Summer Class

So yesterday I started my summer class.  For the month of July, and the first week of Aug. I will be taking Stats 141 every MWF, 9am-Noon.  The professor seems good, so I'm hopeful I'll get through this.  Lots of note taking and assignments, and I already have my Midterm on the 20th!  This is gonna be such a fast month.  Eeep.  But yeah, kinda nice actually, to have something that's a set schedule, since it will help me keep track of my life better.  When I have nothing really structured in my life it gets even more messy than usual.  So that should be good.  I'm trying to schedule my life better to meet my Life Change Goals.  And I need to set actual, proper goals.  So I'm scheduling house-chores to specific days of the week to spread it all out and keep anything from building up and getting overwhelming.  For Mondays I've scheduled the bathroom cleaning, which I got done, and it didn't take long and was basic.  So nice.  I'm going to try to plan meals in advance like my sister-in-law Beth seems to be able to do, so we can eat at home more, which is healthier and cheaper.  So I had planned and half-prepped for our stew supper we had yesterday the evening before, and just stored the chopped up veggies in the fridge. So I got supper made, and swept the kitchen floor, and tidied up while it cooked.  We were both tired by the end of the day since we'd had maybe 5 hours of sleep so we watched a movie and near the end of it the stew was finally done and it was SOOO good!  I think it was my best stew ever.  And we had our ancient grains bread with it.  Amazing.  We finished the movie, I washed up all the supper dishes, and we basically called it a day then.  All in all the day turned out well, but we need to get better about getting to bed Sunday nights... we always want to extend the weekend, but then we pay for it on Mondays.

The weekend.  Ummm... so the weekend was good.  Saturday we went to the Farmers Market.  It's still early in the season for most fruit and veggies, but we got some farm eggs, some homemade beef jerky, some of the most amazing saskatoon berry jelly (and when we go next time I'm tempted to try her unique Carrot Cake Jelly), and some awesome coconut almond cookies.  We also got some hormone free, free range meats from Red Tractor Meats.  That was the stew beef I used.   Really good.  Can't wait to try the Chicken Cranberry Sausage I got, and Ryan got Rodeo Burgers, which are bison burgers with spices and black pepper.  So we had fun there, then we went and picked up some veggies at the grocery store for the stew and while Safeway doesn't have the best Organic section, I'm trying to get as many of the Dirty Dozen foods (the 12 foods that contain that most amount of pesticides, and you can't really wash it out) in Organic if I can.  The fruit is so good in the organic section.  We had some of the best grapes ever, and even the celery was really tasty.  Then we came home, and Colevin and Ebony came over and we played more board games and made chicken taco's for supper.

Sunday I was really tired and didn't get up with my alarm, and so we were running late and chose to go to the Alliance church since they have a 11:15am service so we wouldn't be walking in to church late.  So we actually made it to a church service this Sunday, but I did miss Community.  It's just kinda hard to appreciate other Churches when you're used to Community.  Everything else feels way to human-scripted.... but we did go to Church, and it was good I guess.  Hopefully next week I'll get my butt out of bed sooner.  Gotta work on this getting more sleep thing.

So today I'm going to the farm for the morning (so I'd once again better get a move on!) and then I'm back home working on school stuff (gotta transfer my notes to my new notebook and by doing that I'll review the notes and things we covered last class, plus I need to read through the next section so I know more or less what he's gonna talk about and am a bit familiar with it.  I may even start on my homework assignment that is due next Monday.  It'll be good to get out to the farm today and breathe in some horse for a bit too.  The new trainer has arrived and I need to take pictures of all the new horses for their stall cards.  So if I get all my school stuff done I also need to work on photo's... I still have to finalize my shots from the E-session I helped with, and then all these new horses and stall cards, plus some work on the TopNotch website.  Busy busy, but hey, this is just more practice so I can develop good time management and discipline and efficiency.

So off I go!  Have a great Tuesday everyone and bless you in your going out and coming in!!