Welcome to the Quarter of Death!

I am taking 4 classes this quarter. I am not dead yet but it is quite probable that I will be before its over ;) Three of the four have big projects so right now I'm not completely drowning but when everything starts coming due I think I will be going crazy.
Despite my crazy class schedule I had time today to go work at the garden for the afternoon! We had a general 'workday' to earn some hours (In order to not lose your deposit on your garden plot you have to work a certain number of community hours) and then I worked a little in my own garden. My attempt at a winter crop failed miserably. I grew a half eaten cabbage, rosemary- which I'm not sure actually grew so much as didn't die, and lots and lots of grass!! However I was inspired today by other gardeners so I made a first attempt at battling the grass (pulled up and mulched over it). I am considering planting an apple tree. We are allowed to plant trees, with permission/dissusion with the garden director, and I don't think we have an apple tree yet.
This evening I am reinstalling windows (again) trying to fix my internet card driver issues. Hopefully this will work. It has been so incredibly frustrating calling Dell and having them tell me to do the same things I've already done 500 times but I think this might actually work. Keep your fingers crossed!!

Yay!!

We finally got our new dresser! Its so pretty! and nice to have a place to put our clothes besides on the floor ;) This weekend has been very productive! Yesterday I cleaned and cleaned and made a yummy dinner (citrus and black pepper chicken) and sugar cookies! I got some cookie cutters from Williams-Sonoma where you make the cookies and then put them together to make 3-D trees, snowman, sled and reindeer! You are supposed to use a gingerbread cookie recipe but I decided to try it with the sugar cookies. It didn't work- they swell so much that they don't fit together right. Oh well! They are still yummy!
I went for a bike ride this morning. It was so nice to ride my road bike! Its so much faster than my commuter bike. It was soo cold out - I had snot everywhere!! ;) Today I have a lot of reading to do .. I also need to clean the bathroom- my least favorite housecleaning activity.
Well happy weekend everyone!

Merry Christmas!!

And a Happy New Year!! We had a great trip to NC. We got to Raleigh around 7pm on the 19th. Emily graduated all day on Wednesday. I am so proud of her! She has a job and everything! I also went to dinner with Virginia, Joanna and Gina at Mama Fus Wed. night and hung out with Katie Friday afternoon. It was so good to see everyone!!
Friday night I got our rental car and drove to Asheboro where Derrick had been all week. We hung out with Derricks family until Christmas morning. We also went to see The Pursuit of Happyness. It was really good- inspiring and depressing at the same time!
Christmas morning we headed to Wilmington and met my parents at the big family thing at my great aunts. That was nice- lots of family! Friday afternoon was my dads family thing and Saturday was Emily's graduation/engagement party. In between Christmas and the parties we ate, slept and geocached! My dad has a GPS thing for his boat so we used it to geocache and now we are totally addicted to it.. except that we don't have a GPS thingy... My dad gave us an old on to borrow but we may try to just ghetto it and look it up in googlemaps and guess ;)
New Years Eve we celebrated our 3rd(!!) anniversary by going to Bluewater for some expensively delicious seafood! After that my mom coerced us into going to some family friends to visit. We didn't really feel like going, but it ended up being pretty fun.
New Years Day we drove back to Raleigh and I headed back to CA. The flight was long.. the plane stopped in Chicago but since I was going through to Sac on the same plane they wouldn't let me get off. Between Chicago and Sac we had to stop in Salt Lake City because a little girl was having seizures! It was kinda scary and annoying at the same time. By the time we got to Sacramento I had been on the same plane for about 8.5 hours and was very antsy! ;) I finally made it back to the apt around 4:30. THE END!