Spring Fever and stuff

I THOUGHT it was spring. Silly me. But it doesn't hurt my feelings to get a little extra moisture to kick-start the growth of my plants that are still alive after the record-breaking wind five days ago. Well, as long as we get our July rains like we did NOT get last year...

We started building the addition on our house yesterday, and got halfway done with the floor before a) we found that "we" didn't buy enough OSB. Yeah, I didn't do the drawing or the figuring and b) it started raining and we had to put everything away for the night.

So we ran to Show Low today (sabbath) to get more wood that "we" didn't buy last time, as well as a new drill and a new miter saw that we needed. (No quotation marks that time because a miter saw is one I am NOT afraid of, and can use)

I expressed my opinion of the attention everyone gives my incarcerated sister and yep, you guessed it, I got my butt chewed for being selfish. Yeah, I'm selfish because it bothers me that everyone is "reminded" to send my sister Christmas cards, Birthday wishes, goodie boxes for Thanksgiving, and all because she is "locked up and can't be around family during the holidays." My heck, maybe I should commit a few crimes so I can get AWAY from said family! Nevertheless, she's in prison for sticky fingers and an undying desire to have attention, and so we're sending her cards, homemade gifts, food, and money and nobody but me seems to see that all the "ATTENTION" is a reward for all her law-breaking. I'd never want to get out if I kept getting things in there that I never got when I was out. Maybe that's why she's come up for parole board 4 times and has gotten into trouble days before each time! Go figure. Selfish me.

Speaking of selfish, I got a new serger for my birthday last week. Oh, it is cool! I haven't been able to play a whole lot with it yet, but I am making a dress right now that is going to be really cute! I think it is going to be too small, though, as I tried on the bodice and it squishes me to the point of "uni-boob" and I need help to get it off, but...Maybe it will be the incentive I need to get this weight back off...

I can see the end of my elementary education teaching education. Sound silly? It is! I've been in school for the last 27 years of my life, literally, with no break except when I had Louis and Dakota as babies, and even then I did correspondence courses. But like I said, the end is in sight. I have one more week of the two classes I am enrolled in now, then one more summer class, and student teaching from August to December, then I am completely done! Until the next degree plan gets started. I've decided I want to be a professional student. The desire to learn is the only real honorable reason for seeking a formal education, in my opinion. You can go to trade schools to learn job skills, but college is for knowledge. Call me silly, call me arrogant, but that is my belief and it is just as valid and valuable as yours or anyone else's. I will not argue, I will not defend, because I don't need to. It is an opinion, and it is mine, and nobody will change my mind. So there.

Life goes on, sometimes slow, sometimes at breakneck pace, but no matter what, it does go on. So for now, knowing nobody is reading this, I will seek to go on with my own selfish little life by signing off and reading a book while readying myself for bed. Good night, loyal spirits in the sky.