Unit 6, The interesting stuff is just getting here.

I am writing you from Galveston Island, TX. I decided to come to Galveston on this long weekend because I wanted to see the Gulf before it got ruined by the oil. The oil isn't here yet but it sure is headed this way. The ocean is still beautiful.
On our way here, I began to think about my military career. Wow, how I have changed. I was a 21 year old girl when I enlisted. I was not socialized when I was home schooled as a child due to the restraints that were put on me by a religion my parents believed in. When I went into the military, I was like a kid in a candy store. I drank like a sailor, cussed like a sailor and didn't care a thing about what anyone thought of me. I did 5 and 1/2 years, made it to E4 and got out honorably with 2 children and a husband.
The parts that I loved about the military was the working out during working hours as well as the community service that I came to know and love, and the nice gyms they had for us. I think that really is all. I didn't take advantage of everything there was to do in the places that I was at. I liked to watch tv so that is where my money went. Its almost like I did my teenage years in the Navy instead of when I was a teenager. Does this make sense to anyone?
I thought on my way here about my Navy career, I am young enough to do it again. Hmmm! I have three children now and a wonderful husband. Maybe I will do some reserve time. I don't want to uproot my entire family for something that might not work out now.
Michelle Castillo

Better Days!! ; ) Unit 5

OK, I am finally getting everything straightened out after my son was in the hospital that week. I got a few areas uncluttered and my schedule straightened out a little bit also.
My husband and I went to the Dallas Aquarium with our kids last Saturday and we all loved it. I am a Pisces so water is very calming to my soul. I wish we could have gotten a membership there instead of the zoo. Oh well, maybe next year.
We haven't had a very busy week other than that so that is when I am able to get things in order, thankfully. I am also writing a final paper for my other class which is A&P I. I am writing about the 5 human senses. I think both papers will be very interesting. Talk at you later,
Michelle

Organizing and Scheduling

I have a major problem with organizing. Let me start with the desk I am sitting at. There are papers, receipts, books, hole punchers, staplers, pens, cords and so on right here where I am sitting. Yesterday, it took me 30 minutes to clear off the top of my dresser and dust it. My house is not dirty because I am a clean freak, but it is so cluttered.
Then, there is my schedule. I have studying mostly put on the weekend because my husband is home. Saturday morning we both go "What do you want to do today?" and there goes the whole weekend because we can't not do anything on Sunday. We go to church and shopping. I also have on my weekly schedule that I clean one room per day and do one load of laundry per day. That I don't stick to either. I clean multiple rooms on Wendnesday and Thursday and do all of my laundry on Saturday or Sunday.
How did life get to be so complicated. I need someone to help organize my house and my schedule because obviously I don't know how.

Week 3 blog

I am still a little far behind. It seems like once I get behind it gets really hard to catch up. I have decided to write my paper on living a healthy life. I am quite excited and nervous about it. I am also taking A&P I this semester and trying to encourage my sister to start college.
My son had an allergic reaction to the medicine that they put him on for the infections but we were far enough into it that they said they wouldn't switch him to anything else. His hand has healed and he is shedding skin where the wounds were, like he is a snake or something. I figure it is because that is the body's way of healing itself. He is back to being a little boy again. THANK GOD!!

To Anyone

These last 2 weeks have been a downward spiral. On April 22nd my son cut his finger pretty badly and had to get stitches. Four days later, on the 26th, we went to the ER where they had to do emergency surgery to save his hand, because he likes to suck on his fingers. He was then hospitalized afterwards due to cellulitis, staff and strep infection until the 30th. We came home and I was in pain all weekend just to go back to the ER on the 3rd.
I am currently working my hardest, doing the best I can, to get good grades and catch up on my schoolwork. I am completely swamped with household chores because I left my husband and 2 daughters here at home while I was at the hospital with my son. Slowly but surely I am catching up, I hate to be behind.
Talk soon.