In anticipation for Module 8, do research on the Internet to answer the following question: Do Christians worship images? Please provide a link to the source you use in your answer. You may simply summarize your findings on the topic, but your answer must be carefully thought out and supported by your findings.

This little tidbit is my weekly assignment for Art History Yes, ART HISTORY....not Theological Disscussions 101....so why is it that I have to make a religious statement?  Beside the fact that this question is so open-ended and can be construed in a gazillion different ways...See, there is a problem with this assignment for A R T HISTORY...number one, it doesn't deal with ART, number two, the professor is a Christian and in the weekly lecture she let her views on Christianity shine through, and through, and through, and...you get my point.  And finally, she is a teacher who thinks that history is an exact science and if a 'scholar' says that something is true, it is...no matter what anyone else thinks/says.  I will basically, have to read her mind and find a way to answer that question so that she approves of the answer and it sounds intelligent and is well backed.  So, there goes my week of easy work before Spring Break.  I'm about to print out 8 pages from an online encylopedia and begin reading...yay me.....

I also got my midterm grade in Conceptual Design..I got a B, but seeing as half the class got C's or F's I'm pretty proud of that B....hopefully I'll change it to an A before the semester is over with.

Gawd, I hate the weekdays...I mean REALLY hate them.  My kids like to be loud, and rambunctious and I hate it....I wish I had quiet kids, yeah I know those don't really exsist but still, it's nice to dream.

I just need a 5 month vacation and I'll be fine, really.......

Thank you for the comments on my DH, y'all made his year!  Thanks for stroking his ego, now I don't have to!  

I am halfway done with school for the week, hopefully I can finish it all today, but with laundry, cleaning and the heathens, I mean, kids, I don't know if I can even find the time...I hope so.  Well, I'm off to hide in my red tent for a few hours and hope that my children can find the tranquilizers on their own...too bad we don't have any.....I don't want to be a mom today......

Just Another Manic Monday
Or the bitchy post about Aunt Flo and my stupid neighbors

Well, the kids are back, the husband is gone to work....and I'm downing coffee like it's my life blood.  Ok, at this moment it is my life blood.  I have already screamed about 500 times this morning, telling kids to stop playing on the back of the couch, pulling the blinds up, screeching at each other, ohmygod the list goes on and on...and it's just barely 9:30AM.  Shit, I need more coffee...

My weekend without the kids and with DH went wonderfully, well that was until Sunday afternoon, when Aunt Flo and her stupid ass showed up...gawd damn that bitch.  So, since the AF was here and I had a camera and a whole day left without my kids, I told DH to be my photographic subject...(NO! NOT IN THAT WAY! GAWD you dirty minded freaks!) I was taking good photos of him, he doesn't have any that are recent.  This is just one of many that I got but this one I like the best.

So, now you all know what my husband looks like...this is sort of freaky, to tell you the truth....Oh, well.   Now, don't be thinking that you'll be getting any shots of me, because I can tell you that you will NEVER see me well you MIGHT but I'd have to be made over by a team of top artists..and that will never happen so...you get my gist.

Speaking of getting gists.....My phone rings last night about 8:30 and I answer it, it is my pet ID people letting me know that a neighbor of mine has Sunshine...ok, I didn't even know she was out.  Every once in a while she'll run off down the street to the back of the neighborhood then in about 10-20 mins she's back.  She was a free-roaming dog before we got her and try as we might to keep her around us (we're trying to teach her to just stick around us when we go out, she won't use a leash, I think she was abused by one)....At any rate, one day she runs off but she's back fairly quickly, ok DH had to go find her but you know...  At any rate, she ran off but it was sporadically and it was when we weren't looking.  It takes her about 3 seconds and she can be gone from sight and sound, I don't know if she has some sort of super running power or what but if we didn't watch her like a hawk she was gone. 
So, this lady calls and she's pissed that my dog has been out, I can understand that.  Well then she tells me about how her dog got out and was hit by a car, and yeah, I realize that Sunshine could be hit by a car and I worry about her, but we could NOT find her some nights (we'd wait up until she came home).  Well the woman is trying to be polite but you can tell that she'd really like to rip me a new one....then the stupid moron tells me, "Well me and the neighbors have been feeding her, we thought she was a stray!" WTF?!?!?! no fucking wonder she coming back you stupid bitch, YOU ARE FEEDING HER!!!! And besides, when does a stray dog (that, according to their theroy, was dropped off here by a family in another county, because her tags are from the county we got her in) Run around with a collar and TWO tags?? One being rabies? The other a microchip tag????  Now, call me crazy but if I were the type of person to drop a dog off, I wouldn't leave her identification on her, HELLFUCKINGOOOO????!!!!!!  Then the stupid idiots were FEEDING HER!!!!!!! When the woman told me that I laughed and said, "OH! Well that's why she keeps running off, down there." STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!! (no, I didn't call her stupid, lol) The woman got offended and I told her we'd come get our dog.  Then of course she acts all high and mighty towards DH.  She even asked DH if we really wanted her and if not she'd take her...Because you know, she thought she knew all about dogs, hers was an outside dog who got loose and went right into the main road the nighborhood is off of...my dog is an inside dog.

