Delays?

The school district gave the kids a two-hour delay today. On the South West side of Albuquerque there wasn’t a lot of snow. The delay wasn’t really necessary. For me, the university did not give a two-hour delay. Grant enjoyed it because he got to go back to sleep, but he slept too long and missed his bus. El jay would have loved it, except, I didn’t wake him up until 8:15 and he didn’t have time to go out and play before the snow melted. Yeah, by the time I drove him to school at 9:45, the snow was mostly gone. I missed school because I have a 9:30 class and I can’t drop El Jay off at school until after 9:30. I missed my 11am class because I drove Grant to school and signed him in in the office. Otherwise he would have had a Saturday detention. I take the bus up to UNM and I would have had to be at the bus terminal at 10:15. I drove into my driveway at 10:35. Oh well, such is life. Such is stress.

I hated missing today’s classes. I have a test coming up next week in my Art History class and I really felt I needed to be there for today’s lecture. I had homework due in my Communication Theories class. I hope the instructor will allow me to hand it in on Tuesday. I got really stressed. Grant and I were battling. I am sure my blood pressure was high. As I drove home after taking Grant to school, I started off cursing life to myself. Cursing the other drivers. I cried. And then, I began to take deep breaths and reminded myself that it could always be worse. I reminded myself of all the blessing I have. I reminded myself that I have chosen my life as it is right now and I wouldn’t trade my children for anything.

If there is a message or two that come to mind as I write this, I would say that first, life is too short. The adage to Live, Love, and Laugh is important to remember. I’d add Learn to it. Always do your best to live, Love, Laugh and Learn. I found this quote and liked it:
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
(Maybe I’ll come back to that and focus an entire BLOG on it? For my source go to: http://321greetings.com/quotes/live-love-laugh-sayings-and-quotes/)

My second thought is to tell anyone reading this to finish their education. Do it while you are young. As a young adult you have your life ahead of you, so put your education first. In today’s world you have to get at least a Bachelor’s degree. Don’t be like I was. Don’t drop out your senior year in college. Yeah, I planned to go back, I was feeling burned out, I was getting married and moving out of state. It took me 24-years to go back. I did try twice. The first time I was 25, I got as far as enrolling in one of the three classes I needed for an Associate’s degree. I was at class the first night and my then husband showed up at class with our 18-month old son and left him with me. Saying, if one of us was going back to school it would be him and not me. The professor asked that I leave and told me not to return with a child.

That moment wasn’t a total loss. The opportunity was already there and I started my own special event planning business. I learned more doing that than I will ever learn in school. I loved what I did. Yet, I would have had such an advantage if I had had a degree. Okay, I have a Doctorate from the School of Hard Knocks and honestly, I’d rather have a bachelor’s degree.

Today’s photo is obviously not of the UNM campus. I wanted a new snow shot and didn’t have one of UNM with snow. I took this picture yesterday at San Jose de Armijo Cemetery. Maybe it fits my mood this morning. AS if missing my classes when I had little other choice was putting a nail in my educational coffin.