I was looking at OU Courses today as I decided not to do two level 3 courses next year as I feel that will be too much to tackle at once.
There are so many courses that I like the look and sound of so it was hard to come up with some sort of short list. Even now I don't know what way I am going to go but I know eventually I will probably want to do all the courses that are on this short list. This is what I have got:
1. An Introduction to Business Studies. 30 points.
2. Discovering Science. 60 points.
3. Start Learning Music. 10 Points, I think I will be doing this in Jan '07.
4. Understanding Media. 60 points, I really want to do this course and I wish it started in October and not in Jan '07.
So that is my short list of courses I want to do other than the ones I have picked out and plan to do.
In October I am starting T184 (hopefully) and I would love to start another course then but the only one in that list that starts in October is Discovering science so that is the one I might end up doing as I really don't want to start two 60 point courses at the same time.
I just hope I am allowed to do Start Learning music at the same time as it will take my points total to 130, 140 if you count T184.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Sunday, March 26, 2006
The life of study
My life seems to be full of study at the moment but I really don't mind. I am doing 120 points and it is hard at times but I do enjoy it, even on those days when I am tired too, and I put my all into it to get through it.
With getting ill I did fall behind on my time table of being ahead and I'm not back to where I want to be with my study but by the end of this week I should be about 4-5 days ahead and getting back into the swing of this thing we call study.
I am mostly concentrating on DD100 this week and getting this block out of the way so I can start the TMA next weekend (1st April etc) so I can have it out the way for the 4th-5th April so I can then get back to A217 and do the next Religion.
I still don't have my mark back for the second TMA (assignment) for A217 but I think I will have it back next week and am looking forward to seeing what my mark is because I took a slightly different approach with it and hope it paid off. - Last time I did get my highest ever mark for a level 2 course and for all time in my humanities course and I was so pleased so my only hope is I have stayed at that standard and maybe got one mark higher than last time but we shall see if that happens.
I am more motivated at the moment and try to be as productive as I can each day so I get more and more things done and don't fall behind on things. Things are really going great with that (even when I have tired days) and I am getting more and more things done each day. In the past I have been known to sit around and not get much done or been too lazy etc but now I do one thing and then think of anything thing to do and get more things done. I could get more done if I wanted but I am not as motivated as I could be, I am just trying to get used to how much stuff I am doing now and then will motivate myself a little more and get more and more done.
I am amazed at what I get done too, I rarely watch TV now and I rarely chat too long on MSN, I just go on there for up to an hour every 1-2 days and chat with my friend Pete and a couple of my other friends like Caroline who is a good friend too :O)
I went to Next yesterday after not going in since before Christmas, I have done well I think. I didn't go over board either, I got a bag, 2 nice tops (day time ones) and a pair of mules things that are to die for and I wanted the second I saw them. I am pleased with what I got and happy I didn't get more. I want to wait a while until I have paid more off my next bill before going in there and having a big splurge.
It seems my mum was happy with what I got her for mothers day even though I would of liked to of gotten her more than I did.
At first I was going to get flowers delivered to her but I like buying things that won't die in a few weeks time so I ended up getting her 2 DVDs and a CD. I send them on Friday with a Card and she got them yesterday and really liked them.
As I walked round town yesterday I saw loads of people buying flowers and I wished I had gotten her flowers too and felt really bad about not getting her any as they are nice to get. If she lived closer or in a easy place to get to I would of bought her a bunch of flowers and taken them over to her but she lives a little too far away for that which is a shame but next time I go and visit her I will buy her some :O)
Oh and I have already bought her wedding anniversary card in preparation for the 6th. I will send it next weekend so it will get them before the date :O) I did so well :OP
Oh it's my dad's birthday on the 10th and so far I have got him the latest Neil Diamond CD (he is a fan) I have also seen another Neil Diamond thing he will like so will get that, I think that is about (£40) but I don't know what else to get him. I was thinking of taking him to Republic on his birthday and letting him pick something from there as well.
I don't know if I should take him for a meal or buy him something instead yet, I think he will be happy with those gifts so I guess I could take him for a nice meal too :O)
With getting ill I did fall behind on my time table of being ahead and I'm not back to where I want to be with my study but by the end of this week I should be about 4-5 days ahead and getting back into the swing of this thing we call study.
I am mostly concentrating on DD100 this week and getting this block out of the way so I can start the TMA next weekend (1st April etc) so I can have it out the way for the 4th-5th April so I can then get back to A217 and do the next Religion.
