The bookstore, what a ripoff!

I went to the university bookstore today to sell back my books and try to salvage some of the money I spent for them. This semester I spent $350 on books and the bookstore wanted to buy them back for $27. I was so shocked that I had to ask if that was a total. Then, to top it off, when I said that I would just keep them, the lady looked at me as if I had personally offended her. How rude!

We are in!

Wahoo! We are in! Actually we moved into the new house last Saturday, so thanks everyone for helping us move, it was a great birthday present. Pictures will be coming soon, I'm still trying to find things.

Big Announcements

We are buying a house!!! No, not this one, but close, just the Rose Park version. We are closing tomorrow and then will be moving as soon as possible (carrying things downstairs should be easier than it was going up).



And...we are having a BABY!!! Due: October 16th.

Mmm...Soup!

I have never made homemade soup before so this was big for me (but it turned out to be quite easy). Soup just sounded good and I found a recipe in my favorite cookbook "Fix-It and Enjoy-It" by Phyllis Pellman Good (same lady who does the Fix-It and Forget-It cookbooks for slow cookers) and despite not having gone grocery shopping for quite some time, I actually had all the ingredients (except for celery so I just left it out). But even without the celery it was very yummy.



I was in a hurry to get it finished before Sam left for work so I just moved things I was done with out of the way and now have a mess and yes, that is a Chinese food leftover box, but since I ate its contents for lunch it was serving as a small portable garbage.

Red Boots

These are the red boots Sam bought me for Christmas, I absolutely love them! I said I would post a picture, so here you go...

School started again on January 12th and because there haven't been any major assignments it is still fun and exciting. Although, I was quite frustrated today because I had a political science class that went right through the inauguration. Can you believe it? Of all classes, a class on politics didn't even cancel so we could watch the new president get sworn into office. Although, my acting class which starts at 10:45 (after the important part was over) was cancelled due to the inauguration. Oh well, I was still able to watch the whole thing online later. I must admit it was pretty exciting, however I wish the public was this excited for every new member of office.

Anyways, I just wanted to show off what I was able to do with the gift I received at the Gleason Christmas Party. Actually, I tried to go away with some light-up Santa slippers, but apparently Phil didn't want to paint his nails.

Update

Wow, I am horrible at this. But, since finals and Christmas are over things shouldn't be quite as crazy.


In the beginning of December, Sam and I had the chance to go on a quick little trip to Washington DC, we were only there for a couple of days, but we had fun. Here are some of the pictures from our trip.

We were too cold to wait for someone to take a picture of us together, so we did it ourselves. We call this our drunk picture because we both look like we had a little too much.

Finals ended on December 17th, and, thankfully, I passed all my classes, so...only 3 more semesters left. I am pretty much done with everything I need for my Anthropology major, but since I still have to fulfill credit requirments, I have decided to double major in Political Science. What will I do when I'm done? Either go to law school or go on and get my Masters, it depends on what is going on with our lives at the time.

Christmas was nice, nothing too exciting. We had been planning on going to Preston, but the snowstorm pushed our visit to the following weekend, but we still had fun eating my mom's homemade candy and playing games.

Sam and I were pretty lame this year, neither one of us could think of anything we wanted and we didn't feel like fighting the crowds at the mall, so we just bought each other some clothes. Sam got me some very sassy, tall, red boots, that I absolutely love (I will post a picture later) and I got Sam a nice warm jacket because he is always cold during the winter.

As of right now, Sam is working and I am relaxing and enjoying the break from school (classes don't start again until January 12th). So I better go clean or do dishes, so it looks like I actually did something today.