Just me talking.....

Hi everyone, 
I hope that all is positive in your lives and happiness is present for you each and every day.  So have you ever heard the saying "when it rains it pours"?  Well that seems to be my life right now.  Just when it seems that I can't possibly take on one more thing, two things that need my attention actually appear.  I am a good multi-tasker, why do one thing when you can be doing two, but I have to say that it much harder trying to keep your already busy life on track while continueing your education through Kaplan.  I started this journey in March of 2010 and literally have not had a break.  Well you know, it is school, reading, studying, assignments for 10 weeks, some teachers are nice and really work you for only 9, but regardless that one week off in between really doesn't seem like a break at all.  And then before you know it you are doing it all over again.  I am a good student and I really enjoy school, but for some strange reason over the last four weeks I was having a really hard time not procrastinating, not focusing on my school work and really just not excited.  I found that I was really concentrating more on just being present in my house, with my dogs, with my friends, with my husband, cleaning and finishing some projects that have been left behind for quite awhile.  I traveled alot for work and pleasure and really enjoyed myself.  But I also was having this inner fight with myself about my lack of integrity toward my classes and my professors.  The up side is that now in Unit 6 I am re-energized and ready to go, but the down side is my grades have fallen and I am behind in my work.  Playing catch up is not anything I would recommend, because it literally seems that I have spent the last 7 days on my computer and in my books for 12 to 15 hours a day.  That in itself is more work than if I had just got out of my own way and stayed focused.  Alot of my friends are also going to college right now, but they actually go to a campus.  They have two main semesters a year and can go to summer school if they want.  Alot of them took the summer off, and I will say I was a bit jealous at the break they took without guilt, while I was in the back of boat, on the plane, in the car, at the table doing my school work.  I get that in the end I will have achieved my goal alot faster than them, but it does become somewhat exhausting to have school as a second job for 2 or 3 consistent years.  Ok I said it, and I am actually doing very good this week and my energy and excitement is once again present and ready to work.