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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

The end of the Insanity at Work...

Which kind of makes it boring, but not really a bad thing.  The two days before Christmas were really crazy, mainly with retail and that kind of thing.  Closed at 4 on Christmas Eve, but still had people trying to come in after.  But they were okay with it I think.
Gah! Passed everything except math again!!! Meaning I've got to try to get into it for next semester on top of the four art classes I've got to take in order to graduate.  Took a while to find one, but here's hoping...
My Christmas involved a late night and rather early morning-2:30a.m. to about 7:30a.m.-so I was very tired for the gift opening.  My sister in law liked the photograph I'd framed of her wedding bouquet, though she's thinking of having my mom calligraphy the date or something on it too.  My second oldest sister really liked the pillow case with pillow I made for her-reason for the late night, had to finish it-but she and her husband are worried about getting it dirty...
I got a bunch of Cross stitch stuff, like a thread holder, a lot of thread-various colors-a cross stitch fabric-not sure how to say that-and a new pattern that looks a lot like one my sister's working on, but not quite the same.
Snowed last night, so I was shoveling this morning until my mom told me to stop and get my brothers out there.  The second youngest went out on his own for about 10 minutes max, then left to go to a bookstore.  The youngest didn't go out until I told him my mom wanted him out there.  At least i got over half of it done...

Friday, December 18, 2015

So Far So Good....

Only one final grade so far, but it's a B+ so I'll take it.  My other english class grade is coming up, so there's hope there.  Math is not online so I'm still stuck waiting for the final grade.  Art so far is an A but that also has to wait for the final to be graded before I know for sure.  I'm really hoping here....
Work was crazy last night, but we had some humorous disasters.  First a coworker was grabbing some pastries from the display fridge and bumped a tray of samples out of it in the process.  Thankfully only a few hit the floor, but it made a bit of a mess.  No real issues in cleaning it up though.  Then I was getting two fruit tarts and two chocolate domes for a drive through customer, had them in the container on the counter while grabbing a box for a slice of cheesecake and had and avalanche of small plates fall over.  They hit the container of treats and knocked them to the floor.  It was closed, so no mess and they were still edible, but they'd kind of mushed together so I had to get new ones for the customer.  Would have really felt bad while telling the manager, but they came out of the walk in fridge after grabbing pastries for the display fridge having somehow dropped a tray of ten fruit tarts while doing so.  The bread makers were rather happy about it.  The manager joked that it was becoming a silent unconscious war on fruit tarts.  And then right before I got off another coworker was grabbing a seeded baguette for the sandwich makers and dropped it behind the panini grill.  We just commented that it was their turn to drop stuff, and the baguette was perfectly fine, just had to retrieve it.
Really cold though, and no more snow.  Was cloudy last night so its a bit warmer today.  Snow kept trying to bury me while falling off the trees as I walked the dogs this morning. Figures...

Thursday, December 17, 2015

It's Over!!!

Got the last of my finals in yesterday, now I get to wait to see how well I did.  Math and the one english class are still on my mind, as I don't know if I'll make it.  Art had a question I couldn't answer, but I did the best I could anyway.  Did my best at my math final, so here's hoping.
Snowed all day monday and into tuesday morning, cleared up for most of tuesday, then came down again yesterday.  We've got well over a foot of nice soft powder, which means its cold.  Lost a few more branches too.  And the smaller dogs are stuck with the trail we made so they can be walked without getting coated.
Now I'm just waiting for next semester and hoping all went well with this one.  If it did I'm only one away from being done!

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Buried Alive!!!!

At least I think that's how the smaller dogs must feel with the snow.  My mom's dog was barely able to get through the shallower areas thanks to the amount we got yesterday and last night.  We lost a number of tree branches too.  Made my work rather slow as no one wanted to travel.  One road nearby was very slow going and no one would allow people in just because they didn't dare stop for fear of getting stuck.
I probably would have if I'd taken my truck, but I couldn't get it out of the driveway-snowplows have created a nice layer of snow, ice, and water right in front of it-so my sister lent me her car with much better tires.  Still had a bit of trouble getting it out of the driveway anyway.
Now working on math studying, which meant digging out all three exams-not that they were buried, just making sure I still had them really-and the practice ones, and the answer sheets we'd gotten for them.  Which is a lot to cover, but it just a review really, so it shouldn't be too bad(here's hoping anyway).
I am so sore from shoveling snow!!!

