another friday off!

friends!  sorry the blog has taken a quite pathetic turn lately.  i'm in the last push - just 10 days until i'm on a plane to new york for my 10 day vacation.  thanksgiving, my family, miss emily's wedding... it doesn't get much better than that.  of course to enjoy all that i first have to survive one more work week and one more school-filled weekend (next weekend).  i have a midterm to take in the meantime, and when i come back from this trip it will effectively be december!  what the heck people!  at least i have today off to do some work and clean my house, before a big fancy chamber dinner tomorrow night.  this is my weekend to get caught up.  let's see if that actually happens :)

1.   my favorite new blog of the moment is  hello giggles! consistently hilarious.

2.   something i am thankful for is no school this sunday!  sleeping in!  

3.  something that made me laugh this week was me trying to stand up after bending down to grab something but stepping on my dress, so instead falling over on the ground.  in front of my staff.

4. an item that is currently on my wish list is someone to come paint my f*@$(%^ entryway.

5.  i am excited about five more days of work/school before a MUCH-NEEDED vacation to see some of the world's greatest people and my beautiful cousin's thanksgiving wedding!  i' got excited just typing that sentence!

6.  if i were a color i would be blue maybe, or yellow.  lately probably a deep, golden yellow... because it's bright and happy but not in an obnoxious way : )

7.  my favorite way to spend a chilly fall day is by drinking something warm and laughing with my husband. but lately i have been just doing homework.  lame.  

side note: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my friend brooke today!  

a dream realized

another quick post, because it's waaaaaay past my bedtime, and i'm blogging.

when people, especially young newlywed couples like us, go house shopping i'm sure they look for a lot in a house.  can i host christmas here?  are there enough bedrooms for a baby or two?  what are the schools like?  is this a decent commute to work for me?

but i don't quite think that far ahead.  all i could really think about when we bought the house, was about having friends over.  not in a real 'entertaining' type of way.  i'm not the girl who's always the hostess.  but rather creating a house where people felt at home, where we could have a friend or two or seven over and sit around our big dining room table.  in my imagination i always imagined it would be cold outside - we would have the candles and maybe even the fireplace lit, but definitely the candles on the dining room table.  we'd have wine, and we would sit and talk, whisper, laugh, tell stories, dream about the future and reminisce about the past around the table.

well, tonight that happened.  one of my very bestest girlfriends came over and we shared a bottle of wine and some pizza.  no, i didn't make the pizza, we ordered it.  but after my girlfriend left, and i was throwing my hair into a ponytail and pouring water into my coffee pot when i realized that i had just experienced what i had always imagined my house being.

and our house isn't perfect.  the bathroom is still torn up.  we haven't painted over 'the artery' yet.  the landscaping is nowhere near finished.  our bedroom is freezing in the winter and a sauna in the summer.  the granite in the kitchen is cracked where the previous owners didn't have it properly reinforced.  but it's a home.  and not only is it our home, but in a sense, it has become a home to those who come and spend time here.  and i couldn't love it any more if i tried, because it's everything i always wanted :)

high high #4

i am happy to report that my high high of my weekend was my new class - organizational change agents.  i totally love it.  not nearly as labor-intensive as my last class.  we've had a lot of great discussions so far and there are some really interesting people in my class.  i am really loving going to school.  i came to that realization this morning after i treated myself to my usual morning pre-school latte, heading off on 25 south to class.  and i was looking forward to a few (ok, 8) hours of intelligent discussion.  when i leave class for the day, i really feel like i got something out of it, and not just closer to a degree.

i would write more but i am exhausted - i did homework all last night after class just so i could relax with philip, so intend to do just that.

but i have friday off for the holiday, so i plan on having some bathroom updates, or at least a clean house with some nice fall decorations up :)

how was your weekend???