just a quick note to say I am home, tired but home.

It is almost 5:00 am and I am dressed, packed, and ready to head home. I will have to sit here for a few hours before anyone else wakes up though. We should be leaving around 8 and home around 2 or 3. I am looking forward to being home.

I had a wonderful Christmas, Carol's family made me feel welcome and accepted. I will likely write more about that later once I am home.

It has become bitterly cold once more. There is frost on the car window! I miss summer.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Merry Christmas

First, Happy Birthday to the other sister!! :) Hope you had a great day Sunday.

Tomorrow I am off to Arkansas to spend the holiday with Carol's family. I don't think I will have time or access to the webs, so this is likely the last post I will make until just before the new year. We leave tomorrow morning, have a six hour drive and come home on the 27, so hopefully the weather will be friendly and the trip will be pleasant.

My grades for the past semester were posted yesterday, and I managed to get three A's out of three classes (for a 4.0 average). Good start.

The fridge is full of stuff, pies, bagels, etc.'s for the holiday meals and as presents.

I am going to be suffering the next few days, I have not been offline for so long that I don't know if life without the web is possible. I wait on the day when implants allow for highspeed connections all the time.

Busy day today. I have to clean the car, make the last few things we take with us, clean the car, and finish the getting ready to go stuff.

Poor kitties will miss us when we are gone. If you can, come by and give them some loves.

Oh, Merry Christmas to everyone, I hope your holiday is fattening and happy.

semester 1 done

I did my final presentation in an intro to reference last night and finished the course work for this semester. This semester was a mixed bag. All the courses taught me things I had not known, yet some of the assignments were of little value as learning tools. I am happy to have the first semester finished, and I am looking forward to my nearly one month break.

I did my last virtual reference session Tuesday and will not be doing that again until January. Even though I am not always very busy with that volunteer job, I do find it interesting when I do get questions. There is pleasure in helping people obtain the information they need.

I have been suffering from the winter blahs the last few weeks. It has been cold and gray and it even snowed. This morning it is bitterly cold (20 F, feels like 12) and there is no hope in the future for a warming trend. damn canadians and their cold weather us texans aint wantin youse stuff take it back!!

I have some wonderful plants in the house that were rescued from outside before the freezing weather settled in. They are awesome.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS!!!

I am sitting at school waiting for the last class for this class to begin. The semester has been too short, or at least it has felt that way. Three months in three days.

I am making good progress on all the material due by semester's end, but the next few weeks will be busy.

I turned the heat on briefly this week, and I have felt awful ever since. I think a cloud of dust was released into the house, and my allergies have not been happy, or perhaps they have been happy hence my feeling icky.

It was nice enough this evening that we ate supper on our back cement pad. I do love the weather here.