Changing the way I think.

I have been doing a lot of thinking about the small things in life that affect the larger picture. Things like, we complain about being held up in traffic because of an accident, and yet we don't realize that the person(s) injured in that accident is someone's brother, mother, father, etc. Too much of our time is spent thinking and reacting to the fact that others are causing us an inconvenience, rather than how we are all apart of a large community that needs one another to function.
I have a few New Year's resolutions that are similar to the above thought.
1) Complain Less
2) Nag Less ( mostly for my husband's benefit)
3) Let things go a little (i.e. the house doesn't have to be cleaned as soon as I come home)
4) Appreciate other people have their own story and way of doing things that are different from mine, and mine is not always the best way.
5) Become a more informed person ( about the world, what we eat, how we live...)

Those are just some things I have been thinking about recently.

Now, school is becoming much more challenging. We are writing three and four stroke words and it is often difficult for me to hear where the words should be separated. It is taking me about 2 hours to get through a chapter's practice in the evening, where it used to take me about 45 minutes. However, English is easy as cake. We have a quiz on sentence structure this week and have to post a couple of paragraphs on what we are struggling with in the course. That will be hard (insert sarcastic tone).

Time for more ENGRISH!

UG and UD

We are currently learning more complicated two and three stroke words. Eliminating the indistinct "schwa" vowel sounds and adding UD or UG, i.e. timid = TEUM/UD or designate = DEZ/UG/NAEUT. FUN!!
Yesterday, we had a late start day due to the 8 inches of snow we received. I was unaware of this because we were told that we can count on Jefferson County schools as to whether we would have a snow day or not. Having grown up in Jefferson County, and NEVER having snow days, I figured it would be school as usual. However, I walked into an empty classroom and had an hour to practice on my own.
I am still finding that the concepts this quarter are coming quite easily to me. I know that next quarter, when we are working on speed building, is when I will have some difficulty.
Goal: Work on speed building now.

Happy New Quarter!

I have officially begun Theory II! I am supposed to have begun English I as well. However, Stenograph got a few things wrong this quarter, like what classes are supposed to be up online. Hopefully my thus far non-existent English class will be up and running tomorrow. For now, it is review week, and I sure do need it.
I am enjoying the new schedule. Since I have opted to take my English course online, I get to sleep in on Mondays and Wednesdays. I also have the same teacher as Theory I, which makes it easier to not have to adjust to someone's different teaching style. I even sat in the same seat in the same classroom today. Although I really wanted to change it up and sit elsewhere. As I was the first one in class, I wasn't sure if someone would have been upset that I had taken their seat. So I just sat where I always have.
Security in sameness!