Hello to all of my blog readers....I could probably name each and everyone of you. Anyways. I don' t really have a whole lot to write about these days. I am doing most of that in school these days. I will get to that though.
In school these days I have been doing good and I have been doing bad. The two quizes that I wrote for my Exploring Exceptionalities class (that I thought there could have been a good chance that I had failed) turned out to be pretty impressive. I recieved a 92% and a 93%. I have to brag about that, just because I feel good about it. But in my counselling class I don't feel as good. We have been writing journals and then responding to each others. Well, my responses have been not as impressive as they should have been or as I had hoped they would be. I was a little bit down after my meeting with my instructor about these journals. Not only were my responses not that good, but I guess my journals themselves were not that good either. So this weekend is my quest for greatness. I have a whole weekend and I am determined to put my time to good use. I am going to read up and try to get some good marks on these assignments that I have left. Speaking of which, my time is pretty limited these days since I have 7 assignments left and 4 finals in the next 28 days. That's right. We have started the countdown to practicum.
On the wedding front...there has been progress. Yesterday I made my way down to Wainwright to the quaint little scrapbooking shop that my sister-in-law got the stuff for her invitations. I put in my order for all of the papers and fancy little things that I would need to make the wedding invitations. So by Christmas I will have everything that I need in my hands and the process will begin. I have decided to make the invitations during Christmas break. Mostly because I will once again be in Vermilion and no one else really will. That is except good old TIna. My best friend in the whole world, who is going to help me with this crazy ontaking during the holidays. And perhaps fit in some shower planning in the process. We'll see if this plan turns out to be a little too ambitious. But I have planned and told everyone that cares to listen that I will be prepared. There will be no rushing around the week before the wedding getting things done. Everything will be done well in advance and people will be notified of events with a lot of time before it happens. That is the plan.
I am getting excited as I sit here at my brother's house blogging and waiting for my car to be fixed this Friday afternoon. One thing I am excited about is that my car is getting fixed. And since my brother is a handy dandy mechanic here in town I get great service and great deals. Yeah! That is something that I need since I am a student. The whole situation with my car is this...I took it for an oil change on Wednesday and decided to let my brother know that it had been squeeking for the last few days. He took it for a drive and came back and freaked on me. He said that it must have been squeeking like that for 6 months because I have no brake pads left on the front. Oops. But I promise that it only started being noisy last week. At least noisy enough that I could hear it over my music....hmmm...anyways. It's getting fixed. Also, there has been this NASTY knocking in the back since I bought it when I was 17 (ah, the good old days...they seem so long ago). It is so bad that when someone new gets in they think that it is going to fall apart underneath them. But it is a really really reliable car. So that is why I am fixing it. It turns out that the noise is the rear struts. So when they went to put the new struts in this morning they realized that I have no rear brakes! Yikes! So I am going to pretty much have a whole new car when I get it back this afternoon. No noise and it will stop on a dime. So great.
But what I am really excited about is that Micheal Schalin is coming back to the great province of Alberta in the morning (and I am excited that Ashley will be back too). Not that I am going to see him. But it will be nice to be able to talk on the phone for more than 15 minutes sometimes maybe. I really missed him while he was gone this last week. We didn't talk very often and it wasn't long at all. I felt like I wasn't able to support him the way that I would have if I could have been with him, or been able to talk to him. Maybe now when they are back in Alberta I can do more. But I am still looking forward to living with my aunt and uncle and being near him and being not in Vermilion for a while.
I feel like I should end this now, since it is kinda longer than I was expecting. And I have to start with this school work to get better marks to be where I want to be. So with that....Check ya later folks! Cara