Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History

Ted Steinberg

Interesting book... have had to read for my HST 498 class...  is the 'textbook' 

it is a history book dealing with the way this country has dealt with and changed our natural environment from pre-colonial days til now...

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okay...  so i am having issues...  my daughter got a job... not that that is a bad thing... it is a good thing really... so why am i the nervous one...????

my big paper for school is coming due soon.. like less than a month away... and i cannot for the life of me... think of what i need to write...  i have no muse... i have no coherant thoughts on my subject...

life has been crazy... on vacay this week in order to write above-mentioned paper... and have not even started it...

trying to sort out the schedule for next semester.... and classes... and how many credits do i take???  and everything else that is going on....

i need a vacation from my vacation...

and the holidays are sneaking up on us like a one ton bear in a pottery barn... i love the holidays... i love to cook... however this year  i am going to be hard-pressed to find the time....

why is this year so different from last year????

what is up with that?????

signing off for now...

going to try and write...

wish me luck...

wackymom...

"A riot is an ungly thing... undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun. "

-Inspector Kemp-

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as it stand right now...  i should be studying for my spanish final...  but i'm not...  don't worry... i used to be catholic.... we are so good at guilt....  i am feeling it...  you see, i need to pass this test... in order to still be able to graduate from ASU in either the spring or winter of 2009....   which brings me to my pertinant point...

school starts next week...  YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    why is it that i can handle history classes with very little effort, and i struggle through this stupid language requirement.?????????????   i love history...  i do not love spanish.,.. not that i should not learn it... i do live in the desert southwest...  however i do not get it...

i suppose a change in attitude (attitude adjustment) is in order...  i'm old...   may not be that easy...

okay... so now i get to tell all of you loverly readers why i look forward to school.....  ROUTINE....  gotta have it... makes me happy...  makes me able to deal with lots of things... mostly what the he monster and the she monster throw at me on a regular basis...  with school... i am finally doing something for me... and in a roundabout way for the monsters and the hubby...  once school starts...  everyone is on a somewhat fend-for-yourself type dealio...  mom is studying... leave her the heck alone...  the door to my office closes...and woe to the unlucky one who does not knock...

so... if you pray... pray for me on friday the 22nd  i will covet and appreciate them...,...  if you send good thoughts,,, i would appreciate them as well...  for this is the day i take my spanish final... along with getting ready for the he-monsters 12th birthday party... amongst other things.... 

did i tell you that i have lost my mind completely?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!?

oops... slipped that lost mind completely... oh well

signing off for now...

toodles...

wackymom

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...and the kids are back in school.....YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  not that i will not miss the constant companionship, whining, bickering, complaints of boredom, etc... but it is oh so nice to have the house to myself again, oh wait... gotta deal with the dogs.. but they sleep most of the day, so no loss there...

bought the braces for my wrists.... neurologist says i have a mild carpal tunnel issue, must wear braces constantly (read 24/7) for the next 6 to 8 weeks in order to stop the tingling in my fingers... yee haw cowboy...  let me tell you something... when they (the experts) say that your every day activities will not be hindered by the braces, that is a load of cow poo...  i truly think that they have never had to wear these darn things ever in their lives....  if they had... they would not recommend them ....  so i eat with the darn things on, i sleep with the things on, workout.. whatever, .. but i refuse to get them wet.... which then leads to the refitting of all the velcro straps, so as not to cut off all circulation to my fingers....  just a pain in the arse if you ask me....  but if it makes the tingling go away...  i guess i should not complain...

it's quiet in the house... what a wonderful sound... no tv blaring in the background.. no wii beeping (or in the case of ROCK BAND, rocking in the background) no kids arguing...  no dogs being egged on to wrastle with each other..  until around 2:30 this afternoon... what am i going to do with myself?????

RELAX, KICK BACK, and ENJOY myself... and try and deal with these stupid braces.....

just my thoughts..

toodles...

wackymom

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when i was my daughters age... i always thought 40 was old... i think it is all a matter of perspective....  now that i am past what i thought was old so many years ago...  i don't know what to think....

i guess what brought all this on, is that school starts for my children on monday...  one 1/2way through high school and one just entering middle school...   i mean... deep down inside i know i am not old yet... but on the external...  things just pop out of nowhere and remind me that i am old....  (not old as in ancient, more like old as in mature) (or i should be mature...)  i work at a grocery store...  we sell all sorts of alcohol there..(yeah i know.... what's the point...)  well  on a daily basis... i have to 'card' kids, (yes... i can call them kids) who were born the year i graduated from high school and forward...   that graduation took place almost 25 years ago...  makes me feel old...

i know i am rambling... but isn't that what this whole site is for...

