My Inbox is Empty
And Other Ramblings

My email inbox is empty, nothing sittin’ in there…usually I have an email or two some sort of notification of an online order I placed but have yet to receive or a bill that needs to be paid (I pay all my bills online, save a TON O CASH on stamps!) Right now though, NOTHING!  It’s all empty and barren and it looks sort of pathertic and lonely.  Too bad I can’t hop in there and cheer it up, or would that just cheer me up?

My life is running a little slow, like it usually does this time of year.  Feb. is such a sucky month for me, it’s too damn cold to do anything and not cold enough for some pretty, cool snowy days..Sure, my Bday is in Feb and I’ve been informed by B that my Bday this year will be awesome…I sure hope so!!

School, so far is going well…my IAD professor is such an interesting and brillant person, I am overly excited to be in this class.  His insight on design and art in general is so amazing and thought-provoking.  I just hope that I get more classes like this in the semesters to come.  But for now, I’m going to print out every lecture from each lesson and keep them in my design journal. And, no I’m not saying this because he’s so fucking cute *drink* …He is truly an intelligent being.

Well sorry for the boring-ass entry, I have been sketching and you would not believe how therapeutic that is…I just have to make sure to write everyday also. Have a great weekend everyone! BT Birthday party is this weekend, mine is being celebrated with friends next weekend, sis’ is on the 15th then I have ONE WEEKEND to rest then it’s LT’s birthday party…no one is having a party on (or really near) their birthday(s) this year..how STRANGE!  But damnit will I ever be glad when March gets here..birthdays are over with, YAY! lol

NEW PICS! HOOO HOOO!

I uploaded a few new pics to my albums and put the albums into new categories.  You’ll have to find the new pics, but they’re there.

I took my first Art History test and made a 100…HOO HOO!! And I finished all my homework for the week and took my IAD quiz (we won’t talk about what a fucking moron I am and how I missed 2 out of FIVE fucking questions..nope, not talkin’ about that at all!).  I even did my sketches and they came out ok, seeing as I haven’t sketched anything in over 10 years they were pretty good…here’s just one of my sketches, you won’t see the others, they’re bad! lol

That says, ‘convenient’ below it, we had to give a word that describes the ‘concept’ of what we sketched.

I’ve decided to start sketching on a daily basis, I hope this will help me become better at it, that way when I have to take the sketching course, I’ll be better prepared…won’t be the best in the class and probably won’t make an A but I’ll be giving it my all, and that’s the best I can do!

I went to Dick Blick Art Supply for my IAD materials and the lady up there was SUPER nice and gave me the California Student discount (10%, which I think is the discount everywhere, but I had to get CA’s because I go to school in CA).  That was super cool, because I don’t have a student ID, seeing as I go to school online and all…so I couldn’t actually prove it to her or anything, but the whole time she was helping find my supplies I kept saying, ‘Keep it cheap, remember that!’ ROFL So she helped me out!

School Girl Crush
And Other Idiocies of a Lonely Housewife/Student

I logged into school yesterday and being an IAD major, that was the first class that I logged into (Design Concepts)..I figured it makes sense, right?

The first page when you log into a class is a basic introduction of the instructor and the outline of the class, included is a picture of the instructor.  When I pulled up my IAD page this morning I was met with the picture of my IAD professor….and’s he’s CUTE…I mean he’s FUCKING CUTE!  He’s nothing like what I’d go for, but damnit all he’s so fucking cute!  Maybe I’m just a lonely housewife with two children and I need a fantasy escape.  But, right now I feel like I’m gawd damn 15 all over again!  Yes, I’m married and happily at that…wouldn’t trade my DH for anything, we’ve got our little niche in life all carved out and I don’t want to start any new carvings, nope not this mama….but damnit all He’s so fucking CUTE!!!  I’m sure that come midterm I’ll hate him and be saying things like, “I don’t care how fucking cute he is, he’s an ass and I hate him!” But for now…HE’S SO FUCKING CUTE!!! And no I won’t put a picture up, that wouldn’t be fair and he probably wouldn’t appreciate it… But, check with me at the midterm….I might just despise him enough to do it! LOL

Oh, here’s a new drinking game called, ‘He’s so fucking CUTE!’ you have to take a drink every time I say that about my IAD professor…so start drinkin’!  

I will be in my hole listening to the gales of laughter that will come with you all reading about my sorry pathetic life..I’m terrible, and will surely burn in hell for this..But, DAMNIT! HE’S SO FUCKING CUTE!!!! *drink*

“You go to school ONLINE?!”

Well, school starts today.  I have logged in and introduced myself, like anyone will remember, I know I don’t.   My Design Concepts class is going to be FUN…Art History will be…interesting.  I like history so that’s cool.

