More progress on the thesis today.  It’s getting a little harder to slog through it.  I can feel myself inching towards to finish line and I’m starting to fumble.  Right now what is slowing me down is the sheer size of the beast.  The written portion has grown to nearly 60 pages.  That makes it a little tough to keep reading through for amendments, additions, etc… 

            Today feels like Monday should have felt.  Slow, dragging, and as if the weekend is miles away.  I’m trying, digging deep, to find the perky – but she’s eluding me today. 

            Aiden has a school meeting tonight.  I hope to be able to talk to his teacher about him and at the very least schedule a parent-teacher conference.  He has a b in reading and we want to work on that.  Also, I want to know how he’s doing in school as far as the reaction of his medicine.  He’s been occasionally going to the office complaining of an upset stomach.  Yesterday when the office secretary asked him what he’d had for breakfast he said he hadn’t eaten.  HRUH!?!  I ate with him for cripes sake.  It makes me late every day.  He didn’t finish his toast (which is what he asked for), but don’t tell people I didn’t feed you!  Sheesh!  I asked him about it and he said he didn’t say that.  ::quirks eyebrow::  So – yeah, I want to talk to his teacher about it and get him straightened out.  If we work a little harder he might make A honor roll.  Though I will be very happy with A-B honor roll. 

            I hope the little booger gets his homework done today before I pick him up.  He didn’t do it yesterday and so my night was killed working on that with him and making dinner.  Baked chicken, asparagus sautéed in butter, garlic and onions, and mashed potatoes cooked with onions (forgot to put in the garlic).  Mmm…  Yummy. 

            I finally caught week three’s episode of True Blood.  At the end they show previews of coming weeks and I finally got to see what Eric is going to look like.  I am officially lodging a complaint that he is by far not hot enough to be playing Eric the oh so yummy favorite character of Asani.  He is neither tall enough, nor broad enough to play the part.  I don’t mean he needs to be a beefcake.  But a hair do doesn’t really cover up that this guy doesn’t have the ancestry that Eric’s character has, which is integral to plots far down the line.  I just want to smack somebody. 

Another complaint I have about the show is the way a lot of the acting is over the top.  The cool thing about the books is that the characters are believably southern, believably someone you might meet on the street.  And the vampire acting is poorly done.  I’m especially disappointed in Bill – because he’s such a normal kind of guy (aside from the whole not being alive bit).  All the brooding, oh I’m such a vampire can’t you tell by my mannerisms and the way I’m always shot in shadow frowning, totally gets on my nerves.  He gives off a timid and unconfident air around Sookie that never really happens in the books.  Cool and aloof do not timid make.  I’m sorry.  No.  Also, the chick playing Sookie has her character seeming wound way to tight.  Sookie is a bright girl, calm, and a tough cookie.  She chews and mulls her thoughts, she doesn’t really spaz out.  She not horrible at playing Sookie, I just think that there’s a lot of room for improvement.  I wonder if she’s read the books.  I think the girl needs to relax into her roll more, be more comfortable in it.  I think that would help a lot.  So, I’m giving her time.

That aside, I love the show.  It’s veering from the details of the book, but sticking to the main plot points at least.  I can’t wait to see if Eric pisses me off more once I see him acting.  And there’s tons of plot developments I can’t wait to see played out.  Also, I’m dying for the next book in the series and long to dig them all out and re-read them once I get school out of the way. 

God, school is like a boulder weighing on my heart.  One foot in front of the other I suppose.  Nothing else to be done for it really. 

The budget is going to be tight next month with Aiden’s b-day.  In addition to this I noticed my tires in the front are balding and going flat.  And this morning R tells me he thinks he has some teeth coming in, in the back that might need to be removed.  Our savings have already been reduced to pay the exorbitant car insurance bill this month.  I’ve already started accounting for that in our monthly savings allotment, but for now things are pinchy.  I don’t like owning a house in today’s world and not having a nice cushion of savings.  I don’t like all the money needing crap that’s come up lately.  And heck, we just blew money on Aiden’s school pictures that I only just now realized I hadn’t figured in to the whole how much has already been spent for the month figure.  Ugh… 

So – I ban me from the movie section of any store and I ban me from Amazon.  ::whimpers::  I totally suck at following through on these bans.  But, I find it easier not to spend money when I know we don’t have any to spend.  And groceries really hurt us this month.  Losing everything in the fridge and freezers meant a lot had to be replaced.  We lost a lot of meat and a lot of dinner things that aren’t cheap.  And there was R’s b-day as well.  Sigh… 

Well, I did get a good chunk done on the thesis today.  I should have gotten more done – but it wasn’t a motivated day.  It’s a dragging day.  I did get new charts made again, more rewrites and additions done, and some much needed ideas to fix problems with images sorted out.  I need a freaking nap is what I need kitties.  Yesh indeedy. 

Total page count on the thesis not including table of contents or title pages = 161.