school

Sorry for the long delay in posts, but it's been busy busy around here. Last week I took the whole week to be at home - well, kind of. I was done with summer school and I just didn't want to go to that building for a week. So, I stayed home and recuperated from the wedding weekend and paid some attention to things that had been neglected around the house - including the dogs! :) Tuesday, K and I went to the new IKEA. I LOVE LOVE LOVE IKEA!! We spent about 3 hours there and got a truck-full. Then we went to Somerset in troy for some rich-people shopping. I always feel so poor there. But they have the Brighton store and Crate and Barrel. Fun place! :) We managed to make an entire shopping day and didn't get home until past dark. Good times. This weekend we had T's nephew with us to stay overnight and go play golf. He's just beginning, so I took him to the driving range in the afternoon. After he left the "hit it as hard as you can" mentality and actually started listening, he was doing pretty well. We played more golf Sunday with K & T up in Fremont. Their son is a little over a year old and now going through major separation from mom. She's a teacher too so she's home in the summer. I can't even imagine how heart-wrenching that must be to leave your child, screaming for you. I have a hard enough time when I leave and the dogs give me that sad face. But he did fine at the sitter's and we went back to their house for a great dinner. Now it's the week and it's back to school. I made it into my room yesterday and got everything all arranged the way I want it this year. I always my appreciate my 2 advanced degrees when I'm in my room shoving desks, tables and bookcases around to get them the way they were when I left in June. After 5 hours of sweating there, I came home and relaxed for a while before I had to go pick up my parents at the airport. It was a full day. Mom brought me a nice new wardrobe to go back to school! Who loves fun, loud, printed skirts?!? I DO! I DO!! Tomorrow mom and I take off for Chicago for more WICKED! This will be our 3rd time seeing it. It's soooooooooooooooo amazing. I can't wait!