Tomorrow, Lord willing, I'll start my class from Utah State University (online). I'm pretty excited. I think my text book is at the post office waiting to be picked up.

This past week, I was out 3 evenings for college group related activities; two of those nights, there was black ice. But we haven't gotten much snow. The snow outside should be measured in inches, not feet.

On New Year's Eve Day, my family and I went snow-shoeing on a near-bye mountain. It was neat to do an activity-outing with so many of us together (8 people!). It was beautiful, too, but the lighting turned out not right on a number of pictures... I think something was wrong with how it automatically decided to expose. Oh, great, I just looked and my camera is set to take pictures in its "Tv" mode, whatever that means. I think that was the problem.

Please know that these snow pictures from snow-shoeing were not taken at my house! :) We went onto a mountain with more snow.

The lighting turned out pretty good on this one! (I think it was probably taken while the camera was still on a more normal setting)

And lighting represented wrong again (picture probably taken after the setting was changed away from a normal setting). I think this was my first time snow-shoeing. I liked it pretty well, especially running (jogging) for short bits. I liked feeling more in control and safer than with skiing, (I think if I was better at cross-country skiing, maybe the control thing wouldn't be such an issue.)

Pictures from Christmas. I think I was talking or about to talk or just talked in this picture... We wore home-made "elf" hats on Christmas and helped at and enjoyed a community dinner in a nearby community (ranks as a one-stop-light-intersection town).

Thanks to a brother for taking the sisters-in-elf-hats photos.

A highlight from New Year's Eve day... twice hearing what was presumably the neighbor's cannon going off and the resulting conversations. So Mary Poppins is not quite as unrealistic as one might think... :)

I had to decide...! Pay by 10:59 (yay for different time zones) or expect to be dropped from the class.

So I payed. By credit card, if that counts. Maybe it shouldn't count until I pay that.

Choices are hard for me to make sometimes. There's the peace litmus test; do you have peace about such and such decision. I did after I made it; does that count? But I'm still worried, too. How am I going to have enough time? Will I have enough time? Will I feel overloaded (probably)? Will I end up withdrawing or dropping the class? But the future is still the future. But I'm excited about the class. And pretty tired after finishing the work week. And winter driving expectable for a few months still... My time is pretty full; what was I thinking? :)

So there's another class I think I should probably take, but I'm putting off that decision a little bit, but if I take both classes, that will be six credits attempted in about 4 months. A little better than the 22 credits I attempted (more or less; I've passed 16, attempted 3 more, and procrastinated and sometimes worked on the last 3) in the last 6 months of this current year. But not necessarily so much better if one knows how much (little) I put into some of those credits. So we'll see what the future holds.

And as of yesterday, I did not have a sinus infection, though I payed a lot of money to establish that fact. And so unidentified allergies are potentially to blame for any lingering congestion. Maybe I'm allergic to bleach; I use bleach water a decent amount at my job. But I have congestion at home, too.

I went to the staff Christmas party for my work this evening. It was nice.

Went to a wedding yesterday and to lunch after church today. Wow, so much socialness. Lunch was too spicey, but I wanted to eat plenty because I had been hungry. A friend gave me her left-over peanuty sauce, and that toned it down enough for me to eat with less pain. :)

I am yet again (still?) not quite healthy but not too sick to work. Lovely, isn't it? With a final project that I wanted to have submitted last night. Now, maybe I'll finish it tomorrow or Tuesday. I really want it submitted by Tuesday!!!!!! But I want to sleep. Tomorrow I'm supposed to wear black and red and play handbells at a ladies tea. I've considered leaving early to work on my final literature project... but I suppose I probably will stay to the end.

Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top
When the wind blows, the chickens will squawk
When the bough brakes, the chickens will flee,
But still, little baby, you'll be with me.

Sleep, little baby, in the tree tops,
Don't be afraid of little raindrops,
When the clouds brake, the sun will shine through,
'Til then, little baby, reach for the truth.

Rock-a-bye baby...

Greetings! I'm trying to write on my blog more regularly, closer to my once a week goal. :)

My health did improve this week! But I don't think it has improved quite as much as the doctor would like...

I enjoyed my work this week, which was nice.