High School

One of my best friends from high school made dinner for a bunch of our friends while we were all home. It was so nice to see everyone and catch up. One of my friends is engaged, which just seems silly. Like she's playing wedding or something. One of our favorite teachers from high school even showed up! She insisted we call her Julie now because we were drinking wine with her.... so weird. We took lots of pictures, and HOLY CRAP.... we look like grown-ups!

Christmas Recap

When we were little, it was tradition to sleep in the same room on Christmas Eve. (Well, actually, we usually slept in the same room every night but that's beside the point...) Dad would come in and read The Night Before Christmas and we laughed every time he made puking noises as he read "...and he threw up the sash." Louis and I would wake up at about 5 AM and everyone would tell us we had to sleep for another hour before we could wake up Mom and Dad. As a rule, we had to make coffee before we woke them up.

This year, Louis and were in the den watching a movie after everyone left the big Christmas Eve party. I woke up at about 3 AM and realized that we were both sleeping in the same room like we used to. At about 5, Lou told me we had to go up to bed because otherwise Santa wouldn't come.

Even though Christmas is way different than it used to be, I coudn't have been happier. I got plenty of time loving Addie, saw Maeve and Julia open tons of presents, and took a long nap with Miles. It was a very merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

I'm typing this on my new computer while wearing my new Gaustad jersey!! Santa was good to me! :)

I'll post again after I take a nap and eat brunch!

As Julia told me...
MOOEY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!

Sabres Game

Saturday night was my dad's office Christmas party at the Sabres game. Everyone had a blast and the Sabres won! It was also Miles and Julia's first hockey game. Julia entertained everyone by listing the players (Ryan Miller, her favorite, and "Maximus" Afinogenov to name a few...) It was an excellent way to start Christmas break!!

Miles didn't seem to mind all the noise...

Watching the players skate!

She couldn't keep her eyes off the ice!

Welcome Baby Adelaide!

Welcome to the world sweet baby girl. We all love you more than you know!

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• I didn’t take my hard exam today. Instead I went to my professor’s office to review and make sure I was ready. He told me I’m not and I probably would get less than a 50 if I tried to take it today. So I cried. In his office. Haha! Then he told me it would all be ok and gave me his cell phone number in case I needed someone to talk to. How much do you wanna bet I’ll be getting a call from the psych office tomorrow?


• Cecilia, Esther, and Mike all made me care packages for finals week

1. Cecilia’s had brownies, hot chocolate mix, a stress ball, an awesome mug with pictures of me all over it, and fun pens and highlighters.
2. Esther’s had delicious study snacks: a Clementine, an apple, some ho-hos, pop rocks, chocolate covered pretzels and some pop corn.
3. Mikey’s had a Starbucks mocha frappuccino and a 22 oz Blue Light.

My siblings know exactly what I like.

• A little boy at work today wet his pants while he was talking to me. He’s 4 and he’s not potty trained. Another little girl wiped a booger on her homework. I pretended I didn’t see it because it was just too gross to have to clean up. Plus I think it will be funny when the teacher is grading it.
• I haven’t started Christmas shopping yet. I hope I can go shopping on Friday and get most of it done in a day, but realistically I will probably be finishing on the 24th.
• I'm going home on Friday night for dinner for Mikey's birthday. I can't wait! I get to see everyone, plus Mimi and Aunt Esther are here and I haven't seen them yet. It will be a great end to this week!

Checking In

Hi! I'm still alive! I have nothing too exciting to share, just some random stuff.

• Leah's was much cuter, but this was a good way for my roommates to procrastinate! http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1288804766
• So, my GRE scores sucked... but my advisor is telling me not to retake them. He said I'm putting too much emphasis on these grades and that grad schools don't put as much importance on them as I think. Statistically, my chances of doing way better are pretty low. And since my verbal grade wasn't horrible, there's a chance that I could actually lower my score. He told me to focus on making my applications (mostly my personal statement) perfect and to stop freaking out. So, what do you think? Any advice?
• I have my hardest exam tomorrow. Then 3 papers due by Friday.
• I didn't get any good pictures of my outfit at the holiday sweater party, but maybe you'll be lucky enough to see it in person.

I'll let you know if I survive the rest of the week!

the GRE's= sucky crappy smelly piece of crap. and i hate them. and i will be retaking them next month.

in other news, i bought a fabulous christmas sweater vest for a tacky holiday sweater party. and a turtle neck with wreaths on it. from sears. don't worry, you'll see pictures.

Week in Numbers

My Week in Numbers:

7 days in the library, my new home.

2 days til I take the GRE's. I'd love to say I've been studying like crazy and I'm totally prepared... but I haven't, and I'm not.

4 presentations done in 2 weeks. That's a lot of powerpoints.

2 exams on Friday. I'm sure the first thing I'll want to do on Thursday night when I get home from the GRE's is to STUDY some more.

2 papers due. 1 tomorrow, 1 Friday.

7 grad school applications to complete.

1 awesome care package from Cecilia, with the most delicious brownies ever!

0 brownies left.

0 phone calls returned.

5 days til finals week even starts... and a whole new list to complete!



21 days til CHRISTMAS!!! I CAN'T WAIT!