Happy Christmas!

This pic is of my baby puppy getting ready to board on her first airplane flight! Doesn't she look excited?
Santa was oh so good to our home this year. :)

We traveled to my mom's for Christmas. We had a great time opening packages and spending time with family. I had a ball! I was spoiled rotten. My HH out did himself again this Christmas. It doesn't matter what your situation is. I have the best Husband in the world. He is the man. He loves me. He takes care of our home. Everything I need always comes first. I know that sounds selfish, but it is what I need to be happy.

My husband is extremely loving. He hugs me and tells me I am beautiful every day. I realize we have only been married 2.5 years, but he knows exactly how to make me feel like a queen. He wrote me this amazing card for Christmas and my birthday. I cried when I read all the beautiful prose that he managed to write. Who knew?

After we returned from my parents a friend of HH stayed the night. He was driving from Arkansas to Florida. He is involved with this project where he takes one picture a day of himself. It is really amazing. We spent a lot of time in Starkville taking him places to take pictures. I was thinking what an amazing project. I would like to undertake a project like that. Then I remembered...I am. I am writing a dissertation. When I finish that paper...that little teeny paper...I will undertake some amazing project.

Mailing 2 Christmas Presents tomorrow that didn't make it out. Also my stepdaughter is here for a week! :) I am so happy to have her here!

I have some pictures and I will be uploading them shortly.

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I love that my HH works for the University. I appreciate all the great benefits that he gets from working there. One of the Awesome things about his job is that he is off from December 20th until January 7th with out eating into our precious vacation days.

In other news I have been asked to teach a course in Mexicali. I can't wait. The university looks really nice. If I do a good job I could be asked to go to Sorbonne or Tuscany or Beijing. The sky is the limit really. http://cityu.edu/loc_bajacalif.htm

I have also been awarded a trip to Miami to present a paper in January! Awesome I will have a blast being on the beach in Miami in January.

I am taking a cruise with my HH and our stepdaughter for spring break. It is booked and set to go.

So I have already filled up my weekends etc. for the first three months of the year! :)

Did I mention I have some time off?

Christmas break has finally come to the International Party Girl! I am so excited. I need this in one of the worst ways. I am going to read (fiction), play video games, spend time with HH, sleep. All those things I have been dreaming of since August.

Today I am wrapping up my Christmas shopping for real. :) Then I am going to enjoy myself. I am looking forward to having the down time.

I am going to start studying for comps over the break. I will be giving my comp study schedule break down and posting it here pretty soon.

I don't know what I want for Christmas...Now leave me Alone

That was meant to be a bit snarky. I just have had several people asking lately. My head has been so filled with lectures and homework. I haven't had time to look.

I really haven't had enough time to shop for the people I am buying for much less myself. I am enjoying my vacation. I have celebrated by reading books (the kind for me not for class), watching this TV show Dexter it is all about a serial killer that is a cop, playing video games. Letting my head rot would be the best way to describe it. It feels good though.

I am going out tonight for a celebratory toast to the end of the semester. I really am relieved this semester is over. It has not sunk in yet quite for me I don't think.

:) More soon!

President's List Baby

4.0 this semester!

I know I have been a bad blogger. Sue me. I Had to write 4 research papers. I was written out. How does that work? You write so many papers you develop a lump on your wrist. That would be me.

However the grades are rolling in and they are good. I love when I make the President's list. I am like I little kid. I print my report card out and hang it on the refrigerator.

It is my way of saying to my HH (handsome hubby) this is the reason I have been sleep deprived, non-cuddly, non-amorous, and all kinds of other negative non's. This is the fruits of my labor.

I take my comps next semester! I am getting close I hope you can feel the excitement.
I completely vegetated on the couch today. My husband called to see what I was doing, and I said "Nothing" and I meant it. I vegetated. It was AWESOME!

In other news we just got back from Austin. We worked hard and played hard in Texas. I ate some amazing Mexican food. YEAH! I missed authentic Mexican.

Ok...my burnout self is going to bed! I will be more active in coming days. YEAH!!!!!
DONE DONE DONE!