June, June, June

As of yet, I feel that April & June have been the craziest months of the year. April because of so many things planned: concerts, mini vacations, etc.

It is now June, & what I thought would be a somewhat easy online health class has turned into a Goliath. The assignments get harder each week. Considering that the class is only a month long & we have until midnight on Fridays to complete the assignments & test, it SUCKS. On a bright note, I have a 95 in the class thus far, & the class is over in 8 days, so maybe I should quit my bitchin' & suck it up.

June has been a crazy month. For some reason my family chooses to have babies in June. Por ejemplo, my birthday is the 16th, my brother's is the 18th. My nephew's is the 7th (his birthday party this year was on the 9th), my niece's is also the 16th (yay! & her party was also on the 16th this year), my other niece's birthday is on the 24th (& her first birthday party is on the 21st, I.e. next week.) Throw in Father's Day & the fact that I actually have an ex who wants to see his kid, & it makes for a crazy month. Check my instagram for pictures of all the June madness.

Also, the hellion has been doing wonderfully in the juniors class at tkd. I was worried at first, but he has stepped up from the Little Dragons (4 & younger) class, & I couldn't be more proud. Today he knew the name of his form, the # of movements in it, & the meaning of it all before anyone else could answer! He's so smart :)

The fiancee & I are taking the kids to the beach on the 28th (the day my summer classes end, yay!) & I cannot wait!!

Did I just say fiancee? Yep, that's right, he proposed! :)

I'm off to bed because I am pooped. I am an official antique (25-years-old) as of this past Saturday, & old lady is old. Good night, all.

Summer days drifting away...

This is being typed on my handy dandy android phone. Yay, technology!

I'm thoroughly enjoying my summer mini classes, an online health class, The Aspects of Aging. The online class is not as hard as I thought it would be (I've only taken one other online class before, & I made my first C. I told myself I would never take another online class again--oh the things a sooner graduation date will make you do), but it is by no means easy.

I'm also taking a history course entitled Black America.  We opened the course with American Slavery & will end it with the civil rights movement. We are currently reading a book called American Slavery by Peter Kolchin; I am enjoying Kolchin's book. I actually have to have the rest of it read by tomorrow & a 4 pg. book review on it due on Thursday (which I should probably be working on now), but I need to get this blog written since I've been so neglecful of if as of late.

The only bad thing about these summer classes is that they are mini mesters, so everything is so condensed. I would really like to take the Black America class during a full term, just so I could go more in depth with the subject. To sum up my summer school schedule: 2 classes in June, the above mentioned, & 2 classes in July. Then four classes in the fall & graduation in December!

I've also been searching information on grad schools, & I plan to apply to UA to get my masters in Library & Information Studies. Wish me luck!

In relation to my masters, I've been searching for jobs in order to try & gain experience for my career. Luckily JSU has a position open at their library for which I've already applied. I won't know anything until the end of this month, so wish me luck! I'm really really REALLY hoping I get the job. I've never wanted anything so badly in my life.

Because of my summer school schedule I've taken a cut in hours at work. This is both a bad thing & a good thing. It's bad because, obviously, I'm not making as much money. It's a good thing, though, because I have enough time before my class starts to get a full workout in at the school's gym, & then get my hourly cardio session in at the gym after class ends & before picking up the hellion from school. Needless to say, I'm still keeping up the hard work at the gym. I've even had four people in the past week tell me I've lost weight (see uploaded progress picture). =D

Speaking of the hellion, he has been doing wonderfully. He starts kindergarten in the fall, & this makes me so upset but also so happy. He graduated from preschool at the end of May, & at his graduation ceremony he even got to read to the audience! Proud mommy is proud. (I've uploaded a picture from his graduation that is supposed to be after this paragraph, but seeing as how I am technology-retarded & this is my first post from my phone, Idk if it will be here.)

My birthday is coming up this Saturday. I'll be an official antique-- 25-years-old. I'm mentally much older though; I feel like I'm ancient! Birthday festivities will be taking place. You can find my pictures on instagram, seeing as how I don't have fb anymore (6 months & counting!). My instagram name is lwlmthompson.

I think that is all for now, kind folks. I need to finish this book & start my book review. Let's hope I don't fall asleep in the midst of it. Wish me luck!

Post I started a few weeks ago & never finished. I'll just write another post later.

I started reading Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses a few days ago.  I love it.  I'm very happy that LC convinced me to read it, as she is reading it also.  I feel that it is a nice tie to the History of Islam class I took in the spring, as I would probably be very confused and not want to finish the story if I didn't know what I now know about Islam and Muhammad.  For Mother's Day, boyfriend Chad bought me Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain, which I've been anxious to read since I read an excerpt from it for the American Lit. class I took a few semesters ago.  My boyfriend is so good.  Yes, he is.  I plan on reading Letters from the Earth after I finish The Satanic Verses.  I think they may be a good compliment to one another.  East v. west.  Good v. Evil.

Mother's Day was fun.  We had homemade breakfast with mom, then I took the hellion to the movies to see "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" movie.  The weather wasn't up to par, however, so I didn't get to take pictures of us in our "swag."  However, I do have an instagram account, which I post random pictures on, if any of you lovelies would like to follow:  lwlmthompson.

I've swung back into my workout routine again.  I've also started drinking a protein shake after workout sessions, so hopefully my body can benefit a little more from that and I can start seeing the results I want sooner.  I'll keep my fingers crossed.

It's nice to have a month off from school.  I'm looking forward to summer classes, however, because I'm looking forward to graduation in December!