Not my week for getting up it seems. Or rather I seem to get up around 8, then decide to try for more sleep, then end up sleeping too long. Guh. Only had an hour for lunch. Thought I'd be meeting Mom and Nathan for lunch, but turned out to be mom Zack and Lacey. Nifty. Went to Chili's - had yummy soup. Had a bit of a debate/conversation on abortion, a much for lunch conversation, partially my bad. But I couldn't help it. I don't feel like going into details of what transpired, but maybe I'll come back and add them in later. I really have a love hate relationship with religion. I love religions, I find them fascinating, and at their core, I greatly appreciate what they offer their followers. However in real/daily life its hard to get past all the negative things that occurs due to religion. I hate to see people, especially young people who are just forming their ability to think and rationalize for themselves, hold to beliefs handed to them by their church - particularly non-religious beliefs passed off as 'christian'. I have no problem if people truly look into these beliefs and find that their own opinions, thoughts, ideals correspond to their church's, but don't just adhere to some stand on a topic simply because someone in your church said so - that someone of your faith should believe this way or that. If we must take a religious approach consider this - God gave you a highly advanced brain, capable of critical thinking and reasoning. He must have done this for a reason, ie to USE it. Go learn, research all the aspects of the topic, and make sure you come to the conclusion based on your own reasoning and feelings, not based on something someone else told you to think. So anyways I got a bit on my soap box. Poor niece and nephew. At least they know how i am, and sat there and smiled politely till I talked myself out. Mom got a little defensive, i think that's the closest i have ever gotten to debating my mother. It was a bit unpleasant. I much prefer it when we are on the same side of an argument/topic.

Had to tutor in Clovis, remembered my laptop cord this time. Came home, was rather early. Planned on doing some sewing. I have a skirt and a shirt idea floating around in my head - I've be meaning to manifest it for some time, but I ended up falling asleep on the couch. Around 11 I stumbled off to bed. Then David and Corwin showed up. We ended up watching a movie David just bought called TomCats, was pretty darn funny. Now i'm debating if i should sleep or do that sewing. After all new cloths would mean I can put of laundry for one more day - I don't know if i have anything clean to wear tomorrow otherwise. Ah decisions decisions...

Long day!

Was a long day. Worked at 11 again. Morning was nice though - still cool and breezy - was hoping for more rain, but not so much. Very pleasant weather for the morning though. For lunch Patricia and I went to starbucks and then each ordered take out to bring back to the office. Mmmmm Flower City's Kung Pow chicken. They have my order memorized ^^. Had super awful allergies all day. Not feeling so great today. Very sleepy =( I hate feeling really sleeping while trying to tutor.

One of my hour and a half students didn't show, which I was kinda grateful for, got to rest for a bit, clean my desk. Last student was preparing for a stats test. We'd already covered everything - just decided kinda last minute to turn some of the more tedious calculator steps into a program for her, so I got to spend the hour programming a TI-83 which is surprisingly fun. Made a cute little program that does binomial and poisson distributions by prompting n,p, x and then selecting which inequality sign is needed. No going 1-binomcdf stuff. Also made one that helped with contingency tables, and one for finding the mean and standard deviation of a binomial distribution - it even reminds you to move the decimal if given a percent.

I've really been needing to do some shopping, so went to winco after work. I have a little app on my phone called shopping cart. Spent the whole trip tap tapping prices and product names and quantities into my phone. Its a nifty little program, next time I'm somewhere bored I'll clean up all my typos and add the rest of the info for each product.

Was super tired when I got home, barely had time to get stuff put away before i started falling asleep. Oh i forgot, our wow server was shut down, mom called earlier today to ask what was wrong, why she couldn't get on. I went to the website which featured an announcement that the server was permanently shut down. darn it. I really liked this server, and i don't want to look for a new one. Maybe we'll try a Cata server next.

11 is soooo early...

Gosh 11 am is early for me! Had student at 11, then had lunch with lacey and katie at sweet tomatoes. Found good coupons online yaay. Long day at work, had students in clovis, and I didn't bring laptop chord, so no computer =(. Started getting real windy. Was hungry and thought paneras sounded good, while driving saw T walking on road, called him and invited to paneras. Took some time there, read some of my book. When we left dark clouds had rolled in and there was a glorious strong wind. Arrived home to find David and Alex waiting for me. They invited me to dinner. Went so chili's. Not very hungry so had soup. They were out of chicken enchilada, but after some pouting they made a fresh batch and david ordered some too. I ordered extra 'crunchies'. As I eat my soup I usually add some. They didn't bring a much as i'd like, but I figured i'd make due. Til david got interested in them. Reaching for the little cup of crunchies he asked 'what do you do with all these?' Before he could touch my cup of crunches I snatched up the little cup and dumped the entire contents into my soup, then proceeded to spoon my soup as if nothing happened. Meanwhile David sat with his hand frozen midair blinking at me in amazement. Muhaha no one lays a finger on my crunchies! Leaving the restaurant it started to sprinkle. The wind was lovely, a nice cool change to the heat. After coming home I put some audiobooks on Alex's mp3 player, which annoyed my computer at one point - and i had to restart the darn thing twice before it got its act back into gear. Silly computers. Started raining harder, sooo nice to listen to rain while going to sleep....

ah mondays....

could not wake up this morning, kept thinking I might go to thai for lunch but body just would not wake up. Lacey texted to know if grandma was coming down. Nope =(. My 1:30 student cancelled, slept longer then went and got soup, then work. After work came home, then to thai, was yummy. Meant to clean but didn't happen, guh.

