icky day

I'm tired today. I didn't stay up late or get up too early, but I'm just tired. I wanted to stop and pick up some coffee/breakfast this morning because I don't have a lunch or breakfast today. But I got caught by a train and it was moving so slowly that it took about 15 minutes. After that I had about 10 minutes before I needed to get to school, but that wouldn't have been enough time to get somewhere, wait in line and get back. So now I'm munching on an apple because I bought a bag to keep at school for the week. According to the "fact of the day" on the radio school here at school, apples are supposed to wake you up better than caffine (sp?). We'll see.
I want this semester to be over. Not because of teaching because I'm loving that, but because of classes. I had to redo my paper twice because of stupid little things wrong. The prof is not specific on what she wants, but after you turn stuff in she tells you what you did wrong. :P Plus calculus sucks. I have a midterm tomorrow and I know I'm going to fail. Not just I'm struggling and not going to get an A type of failing, but a real F. I mean it. Yes I'm concerned. Yes I'm studying. Yes I'm going to tutoring. Yes I bought the Complete Idiot's Guide to Calculus. It helps, but I'm still confused on how to get started on problems. Once I'm started I'm great. I fly through the algebra parts.
Ok well enough of that. I gotta go get my kids. Have a great day! (=

Upon further review...

Gatlinburg was not that bad. I think we just had a bad experience. I realized this because I've been wanting to be back there all week. I think if the traffic wasn't so bad on the way down and if we would've actually been able to stay in the cabin we paid for, then it would've been a much better experience. If I go back I would only go during the week (to avoid the weekend traffic) and I would either stay at the hotel Wendy got us into or maybe a different cabin company - not sure about that one.
So I changed my opinion - the park was pretty and I would probably go back, but under different circumstances.
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response to Cindy's blog about cooking

For some reason I can't sign in or post a comment on your blog, so I thought maybe you would see it if I put the response here:

I was going to say it's probably chipotle, which I'm pretty sure is dried/smoked jalapenos, if you're thinking of the spicy on your tongue feeling. Or possibly horseradish - if you're thinking of the vapor that clears your sinuses kind of kick.

Gatlinburg

Except for getting to visit with Tony and Wendy which was great, my vacation sucked. First of all it took over 13 hours to get there. The roads in Indiana were horrible - snowy, icy, slippery. We saw an awful accident - pickup truck on its side, Expedition crashed in the front end and a small car completely destroyed. Then there were semi's jack-knifed (sp?) in the median, cars spun out everywhere. It was bad. You may remember I was in an accident last year and I was driving on these crappy roads, so I was a little less than calm.
So then we finally get to the Gatlinburg area and traffic was stopped from before Pigeon Forge all the way through Gatlinburg. I can't imagine what traffic must be like in the summer or fall.
So anyway I'm not going to go through every bad thing but here's a recap: the cabin had wasps in it, they wouldn't refund our money, stayed in a nasty motel where I had to clean the toliet off before I could use it. Tony & Wendy couldn't get up or down the mountain they were staying on.

The rest of the trip was ok. We got into a much nicer hotel (thank you Wendy) and ate at some nice places. What annoyed me overall was when you walked up and down the strip, there were basically in-person telemarketers on the street trying to stop you and talk to you. It was incredibly annoying.

I did like the Old Mill restaurant and the one waterfall we saw at the National Park. But I don't think I'll go back to Gatlinburg. If we continue to take winter vacations I'm either going to go on a cruise or to Disney or make it an all out winter vacation with skiing or snowmobiling.

Woo-Hoo! February is here!

February is the best month because my birthday - and a lot of readers and friends' birthdays- are in February! It's a short month plus we get President's Day off and I'm taking a couple days off around then to go on vacation :) Well a mini-break as Bridget Jones calls it. And a mini-break means true love, lol. Well anyway I love this month.
But what I don't love is calculus. It sucks. I hate it. Yuck. I bought The Complete Idiot's Guide to Calculus and I'm going for tutoring today. I have to leave at the earliest possible moment today to try and make it to tutoring on time. I think I'll be a little late, plus I don't know where the room is. But I will find it, even if rabid bunnies attack me. And I will conquer Calculus!