Super duber weekend!

WARNING... LONG POST AHEAD! HEHE!!!

Is it bad if all I want is a day to myself where I don't have to worry about doing anything school related, don't have to worry about any dead lines, due dates, work, nothing at all... all I want is a day to rest my head on a pillow, curl up in a warm and toasty blanket, and not worry about the short amount of hours until my alarm clock goes off! I'm running on a lackage of sleep right now with so much to do and so little time, and really people, I'm not even THAT busy! Sometimes I don't get how I can complain so much when there are people out there who are seventeen billion more times busy than myself and don't complain. Okay, I'm a complainer, get over it... for me... it's called venting. Its called getting it out so I can feel a bit better. Some people say complaining doesn't help any, well for me it does, ha! Lol! Okay, so that made me smile!

Maybe I'll talk about my (for the most part) GREAT weekend! Let me tell you folks... it was one of the best weekends that I've had in a long time and it wasn't even that we did these over the top fun things! In fact, Friday night I pretty much vegged on the couch with Ayden watching TV. I was so tired and he seemed pretty out of it too. He was so good and we cuddled together. It was a good night... until I almost had to go back to campus Saturday morning to print something off.

We got our first take home test for my one class, might have mentioned this before, and it is RIDICULOUS! Seriously... this test is only four questions and a two page paper and I've only figured out one and a half of the questions. Ugh! Anyways, I had to print an article off for it and just decided to do it at home versus on campus. I brought it up on campus just fine so didn't think I would have any problems at home. Turns out when I opened the file on my computer it wouldn't let me print it. It wouldn't even let me save the file to my computer so I could manipulate it myself. It was crazy and I was getting really upset because the last thing I wanted to do was head to campus at 7:30am on a SATURDAY to print some stupid article! I mean... seriously?! When all else failed on my computer I turned to Jay's and thankfully I was able to get it to print off there. I don't know why my computer was being so stupid, but apparently mine wasn't the only one because my classmate Amy's computer did the same thing and I heard today that some of the Madison students were unable to print their article as well.

After getting the article to print and realizing I understood just about nothing on it... I went to bed... and I slept like a baby... too bad it wasn't long enough! Saturday morning was soccer and I was happy Ayden's game wasn't until 9:30 so we were able to sleep in somewhat and I didn't have to rush around getting things all packed up. We both woke up around 7am and I checked to see if soccer was cancelled or not because it was supposed to be rainy weather. Soccer wasn't cancelled, even though part of me kind of wished it was because I wasn't really in the mood to go. But alas, we got everything packed up and headed off to soccer and even got there a little early. This time Ayden ended up playing on the correct team and they did pretty well. I thought Ayden could have gotten in there a little more to kick the ball, but I didn't push him or anything. And besides, after a morning of whining about not wanting to go, he played like a champ and was even really happy that we decided to go! I was happy about that as well!

After soccer we headed off to 'home' to meet my mom and sister at a local farm for a tour like thing sponsored by my mom's work. This was our third or fourth year doing it, I can't remember, but it was still fun... even despite the cold weather! And it was cold! I had my winter coat, hat, scarf, and mittens on! Just enough to keep me from shivering! We all had a great time! The rain held off, minus a light mist here and there, and Ayden was such a great boy! He really didn't whine at all and I was so happy about that. We chased and caught both chickens and ducks! We hugged sheep and fed goats! We almost milked a cow and cuddled kittens! We saw a HUGE pig! We went on a tractor ride and picked some awesome pumpkins! It was a great three hours! And after that fun we headed off to a corn maze! And this was one twisty turny corn maze! I'd recommend it to anyone! At first we didn't think it was going to be very good since about five minutes into it we found three of the six numbers we were looking for and thought we'd be out in another five minutes... well when you find number eight three times... you are lost! We spent the better part of 45 minutes walking through this maze trying to find our way out and we only 'cheated' once and really, that didn't even help us! The only down side to the maze was our shoes getting caked in mud and Ayden getting tired towards the end, but I don't blame the kid. He has short legs, ran for an hour for soccer, and then walked for three hours at the farm before hand. Overall though, he did great!

Also at the corn maze they had a few other things to check out so we did and then went back to my mom's house for some yummy supper and to relax because it was a long day! Ayden and I were both in bed before 9:30, which for a weekend I think is early. Well, a little late for Ayden, but we were visiting family so I didn't care.

Sunday was a little more laid back for Ayden, but I went out and did my first 'photo shoot' and I put that in quotes because it really wasn't a photo shoot. I just offered to take some pictures for my friend, mostly because I wanted to take some pictures of someone other than Ayden and she has the cutest little guy and it gave us some time to spend together as well since we don't get to see each other very often. I'll do a seperate post about that and put some pictures up. I definitely wouldn't call it professional by any means, but I think I got some cute shots!

Ayden and I also went ice skating with Jay's aunt in the afternoon before heading back home. We met at one of Appleton's ice rink and found a nice park close by! Ayden and I got there a little early so we went and played at the park for a little while. Ice skating was fun, but Ayden didn't want to skate as much as I thought he would which was kind of a bummer because I paid $10 for less than an hour of skating. But this rink had these helper things for kids learning to skate to push along that would help hold them up. Ayden was using one and did pretty good with it. That's not to say that he didn't have his fair share of falls along the way, but it was fun none the less. I'm glad that we decided to go because the more he practices, the better he will get. That is what I keep telling him anyways. After that it was time to get back to Point so I could meet with my classmates and have a study session. If only it were that easy! Ha!

Ayden and I made it safely to a gas station right outside of Appleton where I stopped to top off my tank. I then pulled out of the pump area and into a regular parking stall and shut off the car and Ayden and I went inside to get some food. Back outside and all strapped in the car and ready to go and wait, what... how come when I put the key in and turn... NOTHING HAPPENS!!! Not a damn thing! No radio, no beeping, NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING!!! And it gets better... Jay is in Kansas so I can't really call him and get him to come. So I call my mom's husband (since she's at work) and unfortunately he is waiting for someone to come to the house for something or another, so then I called my dad to see if he was around. Thankfully he was available and made the drive to Appleton to come help me out. Isn’t that what dads are for?! Ayden was SO patient in the car during the wait which was about 45 minutes, but it definitely didn’t seem like it was taking that long. He sat and ate his food and looked at his Pokémon cards that he got from Uncle Casey. So the time went fast which was good.

My dad showed up and figured out right after I popped the hood that it was a loose battery wire. THANK GOODNESS! During the wait I was imagining a huge towing bill and an even bigger repair bill since nothing was working when I tried turning the key. I was freaking out about not being able to get back to Point that night and wondering when my car was going to work again. Apparently one of the battery wires had worked itself loose. I just got a new battery about a month ago and when Jay reattached the wires, one of them didn’t get on tight enough. Well, it was pretty tight, but somehow bounced off. So, a quick tightening of that and Ayden and I were on our way back to Point. Oh how thankful I was that my dad was able to fix it! My hero of the weekend! And we even made it back in time for my friends to come over for our study session, not that we were able to accomplish a whole lot because the three of us were totally confused, hehe!

We are meeting with a professor tomorrow to hopefully get some insight into what we are doing and/or should be doing and aren’t doing. Hopefully we will come out of it less confused than going in… keep word, hopefully!

CIAO! LOVE ME!