Worst day of the year.

Okay, that's really a big fat lie but school started yesterday for me. I have three online classes and one class that I go to a real classroom. So far, it's not bad, it's just that at my age I would rather do all kinds of other things then school. Like nap, watch TV or read a book. Not sit in front of a computer for hours and hours on end. The one class is going to be a touchy feel class, so not what I like. Good thing that it's online so there wont be any hugs in real time! But we are to talk about emotions. I like my emotions bottled up just fine!

TJ and I think that we will send the meat birds to freezer camp this coming weekend. We were thinking September 10th, but we are down to the last bag of feed, and they are getting big. So, do we want to wait one more week, buy another bag of feed and wait till the 10th? Or when this bag is done, do them in then?

It's that time of the year

It's back to school time! Yea! Hip Hip Hooray! NOT! I'm not feeling the excitement this semester. I think that the newness is wearing off. This is my 3rd semester and it's not what I want to do, but I will put my big girl panties on and do it, and maybe I will only whine a little bit.

Last semester I had five online classes which was a lot of computer time, I wanted to take all online classes again as it really helped save on the gas, but I have to say, I was not really wanting to spend that much time in front of my computer.

This semester only three of my classes that I needed to take were available on line. So I have

Speech online
Economics online
Into to Sociology online
and then I have to go to a real classroom for my Software Skills for Business Management.

Last semester I had 15 credits, this semester it's only 11 credits.

I think that going to a classroom will be good as I will get out of the house a little bit more for something other then work, which was what it was like last semester.

A few things

Well, I got my grades back! Not to shabby, if I do say so myself!
Business Management A
Business Ethics A
Oral Communication A-
Marketing A-
Selling A

My overall grade or my GPA is 3.93 for all my school work. (Part of me is saying "A-?! What, you couldn't do better then that! )

The other thing is that someone tried to scam my on Craig's List. I put a stove up for sell and a guy wanted to buy it. After a few e-mails back and forth it started to sound fishy. The last e-mail from him I saw all kinds of red flags.

What he wanted to do was to send a MO for over the amount cause and I take it to my bank cash it, and send him back the overage. But then later on, you find out that the MO was a fake one and now you own the bank the money back and you sent money out. He "accidentally" wrote the MO for over the amount and it was already in the mail, he could trust me right? I e-mailed him back saying that I would send that one back without opening it up. If he really did send the MO I will take it and the e-mail to the cop shop and see what they have to say about it!

So, be careful when you are on Craig's list!

Bad Krissy!

Wow! It's been a week since my last post. But I do have some lame reasons for not blogging.

I had a great time visiting with my sister in MO, and it was a nice road trip too. If there's one thing to know about me is that Krissy loves a road trip.

My sister Patty wants me to move to MO now so that I will be there when she and her hubby retire, but I'm not sure that I like that idea. It was hot and high humidity while I was there, more so then in WI.

School is DONE! I will get my grades back next week. I hope I passed! I jokes, I'm sure I did but I did have one really really big screw up! I thought that I was all done and sold my books back and low and behold, I still had one more week of school! I had three classes that I still had work to do.

I was kind of ticked at them as they did not post week 16 till week 16 started, but they had weeks 1 through 15 always posted so I'm not sure why they held back week 16. I did the work without the books but I may not have as good of a grade, but I was in the mid to high 90% grades so I'm not to worried. It's just nice to be done.

I'm still working 10 hours a week at the village office. It's okay, not really liking it, but it's money so I will keep on keeping on.


My friend T.J. had been doing some home improvements for me. He had to build this work bench so that he could "work" Pretty nice huh? Now I have a place to put stuff and not have it all willy nilly in the garage. I think that the plan today is to replace the screens in the house. They have holes in them and it's not stopping the bugs. So good thing that T.J. has a work bench to work at/on!

I forgot to tell you all

I have another job! Oh, never fear. I still work at the best job ever at the local library, but with the economy is going, I was able to pick up a part time job at the village office. I'm now also a office clerk? Something like that.

I will do some filing, running to the post office and bank and stuff like that. It's only 10 hours a week but with the price of gas this will help. One really nice thing is that it's in the same building that the library is in. I will only work on Mondays and Thursday and those are the days that I work late at the library so I just leave one job and walk over the the other job. Sweet!

And this is the last week of school! I'm trying to get it all done so that on Wednesday I can take all my books back and sale them back to the book store.

I'm bad!

Sorry, for those that really really count on me to blog! ( I think that there might be two or three of you?)

I have to be honest, I am not into blogging right now. School is getting close to being done, I'm working on my speech that I have to do, and then I have all the big things out of the way and only two or is it three more weeks left? Not sure, but there is an end in sight!

In a few weeks I'm going to take a little drive to MO and see my sister and BIL. They are going to be down there as their kid will be graduating, and I can't stand the thought that my sister will be only a 10 hour drive from me, that's why I'm taking a little road trip.

Maybe after school I will be back into blogging.

Feeling out of sorts.

