Yesterday, I had every intention of writing a post. I woke up, had my typical two cups of Coffee, while working a row on the Winter Jewels Afghan, and I thought, as I crocheted the row of 3dc clusters, that I would hop online, after finishing my second cup of coffee, do my last assignment, for my second course, and pop on over to my blog, where I would write a wonderful post, and all would be good with the world.
After all, the assignment I still had to do was no big deal. I just had to revise a report, that I have been working on, through the entirety of the course. I could do that, in a matter of minutes.
Or, so I thought.
Sure, I could have done it, rather quickly. And, I am sure that, even if I did rush through it, I would have gotten a good grade. After all, we were just told to 'polish up' the rough draft, which we did a few weeks ago. I could have taken the easy way out. But, why? Yes, it would have been easier, and less time consuming. But, in the end, I would have had no respect, for the work that I had sent in.
So, I printed out the rough draft, from a few weeks ago. I read through it, changing around words, and dropping some sentences, while adding more, in certain areas. I used more examples from the text.
The assignment wound up taking THREE FRIGGIN HOURS, to finish! By the time I had submitted this work, to my instructor, I was DONE! There was just NO way that I could have sat in front of this computer, a single second longer.  My eyes were hurting, from staring at the glowing monitor, for so long a time. My fingers were numb, from all of the tap-tap-tapping, on the keyboard.
There was NO way, I was blogging yesterday. I am sorry...But yesterday, school totally took it out of me.
I turned off the computer, feeling exhausted, yet accomplished. And, I went to take a nap.
I woke up, and decided that I needed to have an EASY day. I did not need to do ANYTHING ELSE, that was going to be stressful, in any way, shape, or form. So, the yarn got a break, yesterday.
So...
This past Sunday, my sister got the birthday blanket. And...SHE TOTALLY LOVED IT! Seeing the smile that it brought, made all the work so worth while. It is always so awesome, when some appreciates what you have done.
We got to her house, at just past 10am. And, we left, just past 9pm. It was a great day!
Today...
I got to sleep in, a little bit. It was 7:23 when I woke up. For whatever reason, my dog decided to be cool, and let me get a whole extra hour, of shut eye.
I got up, and did the typical morning thing. Coffee, which was totally awesome today, as I added hot chocolate powder to it. YUM! And, I got to do a little bit of work, on the Bliss Baby Blanket, before tendonitis started to make itself known. (It always seems to pester me in the morning.) Rather then push myself, and keep going, I decided to put the blanket down, for the time being. If I kept going (which I REALLY wanted to), the tendonitis pains would have grown worse. And, they would have lasted, for the better part of today.
I finished my coffee, then came to the computer.
TODAY...
Before coming to my blog, I went to my student portal, and signed in.
Today, I have started class three, in my education. I am now in English 121. It is nice to be past the introductory courses, and in what I consider to be a 'real' class. My past two courses, were basically starter courses. The first one aimed to prepare students, for online learning. And, it seems that the main objective of the second course, was to teach us about academic integrity. Don't get me wrong...Both of these are great things to learn. But, man...I was SO ready, to get to a REAL class, where I could start to feel like I am actually working toward my degree.
I have already taken care of one of the discussions, for this week. The introduction was due today. No biggie. Then, I had to respond to three other posts, by next Tuesday. Well, I did all of this today. Then, I went to read the text book (we have two chapters to read, this week), and I found that I cannot access it, for the next few hours. JOY! There is nothing like being kept, from doing schoolwork!
Anyway...
At noon today, I have physical therapy. I can only hope that I don't fall again. Let's do without that humiliation today, shall we.
When I get home, I will work on the Bliss Baby Blanket.
And hopefully tonight, I can access my text.
And that is it...
Until tomorrow.
Happy looming, and crocheting.