Before meets After…

This is what I ‘get’ when I set up a sample photo shoot in my living room and try to take pictures of my cutie pie! He takes the camera from me and then instructs me on what to do. Its a fabulous picture if I don’t say so myself, right?! Haha! You gotta make the kid happy and make him happy I did. And then I realized that I, hey I think I look at least half way decent in this picture, why not try and ‘fix it up’ a bit and off I went… this is where before meets after… From good picture taken my the little dude, to even better picture amped up a bit. I rather enjoy it for the fact that many pictures of myself I don’t particularly care for and am not often in front of the camera, but more so behind it!

I’ve been running virus scans on my computer all night so far. I’m pretty sure I have some sort of trojan virus on it, but the checks I’m running will not get rid of it. I get a warning every time I start my computer and then run a check to get rid of it and then my computer says that everything is good, and then the next time I start it up, it says it is back. And this is the Windows Defender on my computer… the regular Webroot virus detector I have my computer didn’t even pick it up! So then Windows Defender pointed me to an even better scan on their website for free and so I ran that which took over an hour and it picked up something different and a few other things, well I think the virus was the same thing. It was able to fix the other things it picked up, but couldn’t get rid of the virus. UGH! So, at this point in time, I am running ANOTHER full scan with the Windows Defender to see if it picks up anything.

My mom’s husband is a computer whiz, so I am bringing my computer home this weekend for him to look at. I’m hoping that he can get whatever is on my computer off and that it isn’t anything too bad. I mean, everything is running normally, which I think is good?! But you never know with these things and I need this computer to last me for quite some time yet. Like four years some time! I have faith that he’ll be able to fix whatever is wrong, I’m just hoping it is not ten times worse than what I think it is.

So the whole possible, pretty much sure, virus thing on my computer sort of has be bumming tonight and the fact that I messed up on some clinic reports today. I mean, not like completely bad or anything, but bad enough that I feel stupid about it. First, I was revising a report I had written earlier and making the changes that my supervisor had done, or so I thought. So once I got done with those changes, I accidently saved over her copy instead of making a new name, AH! And then it turns out that I didn’t actually make any changes at all, but deleted what she changed and kept what I originally wrote, bigger AAAHHH! I felt so stupid about it! It isn’t a big deal, but I felt dumb and it was a stupid mistake. Oh well though! So I’m kind of bumming about that!

Jay left to go home already so he could go hunting tomorrow. His classes are cancelled and he doesn’t have to work. He told me today that they are pretty much looking for work at this point because the weather has been so nice that they have been able to get all of their fall clean-ups done and then some. I suppose that that is a good thing, but as much as I wouldn’t like it to snow at all this winter, we do need some snow because that is how we get the bulk of our income in the winter. I just pray that this year there are no snow storms on or around Christmas Eve or Christmas because Jay needs a year off of having to work on those days and being dead tired when we visit family.

I am ready for tomorrow to be over. I have one class and then a meeting and then work. I was contemplating going to see New Moon tonight before Jay left to go home, but then I was thinking about it and I might just wait until it comes out on DVD. I mean, I really want to see it, but don’t feel this overwhelming NEED to see it. I’d like to, but it is not on my top priority. You know?!

I need to pack my clothes tomorrow and then Ayden and I can leave for the rest of the week. I packed Ayden’s stuff tonight so it shouldn’t be too bad, I hope.

We have only one week of clinic left and during that time is my practical exam! AH! Am I ready for that?! I did a full eval today by myself and it went well, I think, lol! I didn’t horribly screw up so that was good. Always room for improvement so I am not going to say that I’m perfect, or maybe even better than good. I’m probably average for being a first year at this point. Works for me I guess!

CIAO! LOVE ME!

Thanksgiving is on its way…

(Monday)… but not soon enough! Two more days of being on campus… UGH!I might have posted this picture before, but with Lightroom… I can’t get enough of this editing thing and I think what it did to this picture made it look all that much more dramatic! I mean, he had a dramatic look on his face to begin with, but add a little darkness in and it really starts to look pathetic! Ha! It is too cute!

Anyways… I have clinic tomorrow that I do not want to go to. We have a hearing aid consult first which I have yet to be a part of, so that should be interesting. Then we have a quick hearing aid check and then a hearing eval. It should go good and be relatively pain free, I hope, and then the rest of the afternoon is mine!

And Wednesday gets even better! One class and then I’m free and that class is at 8am so I’m free by 9am! However, I am meeting with the other first years to work on a project we have coming up and then I have to work for a little while, but I should be home by 1pm at the latest which is totally and completely awesome! Then it’s packing up and heading out! I hate packing though!

I haven’t decided if I am going Black Friday shopping this year. It used to be this big family thing ‘back in the day’, but everyone sort of started doing their own thing now. I’m definitely not one to attempt driving that day, so going alone is out of the question, my mom has to work that afternoon, so she probably isn’t going, and my sister is probably going with friends.

(Tuesday) Ugh, I’ve been bad at finishing my posts. Turns out I’ll be going Black Friday shopping after all. I asked one of my friends if she wanted to venture out with me. Mostly just to go as I don’t think that there is anything that I really need, but also I pretty much just wanted to hang out with her because we don’t get to see each other all that often either… that and she just got a really super cool new car that I’m dying to see and she is willing to drive! All the more better!

CIAO FOR NOW! LOVE ME!