so with a daughter competing with me as to the soonest graduation date... (hers from high school, mine from university) and a son just beginning the 'wonderful journey through puberty'  ( read with heavy sarcasm)  i am feeling like i should be more mature than i am... 

yeah... i have a job, but no career  (thus the belated college education)  i pay bills... i have a mortgage and car payments and student loans...  the list that classifies me as an adult goes on and on... why is it that i don't feel like one....?????????

a very good friend ...  miss birdchik... once said with awe in her voice... "i can't believe it ... you're somebody's mom..."

and there you have it..

just my thoughts..

toodle-pip

wackymom

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both of my kids have knee problems now...

first it was the eldest... she's a softball player...  lots of pain... no real reasons...  no swelling, no ruptures, no tears... she does have a bakers cyst in her knee... but no other problems...  

now its the youngest.... he's a basketball player...  some more pain than the eldest... no swelling... no clues...  but not sure about the tear part...  

Thank you God for good insurance..  makes life and things like taking them for physical therapy and MRI's a whole lot easier...

must go deal...

all for now..

toodles

wackymom

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should be lecciónes de español...

my mistake...

toodles

wackymom

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okay...  i am in school.  which may not seem like anything big to most people.. but i am a 41 yr. old mom of 2 and sometimes 3 ... anyway  enough personal history,...  (old dog analogy)

in order to graduate in may of 2009, i have to take a full 2 years of a foreign language...  (here comes the new tricks part..)  so...  since i live in the desert southwest.. i chose spanish... seemed like a logical language to choose...  no...

anyway... i had all these visions of accomplishment ... fleeting visions... but visions nonetheless... to claw my way through both spanish 101 and 102 this summer... thus cementing the graduation date.... well... that vision of accomplishment has all but flown the coop!!!!!!!!!!  here it is the end of july... and i am only on schedule with the 101 class....   so you can bet that the 102 class is not going to be finished by the time school starts at the end of august... which in turn puts the graduation date off as well...

what is my issue with learning spanish????  i have no clue... for the last 9 weeks i have been trying to wrap my mind around all the concepts....  its not working... my brain is in knots...  all that wrapping...  it is very frustrating to me...

so... with graduation put off another semester.. and life in general happening... and the kids back to school in a week.. i hope and pray that i will be able to get this class knocked out before i have to go back to school...  making me nuts...

back to mi español lecciónes...

toodles...

wackymom

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i feel i should say that the post below... was brought on by the fact that yesterday was long-lost best friends anniversayr... today is hubby's birthday and wednesday is nephew # 4's birthday along with long-lost best friends birthday, then next monday is brother-in-law #1's birthday followed later this month by nephew # 2's birthday...

is a busy month...

toodles...

wackymom

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with birthdays, anniversaries... etc...

it is hard work...  aunts uncles cousins in-laws nieces and nephews... brothers sisters parents....  at times it seems there are tooooooo many to count...  and then there are the friends...  they are the ones who don't get all cranky and bent out of shape when you miss or are late on the birthday or anniversary greetings...  families... they get downright pissy... some of them... most of them are glad about a call....  but if you don't send a card or gift... they can get upset...  ( oh... if anyone is upset because i didn't include grandparents... its because all mine are gone...)

so every year, about november or december... when i get my new calendar for the next year.. i spend hours trying to label all the dates i need to remember....(birthdays and anniversaries...).. not even considering the kids school schedules, games or whatever...   then i go through and try to remember any other important dates...  school meetings... work deadlines whatever...  my school deadlines...

so... by the end of my hours of toil on the calendar... it pretty much looks like chicken scratch...  one year i even tried using different colored ink pens in order to differentiate between birthday, anniversary, school for kids and school for me...  that lasted all of about a week.... until the colored pens mysteriously dissappeared from my rolltop desk...

so instead of using the community callendar/bulletin board in the kitchen.... i buy my own planner/calendar...  (along with being the wackymom... and wife... i am a full time student and also work...  is a busy life... but it is mine...) so on the same dates as some of my heftier assignments are due...i have listed the important dates in others lives that i need to remember and commerate in some way...    it works for me...

my best friend of almost 30 years knows that if a birthday or christmas gift is not 6 or so months late... it is not from me...  she knows not to look for  a birthday gift til around christmas and her christmas gifts usually make it to her front door around the middle of the year...

my other best friend...  whom we recently re-established contact ....  still has to find out this little bit of info... (she might seem to think that since her birthday card and anniversary card arrived early that this won't be the case of terminal lateness...)  wow.,.. i have two best friends...

but that is another post on another day...

just my thoughts on this rainy arizona day... (which in itself is an oddity...)

toodles

wackymom

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