Nocturne in C Sharp Minor

I'm listening to Joshua Bell's Romance of the Violin. I believe it was a Christmas gift a couple of years back. I particularly like Nocturne, Track #3.

Vernise, he Teague's grandma, Mrs. Kelley's mother, had a stroke Friday. She's having a really rough recovery. Some of her symptoms include restlessness and disorientation which translates into her not sleeping, trying to get out of bed on her own and thus falling. This is dealt with by always having someone sit with her. We, as in the Bavidos, have gotten to help out with this a couple of times and are on call. The poor Kelleys really need their rest so I really hope they don't hesitate to call us. Another problem is getting enough liquids and nourishment down her because she's been having trouble swallowing. Please be praying for Vernise and her family.

The job hunt continues. I had a job interview earlier this week for a legal secretary that I've already been turned down for. I have an interview next week for a volunteer coordinator position. I emailed a reminder or followed up today with a career services position for a tech school. I need to send off a resume tomorrow for a case manager position. Praise God, I'm doing much better on the motivation and not-getting-discouraged/depressed in relation to job hunting.

I've discovered that when left to set my own schedule that I sleep from 1 a.m. to 10 a.m. and am most reflective and thoughtful between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. I'm not really sure when I'm the most productive--perhaps the early afternoon?

I continue to be shocked and horrified by my own selfishness. Mrs. Teague had asked me to get her copies of the Bavido originals that had been read at our poetry festival. I completely forgot that BonnieJean, Isaac, and Dad had read their own compositions and just printed off the ones by me that had been read. How terrible am I?!

I should be sleeping

instead of keeping these late hours I've been keeping.

It's been two years now since Jon-E died. It doesn't seem like that long.

I got to work with a really neat lady today. Her name is Elizabeth and she has MS. I worked with her just for one afternoon and it was lots of fun! She's one of 9 kids and her mom just passed away a couple months back. She's a real tease and her entire time at work we were going back and forth with coworkers. I laughed so hard!

Samuel and I were ruminating on this the other day. We are both very similar and we have very similar hobbies and likes, except for computer games. We never fall victim to the same addicting games. I like all the varities of 'match-3' games and he never cares for those. I like puzzles, he doesn't. He likes the online game Conquer and I'm bored to tears by it. We thought that was interesting.

In the middle of the night...

I have turned into an almost completely nocturnal studyer.  I don't think it's the noise in my house--I work around that all the time.  It's like my brain doesn't get settled into studying mode until at least 10 p.m.  It's not like I'm doing nothing before that, though, it's just not schoolwork stuff.

  I got to work on chintoe a good bit tonight, got some good pointers from Samuel.  I also worked on suji no kun, but it still feels way too sloppy to me.  Of course, it didn't help that I was doing it with a bo twelve inches too long for me.

  OK, I'm throwing myself in bed like a good girl.  I'll still probably need a nap tomorrow, though.

Sleepy

I was going to be contemplatively brilliant, but I think I'm too tired now.  Maybe tomorrow.

I should be sleeping

instead of keeping these late hours I've been keeping...sing with me!...I've been tracing and retracing every step of every move...

That's a good song.  It's a tad unrelated, but good for a post at 10 p when you only had 6 hours of sleep last night.  Ha--listen to me!  I have obviously settled into break mode quickly.  6 hours of sleep used to be really good.

  Tomorrow we get family pictures done for the church directory.  I'm so excited.  Our pictures two years ago turned out really nice.

  I really need to jump onto Christmas shopping.  I haven't done any.  Good thing we're celebrating it a week late this year.  Our Christmas tree is up and totally overdone, just the way I like it.

  Last night was Twilight Prayer and Praise.  We almost didn't go since the roads were icey, but I'm glad we went anyway.  I feel full, replenished.  Christian fellowship is such a mystery to me.  Why do we self-destruct by denying it to ourselves?  Why do we see God differently when we're alone than when we're with a group?  Why did God make it where we need both?

  Poor Caleb has a terrible, croupy cough.  There's not much we can do for him. :(  And of course, we're having to practically tie him up to get him to slow down and rest.

  Friday I have a job interview with IBC at 2--please pray!  Friday is my last day at Donna's!  And Chera's going to call me Friday and I get to go to the homeschool band concert!  Oh, but Chera, if your throat is still sore Friday, don't call me.  I don't want your voice to run away like mine did.

  I have turned into quite the ogre while at home this semester.  I'm not quite sure why, but that doesn't really matter, I just need to straighten up.  I think the main thing is I need to praise more than I gripe.

  We had dinner at Mazzio's with the Teagues tonight.  They are so awesome!  Mama, Mrs. Teague and I discussed trends and situations, past and present, of the Christian music industry, economic theories of the advantages and disadvantages of deflation and inflation, psychotic habits of our own and our family's, and other sundry topics.  Stockton let me listen to an awesome Celtic fiddle piece on his mp3--it was beautiful.

  I'm going to go play or read something mindless.  My sinuses are terribly congested and I'm tired, so I don't feel like writing anything original or reading anything beyond a 5th grade level.  Love y'all!

*blinks rapidly*

Second winds are amazing things. Sugar and caffeine are also very cool. The good news is, the research paper is done. Now onto the quiz at 2!

Lists

I need to...

Be one of the first 75 students to enter the Student Union at 11 in order to get a free ice cream Sundae.

Call every high school in Rogers County and find out when their first football and homecoming games are.

Read two more chapters of America's Meltdown.

Write a journal for chapters 2-5 of America's Meltdown.

Read the first chapter of the book that I forgot the name of for my campaign class.

Review for a quiz on Tuesday in Intro to Public Policy.

Sleep.

Go to work.

Watch some more Monk episodes.

Hang my clothes.

Clean out a drawer.

Restack everything on my desk.

Do some banking.

Ponder and pray some more about getting a laptop. (What do y'all think?)

Hallelujah!

Our electricity was restored Tuesday night. Yeah!

I got my grades yesterday and made a 4.0. Yes!

The only bad thing now is that our phone line went down again and nobody (including the phone company) knows why.

I'm online up at school right now, researching hypersomnia (excessive day time sleepiness or prolonged night time sleep) for psychology. Today's lectures were about sleep--it was really hard to stay awake.