Hello my dear blog readers.
Sorry for the infrequent updates but school was incredibly busy this past semester.
But now it is over and I sit at home trying to find ways to occupy myself while Chad is at work. And since I'm not into the soap operas, I update my blog.

If you've missed some things - you might look for our videos on Chad's blog. There's a handy-dandy link for it right over there. ----->

I have finally finished this semester - I took... 18 or 19 credits, including 3 ensembles and 2 online classes. It was busy! Grades come out tomorrow, so I'll have to let you know, but I'm expecting good things.

In the meantime we have begun decorating for Christmas. We went and cut down a tree on Nov. 31st. Chad was afraid that if we didn't do it THAT DAY we wouldn't get it done before Christmas. Then we got to decorate our tree. Plenty of room for ornaments.


I got to put the angel on.

All of our Christmas shopping is done - except Chad has one more gift left to get me. He has no idea what he's getting from me, so it'll be a surprise for sure!

Other than that, I don't have much to report. Mom and Dad are flying to Utah as I type this, about to begin the Christmas in Idaho Adventure. I sure am glad Chad and I don't have to celebrate Christmas alone in Rexburg. Tomorrow I leave for Provo to spend some time with the family before everyone heads up here next week.

I will update previous posts where pictures were promised - so look for those - there will be some of Halloween and Election Day.

Merry Christmas!

Update

Well - it has been quite a while since I posted anything.

First, let me update about Halloween! On the 25th, feeling the need to do something in the Halloween spirit, and finally having time to do so, I suggested we go to the hay bale maze. I looked it up online and they were open until midnight. We armed ourselves with flashlights and drove out past WalMart to the hay maze. It was freezing, but we had fun. The hay bales were not your run-of-the-mill hay bales - they were huge - they made walls out of them that were well over 12 feet tall. At the beginning of the maze there were only a few different ways to go, and some were relatively short dead ends, so it was easy to retrace our steps back to where we were. After about 10 minutes of this, we thought this was going to be pretty lame. But then we got into the middle of the maze where there were more turns and paths, and we got pretty lost. We were two of the only people smart enough to bring flashlights. The website said it was "dimly lit" and by "dimly lit" they meant lit by the full moon apparently. Anyways - it was fun. I could've spent longer, but Chad got really impatient at being lost, and found the exit pretty quick. All in all it took us about 15-20 minutes.

Our next Halloween activity was the Symphony Halloween Concert for school. 6 shows in all, 2 each night, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Above: pictures of the stage and our director, Captain Hook, also taking pictures of the set

The theme this year was Pirates of Madison County - it included music from Pirates of Penzance and Pirates of the Caribbean. The orchestra was supposed to be a group of oppressed pirates forced to play music by their mean Captain Hook. They are almost set free by his assistant Smee when Captain Hook mentions the keyword "treasure" and it brings the Pirate King and his Singing Pirates to the stage in their own pursuit of the treasure. They find the treasure and it turns out to be gold-foiled chocolate coins and the pirates are set free. It was fun. It was more fun because it wasn't over 2 hours long like last year. In fact, the concert was only about an hour long, and we didn't even go on stage until 5 minutes after it started. AND there was no strobe light. So. It was good. Short and sweet.

Pirate Megan - yes, that is the duster attachment to our vacuum - we don't have any legitimate swords.

On Halloween, Chad came to the second show that got out around 9:30. He dressed up as a cowboy (you are encouraged to wear costumes to these concerts). I told him that the problem with his costume was that in Idaho it's not a costume. People that knew him knew it was a costume. When we got home, I changed out of my pirate garb and attempted to dress up as a rodeo queen to match my cowboy. I spent about an hour removing black and dirty makeup and then replacing it with glittery makeup. I put on my rodeo queen jacket, my jeans with the gems on the pockets, and my boots. I wore lots of makeup and did my hair. But, hard as I tried, even after I put on Chad's cowboy hat, I still couldn't get it to work. And you wanna know why? Because in Idaho THAT'S NOT A COSTUME! People go out like that on a daily basis! So I gave up and put on my normal clothes. Chad changed out of his tight jeans and boots, and we went bowling. The bowling alley was having a sort of Halloween party. By now it was 11:00 or something like that so there weren't very many people there. About 2 frames into our game they called out a contest. Each player had to walk up to the foul line, turn around, put one foot in each gutter and roll the ball down the lane through their legs. Whoever got the most pins down won a free pizza from Pizza Hut. I certainly was motivated, loving Pizza Hut pizza the way I do. I rolled the ball, and it looked good - really good... too good to be true! I got a strike!!! And I won the pizza! Only to find out that it was a voucher for one free personal pan pizza - hardly enough for Chad AND me, but I was happy nonetheless.
After bowling we went home and that was the extent of our Halloween.

