I can apparently only update once a month!
It has been a pretty busy month. I've been spending a great deal of my time shopping for my new apartment that I now move into in less than a month. This is a really big move for me! I've never had a lease before, and I've never had any furniture before, really, either. I've already set up the switching over of the utilities, as well as bought most of the furniture and other things I'll need to have a functional apartment. Sean is pretty great for dealing with me, but I suppose he shouldn't complain since he doesn't have to buy most of it :) Anyway, all of the stuff is sitting in the basement bedroom just waiting to be loaded onto the moving truck on August 1st. There are only a few things left to buy, which include: curtains and curtain rods, paying for the rest of the couch and loveseat, baking pans, and stuff to decorate the walls. I'm just waiting for some more items to arrive in the mail this week, so on my "day off" tomorrow (by day off, I mean I'll be grading all day), I will anxiously await some of the items, like the TV stand!
I also got a coffee maker, which was a really desperate attempt for me to work on liking coffee a little bit better. I think that sounds really weird, but I desperately want to like coffee more because I think that it might make my quality of life better. Why? Because it has more caffeine in it than the pop I drink, and my growth can't be stunted more than it already has. I have actually found some pretty good tasting coffees already, I just have to add creamer to it. I got a less expensive version of the Keurig coffee maker to make single cups of coffee. The Kahlua is good, and I can't wait to get some hot cocoa and apple cider to try in the fall!
I just completed my coursework for the summer, so now I have no excuse to get behind on my grading. I'm also working a little bit less at DMACC to make room for that. This month should be a little bit less busy, but who knows. I seem to always find ways to make myself too busy for my own good. I also am waiting to go sub-only at ACCESS so that I don't have to worry about that. I'm trying to take better care of myself by having a more consistent eating schedule and working out more frequently, and being less busy will help with that. I've been doing a good job of working out 5 times a week. I was sick at the end of last week, so that derailed me a little bit. But I got back on track already.
This past weekend for the Fourth of July was a pretty interesting weekend. I spent a lot of it outside tubing and boating. Tubing was a little bit of a disaster because a friend lost his keys, sunglasses, and ripped his swim trunks, another friend lost his glasses and *a* flip flop, and I popped my tube and cut my arm open. It was not the smoothest of trips down the river. Boating was a lot of fun except for an almost fight between two boats we were tied off to. Luckily no one on the boat we were on was starting arguments!
Well, I think those are the most pertinent updates for now. Back to grading!
