Ahhh, Summertime...

I enjoy summer. It's not my *favorite* time of year because it just gets too darned hot. But I definitely like it more than Winter. We've had our share of Winter by now. I'm ready to spend some time outdoors and go on vacation. We're busy during the summer, but it's a relaxed kind of busy. Being busy gardening and working on the house seems more centered than how we're busy the other parts of the year. All I know is that I'm ready for it.

It's June 3 - a Tuesday. I'm off work today for medical reasons. I had a physical therapy appointment this morning that I thought was going to lay me low. But actually, I'm feeling pretty good. The problem turned out to be muscular instead of nerve-related, and that is very good news. I should feel guilty about not going into work, I guess, but I don't particularly. It's been so stressful there lately that I'm finding it difficult to gather the energy needed to do the job. It's strange, though, because I made great strides yesterday toward preparing for our security audit coming up in two weeks. I still have one big project looming over me and that's been smothering. It seems like I'm doing everything else except working that project. But there's so much 'high priority' projects that need to get done, it's not like I'm slacking. Oh well, I'll just work through it.

Yesterday, my summer semester began at Community College of Aurora. I'm taking two online courses - an English Composition class and College Algebra. Both are going to require a lot of time. I thought I might remember enough of the math I took ten years ago that it wouldn't be too bad, but I took a pretest last night and only got a 75%. :( I'll be fine with the polynomials and linear algebra, I think. It's the graphing math that caught me last night. I was really lost on those questions.

The English class should be interesting. We'll take one controversial topic and write about it all semester. I have no idea what kind of topic I'll end up with. I'm not much into controversy, so it will be a challenge to come up with something interesting. I'm completely blank on ideas right now. Hopefully, the brainstorming sessions will help me define something.

On a lighter note, last Friday was Mindy's graduation from preschool. I guess that means she's now officially a kindergartner. We have no idea what school she'll be attending, but at least we know what grade she'll be! Here she showing off her certificate from Karen, the greatest daycare provider ever: