School, a cookout, and wildlife...

I am starting to feel incredibly overwhelmed with school and work.  Up until this week, I had been working on Tuesdays and Saturdays.  That left my days off (without classes) as Friday and Sunday.  The problem with this was that on Friday my week had ended and I found myself very unmotivated to do my homework and instead spending my time cleaning and grocery shopping and other things around the house.  This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it means that since I worked and Saturday and didn't tend to get a lot of homework done, Sunday was my homework day and with church and football and Kyle being over, I usually didn't get much done.  Which meant that I had to do all my homework in the mornings before I went to class which didn't give me much time to work on anything.  This method has been stressing me out so much that I decided that I needed a change.  So now I'm working on Friday instead of Tuesday.  Hopefully, this will mean that I get more homework done mid-week so that I don't have so much to do over the weekend. 

Even though I have been so stress and had feel like I haven't been able to spend much time on my homework and studying and reading I still managed to get the highest score in my class on a test that I thought I failed.  Yes, I am one of those annoying types who stresses out after a test only to find out that I got an A.  Oops!  Although, it was my first test with the prof so I think it's ok.  I'm not stressing over my other two tests. :)

Matt is doing well, he is suddenly very facinated by cell phones (or devices as he had to call them) and likes to tell me all the cool things they can do.  Also, we get some pretty sweet discounts on AT&T services which we're really excited to take advantage of.  He's in his last week of training this week and then he'll be on the floor next week.  He's a little nervous about it because there's so much to know about phones and plans and things that he's a little overwelmed, but I'm sure that he'll be great once he gets the hang of it. 

In other, weirder, news we have been having a crazy amout of wildlife around our house for innercity Muncie.  Granted we are surrounded by vacant houses so that may have something to do with it, but over the past week I've seen, tons of squarrles, one of whom is named Stanley, he burries acorns outside of the window in our office so I see him a lot while working on homework.  We now have a yard cat that lives in our backyard and terrorizes our indoor cats.  (we don't actaully feed Yard Cat, she/he just adopted us).  We also had a raccoon rudely inturrupt Kyle's birthday party.  And yesterday I saw a family a rabbits in our yard. 

Here's a picture of Kyle at his Birthday party at our house (we had a cookout) and no, there was not alcohol, he just looks like that...

Also included, it a picture of the coals that Kyle stacked up really high after a challange from Matt.  This was before we called Dad to find out what we are doing wrong and Matt discovering that there was an air vent that was closed on the base (it went much better after opening that!).  The black picture with the eyes is the raccoon that interupted our party.  He didn't get too close, but he was loud!  We also had a bonfire, but no pictures of that.