I'm having a hard time with school right now. No, it's not the work that I'm doing. That in itself is not hard, it's time consuming and while it's not over my head stuff, it does take some thinking and I am learning. No, the hard part is that I just don't like spending so much of my time in school. I think that spring break was a bad thing for me. I was doing some thinking last night. I went back to school because my plan was to apply for the library directors job when my boss retires in a year or so. I didn't need the degree, just 54 credits. I choose Business Management as I was not really interested in becoming a nurse. With the budget cuts, I'm not sure that the library job will be there, and Business Management is not what I really want to do. I am thinking about changing my course to Human Resources. Right now, all the classes I have taken are the same for both HR and BM. Next semester is when they start to have more specialized classes. I was also thinking about taking some summer classes, but right now, with the way I feel about school? Not sure if that's a smart idea. How come I'm 46 years old and I still don't have it figured out? Why?!

Midterm Grades

Business Ethics - No grade reported and none will be. (Grrr)

Oral Communication - 89.64% , 90 would be an "A" so I'm .36 points away from an "A". I think I can bring that grade up!

Principles of Management - 93.02% is the grade at midterm but with 10 items not graded. So it could be higher or could be lower.

Marketing Principles - No grade reported and none will be. (Grrrr)

Professional Selling - 97.48%

I do get grades back from the work that i have turned in for both the classes that did not report midterm grades and they are good grades so I'm pretty sure that I have "A's" in them. Just would be nice to know for sure.

My Classroom

This is my classroom. The reason that I'm not in class right now is that "blackboard" is down and had been down as of 6:30pm last night. BB is how I connect to my online classes, I am not able to take test and I have five of them, I'm not able to join group discussion and there are five of them, I'm not able to view any power point presentations and there are five of them.

One good thing, there were five things due by today, and I had them all done on Monday. I do not like to wait till the last minute, it pays to be geeky sometimes. Another good thing that I do is that I hand write down what I need to do, so I can get some of my papers done and will just have to wait till I can submit them via BB. And I have a chapter to read for each class so I am doing my reading.

This week has been a struggle for me in school, and it's only Wednesday! I am just not motivated to do school. I'm doing it but I find that I am easily distracted. I will power through and know that spring break will be here soon (And some of my teachers have assigned lots of work during that time) and soon I will be over the half way mark and then SUMMER will be here and I can go play in my dirt and plant green beans and peas and tomatoes and, and, and.............

I forgot

I feel that I don't have much to say lately. Really, I have a boring life right now. It's work and school. Work is fine, school is fine. I do have to say that online school is harder then going to a class room style of school. It's a lot more work. More reading. more testing and more papers to write. I am surprised that I'm getting good grades on my papers as writing is not a really big skill I have, oh I can write, just not in a proper manor, lots of goofs (As you all should know if you have read this blog) I still get my too and to mixed up sometimes. I have all those little tricks to help remind me when to use what to/too but sometimes they don't really help. (For me)

But what I forgot to tell you was that on Thursday I was an hour late for work! At 4.30pm I went to start my truck and she wouldn't start, I tried for an hour and then gave up, called my friend T.J, and asked him if he could come over and take a look, and if it still wouldn't start to give me a ride to work? He did, it didn't, so he gave me a ride to and from work. Very nice of him. Later that night, before I went to bed, I tried the truck one more time. She started right up, and I have not had a problem since then. Who knows what was wrong?

Mom and Dad? I have been trying to reach you for a few days but your cell phone goes right to voice mail. Call me? No, I'm not asking for money! Just want to chat.

It's the little things

The other day in my Oral Communications class I had to take a quiz. It was worth 20 points, and I missed three questions so I only got 17 points. One question I got wrong, I e-mailed the teacher and argued my point citing page reference in the text book on why I chose the answer that I gave. She said that I was too narrow in my thinking but that I did argue persuasively, and that she could see why I answered the way I did. She gave me that point back. I know, it's only one point, but still!


Next week my teacher for marketing Principles is calling it "Catch up week" so there is no schedule work. No reading, no lecture, no power point, no papers to write, no quiz and no exams!

Small things, but it gets me giddy like a school girl, oh wait, I am a school girl!

Gaaaa

Well, for those that know me, I do not like being in touch with my emotions. (I think waaay to many people are waaaay to attuned to them) But I think I'm going to have to learn to fake it for my Oral Communication class.

I had to do a assignment that I had to list behaviors, and feeling, and how I communicated those feeling. I got 14 out of 20. I didn't express the communication of feeling fully! GAAAAA

(The list of behaviors were given to us, like control, identity, physical, and the list went on)

HA HA HA

Boy, I sure did something that was really funny, a real knee slapper! You want to know what I did?

Well, I spent one and a half hours reading and then answering the three WRONG questions for my Marketing Principles class. When done with the reading I had to go to page 33 and answer three questions in paragraph form. Page 33 had two set of three questions (Yes I could have gone back and reread the assignment, but I didn't)

The one set of question was fun questions about going to three web sites and answering some questions, sounded like too much fun, that can't be the one to do. The other was to pick a company that we feel passionate about (profit or non profit) and discuss (in paragraph form) how they add value, how they communicate value and what could they do to add more value to their service/product.

Yep, I picked the one about value, I chose the public Library system. WRONG! I was to do the one about three web sites. HA HA HA HA. jokes on me!

