Yay! I have a Python book now!

Well, I just registered, or maybe re-registered for Seattle Fashion Week. It looks like the auditions will be on Monday, April 5th, at Qwest Field's West Club Lounge from 4pm-7pm. So it looks like I'll miss my first class, and be late to my second class.

Yay! I can see again! I picked up my glasses from Janell on my way to school. So, I was about 5 minutes late to class. Darnit! Oh well, like I said, at least I can see.

I'm trying to stay caught up in my C++ class, but I must be cursed. The computer that I was sitting at did not have Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, so already I was behind. Thankfully, Keith helped me after class ended.

I still need to get my Python book. I'm supposed to ready chapter 1 and the first half of chapter 2 for class tomorrow.

Well, I got about 3 pages done of my paper. This is really hard. It's hard to get 5 pages. I at least e-mailed Keith what I had finished, with my notes attached to the end of it, so he can kind of see where I was going with it.

I finally downloaded/installed the latest BlackBerry Desktop Manager. I've just updated my BlackBerry Bold 9000. Yay, I have so much more memory now! Hopefully this will help my BlackBerry to be quicker.

I didn't end up going to church today, or bowling with the young adults group, because I was attempting to work on my paper.

Yesterday Ruby did something that shocked/scared/spooked me. My mom basically banished Ruby to being outside yesterday (this only lasted a day). When I was feeding her, she was getting really growly towards Rocko. My mom wanted me to get food for Rocko and Merlin, since they don't get to eat as often as they used to. So I went inside and filled two bowls for Rocko and Merlin. Ruby decided that Rocko was getting too close to her food and basically attempted to bite him. When I say bite, I meant she was acting quite dog aggressive. I took her and her food off the porch and put her and her food in front of the steps. When Rocko came down the stairs she went after him again, even though she didn't even have any food left. I immediately took her out of the yard and we went for a walk down to the Centennial Trail. When we got back everything was fine, all of the dogs just curled up on the porch for an afternoon nap. It spooked me because she's never guarded her food before. Hell, she'll even sit there while Spencer eats all of her food.

I really didn't get much done today. I did get a bit more written for my paper, though.

For the most part I studied, got in an hour and 20 minutes of study time. I feel like I'm hitting a wall, though. Writing a 5 page paper is really quite hard. At least I've started typing up my thoughts, hopefully that will help me down the right path.

Last night I got an e-mail that I really didn't appreciate. One part was valid, the rest just pissed me off. Unfortunately I accidentally deleted the e-mail. I did find it in the trash folder. I wrote my reply back, but I still have to add some images to the e-mail.

Tonight I'm going to Tulalip Resort for my friend, Janelle's birthday party. The theme is black and white, so I'm going to wear my black with creme polka dots dress and shoes. I think this is a great outfit, now if only I didn't have this lovely bruise on the inside of my left leg right below my knee. At least the shower I'm going to take will help that a little bit.

Woke up a bit late, so I didn't get to the Everett Animal Shelter until around 10:30am. But I did stay until around 1:30pm, which means that I made up a little bit of the time that I'd missed from times where I have had to leave early. I did meet a girl who's six-year-old son has ADHD and sensory integration. I gave her my contact information so that way she can talk to me, a person with the same situation, outside of volunteering.

Finally got my Birthday freebie from Sephora. I also stopped at Borders and got a book on decluttering "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decluttering" by Regina Leeds. There are a few things that I don't really agree with in her book, which mostly pertain to the fact that I have ADD. She suggests setting aside several hours to finish a project, where as I prefer to work in 20 minute increments. Yes, I accomplish less in the short term, but I'm less apt to become sidetracked.

I spent almost 2 hours studying today. That's always a good thing.

Finally got to see Otay for the first time since October. We went and looked at a duplex. It's a nice place. 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, single car garage with room for at least 3 more parking spots in the driveway. It didn't have much of a backyard, but there was space for a nice BBQ and picnic table on the back deck and back patio. One of the best things about this place is the storage! The master bedroom has a large walk in closet. There's a coat closet in the entry, the 2nd bedroom has a large closet, lots of storage in both bathrooms and in the kitchen.

First day of spring break. I was in a strangely giddy/hyper mood earlier today. Spent lots of time at Borders today. I bought 2 magazines and 2 books. I got the newest Doctor Who Magazine! It's the introduction of the 'new' style.

Today my brother helped me realize that we actually get to go to Journey this Tuesday! Yay, we get to see Pastor Shawn (hopefully)!

At Shift (young adults group), we worked on scheduling events.

Well, we got the quote/estimate for Ruby's surgery...$5,200!

Poor Ruby, she's had a rough day. She didn't get to eat because she had an appointment with the specialist today.

