Oct. 24, 2006 - EduBlitz
I'm working my HINEY off today. Trying to do some schooling shtuff to make right my mess. I'm currently working on Parables of Nature - adding pictures, editing to Word, and it's all very tedious and annoying. But I'm anal and want it all done and done RIGHT. So I'm busting my own gludious. Hrmph.
But I found out Kinko's does comb binding for only $3 or so, so this sounds good to me. I'm pretty sure (hoping, anyhow) that it'd be cheaper for me to print/comb-bind Parables of Nature and Fifty Famous Stories. If I get through them okay.
I also have been archiving Xanga entries like crazy. I figure if it takes me an hour to do a month (roughly), then it'll take me 24 hours to do two years. Right now I'm in March of 2004... ironically when I started gathering home education shtuff. No, the irony has not been lost on me.
So far the only things I missed on my 'Schedule for a Slacker' today were the morning run and the nature walk. Outdoors. I don't want to go out there. Out there isn't warm. Isn't safe. Isn't my bag. Yes, this may be the start of a trend.
The AO (Year 0) e-list group that I belong to are reading "Home Education" by Charlotte Mason... AND they are posting questions on the week's readings. Accountability!!!!! I was so geeked, I wheeee-ed. Until I read the questions... and realized that it's not going to work for me. So I'm going to do the readings with them but post my Home Ed notes kinda like I post TorahClass Tidbits. Only on my Home Ed site (The EduMatrix).
File folders with 3-ring holders are NOT working for me. I can't get stuff out when I want them. Thankfully, Rite Aid was clearancing (75% off!!!) their back-to-school stuff a few weeks ago, and I got some gorgeous white 3-ring binders (the type you can slide a title page in the front of?) for 80 cents a piece. Inch or so thick ones. I need to do some work on re-organizing for school. I think the File Folders will work marvelous for archiving past years (and I use them for studies that are longer, like the Pre-Wrath stuff I'm reading)... hrm.
I gots t'go. BTW, just in case you didn't know, Meijer has digital 4" prints overnight developing for 12 cents a piece - everyday price! Compared to Rite Aid (16 cents), Walgreens (19 cents) and Sam's Club (14 cents). Laugh if you want, but I develop about 300 pictures at a time... that adds up. Which means I don't have to re-new my Sam's Club membership. That saves me another $30. wOOt.
