My Linguistics class was a lot better last night. It seems completing the reading and reading ahead makes the class much more understandable. The professor seems to struggle to cover the material in a class period and this worries me since she says she is taking it easy on us at the start.

My son Wonder Boy cracks me up. His school has a reading buddy program where the 3rd graders are matched up with 1st graders to help the first graders learn to read. It helps the 3rd graders too because teaching is the best way to solidify your learning. So his first grader is a girl who is not a strong reader (he is a very strong reader). I asked if he was helping her and he said he thought so, but that she is more interested in him than in the reading. "I'm your girlfriend" was the latest conversation. He told her she was NOT. She said she was and that was it. Wonder Boy just shakes his head. Very cute.

We got 2 inches of snow this morning. I love the look of the snow on the tree branches. I wish I had my camera in my car with me on the way to work. I would have stopped. Just beautiful.

Today I went home for lunch instead of chowing on fattening fast food. I am proud of this since it was a goal of mine to get back to eating healthy.

On the other hand, I am ashamed that I again smoked 1/2 a cigarette there and back. I really need to stop this -- I'm liking smoking way too much and my stress is subsiding so I'm out of excuses. You would think with my asthma acting up and just getting over pneumonia I would be making better decisions. Sometimes I wonder what the hell is wrong with me when I'm self destructive. I know better than to be smoking and making my health worse (this not to mention the risk of cancer). I wish my motivation level were higher. Wishing won't do it though.. baby steps might. At least it was only 1/2 a smoke instead of smoking each down to the nub.