I should go to bed…but well, I just made a nice cup of tea
and have decided to blog a bit. It’s not
that there is nothing better to do…God only knows. It’s going to be a heavy-duty weekend, one of
those with a mountain of papers being submitted, but at least it’s mostly
interesting stuff. Meanwhile, there is
training to do…much self-paced training.
My pace has been no pace…standing still.
My plants are freezing on the back porch. I know they want to come in. I brought in the dracaena earlier this week after
performing a bit of drastic surgery on it.
I chopped off its tallest stalk and cut it into three pieces which are
now (hopefully) taking root. Tomorrow
afternoon, after my class in the morning, I’m bringing all those babies
inside. My Christmas cactus is blooming,
I noticed. The kitchen will be a jungle (again).
The days are short after the time change. I HATE IT!!
It’s been an odd fall. We’ve had
lots of warm weather, but now it’s been chronically cooler, so perhaps there’ll
be no more Indian summers. Some trees are
still beautiful with red, orange, and yellow leaves. That’s very unusual for this area, for this
time in November. The maples in our yard
are bare, but the oaks are still leafy, maroon and bronze.
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| Gracie, on guard. |
Erin and Emily will take the GRE tomorrow (for Erin) and
Saturday (for Emily). Both are sweating
it. They should have taken it months ago
but didn’t get around to registering. I
hope both do well enough to get into the schools where they want to
attend. If they don’t do well enough on
this first attempt, there won’t be time to retake before the application
deadlines for applying to graduate schools they hope to attend. It’s exciting and a bit scary to think that
my little girls will be graduating again in the spring (God willing, of
course). Four years have zipped by, just
like that!
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| May 2014 - hoping to repeat in May 2018, though not on the same day (hopefully) |
The holidays are upon us before long. With all there is to do with my classes,
training, and recertification preparation, how will I ever find time to clean
this abysmal house, decorate for the holiday, and Christmas shop? I love the holidays. I just wish we could slow the clock down a bit
so there could be less rushing around.
Erin is coming home for Thanksgiving, but Emily has to work extra-long
hours over Thanksgiving holiday, and Sarah rarely comes home. ☹ I’ll just
have to go visit her.
University #1 ends December 8th, and then there’ll
be four weeks to prepare for Spring semester.
University #2 never takes a break between sessions – they cater to nontraditional students (working adults) who just want to get it done
ASAP. That’s how it should be,
really. Time is money with most
things.
