How The Heck Are You?

I am alive. And well. I know it's been forever since I've posted. No electricity and all, I kind of had a hard time getting the computer to turn on, ya know?
Now that the winter storm has passed, everything is starting to get back to "normal". Whatever that means anymore. I did finally get to start my classes at NEO Grove Campus. I was planning on going that next Monday, right? Well, that didn't happen. Almost the entire town of Grove was blacked out. I didn't make it to my Tuesday night class, either because everything was still all screwed up. I also didn't make it to my Wednesday morning class. But by Friday morning, I was able to get to my first day of class. They were already on chapter 2. Oh, well. I think I'll be able to catch up. There's some pretty smart little boys in that class. High school boys who could, and probably will, blow me out of the water, when it comes to test times and quiz times. How humbling. Other than that, everything is hunky dory.
I have also been doing some filling in here and there at the day care where I use to work. I've been keeping up fairly well, so far. Next fall will probably be much harder because I will be taking more than two classes. Buckle down, Stacie! Get with it. I'm going to have to work on my study skills. Now I know where Shael gets it..lol. I waited until 10:00 Sunday night to start reading my required reading for psych. I finally closed my book at 11:21. Why do I do that to myself? It's like how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. The world may never know.
I have nearly made it to my 175 lb goal. I am currently hovering around the 178, 179, 180 mark. I have been eating only fruits and veggies these past two weeks. Tomorrow starts another round of cabbage soup, fruits and veggies. Yay! Can't wait to smell that cabbage cooking. Right. But, I can do it. Especially when I look at the scale and see I'm only a few pounds away from my first goal. I have lost 23 pounds, give or take a pound, depending on what time of day I weigh. I can now fit into the jeans Mom bought me for Christmas that I could fit into last November but not Christmas day. I'm wearing them right now, in fact. Please excuse the small London moment when I say "YAY ME!"
I am currently at the NEO library in Miami. I came up here to get my student ID and the little sticker for my car. I brought Valerie because she's also enrolled at NEO this semester and needed to get her ID and sticker. She also needed help on her computer class, so she brought her flash drive and I was going to help her. Well, shoot that idea out of the sky because we can't even find the documents she was working on. I feel stupid and lost. I won't speak for her, but I think she might, too. After about a half hour looking, and neither one of us being able to find them, I told her to send her instructor an e-mail asking for help. So, she did. Hopefully, she gets back to her quickly and she can go get some help from someone who knows what's going on in that class. I thought for sure I'd be able to help her because it's only Microsoft Word. But, you can't do much when you can't even find the document you need. How frustrating. She was very bent out of shape with frustration when she came in to work Tuesday after her first class Monday night. I felt so sorry for her, she was all crying and everything. Bless her heart, it's got to get better.
Okay, now I'm feeling old. Sitting her at the Miami Campus looking at all the young booties walking by. Actually, it wasn't too bad until I got in here in the library and all these "children" are sitting around me in the computer lab. I mean all these students sitting around me in the computer lab. I think about it and realize I could almost be old enough to be their Mama. Quit that talking loud in the li-bary, you youngins. You whipper snapper. You chillens. You want me to call you mamas? I certainly feel every pound and year I'm carrying around.
Well, I think we are getting ready to get the heck outa here. Valerie is getting more and more frustrated. I wish I could help her. It's got to be something simple that we aren't doing. Leaving one little bitty step out that alters the whole outcome. Computers are so fickle, aren't they? One day you know, or think you know what you are doing. The next, it all looks like a foreign language. At least her Comp class is going better.
I found out that I have to take Speech. Me? In a speech class? Oh, heavens. Whatever will I do? Make speeches, I suppose. Not looking forward to that. Unless I could make my speech in front of a bunch of one and two year olds. Now, that I would like to see. HA!
I hope to post a little more often now. When we finally got our power back on, I went to check my email and our Internet is down. Great. Mike used his debit card to pay for our Internet service. His card expired in December and he got a new one. The ISP wants our new credit card info over the Internet and Mike won't do it. He can't make up his mind if he wants to keep the same ISP or get a new server. So, in the mean time, we have no Internet. Which sucks. I wish he'd hurry up and make up his mind. But, you know men. Or, I know mine. The only people I know who are bigger procastinators are myself and my dear old Daddy. Which should make some interesting stories for the kids to talk about when they have families of their own.
Ta ta! Take care and keep your stick on the ice.