It's a new year.

well, guess I'm just not that into blogging. Haven't done it for awhile. In the meantime the holidays have come and gone and 2011 is here already. The end of 2010 was quite exciting. I dropped all my classes for medical reasons, the dizzyness and tintinitius didn't get any better. Mary got engaged to Bob in Nov. We met him for the first time at her birthday dinner. She had her surgery in Nov. Then Christmas as she presented me with a sonogram of a 9 week old baby! What a shock to say the least. But I'm happy for her, just worried that the narcotics that she takes for the pain in her back will affect the baby. But they are weaning her off them very quickly so hopefully she can manage. The new stimm seems to be working. She went back to work after the holidays and hasn't smiled since.
Laurel is walking, climbing steps, and beginning to talk. Every time I see her it's something new.
Mark had another interview with a company that bought a product line from Tollgrade. I really thought this was the one. But haven't heard anything since.
My ear is still messed up, I can't hear, I called today for a free hearing aid from the Lion club. We'll see how this goes. At least their willing to help. $1,500 dollars is alot right now.
Now that it's January, I'm trying to finish my reference course on my own so the incomplete can go to a real grade. Guess I'll try and take one over the summer, although with Mary due in July I may not.The class would probably end the week she is due. We should know next month what it is. We're hoping for a girl - at least I know Bob is.
My brother Bob now has a hole in his leg from a hematoma that he got when a TV fell on him as he was trying to replace it after getting new rugs. This happened in Nov. It's now Jan and he is just beginning to heal. He ended up at a wound clinic because he couldn't get it to stop bleeding.
Mary ann is fine, although Jasper is having ACL surgery on his other leg today. I'm sure he is going to love that.
The weather has been really crappy, snow almost every other day and very dreary. I'm really tired of the cold and snow.

Finally back to writing

Yes, it's been quite a while since I posted. Once classes started all hell broke loose andI haven't caught up yet. I've gotten a new computer at work because my old one died, and I'm still taking part in the keyboard survey so I have a new more ergonomic keyboard too. It's nice, just takes some getting used to. I still hit alot of wrong letters. I had my right ear operated on last Wed. I thought they were just taking out a cyst. In and out quick. Four hours later, actually six hours later when I awoke it was alot more than just a cyst. I now have a new middle ear implant. Not sure what that is until I get to talk to the dr. tomorrow. Mark was not very forthcoming when I asked him questions about what they had done. He has a interview today at Ibis tec and I pray he gets it. Back to my ear, I 'm very dizzy and going to class for fast track weekend was not the easiest. Luckily Mark drove me as there was no way I was driving. Mary's back surgery was moved from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3. I have to wrap her present tonight. I've been trying to work on the ABA statistics but I keep loosing interest. I guess this weekend we're going to St. Marys for a party and the following weekend to DC. So I need to get my work done during the week as I can. I thought it was going to be a easy semester with just 1 course and 1 one credit course, but it's alot of work no matter what. I'm half tempted to take next semester off. I'm just pain old tired. I;m tired of trying to fit things in between studying.

I sure hope this ear inproves once he takes out the stuffing. The tintinitius is driving me crazy. The dizzyness is lessening each day. It still feels like half my face is numb.
More once I see him tomorrow.

Back from Vacation

Got back on Friday from 10 days in Ocean City, MD. It was lovely, hot and humid - I finally got tan. Spent 1 day at the beach - the rest at the pool. It rained one day so we went shopping. I want with my Sister who expected it to be a quiet vacation - but her son got a job and they had really bad storms while she was gone, so it wasn't as restful as she had hoped - I'm sure she was glad to get home. Spent part of the time with Mark, Katy and Laurel. It was wonderful so see the baby - she love the water weather it's the ocean or the pool. She is also getting 4 teeth all at the same time. Both Mark and Katy were sick while they were there, so now Laurel isn't feeling well. I got my ears re-pierced and my nails done so I was happy to finally do something for myself.
Saturday we had torrential rain in the evening, but Sunday was cloudy no more rain. Today is beautiful. Mary and I went shopping yesterday to get her some clothes. (Like she needs anymore?) but she is changing sizes and needs to look professional. I got a couple of tops.

Came back to work today - we are really at a skeleton crew. So that mean it will be quiet for me to catch up. I hope. I paid my tuition. Now I just have a few more errands and I'm done.

Vacation was nice, but I'm ready to get back in routine again.

Finally Got it the way I want it

It's nice to have a son who is a web master when you're taking a course in web design. I would be completely lost without him. He is patient and a good teacher. Looking at HTML is like looking a an electric schematic for me. The rules make sense - I just can't remember them for more than five minutes and this flipping back and forth to w3c is ridiculous. I wouldn't be bad if I could put them side by side. I looked back at my Dickens 2 and for some reason the word wrap disappeared, so I had to go research that. I finally got Dickens 3 the way I want it. Now I have to create a portfolio and stuff everything into it. This should be fun. Especially with 3 teenage boys running through the house. My brother-in-law is down with my nephew and 2 friends to take part in Jamie Dixon's basketball camp. They did it last year too. They're not bad, it's just a bad week. But if I can get the portfolio done then I'm home free as I finished my last report for Copyright yesterday. There are some advantages to having the boys, they wore out both Cuda and Frosty yesterday and wore themselves out in the pool. Jake's Mom told me he has grown 5 inches and gained 25 lbs. over the past year. Quite a growth spurt. Austin, my nephew is now the shortest of the 3.
Mary was sick over the weekend and did not venture out of bed. Maybe we can use some of that muscle power to get her bed set up the way she wants it.
Then I can finally think about vacation. I can't wait.

