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so far this weekend was nice. we still have sunday and stuff can go wrong or be great, so i am not saying it is over yet. friday we went to view our pictures at the photographers, they came out sooo good, i am excited to decide which ones we are going to get. i made some home made bean dip for matt, he really liked it a lot. i made chili dogs for dinner. yum. yesterday karsen and i got up around 8. matt got up around 10 and i made breakfast. we ate the breakfast tacos all day long, they were sooooo good. for dinner i had a salad and some sausage that we got from raider red meats on our trip to NM. matt just had the sausage, he didnt want the salad. 

we had a wasp problem, we killed 4 wasps in 2 days that were in the house. it was scary. 

we spent all day yesterday watching football. i like football, but it was a little much for me. lol.

karsen had a really bad diaper rash when we woke up this morning and i feel so terrible. he never cries during his diaper change, but both times i have changed his diaper today he has cried. i dont like his little bottom to be all red and hurting. my sweet, sweet angel. 

i guess i will close for now. 

i still hate the university of houston

today has been one of the hardest days i have been through in a long time. the blog i posted earlier explains why. i did leave out one reason why i hate uofh, this is not the reason why i am writing the blog, but i feel its significance should not be ignored. when i transferred here, my degree that i was pursuing was declared a bachelor of science in psychology, when i went to apply for graduation, it was a bachelor of arts in psychology. i do not want a BA and i have taken the courses towards a BS. so back in may/june i filed a general petition to change this to what it is supposed to be. the uofh website said that the issue should be resolved within a month. here i am almost three months later and it still has not been fixed. 

when i got home from school, after a nightmare drive home in horrible traffic, i checked my email. i had emailed an advisor in the biology department attempting to solve my problems, and she replied. what it comes down to is that the rules are the rules. it says on the website, in an obscure and easily overlooked location, that 6 of the 9 advanced hours have to be taken here at uofh. so in the end i have to take 3 more hours of biology...boooooo. so i found a class that is before my political science class on t/th to take. its human genetics, not that i am interested in ANOTHER semester of genetics (this will be the 3rd so i should be an expert), the only other two classes offered were no-go's. one was evolutionary biology (another class i had already taken at tech), but the professor taught part of my genetics class here at uofh and was a terrible, terrible professor. the other was neuroscience with a professor whose name i could not pronounce, and i felt that for a subject about the brain i would need to have a professor whose name i could pronounce in order to understand the class. so, as long as uofh doesnt throw anymore boomerangs at me, i will still be graduating in december. hopefully i can handle the earlier class and being away from karsen for 7 hours without having a complete breakdown. oh, and hopefully i pass the class. the others will be easy.

today has really been horrendous, from the problems with uofh to the traffic i faced on my drive home. i just want to curl up in the fetal position, cry, sleep, and be left alone. but i am a mommy, so doing those things is impossible. it was about 20 minutes until karsen's bedtime when the best thing that happened today happened. he was sitting on my lap cuddling and i just realized that matt and i created the most wonderful baby boy in the world. i have known this for quite sometime, but it just really dawned on me at that time and made me smile (the first thing all day). i just cannot express how much i love my son. i realize that i need to make myself realize (redundant, i know) that he is what i am doing all of this for. i am finishing my degree so that i can make a better future for him. he is my most precious gift. when he was sitting on my lap, cuddling with mommy, i could just feel how content he was and i was. it seemed that, just for a split second, everything was going to be okay and all was right with the world. its amazing the power of love from a baby is, just everything it makes a mommy realize. everything i do is for that little boy, every decision i make. i laid him down to bed and he went right to sleep. i dont know how i am going to handle adding 2 more hours away from him to my schedule, as i can barely handle it now and its only 5 hours, but hopefully we will make it. i just wish that i didnt have to drive the truck. 

I HATE the University of Houston!!!!!!!!

