brandon’s family and us.  Erik still had fun, and enjoyed his George cake.  If I was three, I would want a George cake, so I understood.  Hell, I just want cake, all the time.  Right….

I have these like articles things I’m supposed to be reading.  For some odd class.  What class was that?  Oh some class on intimate relationships.  I guess just regular relationships are not worth focusing on.  So if your relationship isn’t intimate, don’t talk to me about it.  Ssshhhh…don’t tell me, it’s not an intimate enough relationship and I will not bother myself with it.  *EXTREME EYE ROLL*

With my extreme disgust comes an extreme lack of motivation.  I think I will go to bed soon.  Besides the fact that Brandon is snoring so loud the bed is shaking.  No problems though.  As we all know how sound of a sleeper I am and can just fall asleep anytime anywhere.  HA!

Oh oh oh, I have to review Grand Torino.  Oh and The Lost Symbol.  Remind me already.

Tags: Birthdays, School, Stupid

This is how it’s supposed to be

Well, as life never lets me down, one of my classes is being taught by the devil.

Okay, maybe he’s not the devil, but he sure knows how to torture.  And he has these little beady eyes that make me think he is really evil deep down and enjoys seeing people fail.

Or maybe it’s just me.

As my blog is horribly uninteresting, and I think I’m pretty much the only one that reads it, I find it pretty easy to not hold back when talking about people who might stumble upon my blog.  I’m confident that I am safe here in my little bubble.  Safe is squishy.

Erik’s birthday is in 10 days.  He will be 3.  As mother’s go, I am a pretty sucky one, so I’m not so sure what we are doing for his birthday.  Or what we are getting him for that matter.  Maybe he would like a new computer.  Or maybe I would like one and I’m using his birthday as an excuse.  Heh.

Tags: Erik Milestones, Rambling, School

Um, right

Someone shoot me for saying “gotta say.”  What the hell.  Why are people letting this go on so long?  I’m seriously disappointed.

The truck got dropped off tonight to be fixed tomorrow.  “Supposedly” fixed I should say.  So many other things, like the transmission I got not working, or something else being wrong, or maybe it really wasn’t even the transmission that was shot are much more likely to happen than the truck actually being fixed.  The truck being to a point where it is workable and driving is I’d say, about 7%.  All those other things are much more likely.

I got a B in one class.  I can’t believe it.  It’s actually blowing my mind.   Makes me sad…I wouldn’t care so much besides the fact that my entire life is depending on grad school.  And since  I don’t know anyone, grad school isn’t going to come as easily to me as to all the other traditional students.  I suck at life.  Why does everything have to be so much harder for me?

And….Erik’s sick.  I mean like, sick sick.  Erik never gets sick.  Ever.  He was running a high fever today, well what I consider high.  It was 102.6 at one point.  It was making me nervous.  He is finally in his own bed sleeping though.  We watched 7 movies today, and he started an 8th.  Then he finally passed out.  I ended up laying in bed with him all day because my psyche reverted back to that of a first time mom with a newborn.  Erik hasn’t had a fever since…um…he was a tiny infant?  Not a really serious fever anyway.  He has had the sniffles, and some other minor stuff, but nothing this bad.  I was freaked out, and still am.  I keep checking on him every half an hour.  Okay okay I know a bit much, and he is 3 so I should have calmed down by now.  But he is my boy, and if Brandon and I don’t love and take care of him he will never know what it’s like.  And he deserves that, and so much more.  *sigh*  If he doesn’t feel better by 8:30 am he will be going to the Dr.

Tags: Cars, Erik Dr., Sad, School, Sickly, Stress

Headache

I really have a horrible headache.  My eyes hurt.

I’m done with school, but I can’t access myslice because it’s down, so I have no idea if I have gotten any grades yet.  I shouldn’t really expect to get any until like the week before we go back.

So I have a month off now.  And nothing to do!  *sigh*  I went from being potentially really busy, to, well, not.busy.at.all.  Sucks.

Tags: Rambling, School

That time again

So we’re nearing that time again.  It’s almost the end of the semester.  I have one final, and two papers left.  I only have one more class to attend.  I had a exam yesterday, and it was brutal to say the least.  Hopefully I pass that class!  Yea, ME!  I know, it’s crazy.  There was one question I didn’t answer at all.  I mean, at all.  I drew a couple little pictures.  Ha.