I still don't have my mark back for the second TMA (assignment) for A217 but I think I will have it back next week and am looking forward to seeing what my mark is because I took a slightly different approach with it and hope it paid off. - Last time I did get my highest ever mark for a level 2 course and for all time in my humanities course and I was so pleased so my only hope is I have stayed at that standard and maybe got one mark higher than last time but we shall see if that happens.
I am more motivated at the moment and try to be as productive as I can each day so I get more and more things done and don't fall behind on things. Things are really going great with that (even when I have tired days) and I am getting more and more things done each day. In the past I have been known to sit around and not get much done or been too lazy etc but now I do one thing and then think of anything thing to do and get more things done. I could get more done if I wanted but I am not as motivated as I could be, I am just trying to get used to how much stuff I am doing now and then will motivate myself a little more and get more and more done.
I am amazed at what I get done too, I rarely watch TV now and I rarely chat too long on MSN, I just go on there for up to an hour every 1-2 days and chat with my friend Pete and a couple of my other friends like Caroline who is a good friend too :O)
I went to Next yesterday after not going in since before Christmas, I have done well I think. I didn't go over board either, I got a bag, 2 nice tops (day time ones) and a pair of mules things that are to die for and I wanted the second I saw them. I am pleased with what I got and happy I didn't get more. I want to wait a while until I have paid more off my next bill before going in there and having a big splurge.
It seems my mum was happy with what I got her for mothers day even though I would of liked to of gotten her more than I did.
At first I was going to get flowers delivered to her but I like buying things that won't die in a few weeks time so I ended up getting her 2 DVDs and a CD. I send them on Friday with a Card and she got them yesterday and really liked them.
As I walked round town yesterday I saw loads of people buying flowers and I wished I had gotten her flowers too and felt really bad about not getting her any as they are nice to get. If she lived closer or in a easy place to get to I would of bought her a bunch of flowers and taken them over to her but she lives a little too far away for that which is a shame but next time I go and visit her I will buy her some :O)
Oh and I have already bought her wedding anniversary card in preparation for the 6th. I will send it next weekend so it will get them before the date :O) I did so well :OP
Oh it's my dad's birthday on the 10th and so far I have got him the latest Neil Diamond CD (he is a fan) I have also seen another Neil Diamond thing he will like so will get that, I think that is about (£40) but I don't know what else to get him. I was thinking of taking him to Republic on his birthday and letting him pick something from there as well.
I don't know if I should take him for a meal or buy him something instead yet, I think he will be happy with those gifts so I guess I could take him for a nice meal too :O)
Monday, March 20, 2006
Caught up!
I worked really hard on my course work last week (too many hours) and eventually caught up on my A217 course :O)
I started my TMA on Friday and didn't get very far and thought I couldn't do more on it which I wasn't happy about as I have to do 2000 words and hadn't even managed a quarter of that.
Eventually I got back onto the TMA on Sunday (yesterday) and I spent most of the day working on it and I worked really hard on it. I am proud at myself for the amount of effort I actually put into the TMA. I finally finished it about 9pm last night and put it in a evelope and left it with the other post for my dad to post today.
I am almost back to full health now :O) and about time too as it has been just over three weeks now and I felt so ill and have never felt that ill before so it is nice to get back to (almost) full health again. I still have a little of what I had and not much energy but I am sure that will build up over the next week or so.
I finished Sourcery last week and I must say that I really enjoyed reading it. I liked Mort that I read before that but Sourcery is so much better. It has Rinsewind in and he has become one if not my favorite character in the discworld books. I hope he is in more as it does look like he has died or something though it doesn't actually say if he has so I do get the feeling that he hasn't :O)
Before Sourcery I read Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls by Robert Rankin as Robert Rankin was recommended to me by someone I happen to like :O) The book was amazing and so funny, a great read that I really loved reading. I liked it so much that I have just bought another Robert Rankin book. I don't know when I will read it as I am on Bridget Jones's Diary at the moment and next i am reading Wryd sisters by TP. Then after that I was meant to read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown and then back to the next TP book so I guess it will be after that even though I have another book I bought before Christmas that needs reading so who knows when I will get to read it.
For mothers day I was going to get my mum flowers but I like to get gifts that last a while so I have ended up buying her two DVDs and a CD too. On DVD I get her Lavender Ladies and High Society (she loves old films and this has an amazing cast) and on CD I get her the new Andy Abraham album because she loved him when he was on X foactor, loves his voice and his sexy eyes as she put it so I got her that as well.
