IIIIIII-IIIIIIIII-IIIIII'M ::boom boom:: HOOKED ON A FEELING

I've watched Guardians of the Galaxy three times since I bought it.

I mean, I've been doing other things with my life, lots of other things actually, but yeah that's probably the top news.

This semester of grad school is DONE. Oh thank goodness I have never been so excited for a semester to be done and I was only taking one class. One horrible, horrible class.

Now there are just a few days of work left until winter break! w00t w00t!

Other big news is that we had a mouse in our house that has now perished:

He who must not be named.....is DEAD.

The sad news is that I have finally really decided to give up Bilbo :(

"What is this thing?"

"And who is that gorgeous creature inside of it?"

"If I twitch my nose at you, can I stay?"

It was inevitable, and this way he's going to a nice family for Christmas. It's actually a family that I know pretty well, so I feel much better knowing I can trust them. They have a little girl who is going to give Bilbo so much attention and love. Of course I'm sad about it, but Bilbo helped me out and chewed through my fan cord yesterday, so I feel less sad about it :p

I'm getting pretty excited about Christmas, thought I have noticed in the past few years that it's getting less and less exciting...maybe that means I'm growing up? I do have a lot more money this year than I normally do, so that made Christmas shopping more fun, and honestly all I want to do is watch "It's a Wonderful Life" and wrap presents while it snows outside. Not getting the snow, but I think I'll finally get the rest this weekend once work is done and I can relax.

Obviously I'm not updating this blog like I thought I would. The past month and a half has just been insane, I feel like there is always something more to do and I'm not used to such a lack of down-time and me-time. I suppose I should get used to it, I know most of the world is usually busy like that. Next time hopefully I'll have a fun story or something so this is more like a blog and less like a badly-kept journal.

A vacation from my problems

Loooooong break there. Let's toss that up to a few mental breakdowns, a holiday, several IEPs, and a mouse currently living in my bedroom.

Okay? Okay.

Work and school are so overwhelming, sometimes I feel like I can't breathe. Thankfully this semester is almost over (2 more weeks) so that will be over soon and I'll get a break. Work will never end though. Just when I think I've gotten ahead of it, something else comes up. You'd think with a caseload of only 6 students I wouldn't be this stressed, but they like to keep me on my toes. Thanksgiving wasn't even really a break, just stress on a different level of being at my parent's house for a week and dealing with that whole situation. I love my family, I really do, but my idea of a "break" is being by myself, and I didn't get a whole lot of time for that.

I've thought several times over the past few weeks of what I could write as a blog entry, a silly story or something, but now that I'm actually sitting down to write, I'm drawing a blank. I should be doing homework right now, so that's probably for the best.

I'll think of something constructive to write this weekend.