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So I may be a little more sporadic than normal with updating my blog as the semester starts winding down.  I've got several papers due in the coming weeks for both English and my diversity classes and math is, of course, still kickin' my butt.  So if you don't hear from me much it's because I'm either writing or studying or passed out from education overload!

God I love school!

You can watch a Live owl in her nest with her babies.  I've been watching her off and on all morning.  She's got all of her little ones snuggled in beneath her.  Here's a screen shot of Molly.

http://www.sportsmansparadiseonline.com/Live_Owl_Nest_Box_Cam.html

So I'm curious....what do you feel is the best small to medium companion size dog?

You know we have Peaches...who is considered toy size because she is under 10 lbs.  We don't plan to adopt another animal anytime soon but I'm curious to know what you prefer when it comes to small dogs.

Do share your thoughts!

Burying my nose in the back of my Quaker's neck and smelling his wonderful Quaker-y smell.

Yesterday was my birthday.  The years are passing entirely too quickly these days.  I swear I was JUST 10 years old and entering the fifth grade!  What happened?!  Surprisingly I wasn't sad or depressed.  It was just a day.  Kurt let me sleep in as long as I wanted (I think I got up around 11:30) and he came home early from work with a gorgeous flower arrangement!  That he actually went and bought!  From a FLORIST!  I was shocked!  And I felt supremely special.  If you know Kurt that's a difficult thing for him to do...step outside his comfort zone and drive around (he forgot to check google for where a nearby florist was!) until he found an actual florist (not the grocery store), go inside and specify what he wanted.  And the man, my sweet, sweet man, remembered my two favorite flowers!  Roses and daisies!  How cool is that???  I was teary when I found all of this out.  I love the man, I really do.

I received in this past week birthday cards from my mom and Randy and from my greatest in-laws ever, Norma and Rick, who were so kind as to send me a check for $30!  I know things are tight with them so this was a totally unexpected and wonderful surprise.  I strive to be more like Norma every day.  I think she's the most sweet, kind, caring and thoughtful person that I know.  I've been so blessed with in-laws like them.  They're awesome in every sense of the word!  I only wish they still lived here in Reno because we miss them so very much.

We chilled at home for an hour or so then headed out for dinner at Jazz.  It's a Cajun restaurant with great food, great live jazz music, and great service.  I ordered the stir-fry (my fave) with beef, chicken and shrimp and Kurt had one of their creole dishes.  I can't remember which one.  I also ordered a side of cheesy grits cuz they sounded kinda fun and I'd never had them before!  The food was deelish!  I love Cajun spices and love the great food.  We started out with popcorn shrimp and our usual fried pickles.  Can you say YUM?!  Our food came and we ate half and saved room for dessert.  Kurt doesn't care much for sweets so this was just for me...but I ordered their stuffed beignets with strawberries and chocolate and a slice of chocolate cake.  I wanted to have cake on my birthday!  We both shared them and it was yummy, of course.  They also brought out an order or normal beignets that are a gift for your birthday so we ended up taking those home along with our leftovers.

Afterward we headed over to Fashion Bug (I saw some flip flops in an email they sent me that I wanted).  So we got there and dashed inside through the rain.  I know that Fashion Bug is owned by the same people who own Lane Bryant but I must say that other than their $9.99 t-shirts I was unimpressed.  I'd rather go to LB and get what I want there.  So, this evening after Kurt goes to gaming, instead of doing my homework like I SHOULD, I'll be going to Lane Bryant to buy me some $9.99 tees with my birthday money and the coupon that my mom sent to me!  Yay!  I love shopping for clothes.  We have nowhere to put them...literally.  We have piles of clothes on the floor in our bedroom...but by golly I do love shopping!

It was a good day.  It was a happy day.  I got in my workout, drank 3 liters of water, received a gorgeous flower arrangement from the greatest man in the entire world, and had a great dinner.  And I'm one year older.

Woke up at noon due to being up pretty late last nite.  Not really hungry so right now at almost 2pm I've still yet to make my first shake for the day.  Nor start drinking my water.  Will update more later.

3pm - Shake and accelerator

6pm - 3 slices of pizza

7-9pm - 2 drinks at the bar

What is the point of dieting when I'm denying myself what I want to eat and not losing a single pound because of it?

Depressing.

OK so this past week I received good news and bad news.  The good news was that I received an A on my mid-term English paper.  Woohoo!  The BAD news was that I got just above a C on my math test.  NOT good.  I was so depressed that I almost binged!  God knows I wanted to!  Probably what saved me was that I was cleansing that day so after I told Kurt that I wanted to eat something I picked up my water bottle and chugged down a whole bunch.

After having a pretty down night and day after the math results came in I've began taking steps to ensure that that sort of thing doesn't happen again.  I've made appointments with math tutors twice a week for an hour each time to go over math and to review what I didn't have down before.  My math teacher will be giving the test again because apparently most of the class did pretty shitty.  So I'm going to be reviewing like mad!

I'm doing pretty good in my Diversity class.  A's on the quizzes and first paper.  Should know how I do on Tuesday with my second paper that I turned in.  I also turned in an extra credit paper.  I haphazardly put that one together so I don't know if I'll have gotten all of the points for it or not.  It's definitely my favorite class, though.  Christopher is an excellent teacher and really gets the class involved.  There are some touchy subjects sometimes but it's fun to hear other people's opinions.

We're past mid-term and on the downward side of the semester.  I'm looking forward to the end.  Haha.