So sorry that we haven’t posted a lot lately (but maybe I’m apologizing to myself?)  The truck is d-e-d (yes I missed the A on purpose) so life is stressful.  Brandon had to take a personal day today to go out to where Nora’s sister lives to hopefully get the Neon transferred over to us.  Now, to get the Neon running…haha.  We’re praying.  If we don’t get it running we have no idea what we are going to do.  The truck is going to cost so much to fix, just for it to break again, because there are other things wrong with it.  And other things going wrong with it.  WHY?!  Anyway.

Erik is also sickly.  He has a really bad running yellownastyness nose.   Now he is developing a cough.  I was thinking of taking him to the Dr. this morning but when he woke up he was doing alright and the nose was slowing down.  Of course once he got up and running his nose started running again.  Eep.  Mucinex for kids is great though, gotta say.  Last time he got this runny nose stuff I just dealt with it myself and I got it to go away with no Dr. visit.  Hopefully it will happen again that way.

Tonight is supposed to be date night for Brandon and I.  As we are in such a rut with the truck, I’m making dinner at home and we’re going to a movie.  That’s the extent of our extra entertainment.  It’s okay, we’re happy with it.

At least Christmas is soon!   Hopefully Erik enjoys it more this year!!

Tags: Cars, Erik Dr., Movies, School, Sickly, Stress

Stuff

We ordered all this crap over the past few weeks, and all of a sudden it’s all coming tomorrow.  Minus two things, which should be here anytime now.  One of the things is our new camcorder.  Yay.  All of this anticipation and it’s probably going to suck.  Ha.  So our life.

I only have 4 things left this semester.  2 papers and 2 tests.  Doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a ton, and I’m stressing.  I need to get going on one paper, I haven’t even done the research yet.

I haven’t been sleeping again.  Anyone know any good sleep remedies?  BOOO.

Tags: Nothing at all, School

Chocolate

I am totally and utterly in need of a lot of chocolate.  Don’t ask me why.

We had a great Thanksgiving (s).  When we don’t blog for a few days that generally means we are enjoying ourselves and keeping busy.  Or we are arguing non stop and hate the world and don’t want to talk to anyone.  Okay, well that has never happened, but I imagine if that does happen, that will be the case.

Erik decided he doesn’t like turkey dinner.  Not the first time, or the second time, and not even the third.  What a butt.  All three were amazingly good, he missed out on a lot.  He ate some fruit.  And some bread.  And, that’s it.  What a loser kid.  Heh.  He got to go watch Aunt Ashley and Matt play soccer tonight, which I heard though the grape vine he liked a lot.  I hear it was a good arena to show off his new shoes, which if I were him, I would do the exact same thing.

So I impressively…get this…didn’t take pictures this year.  I purposely left my camera at home.  I think I’m driving everyone nuts with the 900 pictures I have of them and their kids (or just Suzie’s kids…since they’re the only “kids”).  Or I am driving me nuts.  I have over 7000 pictures in iPhoto.  A bit much, we say?  Yes, we definitely say.  Alas, Christmas is coming soon.  I’m sure I’ll make up for it.

Off to do so much more homework.  I didn’t have a lot, and now I have WAYTOOMUCH.  Hate it.

Tags: Family, Fun, Holidays, School, Stress

Nothing really

So I had today “off.”  My professor canceled class in spirit of the holiday, and so people could go home earlier.  As I’m not a normal college student, and I’m already home, it turned into a day off for me.  I still took Erik to daycare today, as he only goes one day a week, and it’s already paid for.  I really really really really should be working on homework.  I have a book that I need to read asap.  But alas, I’m sitting on my computer doing nothing.

I spent a large majority of the afternoon playing scramble.  I’m seriously insane sometimes.  I kept getting in first place online over and over and over again, so then it became addicting.  I think I ended up in 1st place at least 90% of the time.  Damn me and my extensive vocab.  Or my extensive playing of scramble which has made my vocab extensive.  Whichever gave where, who cares, it’s fun.  And I really should be cleaning.  And giving Drake a bath.  And DEFINITELY reading for school.  So, I’m going to go, and pretend that I’m going to do that, when I probably won’t.  Ha.

Tags: Crazy, Happy, Nothing at all, School