The World According to Leslie

Today would have been my Grandma's (mom's mom) 93 birthday. However, since Jesus called her home to live with Him on June 30th, she's celebrating with Him. So Happy Birthday Grandma! Have a great day celebrating with Jesus! I know that she had some wonderful birthdays here. She would talk about them and tell us her favorite birthdays...until she couldn't remember anything. (She had Alzheimer's.) But... I know that today is her BEST birthday ever! She is celebrating with Jesus!

Wow! It's been FOREVER since I last blogged! Since I have been home from vacation, I have been swamped with school. The class I am taking is a Research Methods class. I knew that it was going to have a lot of Scientific information and mathematical statistics to do in it. So I put it off as long as I possibly could. Then I decided that instead of spreading the torture out for 16 weeks in the fall semester, I would shrink all the same work into a 5-week summer session. OMG! So far, I have not had many problems. This week is probably going to kill me. :( I actually have to do the math for myself this week. I have been reading the statistics and I have been doing okay in writing about them. So.... I'm just hoping I can find someone to do my homework for me this week! (NO! I'm just kidding! I will actually do my OWN homework!) However, I only have assignments due this Sunday (7/31), next Sunday (8/7), and my final exam and final assignment are due 8/10. Then I have abou...

We just got back from our vacation.  We came back on Wednesday.  However, we needed Thursday to recover!  lol  Isn’t that how it always goes?  You need a vacation to relax from a vacation? So, here are some of the highlights. First, we went to Boone, NC.  We stayed not far from Appalachian State University!  (I attended ASU as a college freshman!  It has changed A LOT since then!) The hotel where we stayed was great!  There was an indoor pool, but the tub in our room was big enough to be a small one-person pool for Chasity!  She just had to get in (clothes on and NO water) so that I could get a picture of the size!  She loved it!!     We were supposed to visit Tweetsie Railroad.  Chasity won tickets through her Girl Scout Cookie sales this year.  However, on July 4th, the day we planned to go, it was stormy all day.  The thunderstorms finally went away around 7pm.  The park closed at 9pm....

It has been a strange, long, busy month. I will (I promise to try) get some pics and info up for what has been going on this past month. Right now, my heart is broken, but I am rejoicing. Yesterday at 3:29pm, God called my Grandma Edwards home. This is my mom's mom. She would be 93 on July 30th. She had been sick for 2 weeks.....exactly.....14 days. She has 4 children still living--mom, Uncle Tommy, Uncle Arbeth, and Aunt Rhonda. Mom and Uncle Tommy live here in town. So they helped the nursing home to take care of her. (YES! We had to help them because they did not always do their jobs!) Aunt Rhonda now lives in GA. She was living in SC, but her hubby got a job in GA so she had to move. Uncle Arbeth is the oldest. He's in his 70s. His health isn't great, but he still gets around from day-to-day. His wife has Alzheimer's. He lives about an hour away. The nursing home called the family in on Tuesday. Mom and Uncle Tommy basically moved in up there. They o...

3 days ago, my Blogger account locked me out. Actually, I'm still not sure what went wrong. I leave my account logged in so when I pull up Blogger it's just on my Dashboard. However, sometimes, the log in page still comes up. So 3 days ago, the log in page came up. I logged in. It took me back to the log in page. :( Then I tried again. I did this for 3 days. Then this morning, I did it and it logged me in! YIPPPEEEE!!!!! So this morning, I had 3 days of Bloggy Goodness to catch up on! Whew! Hopefully, I will be able (disciplined enough) to get more of my information/posts actually on the blog soon! I have lots to say and just haven't taken the time to say it!

...and I didn't get the job. The interview went well. However, when it was over and I called Tony in the car on the way home, I said..."They didn't ask me a lot of questions. It's like they already had their mind made up before I walked in." I guess they did! I didn't get it. :( I cried a little. I'll probably cry again when Tony gets home. The bad thing is that the principal said, "Your interview was great, but I had to go with someone more qualified." I understood that when I was trying to do Lateral Entry in the position, but now that I have a teaching license..... I don't understand. :( I need help understanding it. But.... when she told me that, I said, "Thank you for letting me know." She thanked me for interviewing. Then I hung up. I was aggravated! I was mad! Now.... I don't know what I am!

Remember when we were little and we would toss and turn all night in our beds waiting on "Santa" to come? Remember watching the clock? 12:00 12:15 12:23 OMG! I did that last night. This morning, I have an interview for a job that I could start immediately! I'm excited about it. However, I guess last night, I was nervous! I went to bed around 10:30pm. Then I looked at the clock at 11pm. I turned the TV off at 11:07pm. Then I woke up again every 15 minutes until about 12:47am. Finally after that I looked at the clock again at 2:28am. Then at 3:34am. Then at 4:01am---when the alarm went off! (I have a clock that you have to go through ALL the numbers to get back to :00 so I left it at :01.) All that time....every time I looked at the clock... I thought...."This really feels like I'm waiting on Christmas!!" Maybe that's a good sign! I could really use this job for the rest of the school year! :)