Another Year

Well, I haven't been very productive with my blogging endeavor.  So my New Years Resolution will be to blog more often in 2012. I usually don't make resolutions, but this year I am and I will really try to keep it. I am entering my final semester of school and hoping it wont be so time consuming, we will see. I am generally a shy person so I am hoping this will help me come out of my shell in the new year and give me a way to express myself. So does anyone else have a New years Resolution? Do you make them every year? Do you stick with them every year?

*The Graphics Fairy*

*The Graphics Fairy*

On-Line learning Challenges

Well today 5 minutes after finishing my morning coffee I logged on to my school's web site to get some information about an assignment that is due tonight. The assignment was locked double checked calender and due date I was correct due tonight did he change the time it was due without telling me? I am now in sheer panic although this assignment is worth very little of my overall grade I am an A student and have not missed an assignment yet. So I E-mail my teacher right away I mean I am sure he sits by the computer enjoying his morning coffee waiting for his students to e-mail him right? Wrong refresh my screen every 5 minutes until I must leave for work no answer. Get to work pull up my class web site still no answer. I am in sheer panic at the thought of a big fat 0 now and where is my professor. (probably teaching a live in person class but come on I need him) Well a little after lunch finally he responds to many panic stricken students who have the same issue and it is fixed. Whew I thought I was going to have to chain myself to his office door. The hardest thing with my online classes is the not knowing the professor in person and their schedule and personality ect.

The only good thing was that I was able to get in touch with my group finally for this class I have a group paper worth a good portion of my grade coming up and it appeared no one else was concerned about it besides me. Then finally today two of the five other members get in touch. Problem now they feel since the teacher has commented on a couple of their posts in our class discussions that they are VIP's and I should be honored to work with them. So will see how this goes. In the past I have dreaded working in groups or "teams" but they have always turned out to be great experiences in the end. So we will see if it goes the same way with students I have never met in person.

Well as long as no one throws a wammy at me. I think I will make it through this week and in to my spring break cushion so I can get caught up (I hope). Oh and hopefully I can get out of work early today and sneak over to the DMV undetected to renew my 2 day expired license plates before officer friendly decides to let me know they expired.

Whew It's been a while

I have had a busy busy school year I really need to stop being such an over achiever. I am making myself insane. My family is such a rock and so supportive through all of this but my poor home is still so unorganized and I feal like I am holding it all together by a thread. I never miss a due date but I feel like I'm barely getting everything done on time. I have to start a paper tonite so even though  I was so looking forward to a nite of relaxation on the couch but that isn't going to happen. I just so wish I would have went to school years ago. The good news is I have decided after this semester too cut back my school hours and put some of that time into volunteering hopefully something we can all get involved in as a family. Everyone keeps telling me I'm super women or something and some days I feel so proud to say I work full time am taking 14 credit hours of college classes and I'm squeezing in being a mother of two in there somewhere, other times I just want to scream I'm not super women my house is a mess my husband remembers my kids teachers names better than I can and I'm pretty sure our poor turtle has missed a few meals because I didn't remind someone to feed it. It is so rewarding to have accomplished so much sometimes and then at the same time I feel like I'm drowning. Well enough of my drowning on a happy note I am bound and determined to go out for fun and cocktails with the girls on Saterday nite and we are going to the Art Institute for a family field trip for my humanities class. Hopefully I will be back soon I am going to try to get on here more often from here on out.