Cars/Holidays

I guess its time for a new update. Last week we had a lot of snow here in Greeley. Every school in the area was closed Thursday, EXCEPT UNC! Whoever makes the decisions to close the school must be part eskimo or something! At EAC in Arizona they'd close the school down if it started snowing, even if the snow melted! I go to work at 7 in the morning and head strait for class afterwards, and I didn't get the email from my teacher saying my math class was cancelled. I had my wonderful husband drop me off as close to my class, but found out it was cancelled. He was on his way back to pick me up and the car died in the middle of the UNC parking lot, on a hill might I add. I walked to where he was, cause he was somewhat close. He was in the middle of the lane where you go to park, so he let it rolled down hill and parked it sort of out of the way. Luckily the institute is close, so I stayed with the car and Nick got the Institute Director to give him a ride to get some gas. I had a small gas container in my trunk from the previous out-of-gas situation. He came back filled it up with the small amount of gas he got and it wouldn't start! So we got a jump, and headed strait for the gas station. My mom really amazes me sometimes with her knowing when we're in trouble and had gave us some money so we could fill up our car. Once we filled up our car it wouldn't start again so a nice lady next to us gave us another jump. Nick drove the car around for a while and it has been fine ever since. The other car issue we have is that his car is broken, for some reason. He says its the alternator. A month or so ago he was going to a concert and it wouldn't start, it was dead, he got a jump and it went a little less than a mile and died again. After the concert I drove him to his car and jumped it, let it run for a really long time. It went less than a mile again and died. Does anyone know what this is? He just bought a new battery a few months ago when he was having problems with it. Before his battery cables clamps were really corroded so he replaced the clamps and the battery and it was fine until it died all of a sudden. Its been sort of hard just having one car. I've had to walk home a bunch of times, and Nick has to run from one end of campus to the other to get to class on time. I guess its more inconvenient than anything. We've been managing so far, but its getting cold, and will soon snow a lot more than it did and will stay cold, and I definitely don't want to be walking home when I still have a cough. That's another thing my bad coughing has gone away but I still have a cough, and occasionally coughing fit every now and then. How long does it take for pneumonia, or the gunk in your lungs to go away?
I'm excited for next semester. Right now my schedule is so crazy I don't know what I was thinking. But next semester I've decided to have all my classes in the morning and work afterwards. This means no more driving back and forth and less stress! So far Nick and I are planning to stay here for the holidays. For thanksgiving a friend of ours mentioned a "Friendsgiving", at her house, so I might not have to cook a turkey and Nick really really wants sweet potato casserole from the Honey Baked Ham store. For Christmas, who knows?? We'll definitely be here in Colorado, but we're crossing our fingers that Nick can get the 4th and 5th of December off for my brother Jorden's wedding. YAY! I'm very excited about that, I kinda worried that he would stay a bachelor forever hehe. But i'm so excited and I'm planning on going no matter what, even if it means leaving Nick behind. :(
Nick has trumpet fest coming up this week. I'm excited for him. There will be a concert with some really awesome professional trumpet players on Friday night, then Saturday he will play. Nick is also the assistant ward choir director and is excited that he may/most likely will be conducting on Sunday. School is good, and almost over!! yay! I'm so excited for the holidays! We are hoping to buy a real tree and everything. My first holidays with just me and my hubby.

