So far so good

So I've started at Subway. I fear I have forgotten more than I thought, however, I am remembering quickly.

What is it about a full moon that makes people act strange? I don't get it. Every month around the full moon, which happens to coinside with my girly time every month, Delyah becomes a giant pain in my butt. Now, I know what your thinking. It's nothing to do with the full moon or Delyah, it's me, right?

NO!!!!!!

At Dell we use to keep calanders to track the full moon so we knew if we needed extra cookies/donuts/coffee for those couple days. People would become complete asses. Worse than usual, anyway!
Anyway
Delyah has been on one lately. Into everything, and trying to mother Aiden to the point of being obnoxious. She really means well, but she's 2. Meaning well and doing well are nowhere near the same thing most of the time!

So we're getting ready to moving in with Andy's parents. Gotta get some debt paid off, get some money saved up. We just can't keep living paycheck to paycheck every month anymore. Those paychecks aren't meeting anymore! It will definately be an adjustment, but we'll all be ok. Hell, when school starts in January I'll never be there anyway! I think it will go well, though. His mom and I get along well, and I love her to death, so we'll be all right. If all else fails I'll stock up on good books and hibernate for the winter. That actually doesn't sound half bad anyway. Hmmm - good books. Suggestions?

My schedule

Come January my schedule will look something like this...
Monday:
9:00 - 9:50 Anthropology 102 with James Woods
10:00 - 10:50 Psychology 101 with Randy Simonson
11:00 - 11:50 English 101 with Shelley McEuen
rest of the day clear for homework and family
Tuesday:
9:30 - 10:50 Math 015 with Thomas Atkin
rest of the day clear for homework and family
Wednesday:
9:00 - 9:50 Anthropology 102 with James Woods
10:00 - 10:50 Psychology 101 with Randy Simonson
11:00 - 11:50 English 101 with Shelley McEuen
7 - 9 Pep Band with Steve Cox
Thursday:
9:30 - 10:50 Math 015 with Thomas Atkin
11:00 - 4:00 homework and family
4:00 - 10:30 work
Friday:
9:00 - 9:50 Anthropology 102 with James Woods
10:00 - 10:50 Psychology 101 with Randy Simonson
11:00 - 11:50 English 101 with Shelley McEuen
12:00 - 4:00 homework and family
4:00 - 10:30 work
Saturday:
10:00 - 11:40 yoga
12:00 - 4:00 homework and family
4:00 - 10:30 work
Sunday:
work
:repeat:

gonna be busy!!! but I'm ok with that :)

Eat Fresh

So I'm back at Subway. It's really hard to be the bottom of the totum pole after being on top. I accepted an Assistant Manager position at the Subway on Blue Lakes. It will work out with school better, too. I'll be able to take classes M-F until noon, study and hang with my kids noon to 5ish, and work 5-10ish. That's a busy busy schedule, BUT, it's for the better good. I should be able to last at that rate for a year or so before I collapse!!! Naw, Andy had a good point in suggesting I take the summer semester off so I don't burn out. I plan on doing just that, so no worries there.

Band is going well. I love it!

I get to register for classes on Monday. I can't freaking wait! I'm going to take Anthropology 102, Math 015 (I suck at Math!!! haha), English 101, Psychology 101, and Yoga on Saturday mornings. And Pep Band, of course. so the way I figured it to be, I have class from 9 - 12:50 Mon/Wed/Fri and 11-12:20 Tus/Thurs. Yoga 10-11:40 on Saturday. That still leaves me tons of time for homework and family and work, right?

I'm so stoked, can ya tell?!?! hahahaha

Happy Halloween all!

Little of this, little of that

Things are still going fairly well. Not making near enough at Arctic Circle to make it worth my while, but every little bit helps.

