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I can't even express how excited I am to know that in just one week I will get to hang out with my bestest buds and one of the coolest places I know. I have every intention of hitting the books hard after Monday so that I can get ahead for Con. I planned a shopping trip for Sat to the Mall of America to see if I can find anything new and interesting for wearing. I would hate to be same old same old, but it may just come to that. One day I will be able to afford the time and money for a real costume, but in the mean time pretty dresses will have to do.

I have had so much fun this summer that I almost feel like a kid again. It has been so cool that the thought of school starting back is a little sad. I know I will enjoy it when it starts, but the end of my care free summer days are here. I have meetings for girl scouts and the PTSO this week and I start school the week of Dragon Con. So well I can't wait for Con it is a little bittersweet for me. I am just going to have fun for the last two weeks I have some free time to go to my cousins cabin to hang at the lake. I am also going to try to fit in the MN Ren Fest and State fair so I am sure there will be no dragging days of summer.

It may be a little to early and I know that Dragon is coming up, but all this talk about Disney has me super excited. I have the condos already and now I am ready to start purchasing park tickets *woohoo* I can't wait to spend days with my wonderful friends in one of my favorite places ever. Of course I do have extra space for tag alongs. Let me know. And did I mention that there is a launch at Kennedy scheduled for when we will be visiting. OK done with the bubbly part for now. Other than plans I am enjoying summer and trying to get all my ducks in a row for next semester and my school switch for the Spring semester. I have to go take a four hour basic skills test today. I guess we will see if I am smart enough to be a teacher. I'll let you all know the results when IO get them in four to six weeks.

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Brand new year and no big things looming over me that have to be done NOW. There is always some to do, but I suppose it can all wait for a little while well I play catch up. To those of you that actualy look for it sorry no Christmas letter this year. I had class up until the 20th and then I was running around with family for the holidays. My cousin bought a "cabin" on the lake this summer it has five acres and 300ft of lake shore. It was perfect the house actually has 5 large bedrooms and easily fit the thirty people we had for the holidays with room to grow. It was so pretty with all the snow we had this year and the little ice skating rink that was cleared on the lake for our personal use. It was honestly like something off a Christmas card and just what I needed to start feeling like myself again. This semester was hard on me I had Biology, Organic Chemistry, Physics, and algebra. The classes were all interesting and I had really good instructors except my Bio Lab, but that is another story. I just got overwhelmed far to much new information so I rearranged my scheduel a little bit and took a lighter load. I am still taking the second semester of Organic and Physics, but not Biology I will just tack on another semester in the end and take a little longer. I have to take a one credit Gym class so I will be taking BOwline this semester. I know you are all sooo jealous, and I get to take my first Calculus class, so the challenge will still be there, but hopefully I will be able to pull my grades in OChem and Physics to A's instead of high B's. My school doesn't give pluses of minuses so the GPA is the same if I had gotten an 80 or an 89. So enough of my rambling I really hope all is well with every one, and you have a happy healthy 2008!

Or that kinda week I guess it's all in how you look at it. I think perhaps I may have taken on to much this semester. I am keeping my grades up, but the price may be higher then I realized. Stupid things keep going wrong at first they seem little, but the cascading effect has jumped in and kicked my tail. It seems that the little things can add up and amount one big suck ass sadness. I have been crying since Friday and every time it seems something good happens it is immedantely countered with something bad. The upside is that I actually made a high grade in Organic Chemistry. I had given up and actually started to think that I would be lucky to keep my B in the class, because more than a C on a test seemed impossible. Then I did well, and also did well on my Physics test only to turn around and do poorly in Algebra. Perhaps I should do some home work in that class if I would like to keep my A. Not enough hours in a day. Not going to take second semester of Bio next time I think Organic, Physics and Calc will be enough oh and of course bowling just for fun.
Then of course there is home. Brent has a stupid job that is not getting better, in fact we are not even sure it will last much longer, because the owner is having a hard time telling his employees the truth. We do know that the lease is up on the building that the company is in next week. So I guess we just keep holding our breath and crossing our fingers that something will pan out on one of his interviews. Angelica is doing great in school, almost too good. I think that she is getting a little bored and filling up her time chatting. Charlie on the other hand has gotten the brilliant idea that C's are ok grades because they are "average" and that should be ok with me. Unfortunatley for him it is not! Oh and my Steffie has rebeled and turned me over to her mother who called me and told me how much I was using her child and what a horrible person I am for taking advantage of her and talking bad about her mother? What the hell?
I have done so much for her kid and hello I'm the bad guy because I told her that after deciding to go out and get drunk that I didn't want her and her friends at my house alone, but guess what they were and I told her that I didn't want it and she started talking back and being a teenager then called her mom.
She burned a rather large bridge here.. I hope she makes it through life ok.
So I feel slightly better that I got to vent thanks!

