Well, it's been a day.

Well, it's been a day.  I had to get up early for class, but I didn't sleep well last night.  To make it even more awesome, Shadow woke up nauseated and called me later to relay the glorious news that he had, indeed, barfed while I was at work.  Way to go, son.

I got off work kind of early because I thought I'd take him to the doctor and get a jump on my homework, but when I got home he told me he'd barfed again and felt better.  Of course.  So I did homework for hours (yay for trying to get my brain smart!) and then we had dinner.  And then Shadow promptly got nauseated again.  🙁

At that point Shaun used my reptile heat sensor thing on the kid's forehead and it went above 100 degrees.  I don't know how accurate that really was, but he sure looked like hell and was shivering.  Now if I'm not cold no one else in the room should be.  So I take that as a pretty good indicator that something is actually wrong with him.

I guess if he's no better in the morning we really will head to the doctor.  He can't miss 2 days of school unexcused.  Speaking of doctors - I also made an appointment for myself for Friday.  My freakin' hands hurt and I'm not down with it.  My hips and knees are doing ok, but my hands are achy and non-cooperate-y.  BOO!

And on that note I'm going to bed.  Goodnight, Internet.  I hope Monday wasn't too hard on you.  ❤

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.  😕