After Halloween was the election, of course. Madison county voted 98% Republican in the last election, so my vote pretty much didn't count. Except for, as my dad pointed out, making sure it wasn't 100% this election. I still registered to vote, and cast my first official ballot! I was excited. Except when the lady said "You know that registering to vote makes you a resident of Idaho?" To which I replied "Unfortunately."
There were 10 positions on the ballet - 6 of which only had a single Republican candidate listed.
After I voted, and I had inside info to lead me to believe that Obama would win, we went in search of election celebration food. We went to Broulim's, Albertson's and WalMart. Nobody had red white and blue cupcakes. I asked the girl at Albertson's and she told me "Yeah - we only make those for holidays." Pish posh. So, after searching for those Little Debbie cakes with the stars and stripes on them, we settled for Strawberry Shortcake rolls that I could unroll to see the red and white stripes, and then I bought blue sprinkles.
It was pretty dang stellar. I think we were the only ones in the state who were celebrating the outcome of the election. Chad didn't want Strawberry Shortcake rolls though, so he got German Chocolate Cookies. I don't know what kind of political statement he was trying to make with his choice of election food.


After the election, we spent the next couple of days listening to our friends complain about how they were going to move to Canada and build their bomb shelters to prepare for the Millennium. For my opinion on this, see Mollie's blog.

Since the Halloween concert, I have had a Sinfonietta concert, and will have a Wind Ensemble (Symphony Band) concert on Tuesday. I can't believe Thanksgiving is so close and then after that there's only two more weeks of school!! It's going to go by quickly!

In other news, I have hurt my hand such that I can't put any weight on my wrist or practice for extended periods of time. Lucky me. However, we have high hopes that it will get better quickly.

I also have tried to register for next semester's classes, only to find out that as the school has overhauled its catalogue in the last few years, my classes are all screwed up and I won't be able to graduate on time unless I take classes over the summer. I'm not very happy about that. But a bigger problem is that if I take classes over the summer, I am scheduled to have only 9 credits the following semester (my last semester) - meaning that I won't be eligible for my scholarship until I rack up another 5 credits somehow. This also applies to the summer - I will only be taking six credits, meaning that I will pay for each of those credits. Again, lucky me. And, actually, even if I take classes over the summer, 2 of the classes I have to take are only offered at the same time and only in the summer semester. So I win the prize on that one. Supposedly they're going to get back to me and let me know what the solution is by Monday or Tuesday. Considering I've been taking as many credits as I can every semester that I've been here so that I CAN graduate on time, I will not be happy if they tell me I can't.

And that, my friends, brings us to today. I have spent the entire day cleaning the apartment and doing laundry. Don't ask me how I spent an entire day cleaning 300 square feet of space, but somehow I did.

Self-esteem School

So, as my mom can attest, I have a Music Literature class this semester that is needlessly difficult. As this is public domain, I suppose that's all I should say about that. BUT. We all have to do these class presentations in an effort to follow the glorious new learning model which includes students teaching each other which will somehow lead to a beautiful world where everyone loves learning and we all become Einsteins. I'm not saying certain elements aren't good, but I'm not sure that class presentations are really the best choice. Nonetheless, we have to do these projects, which include a 5-6 page research paper and a 5-10 minute presentation on the topic. Last week I did mine on Palestrina. Chad helped me put together a slideshow of the Sistine Chapel set to Palestrina's music (It applied to his role in history and a few quotes I had). I wrote my paper and I made a PowerPoint (lame-o PowerPoint but using my teacher as my example, that's what I chose to do) and I spent what seemed like forever on it. I learned everything there was to know about Palestrina and I wrote an intelligent paper (or at least I like to think so) and put together a useful presentation. And the teacher liked it - and my class did too. Now, if you're wondering where this is going, you obviously don't know me all that well. Today a girl stood up to present her project and the first words out of her mouth were "I brought brownies!". And the first words out of my teacher's mouth? "Wow! A+!" The first words that came to my mind? "Are you kidding me?!" She brought in brownies as part of her project. Which had absolutely nothing to do with her project. Except that she put a sticker on the Saran wrap of each one that said the name of the composers her presentation was on. She was vying for literal brownie points. I kind of thought that once we got out of high school that would no longer be an issue. Obviously I was wrong. So help me if she gets an A+ for bringing in brownies. And I guess I'm too prideful because the other kids in the class were saying "You should definitely get an A for bringing us brownies!" You know what this means? The rest of the semester's presentations will be fraught with superfluous sweets of all kinds. And everyone will get A's. Apparently college is easier than high school. Apparently it's easier than nursery. Bring a snack and everyone's happy.