I know that I should have posted sometime last week to let everyone know what a great time I had at con this year. It was good to be able to relax with friends and take it easy. I really didn't see much of pannels, just a couple and Emerald Rose of course. My favorite part was breakfast with the gang almost every morning, except after the party. Just want to say thanks for that, I had a blast at the party~!
On a related topic Heather had the baby at 7:51 am Sept.9. Her name is Stella Ann and she was 8 lbs and 20 in. She started labor around midnight so she was a little sleepy when I talked to her that night. She sounds great though and all is well.
I got to have a wonderful time thanks to sunshine_dew and her cool job. I flew into Nashville on Friday night and out again on Sun afternoon, so to those of you I didn't get to contact sorry. It was a short trip, but very relaxing. I got to stay in that room! You know the one that overlooks the conservatory and has the cute balcony! I can't even begin to explain how cool this was for me. As an aside to those who don't know I grew up hanging out at the Opryland hotel as a teenager it was a good place for me to get away from my parents and life in general. I spent many nights wondering what it would be like to stay in that room. I was left alone Friday night, someone wanted to stay with her husband =) I decided that it was a good time to order room service a bottle of wine and a cheese plate accompanied me to the balcony where we just soaked up the night. So anyway reality is a little hard to come back to particularly after that and the private party at the wildhorse. The great job reserved the whole place until 11:00 sat night.
In reality I have PTSO meetings, labs due, a test in Biology and work this friday. Just had to say thanks to everyone that made the last couple weekends fun!

I am almost certain that the children and I are in need of some time apart. We have been busy with kid stuff..you know karate, soccer, dance, gymnastics since we came home. I want to pull my hair out from trying to get their collective butts where they need to by with all necessary items. We still can not find the $50 pair of jazz shoes. I am actually looking forward to taking a class. I am sure that feeling will pass when I have to not only go to class, but still take kids to games ect.. Brent is doing well at his new job. He works a lot of hours, but that is to be expected with his management position.

Well I wanted to let everyone know that I am stuck in IL until my van gets fixed. I hit a deer on the Interstate last night. I am currently waiting for the repair shop to call and let me know how long it will take to make it driveable. My insurance does not cover a rental car evidently, so now I just get to wait and see. I hope that I will make it to Hypericon otherwise at this point I should just go home and save what little money I have left after this fiasco. The hotel is not covered either- so far a $250 deductible and a $75 will take most of the money that I had to play with this week. I think that I pissed of the travel gods!

School is finally all done at least until July, and I have officially de-stressed now that the kids are done with school too. We have spent the last few days riding bike and getting to know our neighbors again. In MN people come out of doors very quickly as soon as the temperature is over 70 we know it will not be that way for long.
We will be packing our bags and headed to TN in a week I can hardly wait to see people who actually have a similar thought process as I do. I have noticed that people recently just smile an nod as if to say yeah I don't really understand what the hell you are talking about, but shut up already. Of course it is possible that you all do this to and are just better at hiding the blank stare. Anyway it will be great.
On another positive not Brent finally got a real day job that pays well. Family life is looking up.