Grateful

It is a really nice feeling to receive a bill for $19,347 twice a year and know that someone else is paying for it. And then paying me on top of that.

Or to have a professor say something about how much we pay for each class, and realize I really have no idea, and really don't need to know cause I don't have to pay it.

I am very grateful for this opportunity and I hope I won't ever take it for granted.

I like being a student.
(I don't like real jobs).

The Christmas Tradition

I am just writing this down so we will all remember it-
2000- Grenada?
2001-?? help a sister out??
2002-St. Thomas
2003-Tallahassee
2004- Big Sur (ah, Nepenthe, magical!)
2005- Eleuthera
2006- White Sound
2007 Hope Town (mahhayshun's house)
2008- Man O War
2009-St.George Island
2010- Key West
2011-Key West

That is over ten years of our whole clan being together. How awesome is that!?!

Christmas Country Style

When I was a little girl, Dad took me ( just me!) to see the Statler Brothers. I remember finding it bizarre that one of them was a short little guy that sounded like a 14 year old girl and one was a big tall man that sounded like a tuba. I think it was the Christmas we spent in Callaway Gardens with Phil the Christmas Frog that mom and dad first introduced us to the Statler Brothers Christmas album. Being lovers of the Smiths and Depeche Mode and New Order, we mocked the album repeatedly until about the fifth or tenth round of hearing it when we realized we were all singing along, and since then it has been cemented as a family favorite.

This video is the best I could do. Apparently this song isn't too popular on youtube? I find that hard to believe.

Bozo manuever

The conference I went to in South Africa cost 6000Rand, which equals about $800 bucks. I was just reimbursed $80. Somebody did their math wrong....

Lost in Translation

On our christmas card, I wrote a little blurb about each kid. For Meg, I wrote, she is 'our big bad kindergartner". She asked me why I said she was a bad kindergartner. I felt like a terrible mom trying to explain the meaning to her!!