As many of you know I have had a lot of problems with UofH since I transferred in the fall of 2007. The list seems to get longer and longer as time goes by. The first thing that went wrong was that it's not Texas Tech. That is the most obvious one. Then there is the multitude of problems I face whenever I try to take care of my financial aid (which has still not been taken care of this fall, thank you UH). Then there is the problem of no one communication between financial aid and student financial's, where they advise me to take out the emergency enrollment loan when I don't have to, or so I am told by financial aid. There goes $85. Thank you UH. Then there is the first one I discovered this week. My political science (shame on me for being in my last semester and taking a freshman course) professor is a jack ass (sorry for the language). I guess his humor is funny to an 18 year old fresh out of high school. But for someone who has been out of high school for a few years, his crass humor and use of bad language really irritate me. Not to mention the fact that he doesn't have a printer friendly version of the syllabus availible, just the one that has a black background and purple writing, lots of (stupid) graphics and many other flaws. So it is damn (once again, sorry for the language) near impossible to get a hard copy of it, unless you want to edit all of his crap. 

I was going to let this all go and be done with it, after all this is supposed to be my last semester of college. But today I go to the biology advising office to fill out the paper work for my minor, shame on me for putting this off, I know, I know. I go there thinking I have everything done for my minor, which according to what they have posted online, I have already completed. I get the form and fill it out and it says on the bottom that at least 6 of the advanced biology hours (6 advanced are all that the minor requires) must be done on campus. WTF? Why on earth is that not on the website? I was counting on hours from Tech to count as my advanced biology. This has me irate. I am so incredibly angry, upset, and frustrated. Not to mention I have a monthly visitor that is making all of my emotions extreme.

The point of this blog is that if I cannot get the advising department to work with me (which knowing this school....) I will be forced to take one biology class in the spring to get my stupid degree. 

I just really, really, really hate this school. There are not words that can describe the animosity I feel towards it.  Please, please pray for me that I can get through this and that the biology department to see the problem that they caused me and correct this so that I can graduate in December. 

Oh What a Day!

Today is a day that will not be soon forgotten. I will start of by saying that I love Karsen with all of my heart and there is absolutely nothing in this world that could even put a dent in that love. 

Today he thought that it was a good idea to take off his own diaper and poop on the floor. He made a huge mess and I was the lucky parent who got to clean this up. I am really thinking that we will be getting his potty chair sooner than I had originally planned. I really think that this is a sign that he is ready to begin the introduction to Mister Potty. 

Even though I was forced to clean up his poop, I still love him with every bit of my being. There is nothing in this world that compares to the love I feel for that sweet child of mine.

Matt also fixed the back door today, I couldn't open it and he bruised his hand while trying to. The people who built the door frame did not do a very good job. 

We went to Target this evening and spent Karsen's birthday gift card from Aunt Nicole. He got an Elmo guitar and really likes it. 

School starts tomorrow. I am nervous/scared/excited about this semester. It is so strange to think that this is my last semester of college! It is sooooo exciting! I am also looking forward to getting my alternative certification done to teach. I think it is going to be a lot of fun :o) 

Well I guess I am going to get to bed! Love to you all!

xoxo

Forgot to mention...

I meant to mention this in the other blog. Karsen was entered in a photo contest and we would really like to win. If you would like to vote, please let me know and I will give you in the information in an email.

Once again

xoxo

First Blog

This is my first blog to write for myself, as I am responsible for keeping up with Karsen's blog. We just got back from a wonderful trip to New Mexico. Being there makes me realize that I could not be satisfied in life with living in a mediocre town in the middle of nowhere. We will eventually get some land, but will probably always live in the city. It was a really nice visit though. Karsen really enjoys riding on a golf cart, it puts him right to sleep. He was really good on the drive there and on the ride home. 

School starts on Monday for Matt and I. I am taking my very LAST 15 hours of college classes! woo-hoo! Three of my classes are online and I go to campus for two of them. Tuesdays and Thursdays will be hectic days for us. I will be in class from 1:00 to 4:30, drive across town in traffic, and then Matt will head off to class that starts at 6:30. Busy, busy days for us. Little Mister Karsen will not be to pleased with Mommy being gone since we have spent every day together all summer. 

I love my sweet baby boy. He is my whole world. It is so amazing the love that a Mother feels for and from her child. Being his Mother is by far the greatest achievement in my life. I can just talk about that angel all day and night until I am blue in the face. 

I hope that you will continue to read this and comment for me to know that you are. 

Wish us luck as we start this semester of school!

xoxo