Married college life/being sick

So it seems that the whole world has decided to get sick, including me. But I didn't just go for the normal cold or even swine flu(thankfully). I chose to get pneumonia..well my body decided to get it. I've had a cough for about 3 weeks, deep in my chest, phlegm everywhere(yuck). I had scheduled a doctors appointment about a week before i got the bad cough and by the point I really needed to go to the doctor I had a doctors appointment thankfully. I probably should have gone sooner but going to the Urgent Care when you have crappy insurance and no money is not something I do unless I'm seriously dieing. The doctor could hear me wheezing from the waiting chair and already diagnosed me with bronchitis. But she decided to listen to me breathe and I guess heard something that made her decide to give me a lung x-ray. After the x-ray she said there was an abnormality in my lungs. I asked her what that means. She said well normally on a x-ray your bones are white and your lungs are black...well their was a fuzzy spot on my right lung near my heart and she said anything fuzzy is worth checking out. She is going to have the radiologist check it out and if he thinks its anything to worry about they'll call me back in for another x-ray. But she said i had pneumonia and prescribed me some strong antibiotics. Which comes to the other exciting part of life....the part where you pay all the money you have in the bank to pay for the prescriptions that will help you from dieing. Don't you love the government and how the medications people need to survive on are so expensive that it's like their saying well we'll jack up the prices so people will go more into debt? Doesn't make any sense to me. She also said I shouldn't go back to work...because obviously I could get people sick. But when I call into work their not too concerned about me infecting all the little kids, their more concerned about having people work. I'm pretty sure i'm the reason everyone at work is sick so now it's my fault and they need me to come in, infect more people, just so their not out of staff.? That doesn't make any sense to me either. But no one at work care about how I'm feeling. The way they say it...we're just so desperate we have no choice but to make the sick girl with pneumonia come in. And lets add on top of everything school work! I had to start and finish a 3 page paper(not too bad) and do all my online work..which for my online class is a lot of work. I did not go to math because I think I've already got enough people, i shouldn't add my math class to the list. But i do have a wonderful husband who cares so much about me and does so much for me. He makes life worth while, and makes being sick not so awful.

Other and more exciting news. We're going to Arizona again! Seems like we've been doing that a lot lately, but this time for a more amazing and wonderful reason. My niece is being sealed and blessed on the 17th. I'm so happy that Nick and I will get to be there for it. Yay for eternal families!

We also got to see Amber and Jr on Saturday. It was fun even though I was trying to cough up my lung...thank goodness for cough drops. We got to eat yummy turkey legs(though not as big as the renaissance festivals). And we went down the Alpine slide, which is in Denver on a mountainside. I was scarred at first mostly cause I didn't want to fall off and fall down the mountain, but I realized it wasn't that bad and even If I did fall I wouldn't have fallen cause it's not that steep. I also would go faster if I had another chance. Its fun seeing family, I'm excited for Amber and Jr. I've always said Amber would be the best mommy ever! Even since we were little she was the one that would always run to the babies and ask to hold them.

Well thats the update for now. If anything really exciting happens I will hopefully post it.

p.s. i forgot to mention that our microwave has died so we will be out of a microwave for a while.

Our date/exciting adventure

So since Nick didn't work Friday night and I didn't have class he decided we should go on a date. We've been talking about how we should go on dates more often but we really haven't since we've been married (almost 6 months now). We kind of forgot about it because we were watching a show on Hulu. We decided that we would do it the next day, Saturday. So we woke up late and Nick made me waffles, and then we left for our date. I like being surprised I guess so I didn't ask Nick where we were going and I told him not to tell me. I had noooo clue where we were going. I remember people talking about the Poudre River but I had never been there and neither had Nick. So I guessed it by the time we got to the parking area cause I saw signs for the Poudre River Trail. So we took a walk and saw these beautiful trees and the river. There were also lots of bicycles which I didn't like that much. When your walking along the trail there's a yellow line. Your suppose to walk on the right side, and when a bicyclist comes up behind you their suppose to warn you by saying, "on your left." Well I didn't know this and I thought on your left meant, move to your left cause he's coming? But luckily Nick knew this and so he yanked me out of the way before the bicyclist pommeled me. The second adventure and funny scare was that we had turned around and started walking back. I stopped to take a picture of some of the shale and carvings and we started walking and hurt this buzzing/screeching noise and both Nick and I freaked out! We had no clue what it was, I thought it was a snake cause it was coming from the ground. Well Nick was pushing me away and I was searching the ground for the snake coiled up or something but I saw this bat laying on the ground! So I pulled Nick and ran down the sidewalk away from it! This all happened in about 3-4 seconds. We were both scared, my heart was beating so fast! And then as I was thinking about the bat I figured it must have been hurt or something cause it was just laying on the ground helpless, and all it moved was it's head. I think it was screeching at us to help him! I feel so sad! But I know I couldn't have done anything to help him. I told Nick how sad I was and that I wish it's pain would end by some animal coming along and eating it and putting it out of it's misery. I don't think animals should suffer or people either. If I had to die, I'd want it to be quick and somewhat painless!

