Here's what's new...

Not too much new here. We're been doing a lot of work on the house, especially the yard. Below are some pics of flowers I planted. They look a little sad but hopefully they will grow. I never how much work went into a yard, mowing, spraying weeds, planting and trimming. There was a huge massively overgrown bush on one side of the house (you can see part of the bush behind the planted flowers). We've been cutting it back, filled up three trash cans and there's still more to trim! It's not perfect, but it's looking much better. When's it's all done, I'll post some pics.


In other news, I am considering not going to grad school for speech pathology as planned. I recently got a job working with kids with dyslexia and I love it! So I'm considering pursuing this instead of speech pathology. It would probably mean less time in school, easier classes and already know I enjoy it. And the company I am working for is actually a franchise so one day I could do something like that and have my own business (something I have always wanted to to)!For now, I'm going to finish up my second BA in communication disorders in several weeks and then see what happens. But I'm leaning more this way now.

Hmmm...what else? Our fourth wedding anniversary is next week. We're not doing anything big, probably just going out to dinner or something. Maybe I will have to think of some fun little thing to surprise Ben with, any ideas? We'll do something more fun next year, 5 years is something to celebrate, heehee.

Oh, I found this pic from when we first came to Denver. It's us standing on the step of the capitol building that is exactly one mile high. I thought you guys might enjoy it. There's also one of the capitol building in Denver. Have a great week!

Finally done--Woohoo!

Woohoo! I am finally done with finals. Since I couldn't access the school site for almost a week, I was given extra time to take my last final but it's over now, thank goodness. Our ac will be all fixed tomorrow too. They fixed most of it last week, but wouldn't you know it by the time they came it had cooled down again so they couldn't calibrate it or something until it was at least 60 degrees and so they have to come back. It's supposed to be above 80 tomorrow so it will be heavenly to get that working again. Not that all of you will care but I got a total steal on a couple fans at Target today. There was a tag on the shelf that said one was $3.74 and so I put it in my cart, but when I ran it under the price check, it came up at 14.99. I got them to give it to me for the three dollar price since that's what the shelf said, so I got two! Heehee. Gotta love a deal like that.

Let's see what else is new? I finally met one of our neighbors, her name is Louise. She has two dogs like we do, and thought our puppies were adorable. I met her because Brooke and Sydney got out when I went to get the mail and of course ran over into her yard, just as she came home--what a great first impression, oh well. Either I didn't close the screen good enough or Sydney has learned how to open it when we're not looking...

Not much else is new, we're just plugging away on the house. I'll try and post some pics of the house soon. My next semester starts Monday, ugh. I so need a vacation. Hopefully we'll be able to take a little trip this summer after school is over. Hope you all are doing well.

The No Good Bad Very Bad Day

Have you ever just had one of those days where everything goes wrong? That was my day yesterday. I intended to spend the day studying for my last final and finishing up my last assignment. So I went to the school Web site where I log in and instead of the page coming up I get a messsage, "Internet Explorer cannot display this Web page." Argh! I checked our other computer, same thing. It worked the day before so that was weird. So I thought the Web site must be down so I did some other things for awhile and came back and still got the same message. So then I called the school's helpdesk, and spent over an hour on the phone with them, installing Firefox to try that, running spyware and virus scans, trying to bypass the redirect, all to no avail, and of course it seems to be working perfectly fine for everyone but me! They finally sent me to the head guy who told me he would look into it and call me back, argh! I had Ben look at it but he was stumped too, except he thought maybe comcast had put up a new firewall or something. So then I called comcast, our internet service provider to see if they could help, and they decided it was probably a router problem and forwarded it to the Network Engineers. They had told me it should be fixed within 12 hours, it still isn't. If I can get it to work from the library, it looks like I'm going to have to work there. Very aggravating.

So yesterday, Ialso went and took a couple pics of flowers and stuff that I planted over the weekend to show you all and then popped the memory card in the computer, and the files wouldn't open because apparently our memory card is broken! Oh, and I forgot the best part of all, during our record April warm spell, our ac stopped working! It has been suffocating in our house. We have every fan we own going. I guess I should be grateful that it broke now instead of in July and Aug when it gets up to 100. And we have a buyer's warranty so they should pay to fix it. Well, all, thanks for listening to me vent. I'm off to bother comcast some more and see if I can get them to fix it. As if finals weren't enough just by themselves. Hopefully tomorrow is a better day.