09/16/09 Could be better, could be worse

So, it's been a while. Not too happy about that, but we'll see what we can do.

As for all the stuff I haven't posted about:
-The Elders (and some family) came for dinner a few weeks back. On Stake Conference, I believe.
-A few days later, David and Teresa came to visit, and we had lots of fun family get togethers.
-Mom, Miriam and I went camping at Mackerricher state park for Mom's Birthday.
-I finished off all but one of my merit badges. All that's left now is making an appointment with the counselor for communications and work on the project. Life is pretty hectic right now, though, so I may continue to put that off. I just get really tired of the stress after a while, don't you?
- And now I'm struggling with some stupid school stuff. ALEKS is being its traditional retarded self, but it won't listen to my regiment of remedies I've picked up since I've started working with it. Big pain. And my online computer class isn't working at all. Which would make me lean towards getting a book for it, but Travis doesn't have any that are better than "Push the power button to turn on the computer." He thinks the online class is pretty good, but I'm not possitive I'll be able to get it to work. Kind of annoying. Plus, because of all of these stupid problems, I haven't written to Andrew in ages. Haven't blogged, haven't worked on the house, and I've barely been able to maintain the stuff I've already done. In short, I'm having a lame week.

I might talk about what happened in this past month sometime, but right now I'm just not in the mood.

On the somewhat bright side, I got some sketching pencils on Monday. I'd been thinking about it without much vigor for a while, but then I saw some at Office Depot while I was looking for organization stuff, and I decided to check them out. Anyway, they're very good! Awesome for shading and what not. You can make it more even, and with the different pencils, you have a lot of control of how light or dark you want it. So, I suppose life isn't so bad. I still have a lot of stuff to do, so I haven't been able to do as much with them as I had hoped, but they're something to look forward to when this is finally cleared up.

Really, though, I think I've been needing this stress. I've been having too many fun things. Family visits, camping... I think this wave of sudden things I need to do will get me back into my everyday rhythm. I'm hoping so, at least, because if not, I may have some problems in the future. But enough about future. Before Thursday night, I need to do this week's Japanese and Psychology, look into my computer class, maybe go back to the battlefield of ALEKS, and if I can manage all of that, work on all of the things I've been putting off. Andrew's letter, organizing the house and computer, scoutwork, and who knows what all.

I work best with a deadline, though, so we'll see how we do.
Bye. It's been fun, but I can't really think about blogging at the moment.