I Heart Edward Cullen!

All you Edward fans: You know you want a shirt like this! I had these shirts made for the kids and teachers that have all fallen in love with the Twilight Series. The boys are all jealous, they want I love Bella shirts. 5 months until the next book! This is my trusty sidekick Gayle! She is wonderful!

(This is not the greatest picture, remember I'm still getting over pink eye and still have to wear my glasses!)

My Life Has Returned!

At the beginning of the week, I had set a goal to get all my assignments and everything else finished and turned in by Friday of this week! I'm so ready to be finished with my Master's. Well, I accomplished that goal and even did it a day early! Everything is submitted and uploaded, so now I'm just waiting on grades. I feel like my life has returned, no more sitting in front of the computer all day on Sundays working on homework!

So what am I doing today with my first day of freedom...sitting on the couch, curled up in my blankets with a sinus infection! What a way to start my new freedom! Thank God, Brad is getting ready to leave for work and I have TiVo!

This weekend...

So, I took my test on Saturday and it wasn't to terrible. However, the other girl that took the same test I did said she thought it was absolutely horrible, so I hope I'm not overly confident. I got to spend the rest of the day scrapbooking and had a great, productive time. I finished an album that I was doing for a friend of mine to give to his wife for Christmas.

Sunday, I went back to Freeman Lake to take some more pictures for another friend. She wanted pictures of her and her sister to give to her mom. Then she decided that she needed some of her and her husband too. So I took all of those and then had my sister meet me to take some one year old pictures of Makinsi. She is usually so easy-going and giggly, but we really had to drag it out of her today. The first major fit she threw was because I wouldn't let her play with the ducks in the lake. I'm sorry, I'm a big softy and she usually gets whatever she wants from me, but I draw the line at swimming in the lake when it's only about 50 degrees outside. So I finally got a few good ones of her, but not exactly what I expected.

This one just cracks me up. She's started doing this thing where she sticks her head out forward and then sticks her butt out when she's concentrating on something. This time it was the ducks in the lake again.

That's enough, have a great Monday. I only have to work two days this week, YEAH!!!

Makinsi is learning to say goodbye and blow kisses. Plus I wanted to try to load a video...

WoHoo!!!!

It's finished and in the mail!!!! I burnt the cd this morning and took it to the post office. I'm so glad that my professional portfolion is finally finished. I finished the quiz I had to take this afternoon, so tomorrow morning I take the big test and then all the major stuff is finished! And as the reward to me, I get to scrapbook tomorrow!

Taking a Break

So, it's been a while. I took a break from some things, but I'm back and ready to start again. I'm working really hard this week to finish up a big portfolio project for my Master's. It has to be in the mail and post marked by Sun. My non-procrastinating goal is to be finished by Friday. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish. I also have a quiz to finish before Friday. Then on Sat. I get to go to UL and take a huge test at 8 AM!!! I need a reward if I get all this done! Lucky me, I already have a reward planned. I get to spend the rest of Sat. scrapbooking with T and B. YEAH!!

This past weekend was pretty busy. Saturday was the 91st Annual Oyster Supper at the school that I work at. People stood in line, for at least an hour to eat fried oysters. GROSS! This is a big deal in the school community.

Lauren brought Makinsi over so I had a ball with her. We took her around to play all the games.

And even won a game, without cheating to much.

She picked at a huge stuffed dog and just hugged and hugged on it.

On Sunday, I met a friend at Freeman Lake, because she wanted me to take some pictures of her. I emptied the memory card before I went and ended up taking about 500 pictures of her. We had a good time and I was pretty impressed with how they turned out.

Now it's time to make some of this.

We sold cookie dough at school for a fund raiser. It all came in today! YUM!

Blessings...

*Having the most lovable, happiest niece Makinsi for almost a year now.

*Having a great family, including a great Mom and Dad.

* Brad being healthly for over a year now.

* Our spoiled rotten, Bailey. She's to cute for her own good.
* A certain friend that listens to more than she should have to, but never complains and is always willing listen to more. Thanks, T!

* Almost being finished with my Master's degree. December 15th can't get here fast enough.

* My awesome job as a library media specialist and a great new building to work in.

* My wonderful camera that takes such great pictures like this....

So that I can Scrapbook with my friends.

* The ? Gift Giver that leaves presents on my desk for me like this...

I'm not sure who it is, but I sure love it!

* Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks books. After Dec. 15th I'll be able to read for the fun of it again.

* Generic TiVo. Who invented this and why are they not related to me?

* Time to sleep.

* Weekend trips to Chicago that keep things together. Why can't it always be like this? Go Cubs!

* All the friends that will actually read and care about this.

Ok, that's enough for now.

I'm Such a Procrastinator!

I just spent the WHOLE day working on an exam for my Master's program for the second time. Apparently they didn't like some of my answers that I turned in last week. I haven't figured out why though. There were four major questions on this test. The first two I worked on all day last Friday and felt pretty good about my answers. The last two I worked on last Saturday night. I guess I should have spent a little more time on them, but decided to spend the majority of the day stepping backwards off cliffs, instead.

Which was way cooler than spending the third day in row sitting on the couch working on classwork by the way. I finished up the test Saturday night when I got home since it was due by midnight that night (I posted it at 11:45, with plenty of time to spare). Anyway, I got an email on Tuesday stating that the faculty felt I should rewrite sections 3 and 4. Which is why I spent all day again today working on this?
Actually, if I could focus and wasn't such a procrastinator I could have been done in about an hour. However, the TiVo'd episodes of Grey's, ER, and Survivor were just calling my name and then I found a Law & Order SVU marathon on, so I had to watch some of that. The nap and bath probably added to the procrastination, but you have to sleep and be clean, right?
So here it is 10:00 on Sunday night and I didn't really accomplish much today, but I sure am ready to go to bed. I have another assignment due tomorrow night, but that's still 24 hours away. I've got plenty of time. I wonder what I will procrastinate about after graduation day on December 15th. I'll find something, I'm sure.