This was a lovely weekend. Michael and I got to have almost the entire weekend together. Such a continued amount of time has been pretty rare due to conflicting schedules when we first arrived. With my thumb in its healing state we've gotten a lot more time together since Michael comes by with lunch and eats with me.



So as of late I've been waiting for my class to start. It's supposed to start tomorrow, but I have YET to see my book. I think they mailed it kind of late. So hopefully I'll get it in the next couple of days. My time I've decided to fill with blocks of different things so that I feel like I've accomplished something by the end of the day. I mix the fun with the necessary/not so fun so that I don't feel so overwhelmed by the necessary/not so fun and then just eventually skip it all and go straight to the fun. Hah!



Right now I look crazy because I've got on these rubber gloves over my hands that have been smeared with vaseline. I leave them on for about an hour and my hands are nice and silky. It's a pretty nice, cheap trick. With all of this dry air around, my cuticles have taken a beating, plus my thumb enjoys it too. I soak it in peroxide for awhile and then put my moisturizing gloves on and poof! My hands aren't dry, scaly things that create more issues than necessary. I also have a bad habit of picking at the skin around my nails, which drives Michael crazy. So now when I start to pick at them, I put on the vaseline and the gloves. When I started doing that Michael's response was: "I positively reinforce this course of action."



My thumb is healing along nicely. A whole ton of dead skin just peeled off today. I spent about an hour getting the stuff off and trying to cut it away neatly so that it's not so grizzly. It's actually beginning to look more and more normal. I'm just waiting for the nail to fall off. It came off completely from the injury, and they stitched it back on to protect the nail bed while it heals (the nail bed got about 4 stitches on it). It's ready to come off, but the scab underneath is what's holding it on right now.



I've been researching things I can learn how to make for sellable goods. Maybe on Etsy. Of course, all of this is speculation right now. Also, I'd like to make it kind of a side project. Hopefully it won't take on too much of a life of its own. Michael and I were reading about soap today.

One cool thing I found was a brides across america thing where various bridal retailers would hold various wedding dresses in their shop and give them away for free to brides/fiances who are either in the military or married/engaged to men in the military. Cool, huh? To qualify either you or your husband/fiance or both have to be on active duty statis and have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Yup. I think it's pretty awesome. And it might not work out for me, but it's just good to know it's an option and it's out there.

Anyway, I'm coasting along just fine. I'm pretty excited about my math class. I'm finding a new interest in school due to finding my way career-wise. So that's nice. I think next I'm going to take a psychology class. I've organized all of the different careers I'm interested in and combined which classes are mandatory for all of them and then when it starts to branch off. So that way I get the foundation completed so when I decide to specialize, that part is already knocked out of the way. Well, not much else going on. We're happy and getting through this adventure very well. So...TTFN, ta-ta-for-now!