There's been so much going on, I've hardly been online at all - for fun anyway.
I'm taking two summer classes. One of them is online, and it's supposed to be a "survey" (overview) course for educational technology. Ha! It's one of the most demanding classes I've ever taken. Give me a midterm/paper/final-type class anytime!
To complicate matters further, it is a five-week class, and I spent the entire first week madly cleaning the house in preparation for the house to be appraised. Jack did all the "man" stuff - fixed a whole in the wall that Michael punched in (anger management anyone?) cleaned the yard up a little and then... came. inside.
I've bitched for years that I can't stand how messy the house is all the time. Everyone but me lives out of laundry baskets instead of putting it away first. The kids - remember the youngest are almost 13 - leave wrappers and food containers - and food! - all around the house. I'm sure if we lived in a geographical area that didn't freeze solid for half the year, we'd have a multitude of unwelcome additions to our family. I like the non-humans in my house to have no fewer nor no more than four legs!
Anyway, Jack finally realized what a wreck this place was when it took him EIGHT hours to sort through, wash, dry and put away the accumulated laundry. Can you say my kids have too many clothes?? The kicker is that they emptied their closets in preparation for moving to their new rooms, and they just chucked everything into the dirty clothes; things that are too small for them, things that were being stored for later because they're too big right now, etc. Oh, it was a joy.
So, four of the five weeks left to do this technology class, and I have the brilliant idea to take another course. It's multicultural children's literature, and it meets two evenings a week. It's a terrific course, but both of these classes should've been taken alone.
Tomorrow I go in to have scar revision surgery on my upper abdominoplasty scar. I don't know why, but I am very anxious about this - more than I've been for any other surgery, including my DS, which ended up taking 13 hours and left me with a three week hospital stay and a six-week stint with a feeding tube.
What I'm afraid of is that my surgeon will find that the adhesions beneath the scar go deeper. There's a gal on the DS board who's had numerous surgeries to remove adhesions, and she is now on a feeding tube for the rest of her life. Granted, I'm not pleased with having lost only 70 pounds, but I really don't want to lose the last 30-40 by not being able to eat.
I know I'm being melodramatic, but hey - it's my blog, right? :-)
Speaking of blogs, one of my favorite bloggers has been AWOL for a month. Ezpy - A Smaller Target - usually updates every other day at the least. Anyone know anything?
Something sad happened this month too. My very favorite blogger, and one of my favorite people, for that matter, Marybeth (attraversiamo.org) ceased writing after more than four years. I know it is ridiculously selfish of me, considering that this is NOT about me, but I feel like I've lost a friend. Hers was the first "voice" I heard when I logged on. She gave and gave of herself, sharing stories both humorous and poignant. She shared herself more than I can imagine any of my RL friends ever doing. If you read this, MB, thanks for everything; for so expertly articulating so many of the things that I feel, and for letting me know you.
I guess that's it for my evening ramblings. Back to the homework. Oh, joy.
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