Not up to par

I seem to only be averaging one post a week. I think we're supposed to do two per week. Oh well, I keep getting sidetracked by projects for both classes. It's hard to keep up and work full time. The past two weeks I've taken Friday off just to get some work done. This past weekend I searched my links and connected them to my web page and uploded it again to unixs. Then I wrote my paper and my personal response to my virtual poster in Copyright and Fair use. I also took my quiz. The quiz was fair. I just don't think I answered some of the questions as completely as he would have liked.
I swam yesterday for about 30 minutes in my pool about 4:00 on a perfect Sunday. The only thing lacking was some music and some company. It's lonely swimming alone. I did about 10 laps, have to go for 12 the next time. The water was perfect, warm, but not bathtub warm. The pavement around the pool was plenty hot to make you want to get your feet in the water. My husband bought a small hard sided pool for my daughter's Pit Bull. It only took him about 15 minutes to learn how to get in and out. He loves the water and loves to jump anytime the hose is going especially if it has a nozzle on it which makes it hard to clean the bag for the pool cleaner if he is anywhere around.
My dog Frosty, a white Siberian Husky looks like a sick sheep right now. He is shedding in patches and really looks funny. I keep pulling out clumps of fur every time he goes by. He woke us up at 1:30 am this morning. He had wrapped his lead around a tree 3 times and couldn't go anywhere. So he yipped and whined until he woke us up to come and rescue him.
I put my beloved cat mittens to sleep on Friday, may she rest in peace. She had mouth cancer and it was a huge lump on one side of her mouth and was beginning to show on the other side too. She was having trouble eating and wasn't getting around much anymore. Everywhere she went there was pale drops of blood. It was pretty disgusting. But I held her until the end. So I did my best. I would have buried her on our twelve acres, in the woods, but I was really afraid something would come and dig her up. Then I would be even more heartbroken.
Well, time to go find something about copyright in the news. more later.

fastt week

This week has gone so fast. I took Friday off to try and catch up on stuff at home and for class and ended up reading about 50 pages just to find out today that he extended the deadline. Mind you I'm not complaining about an extension. Spent today working on my Virtual Poster on Indigenous Copyright. It's a harder topic than I thought it would be because it encompases so much. It's hard to express it in just a few concise sentences. Tomorrow I have to work on my web site. So much to do, so little time. I now have 3 beds stripped and none of the sheets are ready to go back on so I have to get them done before bedtime. I am also having trouble finding some of my documents as my home computer tends to save them to wierd places.
I now have 3 beds stripped and none of the sheets are ready to go back on so I have to get them done before bedtime. I threw together a dinner of leftovers that even I thought was terrible. I wanted to go out but Mary didn't feel like it. She has been in bed all day.
I am hoping the website test goes ok. I am looking forward to it but I'm also terrified that Ill do something terribly wrong and have to start over again.
I have to remember that I have a dr's appt on Monday morning. I forgot about it and didn't tell my office. As of Monday all the Librarians are at AALL so I guess I'm in charge. It should be a very quiet week.
Once all this is done I still have to finish my book and study for the quiz for next weekend. It NEVER ends.

The fourth is past already

Drove to Md. over the weekend, left Fri and came back Sunday. We celebrated my step-mother's 81st birthday. It was nice and quiet, just Tom, Mary Ann, Me, Jonathan and Mom. She does much better with a small group between not being able to hear and her alzheimer's disease. She must have asked about her purse 30 times and it was never more than 3 feet away from her. Then she wouldn't go back into the home until she was sure I had mine. At least we can blame it on the disease now, growing up I don't know what her problem was - she was always obsessive/compulsive and adt. It made it very hard to live with her. We stopped at my Dad's grave and visited for a few minutes. She really appreciated that. We followed a funeral into the cemetary that had to have 50 cars in line waiting to get into the cemetary. I haven't seen a funeral that big in awhile.
I finished my Koha project and my response to essay 2. So the project for this week are done. Next week is going to be the killer, I have the dickens fragment due, A virtural poster and a paper due on a book I havent read yet. Oh, and our 2nd quiz is next week too.

Mark's Dad is still at the rehab center. Mark still goes to visit every day but it's for shorter periods of time. So hopefully he can get some rest. Mary is finally feeling better and back at work.
The fiscal year is over, the new allocations are in so I'm back to paying bills.
Heat Wave this week - it's supposed to be 98 here today. Over 100 in DC.
Nancy Shafer just called from Ocean City to say it's brutal there. But the A/C is working as is the can opener. So at least I don't have to go out and get a new one.
Guess I have to start getting caught up on the readings for class. Time to go.