Today is a kind of chill out day for me compared to how busy have been and will be from tomorrow. I have a lot of house work to do today though I don't have time for too much. I also have a massive pile of paper work to get through and have to bath the dog because he is in bad need of a bath as he smells and is dirty. All that and get the tea ready by a resonable time so then I can read as much as my book as I can as I want to finish it tomorrow so I can start Wryd Sisters tomorrow.
I have to get back onto my DD100 course work tomorrow when I have it. It is at the post office at the moment and is 8 weeks late but I am only just ready to get back onto it after being ill. I then have less than two weeks to do 6 weeks worth of course work and then a couple of days to do my TMA and then back onto A217. I will be a little bit glad when DD100 finishes in June as it is getting a bit much at times and with me looking for a job there is a chance I am going to get one and won't have time to do all my course work so this time I plan to get at least a month ahead in both courses just in case I don't have much time over the next few months when I get a job.
I started my TMA on Friday and didn't get very far and thought I couldn't do more on it which I wasn't happy about as I have to do 2000 words and hadn't even managed a quarter of that.
Eventually I got back onto the TMA on Sunday (yesterday) and I spent most of the day working on it and I worked really hard on it. I am proud at myself for the amount of effort I actually put into the TMA. I finally finished it about 9pm last night and put it in a evelope and left it with the other post for my dad to post today.
I am almost back to full health now :O) and about time too as it has been just over three weeks now and I felt so ill and have never felt that ill before so it is nice to get back to (almost) full health again. I still have a little of what I had and not much energy but I am sure that will build up over the next week or so.
I finished Sourcery last week and I must say that I really enjoyed reading it. I liked Mort that I read before that but Sourcery is so much better. It has Rinsewind in and he has become one if not my favorite character in the discworld books. I hope he is in more as it does look like he has died or something though it doesn't actually say if he has so I do get the feeling that he hasn't :O)
Before Sourcery I read Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls by Robert Rankin as Robert Rankin was recommended to me by someone I happen to like :O) The book was amazing and so funny, a great read that I really loved reading. I liked it so much that I have just bought another Robert Rankin book. I don't know when I will read it as I am on Bridget Jones's Diary at the moment and next i am reading Wryd sisters by TP. Then after that I was meant to read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown and then back to the next TP book so I guess it will be after that even though I have another book I bought before Christmas that needs reading so who knows when I will get to read it.
For mothers day I was going to get my mum flowers but I like to get gifts that last a while so I have ended up buying her two DVDs and a CD too. On DVD I get her Lavender Ladies and High Society (she loves old films and this has an amazing cast) and on CD I get her the new Andy Abraham album because she loved him when he was on X foactor, loves his voice and his sexy eyes as she put it so I got her that as well.
Today is a kind of chill out day for me compared to how busy have been and will be from tomorrow. I have a lot of house work to do today though I don't have time for too much. I also have a massive pile of paper work to get through and have to bath the dog because he is in bad need of a bath as he smells and is dirty. All that and get the tea ready by a resonable time so then I can read as much as my book as I can as I want to finish it tomorrow so I can start Wryd Sisters tomorrow.
I have to get back onto my DD100 course work tomorrow when I have it. It is at the post office at the moment and is 8 weeks late but I am only just ready to get back onto it after being ill. I then have less than two weeks to do 6 weeks worth of course work and then a couple of days to do my TMA and then back onto A217. I will be a little bit glad when DD100 finishes in June as it is getting a bit much at times and with me looking for a job there is a chance I am going to get one and won't have time to do all my course work so this time I plan to get at least a month ahead in both courses just in case I don't have much time over the next few months when I get a job.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Sick and sick of being sick
Yes I am sick yet again! It seems I am always sick these days.
I have flu yet again (second time this year) and I am not one bit pleased about it. I started getting sick the other Saturday (Saturday before last) and it got to it's worst last Wednesday (1st March) and it was really bad that day, I felt like my face was on fire. It didn't improve much the next few days but over the last 2 days I have improved a little though I am still a fair way off being well again but at least I am slowly getting there.
I am about 2 weeks behind (almost) on my course work, well more than that really as it was 5 weeks worth of work in two weeks and a TMA in 2-3 days and I should of had that out the way and been back on my other course but I'm not :O( I wish I was and in fact I am hoping I can do an hours worth of course work tomorrow, I am hoping I will be up to that and the way I am feeling now I can say I will be and am looking forward to getting some done. With me still not being 100% I won't push myself but I am hoping to be fully back into it by weekend as I need to get it done and get the TMA done.