Now, don't get me wrong, we've been watching her and I've even put her on the tie-out but she just SITS when she's on the tie-out, then she comes inside goes into her crate and that's it.  If we keep tying her out and then in the crate, the minute we open the door or she gets loose she's off, and then she'll stay gone for about an hour or more...trust me...  I know that I need a fence and we're working on that, but gawd damn, I'm doing the best I can and besides, Sunshine is TERRIFIED of traffic and anything loud.  And ya know, before she was being fed she only ran off MAYBE once a week, MAYBE!  At any rate, we're tying her out and working on the whole fence thing...gawd, I just need to move out into the country with about 10 acres for her and Sammie to roam on with NO FUCKING NEIGHBORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, you can comment and tell me what a horrible dog-owner I am, I already know that...I rescued her and give her a warm home, but because she likes to explore, I'm a horrible person...I'll go hide under a rock....You can even tell me about your dogs that were hit by cars.....Because gawd knows that I'm a moron and just don't get it.... (I'm so being facetious here).

Well, I didn't buy a paper....I would never do that, and not just because I'm cheap, but I'm so fucking paranoid that I just *know* I'd get caught.  I did, however, finish my paper this morning and turned it in and all that jazz.  DH read it and said that it was pretty good, I hope it was, I just want a B..an A would ROCK but a B would be sufficent.

My mom is taking the kids tonight and will return them Monday morning, YAY!!!!!!! NO KIDS!!! HOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!  Both the kids are excited to go to 'Grammy's'...I can't blame them, I'd want to be away from me too!   So DH have a whole two nights and one FULL DAY to do whatever we want and honestly, we can't think of anything...well other than staying in bed all day Sunday ...but it'd be nice to do something else together.  A movie just doesn't excite me, I hate people at movie theaters, crowds bother me like you wouldn't believe.  I can put up with crowds usually but I get agitated and DH doesn't like it when I'm agitated so he really doesn't want to go anywhere with me on a Saturday night.... So does anyone have any really cool, staying home, being together, ideas for me?  We've come up with a few but they're the usual boring crap..watching movies, pay-per-view, etc...*SIGH*  Oh well it'll be nice to be in a house and not have to hear, "mmmmaaaaaawwwwwwwmmmmmmmm" every five seconds. Yep, that'll be nice in its self!

I cannot wait for Spring break, ONE MORE WEEK, YAY!!!!!!! I think I'll probably go and check out my schedule of assignments for next week and get a start on them...that way I'll have, basically, 2 weeks off! HOOO HOOOO!!!!  Ok, I'm off to find my assignments! Have a great weekend everyone!

Well.....I have notes for my Art Histyory paper.  That's a girst step.  Now I have to read more, take more notes, then write the fucking paper...and this is just the first one of MANY! I wish I knew where a 'buy-a-term-paper' place was, I'd just buy the paper..ok, probably not because I'm super cheap, but you know, it's good to dream.......

We have sattelite TV.  After my next door neighbor took a gas powered post-hole digger and dug 3ft wide holes all up and down my yard, hitting the cable connection...we sort of had to get Sattelite...so we got Dish Network.  Well they did some stupid shit, but I figured, they're just the TV company, fuck 'em.  Well DH called and ordered Direct TV the other day and it was installed yesterday.  We get more channels, 2 receivers and it's actually cheaper!! so that was sweet.  I had to pay the guys, when they left, a whole $1.07 for the 2nd receiver.  So we have cool TV, still LOL Alright, off to work on the paper, GAWD!! Yes, I suck at papers, truly madly SUCK!  Have a great weekend I'll try to update soon!

Just for JKjoker....

  LTs party was cool.  Most of my boys' parties include, Grammy, Grandpa, Aunt Hussy (And the current man if there is one, Dirty Bastard was there), and B and her family.  My Mom brings the cake (from Publix) and then we wait for Hussy to be late (or B as it were for BT's party).  After everyone arrives, we let the birthday child open gifts, we eat cake then I tell my family goodbye.  Yes, that is about as long as they stay.  They've always done this, Hussy is especially bad about it.  My mom hangs around a little after cake but she's gone within 10-15 mins.  Then B hangs out with us until some ungodly hour and they leave and we're done!  
  Usually the kids stay upstairs and we break out the old N64 and let them play it all night, while the adults drink and 'walk the dogs' and talk.  It's ton o fun for us and the kids.  And that's what we did!