School is awesome! :) Sort of. Nick is in Jazz band he is seat 4 in the lab 4 I think that's how it goes. He loves being in symphonic band. My classes are easy for the most part. A lot of them, even my math class, require a lot of reading! Which I haven't done yet. They also require outside hrs. So one class I have to read at an elementary school. Another class I need to do some volunteer after school program or just a volunteer program where I help and can observe kids. My other class I just have to observe a kid and parent conversation. Lots of observation and outside time which is hard to do because I work. But that might be changing? My director of the daycare has talked to me about not coming in so early in the mornings but I really can't work any other times and still get 40 hrs a week. Nick and I were discussing it and we might be fine without me getting 40 hrs a week if he gets 20 hrs a week. A bunch of people have quit from Kohls recently so he's getting more hrs. Well I guess that's our adventures of the week.

sorry I don't have a picture of the bat.

School/Work....

So school has started and all the craziness that goes with it! But so far it seems like I'll do okay. I think I will be able to handle going to school full time and working full time, but Nick is going to school full time and working two part time jobs! So busy schedules for both of us means we don't get to see each other very much. It hasn't hit me hard yet, but I'm already starting to miss him. So my schedule: wake up at 6:00 am get ready for work and go to work for two hrs. Then I take a 2 hr break where on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have a math class. Then I rush back to work to be there by 11:00 so I can do someone's break. Then I work until 5:00pm except Thursdays I have a 4:30 class. Most days I have class after work, except Monday and Friday. Nick has classes most of the day and works in between at the computer lab. I don't get to see him on my 2 hr break cause he has class. I do get to see him for about 30ish min til he has to leave for work at Kohls. He gets off at 10:30 tonight. I try to be in bed by 10ish so I can get up for work the next day. It's not exactly fun but I am glad to be taking classes.

My classes so far have been really awesome. They all seem very easy. I have one online class that is Intro to Early Childhood Education. The teacher seems very nice and the assignments don't seem too hard. We have 3 papers and most of them are about observations of children, easy. Working at a daycare is going to help me a lot with my classes. I went to my math classes today. I was very nervous because for one I wasn't even enrolled in the class. It had been closed when I wanted to try and take it. So I went and talked to the teacher before class started and I told him I was hoping to take his class and then the class was so full I wasn't sure I'd get in trouble for taking someone's seat so I asked if he wanted me to leave. He said, no just pretend like your taking the class. He's pretty funny and nice. That class does not seem too hard. It's teaching kids math, so we're going to get to do a lot of fun excercises and learning to teach kids different methods of doing math. And tonight I went to my Literacy and Developement class. It's for Early Childhood. The teacher is really young and she was talking about how she doesn't like quizzes or papers or homework so most of our homework and class time is going to be reading and discussing what we read. I have two more classes. Intro to theater, that one should be interesting. I read the description and it talked about reviewing plays and directing and stuff. So we'll see. I needed another 3 credits so I could be full time and it was the only class at the right time. My other class is Children's Literature which I'm excited about.

Other than that work is good. I'm actually glad now that I'm not in a classroom. I don't have to stress as much when I'm at work because I'm only doing breaks. And they keep me busy now that school has started so I haven't been sent home.

I should've started with this, Nick got into Symphonic Band! He's very excited. It meets at an earlier time so now he can work at night. We're still waiting on the jazz band news.

We're going to Arizona this weekend for my aunt's funeral. I'm not happy about why I'm going home, but I am very excited to see my family again. Well I guess that's all for now. I'll make sure to let you know if I go crazy! :)

www.yearbookyourself.com

So I found this website that's pretty fun and you should check it out. So Thursday work sent me home because they said they didn't need me a little while after I had been home they called and said I didn't need to come in on Friday either cause there wasn't going to be enough kids. I'm not happy about not getting hours, so we'll see what happens. They're also changing my schedule, since I'm not group lead qualified yet (I need one human development class then I will be), they have moved me out of the class I was in and now I'm going to be doing breaks and helping with classes when they need help. There's a chance they could cut back my hrs. They've been doing this to a few people. So those people that they've moved to being just helpers have not been getting their hrs. So I might be looking for a new job.

So with all the free time I've been given I saw this website and decided to play around. So you should look closely because you might see your face! Have fun!