Jacquelyn's Space

I worked all night; it was a good night and I was ahead of schedule. That was nice — no stress and proud of a job well done. Have I written about how much I love the people I work with?

I have been up all morning though…I need sleep — tired and have to work again tonight.  I can’t settle down enough to sleep. Like a stubborn kid I want to stay up past my bedtime. I think I am too excited about the Bridge Walk coming up and then there is school. Super excited about that. I signed up for classes – I am taking 2  (7 credits – 8 is considered full-time) and I have my books already. I only had to spend about $40 — well I need one more book but it isn’t that much. I can’t wait to start school yet I could really uses a month to myself to do some reading. I think that is what’s got me going — thinking about all the research and reading I want to do and making plans for the future. For future scholarship and how my English (composition and rhetoric) studies is going to fit into my goal of becoming a counselor and professor. Gah! I am probably just thinking too far ahead, I need to concentrate on the now. I am getting myself all worked up with plans and ideas and then I will be too wore out to act on them.

Sometimes I drive myself crazy…

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Funny Facebook exchange between me and a friend who is also attending grad school at UM-Flint:

Friend:

Me: 

I thought you did…is this really Nancy? LOL (I thought is might have been one of her kids messing with her FB)

Friend:

If I could somehow fart out brilliance, grad school would really be a breeze! (Ha…ha..ha…)

Me:

LMAO 😉

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Love it!

In a couple of days I will be on vacation. This summer has been so jacked up I haven’t really been able to take a vacation before now — doing too much for everyone else. I went up north once for a week-end. Big Deal! I need at least a week up north and would love to take 2. Not likely to happen for me any time soon. But I have this one week I asked for off. My husband and I (and possibly stepson) are going up north to the Upper Peninsula and to the Straits of Mackinac to do the Mackinac Bridge Walk on Labor Day. I wish I could spend the whole week up there but my husband can’t really take the time off work right now. Grrr. Why have the gods conspired against me?

I suppose I need the time to clean and organize my house and get ready for school. Fun…not. I am planning a few trips for September and the fall, lets hope they work out. I also want to go on another cruise and I am seriously contemplating booking one for winter…I’ll have to see if my husband and I can pull it off. We really need to get away.

Oh well, at least I have the Bridge Walk to look forward to.

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Supposedly we have a wedding in Florida to go to in October — I am not too fond of Florida and I am not looking forward to it…it is just going to get in the way of my plans! Grrr. It would probably be smart to book a cruise for that time since we will already be down by all the major cruise ports but I don’t want to take time away from school.

I might just chuck all these plans and stay closer to home this year — save my money for the next year. It would certainly be easier but not quite as fun or adventurous.

I have started a new blog. It is all about writing and my exploration of writing. I have wanted to do this for a long time but I procrastinated. I figure now is the best time to get it started because I am embarking on my graduate career and I am going to need the support…a blog specific to what I am studying. It helps me immensely to blog about school. Plus I have bought a ton of books on writing and need to put them (and the money I spent) to good use, a place to record my thoughts on them so I learn and remember.

I have created all kinds of wonderful categories for my new blog, now I just have to get to writing some posts.

http://austenwoolfplathinspireme.wordpress.com/

I am happy to report that I am not having a bad week — things seem to coming together for me and I even got to spend some much needed quality time with my husband, he hee.

The beginning of the week sucked: my stepson’s new used truck he bought broke down, I had trouble fitting in stuff I needed to do because of work and I was sharing my vehicle, and I also was worried about getting stuff all set up for school so close to the start of the semester. Needless to say I was not a happy camper…

Now I am feeling better…much relieved. Oh my stepson’s truck is still broke down, which really sucks because I was hoping it would last him at least 6 weeks (well 5 weeks now) until he went into the Navy, but we have plans A, B, and C in place to get that problem taken care of. And though I am upset for my stepson, I have even found a lesson in all this crap. I wish he would have listened to me and my Dad and been patient — I told him to wait to buy, he could use my car, etc. and my Dad told him to offer to buy his old car from his mom and step-dad and at least look around at other used vehicles (not being sold by a dealer). My stepson was in an all-fired hurry to get a vehicle so now he has to learn a lesson the hard way…act in haste, repent at leisure. I think this whole episode is about learning patience and controlling impulsiveness. I just hope he sees and gets the lesson.

My work week was pretty good. I hate my job but I love the people I work with…we have had some great conversations over the past couple of weeks. We have talked politics, about sex and sexual orientation, gender and race issues, economic and social issues, and on the lighter side, about movies and comic books. A co-worker who made a few mistakes in his youth even shared his prison experiences, which were very interesting. I love talking to people about their experiences, good and bad!  This week was a breeze to get through despite not being able to get enough sleep because of my stepson’s issues.

I got all my school stuff squared away and now I can really get excited about being a grad student at UM-Flint — I am truly happy. I got the financial end of it taken care of  with an email and a phone call, signed up for classes (there were still some open!), and talked with my adviser. One class I am burning to take, Collaborative Writing (it is all about tutoring and working in the Writing Center), I had to jump through a few hoops to sign up for, like provide a writing sample and get a nomination from a professor but thankfully I got it all taken care of. I even got most of my books for the new semester — only need about 3 and it looks like it will be under $100. Yay! I only need to take 2 0r 3 classes a semester so I think I am only going to take 2 classes this first semester. Grad classes are in the evening so I will be able to keep my work schedule (I have been working overnights and prefer working that shift — more autonomy) and look for a better job, perhaps a full-time day job. All I need is a clean house and a vacation and I am all set to start the new semester 🙂

I have always believed that to be true.

There is an old saying, “Success is the best revenge.” Don’t waste your time planning and plotting against someone — do some planning and plotting to make yourself a success and leave revenge to the gods, karma, and small minds. 🙂

I posted the above on as my Facebook status to hopefully make my stepson think about a few things. Seems people like it — someone I didn’t even know (a friend of a friend I think) shared it on their Facebook wall!

I also posted this on my wall today:

LOL, love that. Describes so many situations lately. I told my stepson about the meme and he was like, ‘Post it to my wall’ … and I was like ‘Yeah, right. Then people will think I am directing it at you.’ but I posted it on his wall any way. Hopefully his friends won’t think I am being mean to him. Don’t want that reputation of being an evil stepmom, ha…though I do like to play around with that.