Some people's children!

Disclaimer: In the following post I am going to vent about all the rude people that have been around me lately.

Either I have been running into a lot more rude people lately or I am just really grumpy. It is probably the latter. Soren has definitely been having to tell me to calm down quite a bit the last few days.

Today we went grocery shopping and I was standing at the deli waiting for help. Another women came over to wait at the deli a few minutes after I did. When an employee finally came over she asked the other woman what she needed help with. The other woman didn't bother to do the polite thing and let the person know I was there first. NOOOO, instead she went ahead and told the employee that she needed to place an order. OH MY GOSH, how rude can you be! I guess her time is just SO much more important than mine. Whatever, I thought at least the deli person would hand her the order form and help me while she filled it out. Boy was I wrong, the employee just stood there waiting for her to finish. After a few minutes of this I asked if there was anyone else that could help me. She said someone else should be over in just a minute. No one else came over so I had to wait until the woman was done placing her order. In the meantime another woman came over to wait at the deli. When the employee was done watching the women fill out a form she then asked who was there first. Um, maybe the woman that had asked five minutes ago if anyone was going to help her and not the woman that just walked up! I was so ready to just walk away and say screw it, but I really needed the stupid meat and I would have just had to come back later.

Another recent incident happened at the drive thru for Taco Bell. I had to wait behind a man for fifteen minutes while he decided what to order and just generally played with things in his car. I can't count the amount of times that he put on and removed his seat belt or leaned over to get something off the floor. What the heck was he doing! I would have left, but there was a car behind me so I couldn't back out. Don't people realize that if you don't have any frickin idea what you are going to order that you shouldn't choose the drive thru. GO INSIDE where people won't care if you stand around and decide what you want. The drive thru is for those of us that know what we want. Plus, I only go through the drive thru when I am in a hurry so I don't appreciate having to waste my time.

There are many more instances I could share, but I will stop there. Thanks for letting me vent and sorry if you have felt my wrath lately. I promise I am trying to get over my grumpiness and go back to being my usual laid back self.

Our future kids

So I was inspired by a friend to go to this site and see what my future children might look like. Here are our computer generated boy and girl based on pictures of Soren and I. I know they're not real, but I think they turned out pretty cute. Now if we can only get some real kids!

I'm in love with Jane Austen

Lately I've been reading a lot of Jane Austen books. Currently I'm reading Emma. I wouldn't have expected that I would enjoy her work so much. After all her books were written over a 100 years ago. Despite this fact her books are surprisingly easy to read. I'm seriously tempted to start a Jane Austen book club so I can talk about her books with other people. Maybe I will do this at the beginning of the year. Right now there are too many things to do for school. However, don't be surprised if I drag you all into a book club in January.

It all hits you at once

Life sure has been crazy lately. It seems like things hit you all at once. I have assignments and tests in several of my classes this week. It has been pretty stressful. I think I am starting to get a handle on all of it. Times like this definately make me look forward to being done with college. To top everything off I am sick right now. I guess all of the stress lowered the defenses of my immune system.

I just have to keep telling my self that I have less than two months left and so I just have to keep it all together for a little longer. I can do it!

I'll write more when things have calmed down a little.

Maybe someday there will be more time

There are so many things that I would like to have time for. I would love to start a book club, do some traveling, get back in contact with all the people that I love but don't talk to nearly enough, etc. I'm sure everyone would agree that there never seems to be enough time for all the worthwhile things we could be doing. I realize that I have to use what time I have now and that I can't keep putting things off.

My life for the last few years has been a crazy mix of school, work, family, friends, church, etc. During this time I told myself repeatedly that it will be nice once I am done with school because then I will have so much more time on my hands. While, that is somewhat true I'm sure that new things will enter my life that will take all my time.

I have decided to renew my efforts to get my life organized. I nned to schedule time for exercise first and foremost. I also would like to find more time for the massive number of books that are on my list to read. Another thing I need to do is get on top on all things that need to be done around the house (especially since we are moving in about two months). Does anyone have any suggestions for what works for them? Or you could just share what your goals are to get organized.