epiphany

Wow, my new medicine is actually working.  I have depression and take medicine everyday.  Recently for awhile I have been not caring, being a hermit, not enjoying much.  Then I went to the doctor and he prescribed some oxytocin.  This is a drug that is supposed to reduce anxiety in many ways.  I remember when he was describing the things that it helped with was that it made you want to connect with other people, decrease irritability, and mediate some of the anxiety.  Well I have to say that in the last few days I have seen that I am wanting to connect more with people.  I am not being my usual really anti social self, which is good because being anti social sometimes makes me sad which does not help depression.  So I am noticing I want to be out of the house, which I am alone in most of the day.  I want to connect with friends more, via facebook mostly.  I am branching out and trying to get to know other people better.  It was a revelation that occurred to me today as I was finding myself starting conversations with lots of people in facebook, and beginning to interact with people in the blogging world. 
Its the small things that make the difference.

my truth

Nothing every gets done without deadlines. 

There is some stupid assignments in school, and if there were no deadlines I would never do anything. 

Darn teachers

I have my grades from my second semester of graduate school already posted.  I turned my 20 page paper in last monday, there are 15 people in the class, and the teacher had the grades up yesterday.  There is no way she read everyones paper and was able to grade it that quickly.  Why on earth does she make us write long papers to not even read them.  I guess I dont mind that she did not read them critically, but I feel like she probably didnt read them at all.

Mothers day card

I was inspired by the paper weaving 'The Crafty-Arty Kid' shared on her website.  You can check out her tutorial here

I started by collecting pink strips of paper.  I used my paper slicer to make straight lines, because I cannot do it on my own.  After cutting I got started.





 After making my pretty slices I used tape to secure them while I wove the strands in the other direction.  After this tedious task I had something really wonderful.





After making sure my weave pattern was big enough I added tape to the sides, then cut off the ends.  I had a lot of excess paper hanging off the edges.  I think it is pretty and didn't want to waste it.  So by some miracle I thought about putting it on a scrapbook page.  It looks like this:

And some day I hope to add some pictures to it.  I think it would be a good summer page, something with flowers and pool time pics.






This is what an hour of procrastination of homework looks like in my house.  Plus that papers not due for 5 days, so I've got time.  ;)