Anyone still there?

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past few months.  Working two jobs + commuting for school = no blog inspiration.  But do not fear!  My last day of class EVER was yesterday and I will be completely finished with all my final papers in a week (hopefully sooner) so expect the blog to resurrect soon!

Aurelia so kindly threatened inspired me yesterday with all the exciting posts I will soon have after we move to Houston in 8 days (what?!?!) and pick up our precious Penelope in 9 days (ahhhh!)  I'll leave you with a picture of who I un-biasedly believe is the most precious dog of all time...

The DOW went up 38.6 points today

How do I know that??

This is my current study spot

Steven and I both have lots of studying to do and he has to work on his presentation for some class where he gets to trade stock to raise money for Baylor endowed scholarships...eh I guess I'm proud.

He apparently needed some fancy bloomberg machine he can only get in this room so I joined him.  I feel extra classy reading about community development while the stock ticker scrolls above my head, CNBC is playing on the TV and I get to see how the dollar is trading with other foreign currency.  

1.390 with the Euro  if you must know. 

Oh and just incase I get bored I can see what time it is in Singapore, Bahrain, London and New York

I stand corrected

So apparently my pity party worked...Olson moved the deadline for the paper to Friday.

This is unheard of in my school life saga...

I'm still a bit in shock...

Hopefully I'll take advantage of these extra two days and get this paper done early so I'm not cramming on Thursday night.  Funny thing is my final is on Friday as well...so perhaps I should get this paper done by tomorrow night.

It would be quite an understatement to say how excited I am about the weekend.
-CELEBRATION of one less summer school class
-Spending the weekend with Steven's ridiculously large extended family (as in Steven often says "we're related but I'm not sure how")
-fireworks
-good food all weekend

Friday at 5, you can't get here soon enough

Because I know I'll laugh about this later...

I'm going to take a total of no more than 5 minutes to write this post because I need to vent so that I will get back to my research paper that is due Wednesday...that I haven't even started...

Except for Christmas breaks, the summer after graduating from undergrad, and a month after I was married I have been in school non-stop since my freshman year of college.  That's six years of higher education with only 9 months off combined...blah.

Needless to say I'm a bit burned out right about now and really need to have a pity party (again no more than 5 minutes long)

I know years from now when I'm knee high in a job, children, a mortgage etc. I'll look back fondly on the simpler times when Steven and I were merely knee high in text books and research papers...but for tonight that just isn't cutting it.

Instead I look at my computer screen like a crazed woman waiting for the motivation to come to just write this paper so it will be over with

Ok thanks for listening...being my overly-logical self I am completely convinced that throwing a pity-party is in no way productive, and in the grand scheme of things my life is pretty amazing...but nonetheless sometimes throwing a 5 minute self-centered pity-party makes me get over myself, buckle down, and hit the books...

Because you have to read the book when your professor wrote it...

At first glance you probably aren't too jealous of me...

But at second glance perhaps a sudden realization that you too wish you were studying the English and Catholic Reformations...

Thank you Starbucks Via packet, milk, sugar, vanilla, and Hershey's Chocolate Syrup 

Now I'm off to read the Council of Trent and the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

...oh the humble life of a seminary student...