*sigh* Some people.

Sometimes I don't feel like I go to college - I go to a glorified middle school.

Eggs on Parade

Well everybody, today is the fall equinox. Actually, I guess it's the day before the fall equinox. But - as I assume I will be busy tomorrow, I took this opportunity to try the age-old myth of balancing eggs on my counter.

In 2001, when mom and dad were on their cruise with grandma and Mollie, Kyle and I were at home with our house-sitter Spencer Carini, we balanced what I remember to be like 2 dozen eggs on the counter. Now, that may be an exaggeration - it was the first time we had ever heard of doing it, and we were a little excited that we got it to work. Anyways, pretty much nobody believed us when we told them, and if I remember right, Kyle was the only one with a working camera, and I have yet to see those pictures. SO. Since then, I have forgotten when the equinox was, or didn't have any eggs, or didn't have the patience to try it in an apartment full of 5 other girls. But now that I'm in my own apartment, I only have one other person to yell at for walking too heavily. So we got out the eggs, and started balancing. Start to finish, it probably took me 30-45 minutes to get all 10 standing up. One egg took me about 10 seconds. I guess it just really wanted to show off.

Now, my astronomy teacher will tell you that this has nothing to do with the Equinox, but clearly he is wrong. So wrong.

So. Here are some pictures. The spatulas are there to keep them from rolling onto the floor if they should fall over.

Eggs 1 & 2.



Eggs 3 & 4


Eggs 5 & 6


Eggs 7 & 8


Eggs 9 & 10




And a video.


And with that, we start another long week of school. Happy Equinox!

YOOR a nus

It has been a long week!
I am taking 19 credits this semester, including two online classes - Astronomy Lab and Doctrine & Covenants. My other classes are:

Woodwind Methods: I learn how to play each of the woodwind instruments. Right now I am learning the
bassoon.

Music Literature: a more in-depth look at music history I learned in Music 100.

Scoring and Arranging: I learn about arranging music for orchestra and band instruments. I will eventually arrange music for small ensembles, as well as full orchestra. Please note: I do not write the music, I only arrange somebody else's work to be played by the different groups.

Astronomy: I learn about the stars, moon and everything else I thought I knew more about. I liked it better when I could look at the sky, and not understanding anything about astronomy say "ooh pretty!" and be done. Now I look at the sky, and not understanding much about astronomy say "I don't know what the heck I'm looking at/looking for. ... oooh pretty!" It is very interesting stuff though, and I like it. I'm just saying, I'd like it more if I understood it better.

Exceptional Students: I learn how to deal with disabled students in my classroom. I also learn the various state laws (which will be useless when I move out of Idaho - but hopefully some carry over) relating to the education of special education students.

Clarinet Lessons: I learn how to play the clarinet and perform a jury at the end of the semester during which a third of my final grade rests on a single performance. Boo.

In addition, I am in 4 ensembles:
Symphony Band (previously known as Wind Ensemble - this is the group that went on tour in April): I play first chair clarinet.

Symphony Orchestra: I play second chair Bb clarinet as well as the Eb clarinet and A clarinet. This ensemble performs the "Halloween Concert" every year, all 6 performances of it.

Sinfonietta (Chamber Orchestra): I play first chair clarinet on one piece, out of their four piece program.

Chamber Winds: I play clarinet in a quintet consisting of French horn, Oboe, Bassoon and Flute. (Well, and me)
Today was my first day in this class (they meet only on Fridays) and I'm hoping to switch with someone so I don't have to be in it.

This means I am usually at school from 7:30 am to about 5:00pm. On average. This includes 2 hours of practicing a day.