4 ‘A’ Adventure

I started my last post and then totally forgot about finishing it… oops! And then I got busy with taking my friend’s pictures of her daughters and then started editing them and finishing my Hearing Science test (of which I think I am pretty much done with… super yeah!) and then had some friends over on Friday afternoon thru Saturday afternoon…

Hence the 4 ‘A’ Adventure!!! My friend Andrea and her son Austin drove up for a visit. We met on facebook thru a mutual friend and had yet to meet in person and thought that the boys would get along great! And get along great they did! They got along so great you’d think they were brothers the way they laughed one second and were tackling each other the next! It was too funny to watch! Austin is just about to turn five and super cute and adorable. He is so polite and says some of the funniest things!They got into town just after 4pm on Friday and our fun started there. It didn’t take long for the boys to warm up to each other. My normally shy Ayden was anything but and was talking up a storm to Andrea as soon as she set foot in the door. The boys set to playing Mario Kart on the Wii while Andrea and I chatted it up in the kitchen. She is one of the sweetest people I know! It was great to get to sit down and talk in real life instead of over the computer or the phone and watch the boys play together! We had some supper (mac ‘n cheese and dino shaped chicken nuggets) and played some Uno Spin before heading off to the Y for some swimming! We had gotten two free guest passes when we got our Y membership and they expired at the end of the December so I thought this would be a great time to use them since I didn’t for see anyone else coming to visit that we would use them with. And swim we did! We went down the water slide a few times, the boys had fun playing with the noodles and splashing each other, and Andrea and I could not stop laughing! It was a great night!After swimming we came home and played some more Mario Kart (Austin really loved it!) and had some ice cream before calling it a night at 10pm! The boys were getting crabby and both of them were asleep within five minutes of laying down, it was so cute! On Saturday we had cinnamon rolls for breakfast… YUM! And ventured off to show our new friends the ‘big blue park’ because really, you can’t come to Point and not go to the big blue park, especially when the weather was as nice as it was! We are getting spoiled, but I’ll take every nice day as long as mother nature keeps handing them out! The boys definitely wore themselves out running around the park and then we went to throw some sticks into the water. I think they probably threw a small tree in the water with all of the big branches they kept finding! It was definitely great fun to watch them together! One second they were playing so nicely and the next they were tearing off each other’s hats to see who could throw it the farthest! Ah… to be that young again!

After we got home, they played one more round of Mario Kart and then Andrea and Austin had to leave because Andrea had to work in the afternoon and they had over an hour drive home yet.

I know that Ayden has friends at school and he plays well with them, but it was nice to see him play with someone he was meeting for the first time that was his same age so well! I’ve seen him play with Alexis countless times, but he’s known her his whole life and I’ve seen him play with kids a little older and a little younger, but no one this close in age, and it was really great! And not to mention that us moms got some talk time in as well! Hehe!

CIAO! LOVE ME!

Another Great Week

Written Wednesday… posted Saturday… just never got around to it when I wrote it…

Despite the fact that this week is seeming to take forever and that I am looking forward to next week where I only have class thru Wednesday morning… it has been a pretty good week!

I had a Hearing Assessment exam on Monday and I’m pleased to announce that I got a 100% on it, just like last time. I love this kind of material and soak it all in. I also found out that our Hearing Science exam due date was post poned until next Wednesday which was a great surprise. I need to work on that some more, but that is what this afternoon is for! I have about half of it done so that is a start, right?!

Clinic went really well this week too… we were done an hour early and managed to get all of our reports and summaries written up before our regular clinic slot was even over which was even better. I like being able to get all of that stuff done right away!

Because I had some free time on Tuesday, I went and got my tragus pierced. It was kind of a spur of the moment type thing. I thought about it on Monday night and told Jay that I wanted to get it done. I talked to two of my friends who have/had it done and one said it really didn’t hurt at all and one said it hurt so bad.

At first I didn’t think that I would be able to get it done until today. There are three tattoo/piercing shops downtown in Point. One had only mediocre ratings, one had really good ratings, and one at okay ratings. I read some not so good things about the first one and decided not to go there. The good one didn’t have their piercer in until today… well because I really wanted it done I told myself I would drive downtown and see if the okay place was open and you didn’t need an appointment. And it just so happens that it was. And to be honest, based on first impression of the place… probably somewhere I would go if I wanted a tattoo, looks wise. Looked very clean and professional like. Obviously, I would want to see some of the artists work before getting one done. For a piercing… looked like a fine place to me.

The piercer was very professional. He set up and called me back. I could smell the cleaning solution he used on the chair and everything was still packaged so I knew he was ‘doing it right’. He explained everything to me which was good and then proceeded with the piercing. Pain level… hardly anything. I was expecting at least something, to cringe or clench my fists really hard, but when he was done, I was like that was it?! Seriously, I have my belly button and nose pierced and didn’t think that either of those hurt really bad, so maybe I have an elevated pain threshold?! In any case, it’s great! I love it! Just a bit sore when touched, but that is to be expected I would assume. Taking care of it and glad I got it done! My first year friends might not be since they have to ‘work around it’ when doing impressions next semester, but we’ll survive.

CIAO! LOVE ME!

Pictures for a Friend…

I did it again… one of my friends from school ‘conned’ me into taking some pictures for her of her six month old daughter… okay, so it didn’t take much more than just asking if I would do it before I jumped at the opportunity. Because well… it has definitely become one of my favorite hobbies and thanks to the post processing people can do on pictures today… they turned out really well I think, considering the lighting we had and the crabbies we ran into towards the end. Enjoy! I also had a few of her three year old daughter too… both adorable little girls!!! And because of the lighting issue, a lot of the pictures just looked better in a black and white coloring… some colored ones turned out today, but more yellowy than I would have liked… enjoy!

  CIAO! LOVE ME!