Three weeks down...

Seven more to go!
Being back to school... It's craziness! I find that I manage my time a little better (or do I?), have something to look forward to, and am probably more committed to an online class than I was ever to classes that I physically had to be at! I definately took one hard class my first quarter. It's one of those ones that consumes pretty much all of my time, where as the other class doesn't take me nearly as long to complete. The only problem I have is the lack of sleep. I can't believe that I have two full time jobs (library & daughter), a partime job, and school (partime). I'm wondering if I should quit teaching. Part of me would like to. The rest of me says.. hang on to it... It's a good diversion. Plus, the owner of the studio would have a fit if I just upped and quit (i'd give her the 30 days notice as she requires). The other thing is that I've been teaching there for 5 years almost! WOO! Plus, it's a nice way to enhance my pocketbook.

Work is crazy. The schedule I have adopted is even more insane, however, I don't want to have to take Scianna in too much. She's good most of the time, but the other times she's somewaht unmanageable. I'm still not sure if I like supervising. One week, I'm okay, the next I'm not. I'd really just like to manage soley ILL. Although I enjoy working iwth the computer lab students, I feel bad, because there's nothing much I can really say or do at this point. Without having a list of projects that need to be done, I can't really tell them to do much but sit there and answer any questions that arise, do the walkaround, and enter the data into our less than efficient spread sheets. I applied for a job at Binghamton University. I havne't heard anything back from them, and am not really expecting too. I'm not too crazy about the idea of moving, but I guess I'd have to if it was for the betterment of learning and family.

Scianna is 2. I don't really consider her terrible yet *knocks on wood*--but I think I may be getting burned out. This week has been particulary wild. She's constantly moving chairs to get what she wants--in some ways it's humorous, but in other ways, it worries me that she's getting into things she shouldn't be. Just now in fact, she pushed her stool into the little bathroom, told me she wanted to go 'pee' and then continued to turn on the water and play instead. Keep in mind that she's not even potty trained yet! I feel like a terrible parent when I direct her to the telly and allow her to watch sesame street, little Einsteins, or something other so I can try and get my homework done. I did join a play group. I wanted her to have a chance to interact with other kids around her same age. We've been to a few events, and have liked it so far. Visit the Rochester Sweet Peas site for more information! We've been mall walking, to the Sandbox, an indoor playground in Fairport, and more recently to a story time at Barnes and Noble.

Actually the B&N storytime was today. It was rather amusing and rather disturbing all at the same time. I really like how the guy seems to remember kids who are there frequently. It's very crowd interactive AND very crowded. I always hoped that I'd be able to be that kind of person--not caring what everyone else thinks and being silly for the sake of laughter from the kiddos. I'm too conscientious for that I guess. He actually made fun of Scianna because she was so loud. What did he say,oh yeah-- "This one really needs to come out of her shell--she's so shy" Being sarcastic obviously! I never really realized just how loud she is until today. It's funny because I CAN recognize her little voice and laugh when I can't see her. What's really bad is when she starts the Nelson "Ha-Ha" laugh from the Simpsons. It's really loud and equally as annoying. After the storytime, Scianna commenced to play with their Thomas the Tank Engine setup. Lordy Pete I can't believe how expensive those things are! If I was made of money I'd A. have a HUGE playroom with color coded bins and shelves and B. have a swanky train set like that. Unfortunately I'm not made of money and I will make it a point to visit places that have fun toys like that :).

But.. on the bummed out side, I lost Scianna's very cute monkey hat :(. Hopefully I will be able to relocate the purple hat that came with her furry purple coat to take its place. It was really cool because this is the first she's really been interested in wearing hats or gloves!

On to the wonderful world of fast food dinner! Whoops!