Worried

I took two test on Saturday for my Oral Communication class. Both test were 20 questions and then time limit was 30 minutes. Oh, and open book. Test one I got 18 right and on test two I got only 16 questions right. It's open book! How did I get any wrong?

I have to admit that it's hard when you're timed to go looking in the book, and also some of the questions are asked in that double negative way. Kind of like when you go to vote and there are propositions that need your vote to pass or not pass, and when you get done you are not sure if you vote yes it will pass or if you vote no it will pass.

I spent six hours on the computer for the Oral Comm class, I need to do something, my rear end was getting sore! And I kept going to the kitchen to get a little snack. Not a good combo.

Oh, and when I take the test? There is a timer that you see counting down the time, as I get close to the end I can feel myself getting tense and that's when a stupid cat thinks that my chest is the place to be (yes, my cat is a boob cat, sorry mom!).

All done

Or should I say, all done till I start some more? What I mean is that I have all the work done for all five of my classes. I wrote three papers, took three quizzes, (quiz's?) and entered into six group discussions via the electronic blackboard. Oh, and watched one movie.

The movie I chose to watch was Roger and Me by Micheal Moore. This was for my Business Ethics. Let's just say that in watching this movie it did not change my opinion on Mr Moore.

I took a break last night and watched a movie just to watch one. I watched Zombie Land. I enjoyed this movie! I know, that kind of title might turn some off, but I like dark humor, and there was plenty of it! No, I don't think that my mom should watch it. But I was just laughing out loud. Some of the rules for living in Zombie Land, cardio, why cardio? Cause us big girls and boys can't run long enough to get away from the Zombies, we get tired to fast. I would have been one of the first to go. I better get fit just in case the world turns into Zombies. Another rule, when you kill a Zombie, you double tap them (Shoot them X2) Now is not the time to be stingy with bullets.

Well, I hope that my taste in movies does not offend you too much. But if it does? Oh well, you will get over it.

First day of school

Wow! First day of school was a female dog! (My mom does not like me to use bad words!) Not that it was hard, but it was a lot of time spent on the computer. Each of the teachers wants you to jump through the hoops to make sure to know how to use the online tools, so you end up doing a lot of the same time consuming things. But you have to submit it via the electronic blackboard system so they can see that you really know how to use the system. I was on the computer for about 10 hours. My eyes got goofy on me.

I was feeling a little panic twinge thinking that I was already falling behind and then I took stock and realized that if this was a classroom, I would have three hours a week for each class, and then I would have a five to eight hours of home work for each class, I don't nor should I try to get it all done in one day, can't do it anyway.

One of my homework assignments is that I have to watch a movie off a list of movies. I was wondering when I was going to squeeze that in! Then I have to write a little something in the group board. I feel better about it now. For awhile I was ticked cause I was thinking about all the other work I could be doing instead of sitting watching a movie!

I'm back and this and that

I got my computer back on Saturday, not so sure if the express mail was so express. But all is good. I have my baby back!

I have to admit that I enjoyed my break from blogging and I'm not really sure if I really wanted to start back up. I will just so family and friends can see what's going on but those that don't blog don't get that blogging can take up a lot of your time.

I'm no longer surprised that Abby's not here. For awhile I would "forget" that she was gone and I would think that I needed to hurry home to let her out and stuff like that.

School starts today at 8am (That's the time that I chose) I got my wool socks on, my comfy sweats on and a old t-shirt on. I think that I might like this online school. Now if only that cats don't bug me!

It's Official

My grades are now posted.

I got an A+ in Business
I got an A+ in Human Resources
and I got an A in Micro Soft Office, which, I am happy with, but I did get more points then points possible so you would think that it would be an A+ too. But it's not.

Also, thanks for all your kind words the other day about Abby, it helped lessen the pain. It's odd to come home and not have her wag her stub tail for me, and not stick my cold feet on her warm tummy (Yes, she slept in bed with me, under the covers unless it was tick season!)

Not official yet

Two of my three classes that I had last semester have posted grades. They aren't official yet as they are no posted in my grade book, but in my running total.

For Human Resources there are 777 points possible and I have 792 points.

For Micro Soft Suite there are 840 points possible and I have 845 points.

For Business Management, I have no idea, I think I did pretty good, but you never know. I still have four assignments that need grading. The teachers have until the 23 of Dec to have all grades turned in.

All done for now.

Today was the last day of classes for me! I think I did pretty good in all my classes but wont know for sure till Dec 23.

When I got to school this morning there were some of my fellow students talking about selling their book back to the school. One girl said that she was told that they only need six or seven more of book we used for our class. i asked her if she knew when the book store opened. She said right now, she just sold her book back. I ran up there and sold my used book and got 89 bucks for it.

Down side. I needed that book for a test today in that class! But lots of the students, when they heard that they were only going to buy back a few the also were without books for the test. The teacher let us share books.

My book was used and I got 89 bucks for it. A fellow student, who had a brand new book was late in selling it back and they only paid him 50 for it as they really didn't need it. I'm glad that I sold it when I did.

IMHO, the school book thing is a RACKET!