Testing

Lets test this....

Restful Weekend....

Lacey's Grad party was nice and uneventful yesterday. Zack and I made rice crispy treats, regular and cocoa ones, yum. Lisa bought $20 worth of mexican sweet breads and we put out all kinds of snacky foods. I sat by the pool and read Dawn Cook's Decoy Princess while the kids splashed around - I managed to avoid getting wet but they soaked Lisa, lol. Lisa pouted a bit more about the Janet Evanovich books I still haven't gotten around to getting to her. She needs from book 10 on. I went ahead and got them set up on her phone. Turns out a LG Lotus is a real pain in the neck to find programs for and get them to work. I ended up just using the built in Document Viewer. She was a bit anti phone book reading at first, but after I got it done and explained how now she could read anywhere - since she always has her phone with her - even while waiting in line at the bank. Main problem with this: no bookmarks. She'll have to remember her page numbers.

Sleep was not my friend last night - I slept for a few hours then woke, and could not get back to sleep. Read ebook on my phone till the sun came up, then around 7:30 ish was able to sleep. Woke again at 3pm. Gee, well there goes my day! I have been wanting a pizza bread with cashews for a few days now - I even tried to stop at the pizza factory in west Fresno when i went to pick up Zack from hockey before the party, only to find the building empty! Darn! Only pizza factory in Fresno is gone now =(. So today I took a trip to Madera to their pizza factory - and ordered extra to take home. yes today was the pizza bread feast day mmmmmmm.... Afterward took a bit of a road trip, enjoying the car air conditioning and my new breaks (thanks to my awesome brother!!). Drove up to the mountains, saw the dollar store that I think the Sa's opened up - mom mentioned that Mr. Sa opened a dollar store. Its called DJ's but I think that's theirs, and the name refers to the initials of their first names. Cute =). Mom said Rory works there sometimes, hope he is doing well. He really should write more, its always a pleasure to read his articles, nice wit. Perhapse he does and I just haven't run across anything.

Came home and cleaned the art room, had wrapping paper and supplies everywhere. Its nice and picked up now, in fact that's where I'm typing from now. My easel is set up in the corner now, blocking the door to the back yard. I did a little painting, just background prep. Going to do a few things for work I think, then read my book in bed. I really need to look for some more CSET stuff, but not tonight I think. Well off to work with me....

Car stuff

Bit of a crazy day today - neighbor calling about rides to hospital, Andrea's tires were slashed, oil change and new breaks. Car was in desperate need of breaks, today making horrendous noise, even when i was not actively breaking. Mike agreed to change them for me (yaaay for super awesome brothers!!) But first i had to get an oil change. Last time Mike looked at my breaks he noticed i was overdue for an oil change. So he gave me a bit of a lecture. And he told dad. Who gave me a lecture. Who also told mom, who didn't give me a lecture, but who told sis. And of course she gave me a lecture, as well as telling Matt, who also gave me a lecture. Sooooo. Oil changes, yeah yeah i know must do them in a timely fashion. And I'm so bad at keeping track. I use all kinds of online calender stuff- i don't know why i haven't set a reminder for myself. Suppose i'll go do that now....ok done. So anyways, got oil change, a free one thanks to mom's freebie card. After work drove up to Mikes. Taking the road down burrough valley was soo not fun without good breaks, coasted down it in 2nd gear.

Was nice to see my brother, Mandy was out riding the horse, and Mike had Mark with him, the other kids were at Mandy's moms. I had to try to keep Mark happy while Mike worked. I really have little to no maternal instinct. As in the instinctual ability to figure out what to do with a baby. I think they can sense it too. Kinda like how some animals can sense fear. Makes babies cry when you just look at them. Anyways, he was content for the most part as long as i pushed him around the drive way in his little stroller thing. Well not like a stroller, thing had like bicycle wheels, good for bumpy mountain dirt driveways. Eventually Mandy came back up and took the beastie from me - which was good since rolling him in circles had begun to lose its appeal to him apparently.

Mandy's mom drove up and the kids jumped out, Mac in just his underwear, he looked at me and said: "look what i'm wearing! My underwear!" I responded: "Yes i see that, what happened to your clothes?" He said: "I tooks them off!" then he ran off to his bike and took off down the drive way riding his bike in his super hero underpants. Ha silly beastie. Mike finished my breaks, soooo nice to have them working. He even sent me a cute email. Yay for nifty brothers.