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Week 2 of school has come and gone and things are going pretty well.  I actually almost had to miss my Intro to Computers class yesterday because on Wednesday I pulled a muscle in my back and yesterday it was pretty bad.  I took some Aleve and made it through the class but boy was it tough.

I have also overcome my anxiety with my English class.  No disrespect to anyone in class but I am certainly not the worse one in the class.  WOW!  I mean I have a ways to go to understand but still.  SHEESH.  I am a little nervous about the essays we have to write over this semester.

YAY for Labor Day on Monday, that means no classes and Tony doesn’t have to work so we might be able to actually enjoy the day together.

Let’s see what else, oh I have also been trying to get some projects in order so I can keep my blog and store running like a well oiled machine.  I have a DT call for a design team.  This way I won’t have to craft as much since school takes up so much of my time.  I also have a few stamp sets in the works, yippee Artfuldelight.com stamps.  That is so totally exciting.

Other than that I am just focusing on school and hoping to make it through my first semester without failing.  LOL!

We don’t have much furniture in the house since we have a bunch of lil ones running around so we had to take out review to the truck.  It needed a bit of cleaning on the dashboard so it was a win-win situation.  LOL!

I didn’t actually cut the towel but as I mentioned it is a rather large towel, I would assume if you were using it for your home where you may not do a lot of dusting, you could cut the towel in half or something.  Overall I was very pleased with these dusters.

I recruited Tony to star in the video and to demonstrate how the wiping cloths worked.  We used the towels on our tile kitchen table as well as some glass windows on my daughters french doors leading to her bedroom.  (mt dog Abby makes an appearance in the video, LOL!).  Our tile table is a bit tough to clean, as you will see in the video it has some rough edges along the edge of the table.  Most of our soft household paper towels just rip right through it an leave paper towel chunks in between the cracks.  As Tony states in the video he used a bit of manly force to see how well the cloths would do on the rough edges.  The purpose of that was to explain how well the paper towels would hold up, how durable they are.  He used 2 towels and the bottom one was a little ragged but it certainly didn’t rip to shreds like some paper towels we have used.  They did a really good job cleaning our table, soaking up not only the cleaning spray we used but all the food residue from our dinner.  We use a variety of household paper towels and even some of the better brands just push the food and liquid around instead of absorbing it.

We then moved to the glass windows.  Tony did a fabulous job removing the itty bitty finger prints all over the windows.  I should say, the wiping cloths did a fabulous job removing the finger prints without leaving any streaks.

Overall I think these are good quality cleaning products.

*I must say, didn’t Tony look handsome in that shirt!*

What I would LOVE would be a vacation together.  The last time Tony and I took a vacation was prior to the 3 lil ones.  The one and only time we have been out together since the kids was a couple weeks ago we were able to go to the movies.  It was nice but I need something more.  Something like a beautiful vacation spot.  Maybe somewhere like this….
Ah, how beautiful! It is only 635 yards from beach access. We would have that ginormous house all to ourselves for one week.  Carolina Designs has the perfect summer retreat for my family and I to go.  We could spend some quality family time at the beach or the pool….
My son has been begging to go to the pool and I feel so bad that we just don’t have the time to get away right now. With both Tony and I in school full time, Tony working full time and just the normal everyday life getting in the way we just can’t seem to take that time to go to the pool.
If we were to get a fabulous Seahawk rental for a week I would be in paradise. My kids keep me busy and allow little to no relaxation time. I can only hope that one day we will be able to take a beautiful vacation and getaway to North Carolina’s Outer Banks beach rentals.

I leave you with this……and all I can say is WOW!!!

I received a call from the speech therapist today for Lil Tony.  He will be starting on Thursday.  Thankfully the therapist is only available on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  I am not sure I could add anymore chaos to my school days.  This just means I will be super busy Monday-Friday.

Tomorrow, more school for me.  I don’t feel I will be as stressed because I already know what to expect.  I will say though I am super nervous about English.  I HATE writing, I HATE that people will be reading my Essays.  Really I feel very stressed.  The closer it gets to those assignments being due, the faster my heart races.  Maybe after I write the first one it will all get better.   One can only hope!

I had Algebra and Accounting yesterday and my brain hurt by the end of the second class.  For Accounting it seems like a lot of new vocabulary.  The Professor made it seem like that will be the hardest part.  For Algebra, a lot of it came back to me but some of it I seemed a bit confused.  Fractions are not my forte.

I also worked on some English homework.  My English class is a web course.  Back in the day, 15 yrs ago, I took a telecourse class which was presented through videos.  I have never taken a web course.  I found out yesterday that our Essays will be posted on a group discussion board for everyone to see and critique.  I don’t take criticism very well, LOL!  Well I think the worst part about the class is Tony and I are taking the same one, same teacher.  It would be one thing to post to complete strangers who will probably never meet me.  I could care less what they thought of me. But to have Tony read my Essays and such, I feel intimidated.  He is far too smart and I feel like an idiot.

Oh well, it has to be done.  So, no class today but I have a bunch of stuff due tomorrow so I will be doing homework today.

Tomorrow Nicki starts school.  I am happy she is going back, she needs to get out of the house.  Since she came home from visiting family she has been watching shows on Netflix ALL DAY!  I mean I understand it is hot outside or rainy but she has not been reading either or spending time with the family.

Off to do homework!

I want to be able to have fun doing it but also be able to bring some money in.  I just don’t know how to fix it.  I find great enjoyment in the people I meet online.  I love the idea of owning my own “business”.  I know I am going to school to be an accountant but my ultimate dream would be to own a craft store.  Craft supply store, maybe sell my cards and creations.

I know owning a business takes money and that is something we don’t have any extra of on a monthly basis, which is why I am bummed!!!

Shopping online for shoes is pretty tough but I did see a bunch of pairs of ugg boots I might be interested in.  I am not sure if I want to buy shoes online though.  Since I am not a huge fan of close toed shoes, I would hate to buy them and think they are uber uncomfortable.  So we will see.

I did find a bunch of clothes I would LOVE to buy.  Maybe I will just get a couple shirts and some pants.  I am going to start wearing more black.

Hopefully I will be able to place an order in the next day or so.  :-)

Back in January when Nicki got my dad’s old computer we ended up just leaving the other one in Lil Tony’s room.  For a while he had to watch a movie to go to bed.  Then a couple weeks ago we realized that was what was keeping him up until midnight or later.  With the start of school and such in the next week we decided we have to get him on a better schedule.  So he is in bed watching a movie by 9pm (we have to try real hard to get this done) and he can watch a movie until about 9:45 and then the movie/computer goes off.  With this change he is asleep by 10pm which is awesome.

The problem we seem to run in to sometimes with the computer is he thinks he knows how to work it and if it freezes or something he just starts unplugging things.  Last night for example.  I couldn’t get any sound, he had no internet connection and the keyboard wouldn’t work.  It took me a good amount of time to figure out what he unplugged and where to plug it in.  Then I had to reboot the computer because I still couldn’t get the keyboard to work.  I really worry with him pulling all the plugs out that he will break something.  We have already had to replace the vga cable once.  I would prefer not to have to spend more money on stuff like that.

We have talked about taking the computer out of his room, I just hate to do this because there have been plenty of times that he just hangs out in his room playing games and watching movies and it gives me a bit of a break.

I think we will just have to figure out how to “hide” or put up all the things he shouldn’t be playing with.  :-)