Oh yeah, and. . .

My Drivers License expired on my birthday. . .so. . uh. .if I'm gonna successfully rent and drive a rental car when we get to Portland, clearly I also need to go get a new drivers license!!!

To do before Wednesday!

Wednesday, Jacob, Mom, and me leave for Portland for seven days. There is A LOT I have to do before then. Thankfully, I finished up my assignments for that class I was in. . .hopefully I'll get a B. Ok. . .so I'm gonna make my list:
1. Make a list of what I need to take for us
2. Pack that stuff!
3. Purchase presents for: Sebastian/Sean/Lucero/J/T/Z/C/M/D/G
4. Clean Jacob's room REALLY well!
5. Clean my room REALLY well!
6. Work on my stuff in the garage
7. Grocery shop for Grandma
8. Take stuff to Goodwill/Recycling
9. Work on project for BE at school!!!!
10. Continue house-training Choco
11. sweep/mop kitchen/dining room
12. work on living room
13. Think about my "best friend" . . .
So. . .yeah. . .lots to do. . .there's probably more!

Last Paper

I am currently delaying writing my last paper for my second to last class. I need to get started. Thankfully, 90 % of it is to be basically copy-pasted from earlier assignments - to create a case study of the child that I tutored for this class. I still am having a hard time getting started. ONE MORE CLASS AFTER THIS, then I am DONE! Yay for that. . .and the subsequent pay raise! Life is going extremely well right now, so I need to just suck it up and write the durn paper! :)

M&M

Jacob's New Toy Poodle

Jacob's New Puppy

"Home for the Holidays"

Jacob

Ummmmm. I think maybe I've made this face before. . . the unimpressed, "yeah, whatever" look. :)