Man, I like early morning. I think I said that yesterday, but each day, I like it more. It’s a few minutes after 8, my “morning mess” is almost done, and then I plan to sit on my contemporary sofa and watch a (historical) movie before I tackle my homework. Yes, I’m loving it! Life that is. My sofa, will by contemporary, I mean 10ish years old, but whatever.

This morning, I walked out to the bus stop to see this:

This picture is blurry and doesn’t do it justice, but the ones I took with the flash show the sky as dark. In fact, is was light and there was that big fat moon just sitting there. It was awesome.

Time for the daily school report! Just kidding, it won’t happen everyday, LOL! My car is still not running right, so Mama gave me a ride to school, and I had my first experience with the shuttle service. I like it, and it’s reasonably convenient, with buses running around campus every 10 minutes. I was also p-leased to discover that the campus is smaller internally that externally. I can actually walk between my classes in 10 or 15 minutes if I need to, and I still will for one class.

One of my classes was canceled today, and I used my time wisely. Not by reading about the best diet pills, but by getting a head start on my reading for next week. Since I’ll be working one day next week, I thought that was a good use of my time.

In other news, I’ve been getting up even earlier the past couple of days. at 5:30 instead of 6:15, and the pay off has been being able to complete my morning routine before my school or blogging/studying day begins. This morning, I was tempted to snooze longer, but when I remembered how smooth the early day was yesterday, and how much I enjoyed collecting my thoughts before the kids got up, I dragged myself out of bed. I never thought I’d be one to get up before I absolutely had to, but I am going to keep trying it.

I got all of half a chapter read in an hour. Well, an hour minus the interruptions: Can I watch a movie? You need to call work? The online bank hates you! You better pay your insurance! Your internet is slow!

And on and on and on. But I will persevere. I will finish! And I will be starting again in 23 minutes. I will not be thwarted by crash diets that work or by technology that doesn’t. At least until it is time to take my timed online history quiz. That *might* be a problem!

Ok, ya’ll, today is my first official study day. Big news, right? I just hope my brain responds to mental workouts better than my belly does to ab workouts!

I got up at 5:30 this morning, which was a new thing for me. It gave me an hour of quiet in the house to knock out a good chunk of my morning routine, which is, at this point complete! In fact, I have nothing left on my schedule at all except blogging and studying, which I plan to alternate through today.

And I am posting this so I can be accountable to some back later and say “Yeah, I did that.” Whatever it takes, right?

Because I am so frequently called “pervert”. Anyway, some people should not be allowed to wonder the internet without supervision, and I am apparently one of them, because here’s what I found today: ceiling tv mounts. And then I had to wonder, do people really put televisions on their ceilings? Or do they buy those things and then put mirrors up instead? Discuss amongst yourselves!

So, I had my first day of classes. And that was a little mind blowing. And then my car would not start so I missed the second day of classes and tried to do homework instead. That was also a little mind blowing. I had forgotten just how much *boring* reading is involved in the pursuit of higher education.

I clearly will not be needing to price shop Lightweight Backpacking Tents until at least mid-May, because I am going to be pretty much chained to my desk, which is not the right height and therefore gives me a backache. Whine, whine, whine.

I did, however, buy a new backpack, because my old one was full and I don’t even have all my books yet. It has not given me a backache. So far, anyway.

Today, I am blogging and filling in my calendar for the next few months. You?

Heh, man do I have stuff on my agenda. I’ve spent the day working a half hour on this and a half hour on that. The result is that I haven’t made a lot of progress in any one area, but I have managed to touch just about everything on my weekly and monthly plan. In fact, once I create a file for my “hands” pictures and knit a little bit, I will have accomplished what I set out to do today, except for the pleasure reading I am promising myself later on tonight. Every day ought to have a little reward built in, don’t you think? And reading books I already own is certainly cheaper than sending flowers with ProFlowers, even to myself. I do intend to buy myself some flowers this year, don’t get me wrong. But it’s not going to be today, nor is it scheduled for this month.

