Settle in...

This is going to be a long one folks... Tomorrow will be 2 weeks since I last posted and believe me there is a TON to catch you up on (I figure if you actually care you will read no matter what :-D). Let's see nothing exciting really happened after my last post until that Friday (March 11)- I got up at 5am (I know I even surprised myself) and headed to Auburn and from Auburn, William and I were Memphis bound. As most of you know I was incredibly nervous about meeting his parents. Well, of course I was worrying about nothing. They are both really great and it was really nice to meet them. Now I know many of you are thinking she met his parents so it must be serious between them, I am going to defer all those questions to William :-D. Now in Memphis we spent Saturday downtown. I got to see Graceland (something everyone should do atleast once). I did not, however, tour Graceland (just wanted to clear that up). We went to the Rock and Soul museum that afternoon as well. I now have a lot of back ground information on the beginnings of rock, blues, and country music. We took a trolley ride along the riverfront. That gave me a better look at the entire downtown area (I saw the hotel in which MLK was shot and I know that makes several of you very jealous ;-)). And the look of downtown from the trolley made me not want to be anywhere near there after dark. We ate dinner Saturday night at this wonderful BBQ place called Rendezvous'. Its world famous so if you are Memphis you have to eat there just don't be afriad b/c it is off some alley (sidebar: Adriene informed me Justin Timberlake actually rented the entire restaurant out one night for all of the crew to eat there in peace and I understand why, that place can become very crowded). Sunday- I spent the day with William and his mom shopping :-)! I would like to say we all had a good time but I will just say we all survived. I mean I had a great time. I got a really cute pair of pants from Banana Republic (We really should have one of those in Mobile)! We drove back from Memphis on Monday afternoon. We stopping in B'ham Monday night to eat dinner with Chad, Suzanne and Ramsey. Tuesday- I came back to Mobile (via lunch in Montgomery with my Chuckie!) and left again for Auburn on Thursday. I know that almost seems pointless but if you saw the cute hair cut I got on Wed. you would understand. Thursday night- I got to spend some quality time with my Mego! She is so awesome. She is a great listener and gives good advice as well :-). Friday- was Be Nice To Kim Day so I went to all my favorite shops in downtown Auburn and got a manicure and pedicure from my favorite nail shop and of course I got to eat dinner at Laredo's (I mean how can you drive anywhere near Auburn and not eat there?!). So all this brings me to yesterday, I went to Elba, AL to see Candice get married. Wow, even as I type that I am not sure I believe it. It was a beautiful wedding. It was so sweet and you just knew God was there blessing them and there marriage. Candice was absolutely stunning. She made a beautiful bride. William went with me. If there was ever any doubt of how wonderful he is this erased it. I mean the boy skipped A-day to be my date to the wedding of a girl he didn't even know! He was a real trooper (b/c you can imagine how much he wanted to be there, let alone drive over 2hrs one way to get there). Its just crazy to think she is married. I mean I remember meeting her fall of junior year in intro to spec ed. Its something to reflect upon and see how our lives have changed and grown over the past 2 and a half years. Heck, I know mine has changed so much in the past 2 and a half months. And I have to admit I am loving every minute of it. I attribute that to the fact that I am doing my best to be living every minute of it. Today- I went to church with William and then drove home to have dinner with Rachel. Now I am putting off unpacking :-P Well, this is all for now. This should be enough for now I might add. I promise to post again later on in the week to let you know how I am settling back in to the routine of my life. This past week has been wonderful and though there was not a lot of sun on my springbreak, I think some more important things really shined :-)

Survived Another Monday

Woo hoo! Another Monday has basically come and gone :-) Which means another weekend has gone as well. I have to admit this past weekend ranks as one of the best in a long time (well not a long time maybe since January). Was it because William was here? Or maybe I spent some time outdoors? Or the fact that it was 70 degrees and sunny? Who knows? All I know is that I had a wonderful time! William and I went and saw the Dead Sea Scrolls and for all of you in Mobile you really should not let this pass you by and those who are not are more then welcome to crash at my place if you wanna come down and see them! I mean its crazy to think how old those scrolls are. It can really can put things in perspective long term for someone. Oh well I can't worry about long term so all I have is the here and now... and in the here and now not a whole lot is new. Work is going well. I am actually caught up in the office :-D I have my mentoring session tomorrow. I really think this is going to be a good thing for me to be involved with. Though in a way it really has me thinking about if I should have pursued Early Intervention a little more. Too late now, or at least for this degree ;-) This week shouldn't be too bad, class was cancelled for tomorrow night so I am going shopping for a new outfit to wear to Candice's wedding! I am so excited for her and she's excited about getting to "approve" William. (Yup, I'm dragging him along...told you he's wonderful :-D). But first this weekend I am going to Memphis with William. I'm nervous so I'm not going to talk much about that now... According to Chuckie I am not blogging enough about William, sorry guys just trying not to scare him away ;-) Well its past my bed time... so I better get myself in bed, girl's got to get her beauty sleep you know!!!

Waiting

Thursday night... No ER tonight, they premiered a new L&O, I was kind of disappointed (note spelling) in it so I cleaned somewhat and worked on the techniques for infant massage (yea, part of this mentoring thing I am doing. I am mentoring an adolescent mother. I think it is going to be a really good experience. Though as usually it might be more then I bargained for :-P. My girl has a 2 1/2 month old baby. And we'll just say the mother is "special", now you see how I got paired with her. I am not sure how old she is but my guess would be under 16. Its only the second week and I was assigned to her this week so I don't have a lot of info but I'll keep you posted). I figured while I was waiting on William (story of my life) I would blogg a little bit about this week.... I did 1500 mailouts for the grant I am grad assistant on, that should pretty much sum up work for you... Oh before I forget about the whole spelling of disappointment, since I can spell it correctly, Sanders has decided that Landon and I are his two smartest friends b/c we noticed the mistake in his away message (he made the spelling mistake on purpose to see who would notice and say something). He's a dork, but I am probably a bigger one for being amused about it.... I don't know what will be going on this weekend, William will be here and that's the most important thing :-). The weather is suppose to be nice so maybe we can find something fun to do on Saturday. I am hoping we will get to see the Dead Sea Scrolls at some point but the tickets are sold out online. Well, I think I am going to get ready for bed (I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep but I am going to try) and read a little bit...