I think I will need to get an extension on it as well otherwise it just isn't going to be finished on time. I really didn't want to get a extension but it looks like it is the only way I am going to get it done on time.
Maybe it is a good job I couldn't go back to DD100 when I wanted to because I still haven't got the course books. SMS were meant to deliver it in Jan and it still isn't here. I keep rearranging for them to delivery it on a particular day but they never turn up and 6 weeks later I still don't have it. I contacted the OU today about it as I need that course work now as I was meant to start it the other week and they are going to send it out with Parcel Force because I asked them to as there will be more chance of me getting it that way :O) So with some luck I will have that by next week and will be able to start it when I finish with A217.
I was talking to my friend today about doctors and how I have to get an appointment at mine - what I have to go through to get one.
With our doctors there is no ringing up and booking a appointment later in the week, you have to ring up when they open and hope you get through and get an appointment for that day because there is no booking ahead. I think that is a total pain as I would much prefer to ring up and make an appointment at a time convenient for me but I can't do that so if you need to see the doctor for something you have to take the day off work and hope you get in.
Last time I wanted/needed to go it took 4 hours to get through and I got the last appointment as there was only one doctor on that day which is a pain. I am also needing to go and I have more than one thing I want to discuss with the doctor but I feel like I can't as they are always rushing you in and out and I heard the worse thing you can say to a doctor is "I've got a list", there are a few things I want to discuss but this whole doctor's experience is putting me off so much.
I need an eye test. I haven't been in 2 years and I got the thing through saying I was due and I knew I was due anyway as I have been looking forward to it for ages now. I got diagnosed with astigmatism in both eyes last time as was told I had to wear glasses all the time and I do and not many people know I wear them because I refuse to wear them out the house. I don't suffer without them but am short sighted. Anyway I was told if I wear them my eye shape could alter slightly and it would allow me to wear contacts - which I really want. So when I go back I was hoping to get contacts this time but now the time has come I don't have much money and don't think I can afford them because they aren't that cheap to keep getting. I need a new pair of glasses anyway no matter what as I can't wear contacts all the time when I get them so I am hoping to get a pair of designer glasses too but I so don't want to go back at the moment because I can't afford the contacts lenses which I really want. I don't know what to do, I really need some new glasses as the ones I have now have a few scratches on and are worn out and they don't look right on me - that is my dad's fault as I took him to help me pick a pair and he wasn't much help at all, next time I will get someone in the shop to help me.
I am behind on my one book a week, I should be on my last Dan Brown book now but I am still on Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls by Robert Rankin and should of read Sourcery by Terry Pratchett last week but have been ill. I read a little of my book this evening and if I read 50 pages a day till Monday I will have read it and can read Sourcery next week. I would say I will read Digital Fortress next week too but I don't know how my study and what not is going to go so we will see I guess.
I really could do with going to the dentists too, I don't have one anymore because I got kicked off my dentists books for not going in 18 months. It is a shame as I had a really good dentist who made me no longer scared of going to the dentists. I so can't remember when I last went but when I think of it I think I was 19 and that is bad if that is the case. I really need to find me a dentist who I like and who I can trust as I really need to see one. It's all a case of money yet again and that is something I don't have much off at the moment.
I am meant to be saving for London but haven't saved a penny and my hotel is £450 and I don't have that. I was meant to be saving a grand so I could treat myself but at the moment that isn't looking likely. I don't know what to do, I have been looking for part time jobs but there doesn't seem to be many about and nothing in the area that I want. I did apply for a couple of full time jobs and got an interview which I turned down like an idiot. I wish I had gone now.
It is March now and I am running out of time and I have two birthdays this week and then mothers day and then my next phone bill. OMG! I don't want to know about my next phonebill, to be honest I am dreading it and expecting it to be at least £100. I hope it isn't much more than that as £100 is more than enough right now with me not having any money coming in. I sent way too many video messages in a 2 week period, nearly 100 from counting them in the sent items on my phone as well as loads of pics and texts. I don't mind the texts but from now on the video messages will be cut down and not too many pic messagIs i think.
I have flu yet again (second time this year) and I am not one bit pleased about it. I started getting sick the other Saturday (Saturday before last) and it got to it's worst last Wednesday (1st March) and it was really bad that day, I felt like my face was on fire. It didn't improve much the next few days but over the last 2 days I have improved a little though I am still a fair way off being well again but at least I am slowly getting there.
