New Year

It's been a while since I've posted and this won't be a complete catch up post but hey it's something! Joe and I successfully finished the semester (thank goodness)! We both did pretty well although i guess there is always room for improvement. my most annoying grade was missing getting an A but only 1%..... oh stink! oh well... It's a new semester now and a fresh start. It is really odd for me because I am only taking two education classes this semester (verses 5 last semester) and they are PE methods (which kinda is annoying because i have knee problems that elementary students don't and consequently my knees are already paying for it... and somehow we have lost my ice packs... this could be a problem) and a lit practicum which is only a block class. Now i am buckling down and finishing up my generals because the college has finally made their decisions about which classes i have to take. I'm taking two english classes this semester to just get them done! they are making me take eng 101 which if you know me you know is absolutely ridiculous!!! thankfully joe talked me into taking it online because it is way too easy for me as is. the main thing is just going to be deciding to put the time into it. I was able to convince the teacher of the other english class i have to complete to let me take it concurrently and i am totally bored in the class... not a good thing. i had to sit through and entire class period of what it means to annotate a text.... SAVE ME!!! i guess for some people that is new stuff but given the fact that i have literally been required to do that since 7th grade i am quite bored with it all. I really wish that there was a way to just clep out of both of the remaining english classes but unfortunately that is not an option. you would think that with a university that is obsessed with getting students out of school asap they would smart up and not make students take classes where they learn nothing (especially since they have switched over to the 'foundations' courses instead of generals). Seriously the 'big' assignment of my higher level english course is to write a research paper... oh no.... whatever shall i do..... (pure sarcasm). Oh well i guess i will just have to find an interesting topic so that i don't sleep through it all- it is really hard because it is my first class of the day so it is hard to talk myself into getting up for a class that i don't learn in, especially because i am such a morning person!!!

Joe is keeping plenty busy this semester already, he's in a statistics class and a math class and as far as i can tell he understands what they are learning so that is good! i'm glad his brain can work that way because mine generally doesn't. he is also in a class where they go to the middle school once a week and teach a health class to 5th graders (wish him luck!) i think he said this friday he is teaching about the lungs. I think he will be great it will just be managing the class clown that will be the trick (especially because he moved into John and Trudy's old house!). The funny thing about that class is that when we were registering for classes Joe was looking for a class that would work around a math class that he has four days a week and this class happened to work perfectly- coincidentally the teacher is our Bishop. I think that is just fine and dandy because he is a smart and generally great guy- definitely one of the better bishops that i have had. I don't remember if i posted that Joe is in Macbeth this semester but he is. Which means lots of rehearsals- both fight rehearsals and regular rehearsals right now so he is putting in lots of hours at the snow- and i think that work will start to pick back up this week so he pretty much lives there. Hopefully he didn't get hurt in fight rehearsals yet again tonight- he always has another story when he comes home that he only cautiously tells me when i force it out of him- the funny thing is it's always his friends that end up hurting him.... i should give them a stern talking to!

Life is pretty hectic already but we are surviving, trying to figure out what in the world to do with cub scouts between everything else... i feel quite lost with it all but somehow it will come together. Well Joe should be home soon so tata