First Week of School

Well, it didn't go as well as I thought it would. I was in a lot of pain! Wednesday was the first day, which wasn't so bad. But I was in so much pain by that evening that I only have 2-3 hours of sleep. Thursday, bereft of sleep, I had to wake up at 6:30am because I had a physical therapy appointment at 8am. I was so tired and in pain, I felt like it didn't even help any. Thursday was such a long day, classes started at 9:30am (walked in late because of PT) and my last class was at 2:45pm. After classes Huck and I picked up Elijah and met with a lawyer for two hours. Because of our long day we had dinner at La Nopalera. I took all my pain meds and went to bed by 10pm. I finally slept, but it took exhaustion to get past the pain enough to sleep.

The next day after classes I followed up with my primary care physician. Much to my dismay...she told me I can't do what I am doing. I can't keep acting like nothing has happened. I can't proceed with 'life as usual'. I was so upset I burst into tears. Then had to sit and hear how she had to delay Medical school because she broke her neck. I understand that I have to drop some classes, but she wants me to drop 2...that is a lot to process. :-( I will update more on medical later.

About my classes, on MWF I have Spanish, Grammar, and Ancient Cultures. And on TTh I had Outsiders in American Novels (a literature course) and Philosophy 101. I love all my classes...minus one. The Philosophy teacher strolled in 5 minutes late and told us to write our names on a piece of paper, then walked out of the class again for a few minutes. Most of us are staring at each other thinking "WTF?". I lean over to the young man sitting next to me and say "This one is gonna be a piece of work", the young man laughed. So, the 'professor' walks back in, spouting his liberal views and saying we are a socialist country and that we just won't admit it yet...blah blah blah. He refers to all of us in the classroom as kids several times (btw, he looks my age) and at that point I turn the name card around that he told us to make so he would know who we were, and I write on mine: Michelle (not a kid). I found out the next day that this 'professor' was born in 1980. Anyhow, I am glad I am no longer in that class due to the car accident. It's a delay I can't help. Ugh.

I have my literature class tomorrow, I am supposed to have read 51 pages of The Awakening by Chopin. I am struggling to keep focus while on pain medication and being in pain. I must be diligent and press on!

Much Ado...

I had my first Physical Therapy appointment today. I believe it helped a little, but about an hour after I was hurting again. I am hopeful that with continued treatment I will recover from this pain. Tomorrow will be a busy, busy day. Classes start at 10am and I will be done at 2pm. After I get Elijah, I have to head home to pick up Christian so we can all go to our 6 month dental checkup and cleaning. I hope all goes well with our teeth. :-)
I am looking forward to starting classes tomorrow. I can tell you Christmas break was not what I thought it would be. I pictured myself hanging out a lot with my friends and getting some painting done at the house. Needless to say, a car accident put a lot of that on hold. I did get to have a few good nights out with some of my besties, but not as many as I wanted.
Well, I will update more later. Gotta get some sleep for school.

Note to my friends and Spring 2012 Semester

Well, I made decisions at the end of last semester that I didn't get to share with all my friends. With finals in the first week of December, and a car accident that has left my neck screwed up, I was in a lot of pain so I haven't been out much. We had Christian's birthday the next weekend, and the following week still not feeling well and ended up with a double ear infection. To top it all off, we got a stomach virus before our Christmas trip which lingered a few days after Christmas. With all the pain and sickness I still managed to have a great Christmas. It was a crazy as hell month, which ended in a fabulous New Years party. If I had not had so much going on, I would have been around. So, please don't be pissed at me for being busy, sick and in pain. :-)
Anyhow, to the updates on school. I decided to double major. I am turning in the paperwork on Wednesday. I will be a Humanities and English Major. I just love my Humanities teacher, Dr. Barnet, she is amazing. She thinks I should go on the Summer study abroad program for 14 days in the summer. So, if I can get the funding, I will be spending two weeks in Rome and Greece! Friends please pray I can make this happen. I will go to the study abroad office this week and get more info on the trip.
Please check often for updates. I will try to blog more to work on my writing skills. :-)

Weekend Happenings

I have decided that I can't let this pain keep me home and miserable. So, I had a scrapbook date with a friend of mine whom I got to have some one on one time with. It was great. She is a sweetheart and I have always wanted to get to know her better. We had dinner and scrapbooked. We both sat in front of two nice ladies, not sure of their names, but it was interesting conversation.
Only downfall of the night was the pain. I had to lift my scrapbooking bag out of the car (Christian loaded car for me) and had to put it back in the car to go home. On the way home I started getting nauseated from the pain. So, when I got home I took all my pain meds. The bad part of pain medication is that you really can't take it if you want to drive anywhere. So, once I got home I took all 3 of my pain meds. It took me awhile to fall asleep, even though I was exhausted, because I fear dying from pain medications. I don't like taking them, but they help.
Tonight I am going to spend some time with Mindy, we are gonna watch Mama Mia and drink some wine (No pain meds tonight!). After Mama Mia we will probably get in the hot tub to relax! Not only that, I am sure my back and neck will love it!
Not sure what our plans for tomorrow are. But I do know we need to go back to church, it has been months. For some reason, I have a hard time getting up on Sundays with our schedule. We have a great church now, just gotta get up!