It seems that my family thinks that my online education is second rate or something.  They couldn’t be farther from the truth.  I enjoy online classes and actually think that I gain more with them than I would with a traditional clasroom setting and for the classes that I have to take, online is perfect.  I guess that it is just hard for some folks to get out of the stone age of traditional institutionalized learning and into the information age of internet classes and cyber quizzes (and I don’t mean those that tell you what color you are lol).  Sure, it’s easier to ‘cheat’ on the quizzes online, hell no one is there watching you…but your grade doesn’t rely on quizzes alone, there is a LOT more to it.  Actually, with the classes that I’m taking, quizzes only account for 10% of my final grade..that isn’t much.  Most of my grade will depend upon, discussions, essays, and midterm projects…you can’t cheat in those areas, well maybe you can but I haven’t figured out how.

When I called my mother about my 4.00 GPA she just sort of shrugged it off as, “yeah well, how could you NOT make a 4.00 in online classes?”…she never knew the work I did to make sure I got that 4.00 or how I fretted over my final grade in IAD, thinking I had made a B, or worse.  Online classes are not second rate courses for the stupid…Trust me, I saw many a stupid student taking them and I’m sure their grades reflect that.  I also saw an English Instructor who truly cared about his online classes.  He enjoyed his profession as a teacher and it showed.  I saw a college that would phone me regularly to make sure that I was enjoying my college education as much as possible.  When you aren’t on campus all the time, the school checks on you, like you’re a real person and not just another number.

And come graduation, I might just drive out (I don’t fly, thanks to the government) to San Fran and walk with my fellow classmates, online and on campus. 

Fucking Dimwits

Some moron thought that Friday night would be a WONDERFUL night to hack into the internet and spread a worm (virus) that would attack sites with an SQL server.  Thus, my site turtlemama.com and about a bazillion other sites were down for a LONG time.  This, in turn, caused DH’s company’s network to go psychotic.  He has now been on the phone ALL day and will be for the rest of the night/morning until his boss, in France, decides that going in on Sunday at 1:30PM is a perfect time for him.  I have been sitting here all night with NO KIDS, listening to DH talk to 500 people in 3 different countries trying to get the servers back up and running.  He has been on confrence calls off and on for hours, and has tracked down people (even waking a few of them up) to get them to go into the office and track down the bastard servers throughout all the offices (in 3 countries mind you).

People have decided that building a server that NO ONE in the IT dept knows about, then connecting it to the company’s main servers is a GREAT IDEA!! Yeah, Folks…wonderfuckingful idea…..So that when your company gets a worm they can’t contain it because you want to be some super computer geek and build a server on the lamb….yep, great idea…keep ‘em coming, you’ll be the next Bill Gates in NO TIME!  Why don’t people just stick to their jobs and quit trying to be some sort of Computer McGyver? GAH!

So here I sit, my mother has my children BOTH OF THEM! FOR THE WHOLE FUCKING NIGHT….and I’m blogging…..I should be cuddling on the couch or watching some good R rated movie on Pay-Per-View or HBO or something.  Instead, I’m here listening to DH talk about Hubs and switches and LAN/WANs.  Trading Spaces is in the background, but I’ve already seen them at 8pm so that’s nothing new………..

Gawd damn hackers…what the fuck is the point anyway?? You gain no monetary reward for fucking around with people and you can’t really tell a ton of people about it because then they’d report your skank ass…. Granted a few hackers are helpful, but people doing shit just to say, “yeah, I did that.” is just so fucking stupid..WHAT IS THE POINT PEOPLE?!?!?!?!?!?! Fucktards.

Boo Boo Rar!

That is what BT is chanting, right now.  While LT acts scared.  My children, entertaining themselves, ahhhhhhhhhh.

So I actually went out of my house (gasp!) and did errands today.  First it was Toys R Us to get BT a Nintendo game for his Bday (with his gift card from FIL and SMIL).  While we were there a little boy was playing one of BT’s favorite games, on the demo display.  The little boy was having a hard time on one of the boards that BT can complete in about 15sec.  BT stood and watched for a little while then came up to me and asked if he could talk to the boy. (We have taught BT that if he ever wants to talk to someone he doesn’t know, he should first ask us, kids and grown ups alike.) After I told him he could talk to the little boy he walked up and tapped the boy on the shoulder and said, “Excuse me, I use my tummy to get across that part, it’s easier.”  The little boy just looked at him then went back to playing the game.  I was SO PROUD of my kid for being so stinkin’ polite.  It was the best, I’m sure I beamed for the rest of our TRU experience!   I, on the other hand, was in utter Hell.  All the public schools are out today so parents had just dropped their 7-12yr olds off at Toys R Us and the place was CRAWLING with rude, snotty, bratty little kids.  And in the midst of it all my 5 yr old had better manners than any of those kids…..I love my kids!!!!!

