I've noticed that no one is updating blogs these days in the circle I frequent....must be that time of the year again...everyone's busy. No one's leaving comments anywhere either. Welcome back to school everyone!

So Matt and I got blizzards and went to the cemetary to entertain ourselves. Sounds morbid, right? But this one is the old Jewish Cemetary in Waco, and it's gotten mellow with age. They put lots of interesting stuff on tombstones back then, Where they came from, who they married, how old they were when they died (in the case of children, down to the week and day). Can anyone tell me who the statue of a woman in robes (maybe greek) might be? There's no name -- we were guessing perhaps Sarah (Sarai) since she's the matriarch....but is there anyone else? Or maybe it's just a greek goddess -- strange for a Jewish cemetary, but fitting for the age of the tombstone (They liked Greek revival at the turn of the century). Anyway -- I mean to go back. To visit the other parts of the cemetary, find some other stories, of course, this will all happen when it gets cooler....

In keeping with my new pact, I am going to finish all of my current projects before buying the stuff to make any new ones. Last night I finished one pillow and a pillow sham. This morning, I finished the other sham to match. This evening I was digging around and found a pillow I had started, but never finished. All done! I have one more pillow to finish -- and a cross stitch. And some curtains. After that I'll have to dig through and find the next one....but those are the top priorities. And just so you don't think I'm a flake -- one can only work on one excruciatly detailed project for so long before one cannot stare at it for a moment longer...so I keep several going. But now I have dozens, not several.

OH, and I'm not seeing anyone's favorite crayon color.....

It has been the worst day. Amazingly I'm not that stressed out (I was for a bout a half hour when my dad called and implied the my car dying was somehow my fault since every time I touch a car somehting goes wrong with it). I'm starting to learn that in situations like this being stressed out just makes your day that much worse -- may as well sit back and enjoy the holiday. Here's the story. Baylor's website has been down all weekend, which leaves the majority of the campus in the dark as to what classes they actually signed up for 5 months ago. I sure didn't know. So this morning I fought with the system for an hour -- ultimatly making to the sign on page, clicking on the "class schedules" button, only to get told that the server was down. No kidding. (But then how DID I get to that sign on in the first place). So I hunkered down to relish the fact that I was missing the first day of class -- and I could blame it on Baylor HAHAHAHA. So I was good. I cleaned my apartment. I picked it all up. Then I pulled out the vacuum and found - ta da - a "Fall Schedule of Classes" booklet that had gotten buried in my closet. So having only missed one class -- I now had the key in my hands to the rest of them. I got out my new notebook, wrote out my schedule, (finished vacuuming) and went to my car, only to find out that ..... my car woudln't start. So I called my dad. (Hence the above comment). I called the Ford dealership, then got a phone call, in the middle of which my cell phone goes dead. For those of you who don't know, I opted to stick with a cell phone, and not get a land line because I'd be paying 40 a month for the use of an answering maching given how much time I actually spend at home. So, now I'm stuck with a dead car and a dead phone. I can't find my plug in charger because its been lost in the move. My other charger is, of course, in the car that won't start. Luckily I remembered that I had last minute stashed misc. stuff in my backpack -- and it was there....the one bright spot. AAA came and jump started my car, my cell phone charged, Dad called back and wasn't blaming me for the problem anymore, and for the good news, all I needed was a new battery. On the downside, I just missed the first day of all my classes. Oh well. By the way -- that convenient "shop while you wait" policy that Walmart's automotive department is great for them. With nothing to do for an hour and a half I ended up buying way too much stuff. 3 cannisters of bath salts...why? 5 pairs of earrings ... again -- why? (actually they're very pretty -- and I've lost the majority of my earrings to date). And a puzzle. Impulse buying leaves you with a ton of strange stuff. Anyway -- now I'm making pillow shams since they didn't have any at walmart, and I have some extra lace and bleached muslin lying about. Later!

Tomorrow back to the grind. I noticed something tonight as I went back to school shopping (usually one of my favorite activities other than buying christmas presents). Usually I spend a great deal of time debating ball point over gell, blue ink over black, picking out my neon post-it-notes that are the only way that my life stays in order, find yet another set of highlighters that don't run out of ink by the third sentence, and finding the perfect notebook -- with enough dividers for all my classes, folders for the syllabi, and an acceptably cheerful color (preferably yellow -- easier to find on the floor at 6:30 in the morning.) Something tells me that I put way too much thought into this in the past. Oooooh -- and those wonderful little 3/4 inch letters to lable everything. Yep, definatly a geek. Right out of "Miss Piggle Wiggle." This year I went to Wallmart, grabbed three composition books of different colors, and a multipack of cheap blue ballpoint pens. That's it. And somehow I don't care. I just want to pass my classes and graduate. Could it be....senioritis? But isn't there something kid-ish about back to school shopping? When you still got to buy fun stuff like scissors that cut everything BUT paper, glue sticks that dry out the first day because you open it and leave the cap off after gluing your fingers together, oh and the ever popular box of 96 crayons. None of those little boxes of 8 mind you. I love crayons. Coloring is an activity that even the most "grown up" person can still enjoy. One time backstage ET and I had the entire cast and chorus sitting around discussing favorite colors while filling in precious moments and kitty cats. It was great! I did splurge and buy a little tin of "The most popular crayon colors" at HEB yesterday. I can't wait. I hope Robin's egg blue is in there. And wisteria. And tumbleweed. Enough rapsodising ... I need to go figure out what classes i'm taking tomorrow. Night -- oh, and leave comments on your favorite color of crayon

Oh why oh why are my archives blue?

Had a great day. Went shopping with Mary -- we got WAYYYY too much stuff at Tuesday Morning. At least I did. Mary stayed within her budget. Then we went to hobby lobby (I got my pictures of my sisters framed), and then to Magic Nails to get pedicures. Then I went back to Mecca (aka Hobby Lobby), and browsed....bought some elmers glue. Then I had dinner at Aaron's house -- good thing since my garbage disposal is backed up and I won't be cooking for a while. Now I'm going to go put away my groceries that are sitting all over the living room....Milk. It does a body good.

I went to see Audio Adrenaline tonight -- not expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. I haven't been to a concert before (sure I've been to opera, theater, musicals, and symphonies -- but the ettiquete is completely different). I yelled, I jumped up and down, threw my hands in the air and waved them back and forth, sang lyrics to songs I didn't know -- it was a blast. My first inclination as always was to stand back and wallow in how out-of-my-league the whole thing was...but thank Goodness I acted less like a spoiled two year old for an hour and really had a good time. I loved it. Afterwards the exhaustion from my trip caught up with me, and we all went to Eric's house to suprise him. Aaron and Mary suprised him that is. I fell asleep on his couch for two hours watching them play video games. It was a lovely nap. Can't complain! SO now I'm going to go revel in the comfort of my OWN BED -- which I've missed more dearly than chicken fried steak with WHITE gravy (they serve it with brown in CA -- so gross) and Sweet tea.

Alright, I'm back -- finally...it was a really long drive. Now I'm trying to unpack my car and the dozen boxes I brought in it. On the plus side, I paid all of my bills today between now and May. It feels good to not have to worry about that anymore. Now the question is, do I get a little job for some extra -- or just relax a bit now that I'm finally somewhat self sufficient. Unless something horrible happens to the car (Heaven forbid) I shoudln't have to call my parent in a panic at all this year...and hopefully from now on. Drea however only saved a few hundred -- so next year should be an eye opener for her on how much things cost. (kind of like last year for me....) Now all I have left is to put my clothes away -- and clean up the petrified banana on my counter that I somehow neglected to throw away before I left...