July 18, 2009 - Clever Girl!

Four hours' sleep. Why am I having so much trouble sleeping over the last few days? Since I was wide awake, I got myself out of bed before the alarm went off and headed out the door with Kasey to go back to AACC.

Lucky for me, the lady at the Records & Registration window was much more helpful than the girl yesterday. When I explained that I was stuck with the four-day class and that I was a dialysis patient, she went to work looking through the sections for another availability. I had highlighted all the sections I was interested in and told her that I asked about online classes when I was there yesterday. She asked me what I was told and I said "I got a shake of the head. She didn't say anything." I wasn't sure if the online and hybrid (one day a week at campus, everything else online) were full, or just the online.

She was able to find me an opening in a hybrid class that meets from 5:10 to 6:55pm on Thursdays. That is perfect because I'll be able to continue attending Barnes & Noble stitching group on Thursday afternoons! My entire first semester, there is only one day a week I have to be at campus. I love it!

I ran a couple errands and then picked up Anna for our library date. I wanted to take a picture, but I left my purse in the truck because I had my hands full with backpacks, books, little girl, and Kasey. Anna prefers going to the Eastport branch of the library because they have a play area for little ones. There are puzzles she plays with whenever we're there. She especially likes the two puzzles with different kinds of latches. I will be sure to take pictures next week when we go!

I popped around the corner to my other niece's house so that I could drop off the birthday card she forgot at Mom's. Aime, my ex-SIL and I chatted for a bit but I had to go because I left the truck running with Anna and Kasey inside (we were on the front porch, but still) and Aime was packing Bre's things in preparation for her week-long stay at Ian's.

We dropped Anna off at Sarah's and came home and I putzed online all day. I didn't do any stitching at all.

I did, however, do something crafty today! When we were at the college, we went into the bookstore because I was told the school nurse's office was on the other side. When I asked one of the girls in the bookstore if I was heading in the correct direction she informed me that the nurse wasn't there on weekends. The reason I wanted to see her was that my advisor suggested I talk to the nurse about my condition. They thought it was a good idea, should I have a fainting spell, for someone to know exactly what to do, especially since Kasey is usually with me. I have no problem with that, because it'd make me feel safer, anyway.

Well, once I found out the nurse wasn't there I decided to wander around the bookstore. When I read the school's website last night, one of the tips I saw was to have an at-a-glance calendar with due dates and reminders. I found an organizer that had a yearly at-a-glance page, monthly pages, and weekly pages with individual blocks for each day. I thought it was great. They just didn't have purple. They had a lavender, but it was a display copy with a large sticker on the cover which read "Do Not Remove." A search of the stock room revealed two other styles of organizers in purple, but neither had the large daily blocks of the first and only one had a page for each month. I chose the second style but they weren't bar coded yet and therefore couldn't be sold.

I asked if I could buy the lavender display copy anyway and said I'd find something to cover the eyesore sticker. So they sold it to me!

After running errands and taking Anna to the library, I came home and devised a way to hide the offending sticker.

I started with this:

















And ended with this:
















It took some finagling, but I covered the organizer in a piece of fabric from my stash. I used Fray Check on the edges of the fabric after the glue dried and tied a length of ribbon to the top of the spiral to be used to mark my place in the calendar. Since the ribbon is tied at the top, it will always stick out of the bottom and thus show me which side is the front/top of the book. I only used glue to adhere the fabric to the covers so the spiral is loosely covered and the book easily opens.

How clever and crafty is that? No one will have one like it!