As for de-In-Law-ing my DH well, yeah I think so.  It's amazing what the bedroom will do for that

Well, I'm almost done with my house so let me go finish it.  And I have a paper to write for Art History, GAG!!!!!!! YUCK!!! I HATE HATE HATE HATE papers, with a PASSION!!! DH says he LOVES them, I told him if he loves them and me, the go write it for me! He declined, the assmunch! Have a great Tuesday!!

*SIGH*

Well, I think that I might be back for at least the next two weeks anyway.   My School load will be MUCH lighter this week and next week.  Spring break is just 2 weeks away, HOOOO HOOOO!!!

So, where was I all week?  Well the DH got home last Friday from FL and then we went to B's house for my b-day.  The following week (last week, actually) he worked from home.  So, that took up a LOT of my time.  Then, there was the dreaded 'First Project' of the semester....Conceptual Design...we had to come up with a lamp fixture, starting from the concept of it and then sketching it out, working through it and then finally building it..so I built it yesterday and here it is... in it's model form, this isn't suppose to be retail ready......

My concept was 'Nature's Beauty'  I was trying to represent the way sunlight seems to emit from the plants around you, on a clear sunny day.  Anyway, I won't go into great detail about my concept because I just had to do that in class and....BAH!

Well, this week I'm cleaning and finishing my schoolwork for the week...I also hope to sit down and go through my SIRs at some point this week, it might be laster on in the week, I have a lot to accomplish today thru Weds.......So I'm off to look up this week's assignments and then it's off to clean this nasty house.

How many times did you read the word, 'week'....A LOT! lol

So, if I told you that I have ANOTHER birthday party this weekend would you believe me?  I probably wouldn't but, I do, in fact, have another party this weekend...LT will be 2 tomorrow.  Gawd, 2years old....Hell he hasn't even been weaned a year...isn't he 8 yet??

My party at B's house was so much fun!!  I got a cool Ozzy Osbourne doll (yes, I *love* 'The Osbournes') and a German thermometer/barometer thing, it ROCKS! And some kick ass turtle stuff and blue glass!! HOOO HOOO!! I have enough blue glass shit in my house to start my own company, but I won't...I *really* like my blue glass.  Alrighty then, sorry this week has sucked in the Entry Department, but I've been with the Dh making up for his week in Florida..it's amazing what happens when your husband of almost 6 years leaves for a week and hangs out with the in-laws (those corrupting fools that they are) without you around...yep, just amazing...... I'll be back next week with, MAYBE some more exciting enteries, I apologize, folks for the lack of centent and lack of reading SIRs...I'll be better, REALLY!

I upgraded my cell phone.  I do this often.  I upgrade things A LOT.  I don't use my cell phone for insane amounts of time.  As a matter of fact the battery usually runs out because it's just been sitting in my purse turned on in case someone calls.  But when a new cooler phone comes out, there I am with my hand out wanting it.  I always get it.  It's the superficial, vain me...in the bold, bright flesh.  I like it this way.  Being vain and superficial is fun at times.  I'm only like that with certain things.  I think it's the whole principle of, "Look at me, I can afford this and I can have what I want."  It's not all materialistic, sure the phone is, but life isn't.  I like my 'things', or 'gadgets'...they make me happy, they aren't ALL that make me happy they are just a tiny, miniscule part of what makes me happy.  I'm glad that I can afford things like this, because seriously...what good is money if you can't spend it?

  At any rate, my phone ROCKS in a hard hard way!  It's just like a little mini-laptop that I can play around with, surf the web, use my own photos as wallpaper...it just fucking R O C K S!!!!!!!  And now my techno-geek husband is so jealous of my phone...it will synchronize with my email if I want it to.  DH thinks that I get the new-fangled stuff that isn't really as cool as they (the marketers of said 'stuff') say it is.....this phone though, is BETTER than they say it is....Oh I love my phone, yes I do!  And here she is in all her beautiful glory.....

Isn't she PRETTY!?!?!

Wow, nothing to say.  Go take the 'TurtleMama or Not?' quiz and let's see how well you know me!   It's on the left side module, at the very tippy top...I'm off for more coffee and less thinking...Spring is here, the weather is beautiful, maybe I'll go shoot some pictures.  Have a great Monday, Folks.  I'll try to come up with something to write tomorrow..