I am getting all my stuff together to be a full time student starting Spring semester. Classes start January 15th, 2010. It feels nutty to even type 2010. Are we calling it twenty-ten or two-thousand-ten? What about two-oh-one-oh? Meh, whatever.
So school...
I am enrolled in CSI's pep band. That grants me $250 scholarship right there. Heck yes!! It feels great to play with an ensemble again. It's been 7 years since I graduated high school, and I haven't played since. I definitely have some catching up to do, but for the most part it's like riding a bike. For me, anyway.
When I did my FASFA I was told I was eligible for $5,350 in a Pell Grant. I got an e-mail today saying that CSI was done reviewing my financial aid and would discuss my awards as soon as I register for classes. Registration starts November 2nd. I think I will jump on that like flies on shit. I want the best classes and teachers I can get. May as well go in head first and get the best I can for my fresh start!
I really hope this works out ok, though. An old friend of mine said it best - I dive in head first and don't bother to check the depth of the water. Sometimes it's deep enough, sometimes it was only 3 inches deep. OOpS! I have a pretty good feeling that this will all end out for the best for us, though. I mean, how else am I going to get anywhere other than were I am? I mean, I love my family and my life, but I am still naive enough to believe that there is more than living paycheck to paycheck in an apartment that's too small. I still believe that I can be anything I want to be, an astronaut, a doctor, a firefighter, even the President of the United States! OK - so who am I kidding? I'll never be a firefighter, that takes too much stamina, and I don't have ANY intentions of quitting smoking anytime soon, if ever. Hey, ya gotta die somehow, why not die doing something you enjoy? I, for one, enjoy my smokes. Sometimes it's the only periodic 5 minutes throughout my day that I can truely call my own, between work, 2 demanding children, and running a household! Now school! Naw, Andy is great help, he just works so much, and so many night shifts.
Yet another reason to go to school. If I can get a good enough job after I graduate, he can be a stay at home dad, house-husband, and we'll see each other SO MUCH MORE than we do now, and I'll NEVER have to do LAUNDRY AGAIN!!!!!!
*sigh*
I love having 2 sleeping children and a [mostly] clean house!
Good day, my friends :)

Been awhile...

Been awhile since I blogged, thought it was about time for an update.

I'm having mixed feelings about leaving Dell a week earlier than the site closing. Although the severance package would have been nice, at least I have a job and am not fighting 500 other people in town looking for one. Oh well.
Arctic Circle is ok for now. I'm hoping like crazy to get all my ducks in a row and become a full time student this spring semester. No time like the present to go to school and get something of a degree to pay bills with! Never going to amount to more than a too small apartment and living paycheck to paycheck at the rate we're currently going. Can't think of any other debt to take on, either, than student loans, and have it be OK.

Kids are doing great, Delyah astounds me every day with something new she knows. She never stops talking! Aiden is discoverig his voice. He's turned into quite the chunk since his surgery. He's sitting in the 98% for weight and 93% for height. At 4 months he's outgrowing his 6 month clothes. Atta boy!

taking Aiden to the dr

So my mom mentioned a few days ago that Aiden doesn't look very good and that some of the women at her store also agree, that he "looks like he's not thriving". Great choice of words. It got me thinking, though, and he does look a bit thin and gangly. I had been chalking it up to Andy being so slender, but Aiden is just a baby and has no baby fat! So I borrowed my mother in laws letter scale and used a system we'd used about 3 weeks ago to weigh him. He is 8 pounds 9 ounces. He should have gained a pound by now, and he is 1 ounce less than his birthweight. That's troublesome. So I call the hospital and have them page my doctor (whom I had tried to get in touch with at his office that morning). He calls back and after hearing about how skinny he is and not holding anything down, and yes I've tried the formula for fussy babies, and yes I've tryed Soy, he pulls our chart. Says to call first thing in the morning and we WILL get him in. Seemed a bit torked at his secretary, too. I do have to say in her defense, when I called it was to request a note to let me go back to work on Monday, and that I was concerned about my sons weight. At that time I didn't know he was still an ounce short of his birthweight. They are suppose to gain a 1/2 ounce a day, so by 5 weeks he should definately be at least a pound more!

I've been worried sick about the poor little guy, he just lays there with this sad look on his face and I can't fix it! I don't know what's worse, to be him and helpless or to have him look at me with those sad little eyes and not be able to help him! The doctors office should be open in a couple hours though.

Getting use to 2 instead of 1

So while Emily and Charlie were here helping me with Delyah and Aiden we took the kids to Hop 2 It to let them run off some energy. Delyah and Charlie are so cute together, I couldn't resist posing some pictures! All of them are posted on my facebook though.

<--- Delyah and Charlie are trying to figure out how to get on the big slide

Delyah and my foot on said 'big slide' --->

<--- Charlie was making baskets while Delyah chewed on balls.

The Ball pit!!! Both kids went nuts over this place.