Dream Silently

Worries 1 through 3 were unwarranted. It turns out that loading students into the online classes was slow this semester. As a matter of fact, my coordinator was getting ready to e-mail out our reading assignments in case we wanted to get a head start.

Which was very nice… until I saw how much I have to read.

Number 4 is just a facing reality situation. I decided that since its friday, I just won’t care until monday comes around again. Number 5 is a matter of getting called back. Since I’m in class, I’m not going to worry about that either.

So, now I’m getting ready to go out… or going to finish and then run a few errands and then had over to my friend’s early to give her a hand with things and chat.

:) I like it when life feels good.

I keep telling myself I shouldn’t be, but then I start thinking about everything that needs to be done and everything that is going to be coming up in the future.

1. For some odd reason, I haven’t been able to access my courses online. I was told to complete the student orientation and that a week before classes started, I’d have access to the blackboard. But there’s nothing. Absolutely nothing.

2. I haven’t received a phone call from my professor. Again, I’m suppose to get one a week before the class starts. (Classes start on this upcoming monday.)

3. I’m beginning to wonder if I never got enrolled into classes, however my books are sitting right to my left, the picture of a major dam for a book called Hydraulics staring at me like its trying to petrify me. I laughed when I saw that one of the books was an updated addition for the Fluid Mechanics book I actually still have from undergrad school.

4. My supervisor decided to change things on me and now my quantities are out of whack and we’re behind on testing, which I absolutely despise. So I’ve been working from about 6 in the morning until nearly 5 the last couple of days and I don’t feel I’ve made a big enough dent with school starting on monday.

5. Financial aid is taking forever, or took me forever to find a gazillion documents that I don’t feel they need, and I’m not sure if my bills for grad school will be on time.

On the plus side, my craft room is coming along nicely. I painted more shelving last night and have been reorienting things. Next comes cleaning the carpets and installing the overhead light. However, tonight I’m going out, so… that may be a bit… like this weekend.

I’ve decided that Elko needs a craft store. The section at walmart isn’t cutting it anymore. I went all over town to every possible store I could think of looking for butterfly stencils. No luck. So I’m thinking of making a trip to Salt Lake this weekend.

Things have been okay, especially if I remind myself not to stress. I’ve just been preoccupied with life and my thoughts.

Reaper decided he was going to get into the green houses I set up over the weekend. While popping the lid back out on one to the correct position, I noticed I had seedlings growing already! *jumps for joy*

Being tired is probably not a surprise. I feel like I’m having a “case of the mondays”. I don’t really want to work today, I want to be lazy.

Things progress. I finished painting that room I started at thanksgiving. I broke down and bought one of those sprayer things. I will never be able to paint without one ever again. What has taken me forever to finish, took about an hour to complete. Granted, I still need to go back in and do touch up, but that won’t take any time at all.

The one thing I did find out this weekend was that the closet was not built square. There’s now a hole on the left edge that digs into the rocksheet from shoving the shelf/desk inside.

Oops. That’s why patching is great, right?

Work goes well, except I’m back out at my last project. Not too enthused about that, but then I’m not surprised either. The contractor is suppose to finish this week and then all I have to handle is the mine placed fill, which doesn’t take a whole 10 hours a day to do. And I might be headed to Denver at the beginning of March for AutoCAD training, finally.

Other than that… I wait impatiently for my books to come.

So, I got back last week, obviously and haven’t done much since getting home. My sleep schedule is finally fixed I think too. Though, friday night I went out with friends, didn’t get much sleep after I got home and was up early in the morning. I meant to lay down and take just a short nap. Yeah, I woke up at 6 the next morning. I think my brain was trying to tell me something.

I’ve continued putting things together in the room. Slowly. I had to buy a new drill though because I somehow broke my other one. I’m still trying to figure that one out. I mean, how does one possibly break a drill?

I started finishing getting things set up for school. I’m suppose to get a phone call that’ll get the rest of my books ordered and everything. Hopefully, my financial aid will be finished quick. I guess I’m getting a little apprehensive and anxious. One of the first things I did when I got back was talk to KL. He seems to be extremely flexible (which is not a surprise). I mostly have to keep him posted and if I feel like I’m getting stressed, I need to let him know. He’s also promised to limit my site time, which probably means no major projects to manage.

*sighs with relief*

I guess we’ll see if that actually happens.

There was this other thing going on with our company that I haven’t taken the time to talk about.

We may be merging.

It was announced back in November, right before we went into due diligence. At the time, I was actually torn up about it. Now, I’m am not so much upset as I am impatient; wishing that they would tell us what was going on. The three months for sniffing each other out is at an end and there hasn’t been a word if anything was accepted. The only thing that I know is that our P keeps sending the contract back for revisions.

There’s a lot more to this of coarse, but at another time. Maybe after we find out.

With your doubts, it’s all the same
Now you see how it feels to say,
“I fell off my name.”