Monday, December 14, 2015

Nightmares

about finals are totally not cool.  Spent much of last week with them-wither dreaming of losing my final project for photography, getting told off by my english professors(not sure how I can remember that when I don't remember the dream) or waking up fearing I'd slept through my final for math somehow.  Would really hope not for the second to last semester of my college classes.
Got my last english final in saturday, meaning if all goes well that's it for my major so next semester will all be my minor classes.  Tried to study for my photography final test, but its just reviewing the stuff we read during the semester so I just skimmed it.
Snowed all last night and all day today so far, meaning my mom's dog was in danger of disappearing if they fell while I walked them this morning.  Tried to stomp out a path for the little guy, but they still had issues.  Whereas the oldest dog nearly landed me in the snow because they love it.  Crazy dog...
So down to math final and photography final on wednesday.  Which means I have two more days of rather white stress until I'm done for the semester and I can pray I pass everything...

Friday, December 11, 2015

I. Hate. Finals. Week.

This semester has been rough.  This whole week has been really hard-I think all the lack of sleep was catching up to me-so I haven't been writing much here.  Nearly over, but I still have stuff to do. Sigh...
Had my one english final stuff yesterday, including a nice grade on my project but no final grade yet.  Looks like I may pass that one.  The other english final started today, and I have until thursday to finish it up.  Doubt I'll wait that long.  Thinking I 'll get it done tomorrow.  They had it in two parts so the first was an in class thing and the second is online.  Another essay....
Photography is pretty much done, just the test next wednesday on Photoshop-I think, I wasn't there due to a work conflict when the teacher may have told us after we finished presenting our final projects-so that shouldn't be too hard.  They liked my photo's, so that's a good sign.
And lastly math, final is also wednesday, but the teacher plans to review for about two hours before they'll open up the test for us to take.  Really hope to do well, so tired of math and all this deep thinking.  After that I get three weeks to breathe, then it's all photography until April and I should be done! Yay! Would that be considered the homeward stretch?

Monday, December 7, 2015

Grumble....

Sigh, friday worked out well, saturday did not.  Got the three good photos scanned into the computer after I took my quiz-not too bad, though I was a bit confused-and still caught my usual bus home so I could work on my paper.  That pretty much took all weekend and I'm still not done, plus I have a final project due tomorrow that I still need to get together. Sigh...
Did not get any of my photo's done saturday due to issues-lets say a very nasty basement took longer to clean than expected and I lost track of time doing it-but nearly finished my ten page paper so that should be done in time.  Currently printing my photos, which I'm up to 4 for the final.
Went to see the lights yesterday with my siblings and parents-older married sister didn't come, but my oldest brother made it with his wife-which was cool, though we forgot about the devotional happening so we hit traffic trying to park.  Most of us missed it coming home, but my parents and brother couldn't get to their car so they may have got stuck in it on the way back.
My second youngest brother talked us into playing dreydel, and then he nearly lost anyway.  We had to quit as it was getting late.  Bt it was fun playing with two different types of pretzels.  Lit the manora too.
Finals week........

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Grumble, So Want it to be Over....

One week left before finals, and my photography final is due next week.  A poor classmate is having issues with the brand new camera the school loaned to them for the class, so their project is way behind and it's not for lack of effort.  Feel so bad for them...at least I've got usable photos...had to stay up late monday and last night to get the last ones done so they could be developed by friday....
Ankle is still bugging me and my dad had to help me with the ankle brace, as for some reason I could't get it on right. Figures.  Wore a knee brace until then as it helped a little while I was at work.  Sleeping with a brace on is still something I'm not sure of as a good idea, but I didn't want to try and get it off while I was that tired.
Fighting the printer right now to get the last two for the prelim crib today, which I was trying to get done before now and the stupid printer wasn't cooperating...
Oh well, On to the week before Finals week!