I am one week into this MBA program and I am really liking it, but it is not easy. But then, nothing worth having/doing is easy, right? It's taken me a bit to get back into the swing of the pace and I STILL can't figure out how to put my text books on my Kindle, but I'm really liking it. My entire bachelor's program was through an online school that had WAY more work and problem students and just general lack of sleep and rage (when that one team mate just won't do his/her part and you are up until midnight the day of submittal) than the grad school I'm going through. I guess at the MBA level, people are slightly more mature (yay!), at least so far, and the amount of work is generally far less than the crushing amount of work I did on my bachelors. So, we'll see. :)
In my spare time (hahahaha), I'm still working on baby blankets. If I don't get moving, the one I'm making right now will be given to this little boy when he graduates high school. After that, I have another one on deck (and have the yarn and am ready to go) for another impending babeh (in January). And once THOSE are done, I want to make a blanket for Scott and another one for me because my dogs have claimed my afghan. Damn them. THEN.....I found a new crochet blog (well new to me) that I LOOOOVE, called Stitch and Unwind. She has amazing patterns, literally 1000's of them for free. Lots of fun, whimsical amiguri, hats, blankets, wearables, etc. In fact, she recently reviewed two crochet patterns and two knit patterns for plus sized items. As a lady with some curves, I absolutely LOVE that Lion Brand has started to put some out. You can only modify a sweater pattern just so much to make it fit on a woman with curves before you just end up with a shapeless potato sack.
I TOTALLY want to make that crochet cardigan. I can't knit, which sucks, because I love the knit sweater with the peep holes in the shoulder. Someone make that for me! LOL LOL Click that link up there to go to her blog, or specifically to the section with the patterns. Such lovelies.
I'm now about 1 month without a Diet Coke. Again, haven't died and haven't killed anyone, so I view this as a success! Truthfully though, I really don't want one any more. The first week or 10 days was the absolute worst, but now, I don't hesitate in restaurants to order iced tea. I feel like when I do have one (because, there will be occasions) I'm not going to like it. I drink my iced tea unsweet (you sweet tea people....gah-ross) so going back to something that is sweetened will be a shock, I'm sure. A tasty, wonderful, carbonated shock, but a shock none the less.
We FINALLY got our pool put up. It's only nearly August for pity's sake. It's all good though, because we'll be able to use it clear into September here. We don't actually get cold here (ever lol) until after Halloween, so we'll still get a few months of use out of the pool. Can't wait to get in and float. Water is my calm place, where I go to relax, let go and just BE. I live in a place that has summer for about 8 months out of the year and don't have a pool in the ground. That makes me sad! So, we got one of the easy set pools. 15 feet wide, 3 feet deep. Just enough for me to float, which is all I want. :) It's supposed to be a billion degrees on Sunday (okay, that might be an exaggeration....but it is supposed to be over 100 here, which is bad, but then you figure on at least 90% humidity along with it and you want to die) so we are either going to lay in that pool all day or are going to the beach. I vote for the beach. Water is great, in any way, but the beach, the ocean, is by FAR the best. It's my favorite, and God willing I will never be more than a 20 minute drive from it ever again.
So, there you have it. School, crochet, no Diet Coke, beach/summer...all I'm missing from this blog is pictures of the puppy. LMAO
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