Feeling Groovy...

Okay, I have to say that I love fall weather. I don't know if there is anything better than wearing shorts with a sweatshirt...I'm pretty used to carrying a sweatshirt with me anywhere I go because the buildings at school are so FREAKIN' COLD!

I had an "I Feel Old" moment the other day at school...keep in mind that most of my classes this semester are Freshman/Sophmore level classes - you can see where this is going, I'm sure. These kids were born in '89-'90...okay, I was in Jr. High!

I was talking about my friend Tara's bag phone and how I thought she was so cool because she had a "mobile phone" and they had NO idea what I was talking about - I'm like hello, cell phones had to come from somewhere...they used to come in big bags and you even had to have an antenna on your car window! They were amazed, bless their little hearts.

I'm having a pretty great day today - Jake has slept through the night for the last 4 nights! YES! I made a 94 on my Intro. to Modern Biology test, waiting on my Chem exam score - I'm just feeling really blessed today...

Maybe Ron will take me to Red, Hot, and Blue for dinner sometime this weekend to celebrate life being pretty dang fantastic...

I'll be back soon with some new pics of my big man - he'll be 6 months old on the 24th! I can't believe it!

Take Care!!!

GO FALCONS!!

I thought I would just mention, as I said I would earlier, the greatest Pee-Wee football team in Oklahoma City - The Falcons!

My nephew, Brendan, plays football (he's #11)- and he pretty darn good. The team was in a tournament over in Argyle, TX last weekend and they won they whole thing.

The cool thing was they beat a team from OKC they had never beat before - so I know the boys were so proud of themselves. I was going to post some 'action' shots but Ron moved them all to my sister's laptop and I just have a few shots from the trophy ceremony.

Here's my shout out to the Falcons - keep up the good work! Most of all, Happy 11th Birthday to my little nephew...I guess he's not so little anymore - but I hope he knows how incredibly proud Uncle Ron and I are of him and just how much I love him.

I DID IT!!!!!!!

I know its been forever, but I've been pouring myself into school. What little I have left goes to Jake and Ron...and apparently not to cleaning my house but that is another story (I need a maid).

I was never the college student who would have gone to ask for help - and I have a tendency to not ask for help in my personal life as well - but I finally broke down and emailed my Chemistry prof and told him a I needed help. I meet with him every Monday from 4-5, just after another study group for Chem - can you tell this is a time consuming subject???? So we went over the "math" today and I actually get it! Turns out I was just having problem with my conversions - dimensional analysis is the bane of my existence.

I came home and did my pre-quiz for Chapter 6 and I got them ALL right! I was so freakin' stoked that I cried - Ron thinks I'm a freak. Jake just screamed - he's into this screeching with excitement phase, especially when Bailey (our dog) walks by...

I just thought I'd share - I need to commemorate that evening...hold onto it as a reminder that I am doing that thing which I think I cannot do (I love Eleanor Roosevelt) and succeeding!!!

In the word's of SNL's great sage, Stewart Smalley....I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it people like me!

More to come...and I have to tell you about the crazy fun football tourney we went to this weekend...GO FALCONS!

Take care!

The Pressure....

A pressure cooker is designed to cook things faster by increasing the pressure under which they are cooked....as the pressure inside increases, the boiling point decreases...I'm a foodie and could probably explain why eggs are good "binders" - lecithin - and tell how pressure cookers work. But I'm at a loss for valence shells and orbitals, be they s, p, d, or f.

Both are science - one is interesting to me and one just really new (and sometimes not at all interesting). But the later is my future and I've got to be successful (aka, get an A in chemistry).

I have never in all my life, even with motherhood looming, felt such enormous pressure to succeed. I have put everything on the line to follow my dreams and am terrified that it won't work out.

Okay, so I'm venting. I've spent most of my "holiday" weekend in tears because I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders. What do I do in response, I cook - go to something I know. I made casseroles and reminded myself that I am capable of great things - as we all are.

If I can make a textbook zabaione for my killer Tiramisu, then I can master basic quantum mechanics. At least that is what I keep telling myself, they both are daunting - one is just more familiar...

This too shall pass and I will be given no more than I can bear...it will be worth it when all is said and done.

Thanks for listening...

Take care!