Anyways, my point is, I am GLAD it's the weekend!

Plus, I wanted to tell you an unfortunate story about my Astronomy class. We were divided into six different groups, and were told we were going to be doing a project, including a 25 minute presentation on a planet towards the end of the semester. We were supposed to write on a piece of paper what our first three choices were, and we may or may not get one of them. Apparently everyone, like us, chose Saturn and Jupiter as their first two. Today we were told the results of his randomly assigning our groups. My group, being as lucky as we are, was one of the ones that didn't get any of the planets it wanted. Drum roll please ....... Uranus. The ONE planet that NOBODY wants and WE get it. Now we have to do a 25 minute presentation trying to make sure we pronounce the name right so as not to offend anyone. You can pronounce it that way all you want but everyone still knows the pronunciation you are avoiding. Ugh. I suggested that we just call it planet "U".

' "U" is the seventh planet from the sun, and the third largest in diameter.'

... I like it.

Ode to the Great Erase

Today Chad and I went to the library to find some orchestral scores for a project for one of my classes. I took my favorite pencil in my purse, and we searched through shelf after shelf of books. We stopped at the computer to do a database search and wrote down some call numbers. We finally found what we were looking for, and headed home, after about an hour at the library.

About 2 minutes ago, I was packing up my backpack for school tomorrow - and headed for my purse to retrieve my favorite pencil from it's careful carrying place. But alas - after frantic searching, it was discovered that my favorite Bic #2 Great Erase pencil was nowhere to be found. It's probably sitting all alone, scared, and cold, shivering in the 2nd floor of the library. Or even worse! Somebody kidnapped the poor thing. And they will never take care of it as well as I did.

Now, I know it's "just a pencil" - but it's the best pencil I've ever used - and I've had it for years! It erases like magic! No smudges!! I believe it came out of a bulk pack mom bought at Sam's Club when we were in high school. Simple black color, extendable eraser. Perfection in a number 2.

And after some internet searching, I have found out that Bic no longer makes the beloved Great Erase. It is a sad day for all of us. And every time I pic up another pencil, I will be reminded of that great writing utensil that got me through so many months and classes of school. And I will mourn.

Lock your doors!

Hide your children!

Today is the first day BYU-I students are allowed to move in to their complexes. Our quiet little Rexburg has been invaded. There are people all over the place unloading trucks and carrying boxes. Let me just say, I'm glad I'm not one of them. Remembering what it was like at Wal-Mart the last two years on move-in day, we have made a conscious effort to avoid it.

Last year on this day, Erin and Bryce had followed me (in the Subaru) up to school the night before. We stopped at my Aunt Karen's house and packed up the Subaru with all my school junk that she so graciously let me store at her house over the summer. We drove to Rexburg and stayed the night at the Super 8 and then I was up EARLY to check in to La Jolla only because I needed to be sure to get a parking permit or else having the Subaru would be kind of an inconvenience. I got a parking permit and moved some stuff in. When Erin & Bryce got up, I showed them around campus and then they left to go to Craters of the Moon and make their way home. I returned to my La Jolla apartment and started unpacking stuff, bringing it in from the car one box at a time. About noon, I get a call from one Chad Busath, asking me if I wanted to go to Island Park with him to get the rest of his stuff from the place he worked at over the summer. I remember thinking that was random, but being already bored of unpacking, I went with. This was the first time I spent any significant amount of time with Chad's family. It is during this visit that Chad's dad decided he liked me, and kept asking Chad what was going on between us, at which point we were just friends. Good thing Chad's dad talked some sense into him! ;o)

Anyways, in other news, Chad and I had a successful weekend in CA. We drove down on Friday, getting into Elk Grove at about 8:30pm.
The next day we prepared for and
had our reception from 6-8pm. Sunday we got up and packed the van and drove to Provo where we stayed the night in Erin & Bryce's empty house. Monday we hung around with Mollie and Kyle until Erin & Bryce got home. We left shortly thereafter to make the trip back to Rexburg, leaving Provo a little bit after 6. The past few days since then have been filled with trying to organize our apartment to include the new gifts we got in CA. I have never in my life gotten so many gifts for one occasion. ... We feel kind of spoiled. If any of my readers were included in said gift-giving, we thank you for being so generous.















































The above pictures are from the CA reception. Chad's parents hosted it in their backyard. It was a little breezy at first, but it calmed down into a nice, comfortable evening. Chad and I greeted guests for the most part. They were pretty evenly spaced so we kept busy. Everything was very nice.

