a new semester

It's been quite a while since my last update. I guess, kind of a lot has happened, but kind of not a whole lot at all. And this will be a quick little post because I need to keep studying for my nutrition test.
I think I'm just going to make a list :-) just because

1. I started taking my pre reqs for nursing school in January. I'm taking nutrition, developmental psychology and microbiology.....I am enjoying the classes and I'm learning a lot, but it's definitely different than the poli sci and philosophy classes I took at Baylor. Unfortunately you can't really argue your way through a microbiology test.

2. I'm still working at the Elementary school in Dallas and trying to figure out what I'll be doing next year. It is rarely boring and the kids are always up to something, or have something funny to say or ask. Today one of the forth grade girls quietly passed a piece of gum to me at the end of math class, trying to hide it from the substitute teacher. I just said thanks and took it, and then thought to myself, wait, kids can't have gum at school. and then thought, was my breath that bad that she had to risk getting in trouble to offer me a piece of gum? Oh, well I really had wanted a piece of gum all morning.

3. I've moved back in with my parents in Kaufman. I've been commuting to Dallas everyday. The drive is pretty far but at least I'm sleeping at night and not being woken up by transvestite neighbors tromping around in the middle of the night, or barking dogs early in the morning. I did have a little freak out moment when I went to church with my parents on Sunday and five people in a row exclaimed, you're back in Kaufman! Are you back for good? And I didn't know how to respond, yes...no....I feel like I should answer, "I work in Dallas, hang out in Dallas, have an apartment in Dallas, study in Dallas, occasionally in Terrell, I spend between 2-5 waking hours a day in Kaufman, I'm not sure where I live." I've spend my whole life not knowing where my "home" was, and now I cant even figure out were I live.

4. Lets see....exciting news....it snowed on Thursday! Proper snow!(as the Scots would say) We had about a foot of snow on the ground, I guess for people reading this, that isn't news, because apparently it snowed in every state except Hawaii, so what is that, snow in like 57 states? ;-)
I made a snowman with my mom and dad. I had never made a life size, proper snowman before. We used a carrot for his mouth and everything. My dad even got out the ruler and smoothed it all out and made sure it was smooth and round.

5. Other news.....Since my last post I've been pulled over once and had one little fender bender, which I still believe was not my fault. My poor car.

6. One thing that I always appreciate: bathroom stalls with places to hang or place your belongings, best combination ever: a restroom stall with a place to hang your purse and a ledge to place books or other belongings on.

7. Something that slightly bothers me: when you go to weather.com to the location search box it says, "Enter ZIP, city or place(e.g. Disney World)." Every time I see that I wonder, how many people actually need to know the weather at Disney world. It seems kind of like a mean little trick to me, why don't they just put (e.g. Fiji or St. Barts)?

8. I have done my procrastination for the evening, now it's back to studying. Oh, one more exciting piece of news, Molly is coming on Friday. I really only get to see her for a day, but I'm so excited! And I think we're going to have an adventure, I'm sure I'll blog about it!