For My Sister

Donald's her favorite AND we get to eat breakfast with him next Tuesday!

Recent Successes

1. I made really, REALLY yummy chicken breasts on Friday (followed by a bland meatloaf yesterday...)
   
2. I got a 75% on my MAT despite not knowing anything about the presidents (which, honestly, I never learned*), the periodic table (which was memorized at one point... about 9 years ago!) or random very large vocabulary words (none of which can I recount to you)
   
3. My car actually passed the IM test... this after having his transmission EXPLODE (yes, really) in May and having his hub assemblies and ball joints replaced three weeks ago. 
   
4. We got our Christmas picture taken, cards ordered, and letter written (However, still no thank-you notes have been sent...) PLUS all purchased Christmas gifts are now wrapped and awaiting boxes large enough for shipping. 
5. I've currently got everything in my admissions file for grad school EXCEPT the letter of intent which I continue to struggle with writing.
6. AND, I got a really cute haircut (see picture) Sure it's curled in this photo and it's not usually that way but that's all the pictures I have of it now unless you look really closely at our Christmas picture seen above :)

*If you don't believe me, ask my mom. She agrees.

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Yes, I realize my "turkey post" doesn't actually qualify as a blog. Thanks for the reminder, Hannie. Geesh.


Things lately have been a bit crazy.

• Black Friday shopping was fruitful. Got everyone done except for the hard-to-buy-for-hannah-and-jules. Yes, I said DONE. I'm going to wrap presents this weekend (or maybe today?) so I can send them all to their respective places... most of which, though, I'll be sending to Florida. We leave in 17 days to meet the fam (mom, dad, erin, uncle john, jody, sarah, tracy, uncle joe, aunt kathy and JEFF) for Christmas. Can't wait :)
  
  
• Housesitting is okay. It's not the funnest uprooting your life to go watch someone else's... and throw in 17 extra dogs too! But we're done on Sunday. On a different note, we just asked someone to house/dogsit for us while we're in Florida. C'est la vie!
  
• Tired of my hair, I got a haircut this morning. Decided I wanted one last night, made an appointment for 10am, printed off a picture of Mandy Moore (don't I wish!?!) and headed to the salon. $40 later it's cute. Oh yeah. (Picture to come as soon as I find an SD drive...)
  

Other than that, not much is going on. Hopefully tonight the hubs and I can round up our two pooches to take the obligatory Christmas picture so we can FINALLY order cards before Christmas actually rolls around.

Hope this suffices Hannah's needs.