I know this isn't my nail blog, but...

Not the best photo and also not the most impressive nails.  Honestly, though, just having them done makes me feel happy.  🙂

I didn't really talk about this much when talking about my psoriasis / arthritis, but I very nearly lost my thumbnail (psoriasis will jack you ALL up).  🙁  That is why it's shaped kind of weird (it's almost grown back to normal - yay!), and also one major reason I stopped painting for a while.  I'm not usually easily embarrassed, but that one got me for some reason.  I am not super sure why.

I also noticed that when I tried to do my "look at all my nails" claw my hands don't want to do that anymore.  Most particularly my thumb.  I hate to admit that I hurt it trying to get it to do that... so maybe I'll be doing photos with bottles now.  Or gerbils.  Or lizards.  Hell, I don't know.  What I do know is that despite my arthritis pills my hands have been really sore and I should probably make time in my schedule (somehow!) to get back to the doctor.

Anyway.  I'm going to try to do my nails at least once a week.  It makes me happy and I should take some time out for just me.  You know - to keep sane while I'm doing all of this other stuff.  ❤

I'm still adjusting to my new schedule.

Gave myself the gift of staying in bed until 1 today.  I do have homework this weekend, as well as housework and I would really love to do my nails.  I'm also planning to go to Munford to see my parents so hopefully I can fit all of that into today and tomorrow.

Sorry to anyone I've been ignoring on the Internet.  There is really not a lot of time for that these days.  On the days I have class in the morning I take care of whatever housework there is that evening after work and then look at my books and hang with my guys / ani-pals.  On the nights I have class I get home, may or may not eat, then pretty much go to bed.

Two weeks in and I'm still struggling to keep up with this schedule.  That is not to say that I am miserable, though, because I'm not.  I feel excited, alive, optimistic - lots of good things on top of being tired.  I am really enjoying my classes and having something "out of the norm" to do.  I think that just working is not enough for me because I nearly always have something else going on.  Whether it's fostering animals, doing complicated nail art several times a week, making polish jewelry, going to school - I think I'm the kind of person who just needs something productive or helpful to do.

So anyway, I'm happy even if I've had to scale back on all the other stuff.  I can still do those things - just not as much - and that's ok.  I've got bigger goals right now and I feel focused and motivated and pretty good about it all.  I hope I can keep that up!  😃

Anyway, I hope that everyone has a lovely weekend.  I don't know if I'll be back on here and if I am it probably won't be for long.  If you need me send me a message - I do check those, but not my wall and other notifications often.  Ain't nobody got time for that!  😛😃❤

My goodness.

My goodness.  Booka is rolling around in the floor - snorting and growling and huffing and just generally being weird.  I wish I had a camera in here.  😂

The whole house is quiet... except...

I am unbelievably sleepy and in my bed. The whole house is quiet... except for the tiniest crunching sound. I gave Koopa and Peach some bugs for in the morning, but I guess one of them is up having a snack. *crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch* Pause, pause, repeat. 😂 Someone isn't going to want their breakfast!

ALGEBRA WORD PROBLEMS!!! 😃😃😃

ALGEBRA WORD PROBLEMS!!! 😃😃😃

Ok so I'm not perfect at Algebra yet, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that I'm digging this. I wish I had time to practice more. I bet there are tons of Algebra game sites that I can play on. 😳 I shall Google this later!

Could someone PLEASE tell my face...

Could someone PLEASE tell my face that despite the classes and homework I am NOT back in high school?  I have broken out like I was a teenager.  😕

Ok, so I worked on Algebra for a while.

Ok, so I worked on Algebra for a while.  I've got the easier stuff down (thank goodness), but I see that the positive and negative numbers trip me up sometimes.  I used to HATE + / - in high school, but now that I'm a grown-up broke person if I think of it like money then I do a lot better.  We'll just give credit to life experience on that one... unfortunately.  But at least being broke has been good for something.  😂

I did an ass-ton of problems... I do have homework, but I did pages more than was assigned (not to turn in - just for me), to make sure I'm getting the hang of it.  The answers to the odd questions are in the back of the book so I felt super-triumphant when I got them right.  I actually didn't miss very many and the two that I got hung on Shaun helped me out with so now I've eliminated another mistake I was making.  It's so tedious how you have to get every little detail right or the whole thing is just out in left field.  But that's ok.  I'm good at details once I know them all.

Anyway, I got most of my homework done in the midst of all the other stuff I was doing.  I have 3 problems left, but my brain feels tired and class doesn't meet again until Tuesday so I'll knock them out tomorrow.  🙂

Now I'm calling it a night.  I'm tired in my brain and everywhere else, too.  No class tomorrow, but I still have to work - so off I go.  Goodnight, Internet.  ❤