ha. check this shit out. neeeeaaaattt.

today i am sitting at the beginning of the week i have left. THE week i have left. only this week really counts for finishing the work i have to do this semester. thanks to the heavens that i do not have class today or anyother day this week. i want to set some personal goals for this coming year.

*learn a funky bass line.
*erase procrastination from the ledger.
*learn to like a job... at least a little bit.
*take more pictures.
*see more shows
*save some money
*live more green
*buy more green
*buy a bike
*ride the new bike all summer
*dust off the coronet
*get closer to Suzy :)

this seems kinda like a list with need of second draft....

so i am going to make my first tofurkey. hope it turns out swell. :)

i found a ton of recipes, but if anyone knows a sure-fire-wonderful one, feel free to send it my way. i'm also making my first nut gravy :) that's making my mouth water just thinking about it. bringing my own vegan alternatives to the family thanksgiving dinner is going to be so freaking awesome!! i hope that everyone tastes the goodness, just to see what they are missing in not living cruelty free. i want to make some vegan stuffing too. but i haven't yet looked for recipes for that one.

well there was frost on my car yet again this morning. i love the frost. i love all of the beautiful silent changes that occur during this abundant time of year. the frost, it almost trickles across the leaves and grass, covering slowly, reaching into the air and sucking out the moisture... it's almost like the air shivers and the water just seeps out.

potty training. potty training. potty training.
she's very good at it and excited about wearing the cutezy little training panties. hehehe.

well the time of year has also arrived for me to send out to family and friends the neat little seasonal warm fuzzies. this year i will be able to tell everyone that i have a 4.0 and also i have tons of great pictures to send to the people who live far far away from my beautiful babies. Thanks only to my dear friend andrew who gave me an awesome camera and took portraits for us. but very much i am already thinking about next semester, and thinking of my strageties for a sucessful second semester. for instance, i am going to take ENG 1020, but i am not going to take JRN 1020 at the same time. I learned a crucial lesson this semester about taking too many similar classes at the same time. this time it was too much writing, and I would not do that if i had it to do over. the deadlines just killed me, in both classes, Eng 1010 and JRN1010. But se la vie :) all i can do is live it. and try to make it easier down the road.not only easier, but more fulfilling.

ah, mina is making me so happy. her behavior has improved so much :) she's just a little lady, growing up before my eyes. and enmrie is totally talking. she can just have all kinds of conversations with everyone :) i admit that mina and i are the only ones who can understand her sometimes, but it's still sooo cute. :)

pictures to come...

:)