Below is a picture of the vacuum we've been waiting for - this will be helpful as you finish reading my post.





So, having a new vacuum, we were excited to finally be able to clean the floor in our apartment. If we don't wear shoes, our feet are literally black within a few hours of walking around on the carpet. We're pretty sure it has never been professionally cleaned and we doubt it was even vacuumed before we moved in. Today I vacuumed. And if you saw the pictures, you know that the square footage of carpet available for vacuuming can't be more than about... 50. And this is what the vacuum collected in that much space.
It was pretty gross. No wonder our feet were black.

Anyways, we also got the mirror put up. I feel much better now that the mirror has made it's way safely from Grandma's wall to ours. Now, in Grandma's house, this mirror always looked nicely matched for the wall it hung on - and it looked moderately sized above the upright piano. But in our tiny little apartment, we found that this mirror is actually HUGE.

We really underestimated its size, having not measured it before we brought it up here. The wall that it hangs on is really the only wall big enough for it. But it makes our bedroom look a lot bigger. And I know that's one of those Trading Spaces cliches, but it really does! And with about 300 sq. ft., we could use all the visual tricks we can find to make this place feel bigger. It's pretty nice, actually. We're happy.

Random endnote:

This picture is from our CT reception, but it's off of Chad's mom's camera so I don't think anyone else has this one, and I like it. Except Sawyer doesn't look too enthused.

I'm just Evan from the block

If only Evan lived here, he could say that for real...

At the request of some angry anonymous readers (yes, Mollie, it was mom) I am posting pictures of our new furniture, and the neighborhood.



We took pictures of us eating a real dinner at our new table. Chicken alfredo and mashed potatoes.


The front of the building - this faces east.


A zoomed in picture of the door to the apartments.



Same view, different angle. Our building on College Ave. This side of the building faces east.

The view down College Avenue to the north - the main crossroad up there is Main Street.

The view down College Avenue to the south, towards campus.


The building at the end there is the Spori Building, the building directly to the east of the Snow where I have all of my music classes.


The southern side of the building - looking west down the street Florence's is on towards La Jolla.


Same view, more direct, looking west. Our building is on the right side of the picture. The building at the end of the street is the dentist, it's just to the right of the theaters and right in front of La Jolla.


Our windows are the 2nd and 3rd from the left. We're on the second floor overlooking the street that Florence's is on - the pictures just before this.

Anyways, that's about it. It's a kind of confusing post.

The [Original] Wedding Day!

Today Chad & I drove up to the temple to see what our original wedding day would've been like. We were hoping for a ton of other brides, or really bad weather, or something to convince us that June 18th was clearly the better choice. (Besides that getting married earlier meant we could move to Rexburg earlier and look for work earlier... and we had more time before school started to do receptions/prepare for school, etc.)

So we drove up to the temple - not a single bride outside. Except me, of course. :o)
It is really windy today though, so that wouldn't have been that great. We took a video of the flag outside the temple to show you just how windy it is.


Plus, the field across from the temple is brown right now, with lovely haystacks scattered across it. So the "I love technology" picture just wouldn't have been the same.

So we went to a talent show on campus last night, being bored and having nothing better to do. It was only $2 a piece. Anyways, we went mostly to make fun of the "talent", assuming that there really couldn't be anything too great on campus during the seven week break. It was apparently a large group from freshman academy and that's about it.

Anyways, I kid you not, the last three acts were announced as:
So-and-so singing Killing Me Softly a capella,
So-and-so signing [as in, sign language] Only Hope [apparently from A Walk to Remember],
followed by the grand finale, the "Nerd Dance".

It was pretty stellar.

Today we went for a walk. We needed to do laundry and had to find a place to give us quarters for our cash. As we rounded the corner by Florence's chocolates, we came upon a crime scene. [See video.]

Today we went and fed the ducks at the park behind the fairgrounds. We were going to stop at the Madison County fair that's being hosted at the Rexburg fairgrounds, but it looked pretty lame, and we had been there on Thursday night, and yes, it was lame.

But we ate our last two hot dogs in mac & cheese instead of on buns so we had some old, getting hard, hot dog buns. So we decided to go find some ducks and feed them. It all started out with about 9 ducks sitting on the side of the pond.


