TMA time yay ;O)

As I sit here doing my TMA I thought it was time I put another entry into my blog. I am on a break and not doing this to avoid doing my TMA, I wouldn't do that as I have to finish it today.

So I have started A217 and am now doing the TMA for it which isn't due until 15th Feb but I need to get it out of the way today because I need to get back to DD100 tomorrow.
I am enjoying doing two courses at the moment but I might not be saying this next month because the Religion one will get more intense because all I had to do for this TMA was the introduction book which wasn't very big at all so the TMA isn't too hard for me though it may prove difficult when I have read it through and realised what a load of all rubbish I have written.

It was my mum's birthday last week, well 20th if that can be still be counted as last week. Weeks start on Monday for me so to me it is still last week.
It took me ages and a lot of walking round shops to find something for my mum and I didn't just get one thing because I just couldn't think of one thing that she would like so in the end I got her, a lavender scented pillow, a big lavender candle in a glass jar thing, 4 lots of different chocolates, a hand knitted scarf and a bouquet of flowers. She seemed to really like what I got her so I am happy and she is pleased with the pillow.

Talking about the scarf, I liked it so much that I went back to the shop a total of two times and bough the same scarf three times. I got one for me , one for my mum and one for my good friend Caroline :O) It is a really nice soft scarf.

I am working really hard atm with my study and everything but I do thing myself slacking every now and then and getting caught up writing too many emails and replying to too many emails and I know there are more things I could be getting on with but I pushed myself too hard the other week so last week I was wiped out for some of the week so I calmed down with the amount of things I was doing.
I am managing to get a lot of study done which I am happy about and I really need to keep that up more than anything because if I fall behind I will have to drop one of the courses and I really don't want to have to have to do that. So I am trying to keep a little ahead than needed just incase I get ill or I can't do any for a few days for whatever reason.
I don't tend to study on Saturdays as I am out most of the day and Sundays I don't really like to study but I will do if I am behind or I have a TMA to work on like I do today. Monday to Friday I do work on my coursework and I spend a fair but of time on it but I don't think I spend as much time on it as I should.
When I did my first OU course back in 2003 I didn't have a computer and didn't have the distraction so I used to study a lot and my TMA marks got better and better with each TMA. I wish it was like it was then and that I didn't have the distraftion of this computer than I am now sat in front of doing this on.
I tend not to turn it on because once it is turned on that is when it becomes the distraction, I don't need it to do my course work so if I am struggling with my concertration i don't turn it on or I leave the room. I do tend to come in here first in the mornings and turn it on and then go and get my breakfast and sit here in front of the computer with my breakfast and start emailing and whatever and then I have the problem of dragging myself off here, well I used to do because now I check my messages and reply to them and then I leave the room and go and sit in my living room and study!

I treated myself a fair bit too, I bought myself a new pillow because I bought two duck feather pillows the other week because that is what I had since I started using pillows in 2000, I didn't use them before then.
So I bought them and used one with one of my old ones and it is so uncomfotable and I can't sleep like that so I bought a new one and what it cost me for that (non duck feather) pillow it came to more than the two duck feather ones together.
I tried the pillow out last night and it is too thick but seems comfy enough so it will do me.
I also treated myself to a few other things which I shall not discuss on here ;O) as well as the scarf above I talked about I got a few other little things and a DVD which also got me a free £5 voucher which I can use from the 1st Feb.

There is so many birthdays together because it was my mums on the 20th and then the 27th was Marc's (my nephew) and then on Wednesday (1st Feb) it is my brothers. He will be 29, the last year of his 20's. Oh my, I will be the only one of us left in our 20's from next year. I will be 24 this year but still another 6 years before I reach 30. My brother Barry reached the big 30 last year, I am the youngest in the family and my dad is the oldest.
I am going out for a meal next weekend with my family, I got invited by my brother the other day and I can't wait. I don't know where it is going to be as he hadn't decided but I know where I would like it to be though I somehow doubt it will be there. Oh what should I wear? I might need to buy something from Next ;O) Maybe just a top, I will have a look to see what there is.

Anyway I think I better get back to my TMA now as i have so much I need to do today.