2011 Happenings

Well, I must say I have badly neglected this blog. Between family (kids), housework, full time college, and life in general, it kinda took a place on the back burner. I resolve for that to change. So to start, I will write about some good things from this past year, and some bad.

First I want to post about what wonderful friends I have. I have made so many changes in the past year and made a new friend at the end of 2010. I adore my BFF Tracy, and through her I was privileged to meet Brad and Mindy. Mindy and I hit it off right away. What connected us I believe, was our love of reading. At least at first. I love these ladies, they are such a blessing to me.

Good and bad has happened this past year. My friendships of course are the good and the bad being the cancer that Brad was diagnosed with in July. We all love Brad and are praying, and God is listening. Some good news recently were that the tumors were shrinking! God is awesome.

On the topic of friendships, this year I did some house cleaning in regards to who I hang around. I had a toxic relationship and they finally forced my hand to remove them from my life. I have learned to love and respect myself enough not to deal with gossip and backbiting. And I am so much happier for it! No looking back, it was like a weight being lifted off my shoulders.

This year has been a blur in some ways. I am just glad I have had my husband, who is my rock and my soft place to fall. I could not have made it through this past year without my dear husband. I haven't shared this except with a select few, but earlier last year things were getting tense in our house with my father. We were all butting heads way too often, and to be honest he was growing out of the small space he had in his room. With that and more that I won't write about, we sat down with him and told him how we felt and that he should find another place to say. It was time, mom passed 6 years ago and I felt that him staying with us was making him miserable and us as well.

That being said, it didn't go the way we had planned and it turned into an ugly fight. We are now estranged from my father and I fear that things won't get better. There is too much blame and threats being made. I fear that my dad has burned the bridge back to us. At least in my husband's eyes, and I can understand completely. With all that happened, I went through a mourning period, I felt like I lost my only surviving parent...and I guess I did, but it is not what I wanted.

On the home front, things are great. We have made our house our 'home' and it feels so peaceful. I actually want to stay living here now. I had previously not been able to stand it here. I think it was just the circumstances. We have put up new pictures and made our back patio a relaxing retreat. My dear husband bought me a hot tub and I am so enjoying it. We plan on doing some painting in our new workout/scrapbook room and touch up painting around the house. Hopefully, if God is willing we will sometime this year be able to fix the flooring in kitchen and fix our master bathroom as well.

December 2 I was in a car accident. I was rear ended by another Toyota Corolla. I thank God it was not an SUV or bigger vehicle. I went to ER because my head hurt really bad right away, I assume from whipping forward and then back to hit the seat really hard. They sent me home with Ibuprofen and said I had whiplash. Well, a whole month has passed and the pain is getting worse. So, now I am on stronger meds and start Physical Therapy next week. Oh, I will be contacting a lawyer as well. I was hoping that I would recover without all of this pain and inconvenience of doctors, lawyers and junk. I will update in the upcoming weeks on how I am progressing.

We ended out 2011 great. For Christmas this year we decided that since the kids pretty much have everything they could ask for we wouldn't do presents this year. Not in the traditional Christmas style. For Christmas, we instead took the kids to Orlando. We left for Orlando the Friday before Christmas, checked into and nice 4.5 star hotel and then went to the Medieval Times Dinner and Show. It was great, we actually were seated in the section of the Knight that won!

The next day, which was Christmas eve, we went to Universal's Islands of Adventure. Of course we had never been before, so the first section of the park we visited was The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It was the best day ever. I actually went inside the Three Broomsticks and ordered a butter beer in a cute souvenir cup. The kids loved it too. Islands of Adventure, even without the Harry Potter section was way better than I thought it would be. I don't know why we hadn't gone sooner.


The following day we went to Universal Studios. Because of our fast passes we got through the whole park before it closed and headed back over to Islands of Adventure for a last butter beer. We had so much fun. Huck even bought me all of Dumbledore's Army's wands, a small Hedwig in a cage, and Hermione's time turner. I have the best husband ever!

We ate dinner at Universal's Citywalk and got back to the hotel after 1am. We were all so exhausted, but it was worth it. I must say it was probably one of the best Christmases we have ever had. The kids loved it, and so did I!


We came home and got to rest for a couple of days before we had a New Years Eve Party. We had a total of 9 adults at the party and I believe 9 kids (2 teens). I opened it up to all my friends, but only the few faithful best buds came. They were who mattered! They amaze me and I love them. (I do understand some friends had to work) We drank, we danced and we played Charades. Some even sat outside by our fire pit. It was a great night...and the last guests didn't leave til around 3:30am! Thank you to all my friends, and it was so great to have Christian's girlfriend's parents over as well. They are great and fun people.


Well, let's see if I can keep posting regularly this year, I do need to write more!