But let me tell you about what I am reading! First, I am continuing The Artist’s Way with a short segment each morning, and I am also following a yearly Bible reading plan, which I begin every January and sometimes finish and mostly do not. I’m human, yk? But I am also reading Writiing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. When I first found this in my house, and no, I do not remember buying it, I have no idea where it came from, so I am accounting it as a gift from the muse since I found it in the middle of November and the NaNo, I thought it was a manual of style. Umm, no. No, it’s not. It is a book of small snippets (2-3 pages) of encouragement for the writer. Try this, sample that, yes you can, etc. All good stuff, so far. I’m nibbling this one slowly, so as to gain as much as possible from it.

I’m also reading The Fiery Cross, which is the 5th book of the Outlander series, and the first one that I have not previously read. I’m looking forward to finding out what has happened to my friends since I last visited with them, LOL.

Okay, time to stop for now. I have a file to create and some knitting to do. And laundry to fold. And supper to cook. By the time lights out comes tonight, I really think I’ll be more than ready for it!

And by that, I mean my admin screen just looks real weird today. Maybe because it’s not fully loading, because I have two computers downloading data as fast as they possibly can, and my bandwidth is if full use? Yeah, that could be it. Yes, I got the new hard drive and I am busily filling it with tunage.

So, how are things with you? It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? I just haven’t been able to get back in the swing of blogging since the NaNo, but I’ve missed it.

I’m gearing up for back to school. It’s exciting and scary at the same time. And having to register last has thrown me some serious curve balls as far as getting the classes I need. Next semester, I get to register first, and should be able to get what I need. And I am crossing my fingers that a slot will open for the biology I need this time, but I doubt it.

In other news, I am doing what I usually do this time of year: goal setting. I really want to work on my life list stuff in 2011, and the only way to do that is to PLAN to do it, ykwim? So, I’m looking at that. And I am looking at where I want to go with my writing, and my knitting and all that other stuff that I love to do. And I am looking at making time for friends that I have lost touch with in the past couple of months. About the only thing I am not debating is whether or not to wear nursing scrubs 24/7. But I am entertaining then as a pajama possibility.

And I am trying to get out there. I have managed to keep the house up since I cleaned it, and I now spend most of my time out in the main area, but…I still prefer home to out. I guess I will always be that way, but I’m pretty sure my time for hermitage is pretty far off. I’m kinda committed to school for 5-6 years or so, and then I will be working, and out there meeting new people is going to be my way of life for quite some time. It’s not scary, but it’s uncomfortable. The thing is, the more comfortable I make the house, the more I like it. I feel like I am not making a bit of sense in the world here, LOL. Which mean I probably am not. Maybe I should just remind myself that every time I go out and do a new thing I enjoy myself and learn something. And so while being home is comfortable, being out is exciting. I like exciting, but I sure wish it happened here, LOL! I don’t have to expend so much mental and emotional energy here. And also, I can wear pajamas and drink coffee all day.

Anyway, school. If I get the schedule I settled on yesterday, I’ll be going three days a week and I will have breaks between each class for homework and such. I’ll leave after the kids get on the bus and be home before they get back from school. If, if, if. Lord help me, I am rambling. I told you I was out of the blogging groove, right? Heh, I meant it.

I’ve met some new and interesting people lately, and I apply the term “met” loosely, since I have only chatted with them online. Apparently, when a 43 year old woman puts a profile up on a dating site, all the young boys come running. Not that I dislike young boys, but they do tend to think I must be desperate for sex. Umm, no. I just want dinner and conversation. We can go dutch, even, because at the end of the night, we will both still be wearing our pants. Even if you swear your wankie is 9 inches long.

Hmmm, trying to think if there’s anything else I am burning to tell ya’ll, and I can’t think of a thing. I guess that means I am done.