November 14, 2009

• To Blog or Not to blog.....

  I would like to say that I have been extremely busy and unable to get to my computer. However that my friends would be a big fat lie. I forget regularly to turn on my messengers, update my twitter, check up with my Myspace... the list goes on. There have actually been days I have just not bothered to turn on my cell phone. All of these of course make communication with the outside world near impossible. Hell I have even forgotten to update my Facebook... I know this because my sweet often hilariously funny friend Tessy reminded me that I was still waking up one day..for 2 solid weeks!
  It isn't that I don't want to communicate. I don't think anyway, I just have not had the urges I guess. I do find myself missing my friends I just usually realize this at about 3AM while I am waiting for my tweaker neighbor to pass out so I can pretend to sleep for the 2 or 3 hours until she and her boyfriend/room mates start fighting again or screaming at her infant to shut the fuck up so she can sleep *don't worry I am calling CPS on Monday* and thats normally when she is being nice. I typically won't get involved unless I feel like a kid is in danger. There is a lot of slamming and throwing of things over there at all hours. Also they screaming at the baby has gotten worse and worse. I would not be able to live with myself if I didn't at least report the things I hear. Someone has to advocate for the 2 small kids over there. They little ones used to play outside all the time and now you rarely see them. They seem more withdrawn (they used to live at grammas house this is moms first place). It is not normal for a 2 yr old to jump when momma says thier name. That to me is a sign of fear. I hope like hell I am wrong but if I do nothing and we are right I feel I would be just as guilty. So Monday we make a call. I feel it is my duty as a mother, neighbor and well human being.. no child deserves to be abused verbally and or otherwise.

  ANYWAY I am gonna go grab dinner and come back and finish this!
  OK now I am back. That was one good dinner. My hubby is a very good cook. So now i am stuffed.

  I don't have much to really report. I am still working on starting college in January. Sometimes I think people are trying to talk me out of it by telling me its very hard and lots of homework. Not like I am afraid of hard work or studying. I guess it will be my time to prove people wrong. Which i thoroughly enjoy doing by the way, wouldn't be the first time. I will be buying a laptop with my student AID money. I am not sure which one to get. My desktop works fine but I want to be able to do most of my assignments from school and there is comfort in using your own system. I will also be able to email myself back ups so that I can have them on both comps. Also I have always wanted a laptop. I don't do a lot of downloading. I play mostly apps on Facebook and smallworlds or pogo for games. I also blog here. If i do download it is usually from Real Arcade or Pogo. I also don't wanna spend more then about $700 if I can get away with it. Any ideas???? I want the biggest bang for my buck I can get. hehe.

  So we got Nina into Sylvan Learning Center on scholarship to hopefully help her catch up in school. She qualified for 30 hours of free tutoring. Which will be 4 hours a week. Hopefully it helps. She is doing ok but does definately struggle. I am shocked to report that with her being in 5th grade that they have completely removed Spelling from the curriculum. This annoys me to no end!!! They "did away with it to save time". My response was of course then why teach math? When we have perfectly good calculators. Of course that was looked at as "get real" thing. I wonder why they decided its ok for our youth to be stupid spellers? I hope none of our kids have to right any bills into our constitution some day. They probabaly won't be able to spell it anyway.
  I work with her on spelling as much as I can but she is completely not interested. Whats even funnier is that they refuse to teach spelling (cuz its so hard to assign 20 words a week and then test on them) but yet they try to mark her down for it. I challenge it everytime. I have been fighting this spelling debate since 2nd grade! They did give me a list is 3rd grade that they said all kids should "just know" how to spell.
  Anyway I guess thats about it for now must get back to my apps before i head to bed.
  Hope you all are well!

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