Oops...

So, as you can see, my last post was on July 13. And before that, well, let’s just say that I haven’t been very good at my whole “one post a week” thing that I said I was going to try to do. I am going to change that to a post whenever I get the chance (or more likely remember) to.

Anywho… I started school on Monday. I’m taking a whopping one class a day (in my defense they’re all 4 credit classes), except for Wednesdays when I have one class in the morning and one in the evening. My schedule is as follows:

        Mon & Wed – 8:30–9:50 – Access (A computer program that I will most likely never  use)
        Tues & Thurs – 11:30–1:20 – Business Law (Ugh. But the teacher seems interesting so it should be ok.)
        Wed – 5:30–7:20 – Managerial Accounting (This is my last accounting class!!! Obviously, I don’t know how this class is since I haven’t been to it yet, but I’ve heard that the teacher is good)

Rachel is in Fossil, Oregon (John Day area) this week for Outdoor School. I don’t really notice that she isn’t here during the day since I had gotten used to that since she started school about a month before I did (haha), but I do notice it a little bit in the evenings, but mainly only because I don’t hear her pounding away at the keyboard while I’m trying to watch TV.

She’s supposed to get back tomorrow around four and has requested that mom make her a “special dinner” when she gets back. What is this “special dinner”? Hamburger casserole AKA funeral casserole. Yeah… not so special, but then again, it is one of her favorite foods.

While she has been gone, I crocheted a sweater for her Webkinz sea otter, Clam. It is quite cute if I do say so myself. I’m planning on making a few more in different colors in the future as long as she likes it.

Well, I am quite hungry right now as I have not yet eaten lunch, so I’m gonna go get some.

Hopefully, I’ll be posting again soon.

Summer?

So... It's cold. It's not supposed to be this cold in the middle of summer. 65 degrees? Come on!!! I know there are usually a few days in July that are kind of rainy and whatnot, but I don't remember them as being this cold. Now, it may just seem a little bit colder to me due to the fact that I have sunburns covering both of my thighs and the increased heat there makes my body think that the rest of it should be warmer. Who knows...

Anywho, no summer job this summer. No one is hiring. (Mom refuses to see this and asks whenever we go somewhere if I applied there yet.) Not that I'm complaining; I enjoy having the summer off. I've been able to.... sleep in, catch up on my reading, do some crafts (I'm taking a break from one right now to write this), and just sit around doing nothing. :) I haven't been able to do that since the summer before 8th grade year (I think, it may have been before that).
I made some really good Rosemary Bread last week that was gone the next day. My rosemary plant is in need of a trim so I need to either make some more stuff with it or go online and see how to dry herbs. I'll probably do another loaf of bread and either rolls or bread sticks. I'm thinking next week may be dedicated to baking/cooking. In addition to making some things that use rosemary, I also want to make a cheesecake that I found a recipe for and then just some other random recipes that I found online. Most of them I found on www.twofatals.com (Two Fat Als not Two Fatals :) ) and www.smittenkitchen.com. Now I have to figure out what I do and do not have ingredient-wise for my baking (I have a feeling that there will be at least one trip to the grocery store). My main problem will be deciding what to make as there are a lot of recipes to sort through. IDEA!!! I might make one bread product a week - that way we don't have multiple loaves of bread waiting to be eaten (not that they'll last all that long if they're good).

GAH!!!!!!!! I just went to publish this (I had typed quite a bit more than this) and there was an error causing me to lose about half of what I had typed. I am now going to attempt to retype what I had before I tried to post.

Anywho, this is a random thought that in no way affects you, but is really bugging me. Every time I drive past Shaw Meat Market and can stop in, they are closed. However, almost every time I drive past and can't stop, they are open. I WANT MY BOLOGNA!!!!! I suppose I could try the stuff in the Safeway deli, but it wouldn't be the same and definitely wouldn't be as good.

I honestly tried to remember everything that I had typed before trying to post last time, but know that I forgot some of it. It doesn't look like I missed much, but about half of the paragraph before the one about the post not posting had been erased and I didn't want to seperate them just to follow my line of thought.

Hopefully it warms up soon so I can go outside in shorts and a t-shirt to read.

Ugh.....

Allergies suck.

The end.

:)

Knock on wood, but I think the weather has decided to stop being bipolar and stay sunny and warm. More later!

I'm still here...

Last post on March 28th? Oops! Yes, I realize that I said I would post something within a week of that last post, but I was busy!

Ok so... When I last posted it was the first day of Spring Term. This term I am taking Technical Writing, Business Math, Financial Accounting, and Personal Effectiveness. I have classes from 9:30 to 2:20 on Mondays, 12:30 to 2:20 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 to 11:20 on Wednesdays, and I don't have any classes on Fridays (yay!).

So far most of them are ok. I really enjoy my Technical Writing teacher; she has a good sense of humor. She told us that her grading was going to be really hard, but so far it's a lot like Schmidd and Chip's grading.

My Business Math is really easy so far as it's basic stuff (to me). The first three chapters were basic math stuff, then fractions, then percentages, and now we're working on discounts. So far I haven't had any problems with MyMathLab and I'm hoping it stays that way (knock on wood). I have the same teacher for it that I had for Accounting last term and I like and can understand the way she teaches.

Financial Accounting is... ugh. It's confusing and I don't really like the way she teaches, but since I have to take the class this term and she's the only teacher for it, I have to stick with her. I'm basically teaching myself, but she does tell us some stuff in class that makes it a little bit easier.

Personal Effectiveness is the first online class that I have taken. The book is beyond boring, but it is a lot less work than my other classes so it isn't too bad and the teacher has the due dates clearly listed (that was one of the things I was worried about when I first signed up for the class).

