Down to the wire

I'm taking some community college courses in HTML and multimedia design, and boy am I behind. I'm too old and know better, so how did I manage to put my projects off just like I did when I was in high school and college. I thought I knew better now. I told myself I wouldn't fall into my "old" school ways. I was a terrible student. Always put major projects off until the last minute. But, I can't pull all-nighters this time. So, now what? Work all weekend (Mother's Day!) and do the best I can I guess. To tell the truth, my grades don't really matter. But, they do. They matter to me because I want good grades. I'm actually working way harder than I did in college. I just have way less time for school work. So, when I don't use the time I planned to set aside, it's gone. There is no more. No more time, that is. So, why am I sitting here writing about it. Becuase I can. This is my scheduled vent and relax time. Good night!

It's May

It's May and we have snow on the ground. Not just a little dusting, but we had about a foot of snow when we got up Friday morning. It didn't psyche me up to drive to Denver for my morning classes at Swallow Hill. And, my kids were very disappointed to not get a snow day. But, once I drove about ten minutes south I saw why - we got a foot, but just a couple of miles south got maybe half a foot, and by the time I got to Denver, it was just a light white blanket.

So, we've gotten more snow on and off since then and with our north facing house, our front yard will be white for a while unless the temperature goes up and stays up. This is spring! I'm used to spring snow storms, but in early to mid-April. I prefer to have spring come to stay by May.

Musically, I'm too busy to think about songwriting or performing. I'm finishing up courses at my local community college and trying my hardest to get caught up. I'm way out of the swing of college things. It took me a while to realize that I needed to treat the last few weeks of school as cram time. Major projects aren't done yet. Actually I finished one and have one to go and two finals. I'm way out of shape mentally for this. And I can't pull an all nighter. Too old and too many family and work commitments. But, I am doing a way better job than I did in college of not making excuses to professors. By that I mean that I am not making excuses. I'm just plugging away and getting the work done even though I did put more off than I should have. Which all means that all I can deal with right now is schoolwork, my morning classes that I teach and presenting a program at a MOPs group on Wednesday. And then there's helping backstage at the elementary school talent show, getting one daughter to rehearsals for the dinner theatre, getting the other daughter to her activites, and finding time to actually have a conversation with my husband, hopefully a few a day. Whew! Who has time for music? I'm trying to find time to write in my journal at least four mornings a week, walk the dog, and breathe.