Happenings

You've probably noticed that I haven't been posting lately.  I've been working on getting my Ed.D in educational leadership and the past few months have been really focused on starting my dissertation.  Over the past week, I've been in my yearly residency and I am mentally exhausted.

I've been listening to Pandora, while locked in this basement classroom.  I am revealing my inner teen here by telling you the name of the station is One Direction (sometimes I switch it up with Call Me Maybe).  Somehow, no idea how, Pandora has been playing my very inspirational writing music about no worries, don't give up, being a sky scraper.  It might be just a little creepy...

Hello blog!

Wow, it's been a whirlwind past few weeks.  School started, and I am knee deep in dissertation writing.    I have an awesome class this year, but there is so much to do at the beginning of the year.  But my sister was pushing me to get back to my blog, and here I am.  Here is what Spock has been up to:

Schedules

Today everything gears up again after a week and a half break: work and school.  I'm trying to add a few things into my schedule this year, as well.  Luckily, school is online, but there are several days where I must post online.  I'm trying to configure my schedule so I have school, work, gym, blogging, another online project, and cooking dinner all balanced throughout the week.

I currently leave for work by 7:15, and if I get up when Mr. Logical leaves at 5:30, I could get all my school postings done in the morning.  My work bestie, Julie, just joined my gym and I think we're going to work out together after work 3 days a week.  The other 3 days, I can use my bike on the trainer here at home or do Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred.  Sunday is typically my rest day for exercise, and I might make it a rest day for school as well, and use it to work on some other projects.

The last thing I have to work in is cooking twice a week.  When I lived alone, I got to be pretty good about scrounging up some dinner, but somehow I don't think that's going to fly every day any more.  I know that 7 days a week will be too much for me, plus Mr. Logical love to cook, so I settled on 2 days a week.  I've been utilizing AllRecipes and Pinterest to help me come up with some ideas, but I have to do better planning when I'm going to cook and grocery shopping.

In the past, I have bought date books and tried iCal, but neither are intuitive to me.  I'm a remember it in my head kind of gal, but I think now that I have so much going on, I'm going to make a more concentrated effort to use iCal a little more effectively.  This should help me coordinate with Mr. Logical, too.