Now that we're caught up on everything school... Um... Not really much to talk about since that's pretty much all I've been doing.

Oh! Emily and I had a movie night where we watched "scary" movies. First we watched "The Strangers" which I didn't find at all scary, but Emily did and Mom thought was creepy. Then we watched "The Crazies" which was creepy, but not really scary; I liked it a lot more. And lastly, we watched the original "The Shining". It was super boring. I think Emily fell asleep once or twice and I almost did too. It drug out far too long.

I should be going now as I have some work I need to do before going to my class this afternoon. Have a good weekend!

Gahhh!!!

I just realized that my last post was a long time ago. I will post sometime this week. I promise. Just not now.

Shame on me...

I know. I know. I haven't done a post for over a week. I'm sorry.
Today is Singles Awareness Day also known as Valentines Day. Today is the day that Hallmark and all the flower shops love. After all, most of their over $200,000 profit is made today.
I'm going to have to stop at the store and get some of those candy hearts. After all, it isn't Valentines Day without them. If I can't find them (which is highly unlikely) I'll just get the Necco wafers things.
Happy Valentines Day!

Continuation of post from earlier today...

I just tried to upload that video again, but the feature is not working right now. I'll try again every now and then throughout the week, but don't count on it working.

So...

I tried to post a video yesterday as my post, but it didn't work. I will try again when I have time. Hopefully tonight or tomorrow morning.

Hmmm…

I guess in order to stay with my quota of at least one post per week, I should post one today since it's been a week since my last post.
I would just like to comment on how wonderful the weather was yesterday. I was in a t-shirt, capris, and flip-flops! It was such odd weather for January in Oregon. Today, it was back to typical winter weather. The thermometer currently reads 42.8° F.
I have two midterms this week. One in Fundamentals of Public Speaking on Wednesday and the other is a take-home final in Psychology that is due on Thursday. I don't think the Public Speaking one will be too hard as we have covered everything that will be on it pretty extensively.
However, the Psychology one will most likely be difficult as our teacher doesn't really teach. She'll VERY briefly cover the chapter and then group presentations cover other parts of the chapter. There are a few disadvantages to this. One is that you are unable to take notes as the presentations are verbal and often hard to hear due to the noisy fan in the middle of the room that cannot be turned off. Another disadvantage to the group presentations is that some of the groups choose to search the topic on the Internet rather than the book which means we aren't learning what we're going to be tested on. Yet another disadvantage is that for the first few presentations, she didn't assign sections to the groups so there were only 3 or 4 topics discussed by seven groups. The final disadvantage is that we don't cover an entire chapter before moving onto the next one. I think we've only covered the first half of all the chapters that we have gone through.
On another note, I recently discovered that I am able to type my blog posts on Microsoft Word and post them directly to my blog just by clicking a button. You can do this by going to the Office Button, clicking on New and then when the dialogue box comes up, click Blog Post. You can then link your blog to Microsoft Word and publish at the click of a button. Very convenient AND you can spell check your blog which I don't think you can do on blogger.com.
That's all for now.

FOOD!!!

   In the past week, I have accomplished two culinary feats.
   The first was a pumpkin cheesecake. I can't recall where I got the recipe from. It was quite delicious. However, there are a few things that I am going to tweak if I make it again. For one, I will reduce the cream cheese some as the cheesecake was a little bit too moist for my liking. Also, I think I will bake the crust for less time than the recipe says to. I found that after baking it with the filling and the topping (a total of three baking times) it was too hard and proves to be a challenge when getting a piece from the pan.
   While making the pumpkin cheesecake, I discovered a flaw in my spring-form pan. I have found that it is almost impossible to put the pan back together by myself after taking it apart to get a slice out.
   The second feat was waffles. I know, such a simple thing to make. However, I've never actually made them myself. The major accomplishment within making the waffles was the beating of the eggs. I have beaten them before, but this is the first time I have been able to beat them all the way. Normally, I need help as my arms hurt too much for me too finish as it is quite hard to do (I guess Just Dance 2 is paying off).
   We had the waffles with Gene's cased sausage for dinner tonight. They were quite delicious. I had mine with my usual applesauce and cream. Mom had the same and Dad had the stereotypical butter and maple syrup.
   Well, I'm off to eat a piece of my cheesecake. Yum! :)

The weather

I would just like to give my two cents about the weather. It is stupid. It can't decide if it wants to be a warmish cold or a cold cold. Yesterday, it was warmish cold. Today, it is just plain cold. Is it too much to ask for a nice, warmer day? I know this is Oregon and I know it's winter, but come on.
That is all for now. I would just like to point out how well I am doing at keeping up on this blog. Three posts in less than one week? That's good for me.

Is it gonna work?

I just downloaded an app on my iPod that is supposed to let me post on my blog. Let's hope it works.

Here we go...

    So, this is my second attempt at creating a blog. The first one wasn't very successful. (I can't even remember what it was called.) Hopefully this one will be better. My plan is to do at least one post a week, maybe more. This might be hard to do as there are some times in which I don't really have any thing to talk about. Then again, there are other times when all I want to do is talk and it will appear as though I am rambling.
    Sometimes my topics will be totally random with no reasoning as to why I am posting about the topic. Other times, I will be venting. (These posts will be filled with sarcasm.)
    This brings me to a point that I feel I should point out. I am VERY sarcastic. So if I appear to sound rude or you just don't get why I'm saying what I'm saying, it's most likely sarcasm.
    As promised, here is my shout out to Emily. - I MISS YOU!!! COME BACK HOME AND SEE ME!!!
    Well, I guess that's all for now. Here's to a successful blog.