We walked up to them and started feeding them, and then the whole pond was alerted and came flocking.




And then they got a little close for comfort.

Anyways, it was totally worth the old hot dog buns.

Well, I have good news!

Today we got an e-mail saying I had to fill out yet another form for my FAFSA. Being not very happy about this, I printed it out and drove it up to the financial aid office. Apparently there was something else wrong with my FAFSA so the guy at the desk told me to wait and we'd meet with one of the advisers. She fixed whatever was wrong with it, and then casually told us that it still looked good and we would be full pell grant eligible. Meaning we get the maximum amount they give out, which she also mentioned, has gone up a couple of times in the last year or two. So we get $2300 a semester!!! We were obviously very happy about this, and are currently counting our blessings.

It is now day 3 of living in our apartment. It's looking not quite so cramped, but there is still a bunch of stuff we have to go through and a bunch of stuff still in storage - my electric toothbrush among them. I'm sad about that - I thought we would've found that in one of the boxes already, but to no avail. I brush my teeth like a sucker.

Anyways, since you last saw our apartment, we have added a computer/tv desk - Chad has a small flat screen tv, so we're conserving space by combining an entertainment center with a desk. It's working pretty well so far.



We can't wait to have a couch! It will make the place feel so much more like an apartment. But it's good we don't because it gives us time and space to organize our junk before it gets here.

Yes, so, desk, and kitchen table. We were excited about this. We finally have a table! And it's the perfect size and one of the chairs doubles as our computer desk chair. It's a small round table with collapsible leaves on either side so we can put those down for more space, which is pretty much perfect. We bought it at KMart and put it together ourselves. As we were doing that and Chad was getting more and more frustrated with the chairs and trying to get them put together, (yelling at the furniture), I asked him if he felt like a husband. He said he did.

So our new table - We bought a table cloth for it to bring some color into our otherwise brown apartment.


We bought hangers and organized our closet and Chad put together the bookshelf mom got us from Grandma's.


We bought some bathmats and a vinyl shower curtain to hang on the inside of the nice shower curtain one of Chad's relatives bought for us for my bridal shower.


And we have added a few decorations of our own, and the place looks a lot better already.



We also made a trip down to Pocatello on Tuesday and retrieved our mattress from my cousin Bryan who is generously hanging on to it. We got pretty much everything except for the big pieces of furniture, like the entertainment center, the couch, the box spring, and my bike.
Still a lot of work to do!

Yesterday we also went down to the bookstore and looked up the prices of my books. If FAFSA comes through and gets us any money, I would gladly just buy them there, then sell them back at the end of the semester and have cash in my pocket. But since we're not sure about that yet, I ordered them from half.com. One of my used books at the bookstore would have been $107. I found it online for $48. But I found that the bookstore does not make it easy to purchase your books somewhere else. On the little book listings they hang on the shelves, the include an ISBN right there - so you think, oh great! I just have to write that down and I'll be on my way. But, what you wouldn't realize is that that is just the bookstore's new ISBN. So you look on the back cover of the book - and they've plastered their own sticker with price and their own ISBN on it right over the original ISBN. So you have to look at the publisher's page to get the real ISBN in order to have any success whatsoever. Which I did. I also took pictures of the covers of each book to make sure I was buying the right one online. I felt like an undercover cop. Luckily it is still really dead on campus so nobody bothered me or tried to be helpful in a non-too-helpful way. So that ended up costing $350-something. For like, 7 books. That's crazy! Stupid college textbooks. My professor last year was telling us that one of our books (a very small book, at that) was like... $5.00 for a long time. But when they found out colleges were using it as a textbook, the price shot up to $71.00. So we paid $71.00 for a 30 page book, about the size of the DMV's driving manual which they give you FREE.

Chad has been applying to a bunch of different places, including the local school district. He told them what kind of position he was looking for and they said they'd "be in touch". So hopefully that'll work out, but for now, we keep looking.

Yesterday Chad's brother Christian drove down from West Yellowstone where he's working and brought a friend with him and they signed the papers and sold the blue car. Yes, the very same blue car that broke down right underneath me in February 2007. IT'S SOLD!!! We couldn't be happier.

That's about it for today. We continue organizing and unpacking, and job-hunting today. I don't want to go back to school!!