Next, we went to PetSmart and bought way too much for all our pets, or maybe we just have too many gawd damn animals and we should have one or two for dinner, they’re fucking EXPENSIVE!!!!!  But hey, I really enjoy getting new toys for my aquariums and the dogs and cats seemed particularly happy that they now have food!

Last we went where all the rude fucks of the North Atlanta area go on a Friday afternoon….Publix.  People were everywhere and they were all pissed at someone else around them.  It was a big huge mess and I got to throw myself and 2 small children into the monkey shit called Publix.

After Publix, I just came home, I told BT that we might stop and get something to eat, but really I’m too tired to stop anywhere else and I had already spent more money than I should have.  BUt damnit all to hell, my kid was N I C E to another kid who either A) Was shocked that a child of only 5 was actually SPEAKING to him; or B) Was just a rude little kid with no manners…ok, there could be a C) Was too shy to say anything  but seriously, my kids at least SPEAK when spoken to…..but ya know, BT did sort of scare the kid off and he was able to play the demo thingy….hehehehe

IT SNOWED, IT SNOWED, IT SNOWED!!!!!!

Last night before going to bed (2am, actually), I told the DH, “Ya know I’m just ready for Spring, we’re not going to get anymore snow and just cold with no snow, SUCKS!”  The weather people said snow for last night but it wouldn’t stick.  At 2am there was no snow, it was just cold as hell, I figured that our one and only chance for snow had passed last week..off to bed. 
This morning, DH comes in and wakes me up saying, “Honey, Honey…you got your snow!  I’m not going into work, the road is iced over and there are 4 cars spun out over the bridge!”  I wake up and head to the window and sure enough, a little dusting of snow and about 4 cars all turned the wrong way sitting on a HUGE patch of ice that is the busy road next to our house, with a line of cars going up the road.  The whole road was a sheet of ice and NO ONE was prepared.  They’ve shut down interstates, main highways, all that good stuff.  And yes, you can laugh at us southerners and shutting down with less than an inch of snow, but it isn’t really the snow so much as the ice all over the roads, and not one county was prepared for any of this…And I’ve seen northerners during an ice storm trying to drive, now THAT is funny! In the south, we know better than to try to drive when every road is a big sheet of ice! No matter how well you drive, snow or no snow, ice is totally different! Besides, Atlanta is nothing but transplanted ‘yankees’ anyway! lol 
I’ve taken a TON of shots, I even braved the nice warm temp of 16 with 15mph winds to get you people (ok, really it’s for me) good shots of a southern snow. They are HERE…ENJOY!

I’m off for orange cinnamon rolls and hot cocoa, extra marshmallows! Have a great day everyone and stay warm!!!

I’m all registered for classes….Design Concepts, and Art History through the 16th century.  This should be fun.  I’ll have a TON of papers to write for Art History.  The teacher is one of those that puts something up to read then tells you to write about it.  Which makes no sense.  Read something on a subject that someone else wrote, then you, and 15 other students, should write about what you just read.  How in the hell does a teacher like that not gouge her eyes out with her pen?  Or hell, I’d probably just use my fingernails..how boring to read something, the same something, 16 different ways…and do it the same every semester.  Yuck!

So yesterday was BT’s birthday.  I forgot about it.  Yes, I know I’m his mother, I gave birth to him.  But it doesn’t matter because I didn’t realize that his birthday was Tuesday until Sunday.  No plans for a party, no presents, nothing.  But he remembered, of course, and I told him that we’d have to wait on his party.  He seemed a bit upset (who wouldn’t be?!).  But then he got a gift in the mail from FIL and SMIL.  At first he opened a Ralph Lauren T-shirt with a fish on it and exclaimed, “Oh its just clothes.”  Then I explained why clothes for presents was such a cool idea, I think he might have gotten the idea….then he opened the card that was enclosed in his little box, and found $50 to Toys R Us…he was quite please with the whole gift card concept! LOL  We are having a party but it will be a week from this Saturday. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!
Click it, it’s a link.

I uploaded a few more pics!

Lots of photography going on over here…to see the most recent click….HERE

I really love this camera.  If any of you are looking for a digicam I can highly highly, HIGHLY recommend this one and not because I’m high…I’m not high, I just highly recommed it…wow that is a LOT of high to have with no dope…………

Ignore me…………….but do go look at the pics!