I am about 2 weeks behind (almost) on my course work, well more than that really as it was 5 weeks worth of work in two weeks and a TMA in 2-3 days and I should of had that out the way and been back on my other course but I'm not :O( I wish I was and in fact I am hoping I can do an hours worth of course work tomorrow, I am hoping I will be up to that and the way I am feeling now I can say I will be and am looking forward to getting some done. With me still not being 100% I won't push myself but I am hoping to be fully back into it by weekend as I need to get it done and get the TMA done.
I think I will need to get an extension on it as well otherwise it just isn't going to be finished on time. I really didn't want to get a extension but it looks like it is the only way I am going to get it done on time.
Maybe it is a good job I couldn't go back to DD100 when I wanted to because I still haven't got the course books. SMS were meant to deliver it in Jan and it still isn't here. I keep rearranging for them to delivery it on a particular day but they never turn up and 6 weeks later I still don't have it. I contacted the OU today about it as I need that course work now as I was meant to start it the other week and they are going to send it out with Parcel Force because I asked them to as there will be more chance of me getting it that way :O) So with some luck I will have that by next week and will be able to start it when I finish with A217.
I was talking to my friend today about doctors and how I have to get an appointment at mine - what I have to go through to get one.
With our doctors there is no ringing up and booking a appointment later in the week, you have to ring up when they open and hope you get through and get an appointment for that day because there is no booking ahead. I think that is a total pain as I would much prefer to ring up and make an appointment at a time convenient for me but I can't do that so if you need to see the doctor for something you have to take the day off work and hope you get in.
Last time I wanted/needed to go it took 4 hours to get through and I got the last appointment as there was only one doctor on that day which is a pain. I am also needing to go and I have more than one thing I want to discuss with the doctor but I feel like I can't as they are always rushing you in and out and I heard the worse thing you can say to a doctor is "I've got a list", there are a few things I want to discuss but this whole doctor's experience is putting me off so much.
I need an eye test. I haven't been in 2 years and I got the thing through saying I was due and I knew I was due anyway as I have been looking forward to it for ages now. I got diagnosed with astigmatism in both eyes last time as was told I had to wear glasses all the time and I do and not many people know I wear them because I refuse to wear them out the house. I don't suffer without them but am short sighted. Anyway I was told if I wear them my eye shape could alter slightly and it would allow me to wear contacts - which I really want. So when I go back I was hoping to get contacts this time but now the time has come I don't have much money and don't think I can afford them because they aren't that cheap to keep getting. I need a new pair of glasses anyway no matter what as I can't wear contacts all the time when I get them so I am hoping to get a pair of designer glasses too but I so don't want to go back at the moment because I can't afford the contacts lenses which I really want. I don't know what to do, I really need some new glasses as the ones I have now have a few scratches on and are worn out and they don't look right on me - that is my dad's fault as I took him to help me pick a pair and he wasn't much help at all, next time I will get someone in the shop to help me.
I am behind on my one book a week, I should be on my last Dan Brown book now but I am still on Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls by Robert Rankin and should of read Sourcery by Terry Pratchett last week but have been ill. I read a little of my book this evening and if I read 50 pages a day till Monday I will have read it and can read Sourcery next week. I would say I will read Digital Fortress next week too but I don't know how my study and what not is going to go so we will see I guess.
I really could do with going to the dentists too, I don't have one anymore because I got kicked off my dentists books for not going in 18 months. It is a shame as I had a really good dentist who made me no longer scared of going to the dentists. I so can't remember when I last went but when I think of it I think I was 19 and that is bad if that is the case. I really need to find me a dentist who I like and who I can trust as I really need to see one. It's all a case of money yet again and that is something I don't have much off at the moment.
I am meant to be saving for London but haven't saved a penny and my hotel is £450 and I don't have that. I was meant to be saving a grand so I could treat myself but at the moment that isn't looking likely. I don't know what to do, I have been looking for part time jobs but there doesn't seem to be many about and nothing in the area that I want. I did apply for a couple of full time jobs and got an interview which I turned down like an idiot. I wish I had gone now.
It is March now and I am running out of time and I have two birthdays this week and then mothers day and then my next phone bill. OMG! I don't want to know about my next phonebill, to be honest I am dreading it and expecting it to be at least £100. I hope it isn't much more than that as £100 is more than enough right now with me not having any money coming in. I sent way too many video messages in a 2 week period, nearly 100 from counting them in the sent items on my phone as well as loads of pics and texts. I don't mind the texts but from now on the video messages will be cut down and not too many pic messagIs i think.
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