I might have a chance at passing my 222 class. Well, at least I now have the Cisco Packet Tracer software, so hopefully I'll have an easier time at doing the 'Final Project' portion of the Final.

But I'm going to have to beg for an extension or something to have any chance at passing my 224 class.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I couldn't find my Mickey Mouse St. Patrick's Day T-shirt. So I just wore my "Some Enchanted Evening" South Pacific t-shirt.

Yep, still feel like crying. I worried about Diane's class, when I really should have been worrying about my other two classes.

I struggle so much with trying to understand subnetting. Just when I think I'm starting to understand, I discover that I'm wrong, or forget everything that I thought I was understanding.

Flanaghan found a dead mouse in Chris's car, and a mouse nest. Hopefully his car will stop smelling.

I woke up way late for my dentist appointment. I ate breakfast on my drive into Everett.

Great, I have a lot more to do for my Network Server Admin class than I thought I had to do. I need to write a 5 page paper, complete a quiz that I have, and complete a subnet makeup assignment for doing poorly on the first subnet quiz. I feel like crying.

Super long day today. I'm so tired. Lost an hour of sleep since daylight savings time kicked in this morning.

Today's schedule consisted of 1st service at church, Seattle Kennel Club Dog Show at the Qwest Field Events Center, and Legally Blonde the Musical at the 5th Ave. Theatre.

Tomorrow I have a dentist appointment at 9:30am.

Grandma came over and brought my birthday gift with her. It was a pink cat stuffed animal. I'll have to keep it away from Ruby.
I also worked on printing out a bunch of stuff for my CS222 class.

My 24th Birthday

Last night was a long night. It reminded me that I should never drink on an empty stomach. Other than that, I thought I did well at the casting call.

Slept in for the first time in quite a while. That was nice. Checked out a local salon and spa. May have found a good massage therapist. Went and got my tires rotated, and that was free. Free is always nice. Ate lots of food. Got a new mirror from my parents for my birthday.

Very busy day today. I'm getting ready to head to Kirkland for a casting call.

Well, today was the last day working with IT at the Marysville School District.

Boy were they sure happy to see me today at the Marysville School District Service Center. Apparently I'm the only female working with the IT department. So I was the only one who could do the computers in the girls locker room.

I actually got stuff accomplished today. I went to Dr. Kohlberg by myself, and got there early. Go me! After that appointment and before my appointment with Karen, I made several calls. I called Seattle Veterinary Specialists, played phone tag, and finally got an appointment for Ruby scheduled for next week. I finally called Klein Honda and scheduled a service appointment for my Accord, for this Thursday.

Rick told me that it was a funny story about transferring the data from the broken thumb drive to the replacement thumb drive. I guess it was all done on Friday, after I dropped it off. Rick said that it was pretty funny. Frank stood there holding the connections together while Rick copied all 4.1 gigs of data over to the replacement thumb drive. Rick said it took about 12 minutes. I don't know if that was an exaggeration or not.

Found a dollar on the ground today! Went to the Everett Animal Shelter for the Feline and small animal TTouch class. When we were going through the cats, getting hands on experience, the instructor was letting us know that for some of the more spooked cats we shouldn't overstimulate them. Spend only 2-4 minutes per shift working with those cats. We then watched as some volunteer girls kept trying to get a spooked cat, who was already overstimulated, to be more friendly.

Yay! Frank got my flash drive working long enough to transfer and save everything over to my replacement flash drive.

Took my shower and for the first time in my life I used up all of the hot water that was in the hot water tank! That shower ended on a cold note.
I dropped off my busted thumb drive at the Marysville school District offices for Frank. That way he can attempt to fix it over the weekend, and transfer everything over to my replacement thumb drive. I pray that he'll be able to do it.

I stopped at Joann Fabric in Marysville and picked up a set of 3 pairs of knitting needles and another book on how to knit dog sweaters.

I also stopped at Sally's Beauty Supply, picked up a brush, detangling comb, quick dry top coat for my nails, some hair combs, and stretch mark cream.

The dryer quit working at the Everett Animal Shelter today. I wonder what is wrong with it? I hope it gets fixed soon.

Right now I'm in class. I'm supposed to be working on a lab assignment, but I have no clue what I'm supposed to do. If I did know what I was supposed to do I wouldn't know how to do it. How frustrating. i wish there was something that I could read to help me figure this thing out.

Today we were working at Tulalip Elementary School.

I've been somewhat miserable all day long. My back has been hurting all day, and I've had hot flashes off and on all day. Plus it's been pretty warm out for this time of year, around 60 degrees.

Been attempting to work on my Computer Problem Project paper.

Frank attempted to fix my thumb drive, but wasn't able to. He said that he might be able to do it, if he had it over the weekend. So I'll leave it with him this Friday. I pray to God that he'll be able to get it working long enough to copy all of the data to my new thumb drive.