Memorial Weekend...

So we DID do the campout this past weekend at our house...most of us slept inside because it rained and was COLD. What is wrong with the weather this year? Props to Mary and Amanda for sleeping outside and almost being eaten alive by killer bugs. You two amazed me. We roasted marshmallows, burned hot dogs and ate them anyway, and then did what all camping trips should involve...watching a movie because our fire got rained on. It was good and breakfast the next morning made up for it. Made me a little sick later, but still wouldn't undo it...mmm, breakfast meats!!!

While working on MAT 201 and watching the Top Chef weekend marathon, I came across my 5k sign up sheet, so I won't be running that Memorial Morning. I'm starting to make excuses for not wanting to run and that won't do. Eating peanut butter and jelly or banana sandwiches won't help me out! I saw some pictures of me a few years ago on John's computer and some people's facebooks and yikes! Should have been running more then.

Last week of elementary school next week and my kids are so excited! We look forward to sleeping in. Grant's off to Disney soon with his cousin so he's really excited. Still no word on our house, so if you want to vacation in Chattanooga, call me. I'll give you a good deal on our vacation home.


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Have a good Memorial Day everyone. Let's hope we don't have to wear sweatshirts.

educational psychology is not fun...

i'm sitting in the library taking a moratorium (that's college talk for "break") from educational psychology. I would just about give my right eye to not have to write a paper on Erickson's theories but I digress. I'm having this camp out this weekend and just started thinking that i'm not sleeping outside. If your coming, you better bring tick spray, they are awful right now. I'm looking forward to being together with all my friends, sitting on the front porch and singing with Julia Gulia, watching all the boys compete in fishing for no reward, and eating lots of tube steak over open flame. good times...

i need a part time job this summer. anyone know of something i could do and sit in front of a computer to do homework? anyone. bueller, bueller...

indiana jones, the happening, can't wait for these movies this summer. about as exciting as independence day with will smith a few summers ago. Do you all know I love will smith? i've almost taught my kids all the lyrics to "summertime". Best song ever! it makes me want to be black in philly.

julie is leaving for peru this weekend. she's excited and nervous and got this really cool camping gear where she WILL sleep outside with ticks. crazy but inspirational. Pray for her. She's leaving some real unknowns back home so pray her focus and heart can stay on the people of Peru and her learning the language. i already miss her, stupid face.

back to paper writing...

i'm better now...

so...since that last word vomit over finals, lots has happend. i'm in summer school, john graduated from college, elementary school is winding down, and a long summer is soon to ensue. i wish i could say i'm excited about it, but truthfully i'm not. it's a weird place i'm in right now. it's too much to go into in a blog, but i used to get super excited over summer and vacations and sleeping in (well, i do get excited about that but i don't see that in my summer). Remember when you used to look forward to things like the ice cream truck? you would tear your mom up for 50 cents for a super bomb pop? I loved those. I have great friends leaving the country to do summer missions, one to Peru and one on a longer term to Brazil. That makes me a little sad. But I couldn't be more encouraged by their sacrifice and inspired by their love for the Lord.





It makes me a little sad to think my kids have finished one more year of school. More transition. Our family is still in transition since our house in Chattanooga (which my friend Julie Lasslo kindly refers to as Egypt) has still not sold. That's uber frustrating. So it's like we're living duel lives in a sense. One chapter can't open until one closes. So we wait...





Maybe that's why I'm not looking forward to summer. Transition is just not fun. It is what it is. So I'll just live day to day, going to school, probably work a small part time job, i'll run, cook, do laundry, hang out with my family...that' john, the kids, and tyler and marie, and make the best of it.

Here's something that will make you laugh...maybe.

AHHHHHH!!!

I just needed to say that if i don't pass this one final i have, which i get to take multiple times but it has been made were Socrates himself could not pass it, i'm going to put my fist through my computer. seriously.

love

jennifer

just some stuff while i'm studying...

well i'm sitting in eastern's library with my kids, (who are acting amazing by the way) and i have not blogged about the half marathon yet. the main reason is that i'm waiting on the professional pictures so i can add them to the blog. another is that it's dead week and that means at eastern that you will want to die there is so much due this week. anyway, the race was really an amazing thing for me. i cried a couple of times during the race, especially at the finish line when i realized i had accomplished something i never thought in a million years i would do. a friend in chattanooga told me that i'll either love it or hate it. well, i don't hate it...

anyway, here's a picture of the two amazing ladies i ran with. we've been training since i got back and they've gotten me past some rought spots. who knew running could be so therepuetic. we came to school on monday with out t-shirts (because it is always about the tee shirt) and our medals. what's funny is all the students in school said,"Did you win Mrs. Martin, or what did you place?" yeah, we won. more than i could have imagined. i value there friendship and we plan on running a few more races together this summer. who knows, maybe i'll qualify for the Boston or New York someday...

anyway, i'll blog about all the details of the race when the pictures come in. it will be like a documentary only it won't be about anybody famous. like a VH1 special on gary coleman or something like that.

hey teachers, testings over tomorrow!!!!!! WOOOOOOO!~!!

What's that have to do with the price of rice in China?

While i was getting ready for school this morning, i was listening to the famous "Today" show (which by the way is much inferior to "Good Morning America") and there was a story about how there is a rice shortage overseas and that is increasing our price of rice here in the U.S. Now it doesn't matter that America doesn't have a shortage of rice, we export most of it, and oh yeah...people don't eat carbs here. The food shortage is really overseas, a REAL food shortage. That is disheartening to hear. But, we still will have to pay more for rice and it will be rationed to us at 4 bags per shopping trip. Sam's Club and GFC will arrest you if you buy 5, you hear me! That's not really my ranting.

The next story was how Hillary Clinton has raised 10 million dollars in the last two days for her campaign trail. Two days, and it was all raised on the internet by her campaign lackeys who don't care about people hungry overseas, because there is a 1 in 10 millionth chance she could be Democratic nominee for the U.S., who does not have a rice shortage but will be paying more for it anyway. Is there something wrong with this? Seriously.

It's the end of my semester. Can you tell? more to come...



And i'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free...

First Time for Everything

ok, i LOVE these comic strips called cyanide and happiness. i will be sharing some of my favorites with you as i find them. when i find them that resemble some part of my life and my day it makes it a double bonus.

ok, a lot of you know that i'm runnig my first mini marathon this weekend. it sounds so motivated, so exhilarating and monumental...and i'm scared to death. i'm running with basically the greek goddess of running who lovingly screams at me when i want to slow down. i love her and want to punch her in the face all at the same time in those moments. we joke about it. she's that non-sissy friend. we all need those. i also am finishing my semester in school and it's an odd feeling to be talking about history homework at 34. i may blog about my thoughts of the non-traditional students at eastern another time. i don't want to be thougth of one, so i try not to belly ache about it. all i know is when i see my fellow oldies on campus with their stewardess suitcases and perfectly organized notebooks and all their assignments were finished before the syllabi was ever published i think...i'm so glad i am who i am. i like that i enjoy comic strips on nothingness. and then their suitcases turn over on the curb and they're scrambling to get it back on it's wheels to show up 10 minutes early for class and think all if fair in the world...

i'll blog about the race after saturday. maybe we can have awesome pictures too. oh yeah...one more comic