final countdown

sunday evenings i usually count down my last few hours of weekend freedom before the school week starts back up. this weekend is extra special because i am counting down our last weekend before we move into our new house! ross and i are going to close on tuesday, and we are so excited! the whole process has gone very quickly and very smoothly. i put in some evening work on the front end of the process, but ross has been awesome, handling all the details during the day while i'm at school. i think he's really ready for this to be over! ross and i both took tuesday off of work, and we are going to close at 10:30am. more on that on tuesday!

we enjoyed a relaxing weekend, spending lots of time with each other. saturday night we went out to the new mall, the hill country galleria, at 71 and 620 intersection. there's a brand new barnes & noble that we hung out at. then we walked around the stores before going to see the movie "dan in real life" with steve carell....LOVED it. so funny, and just an overall great time. after the movie we went back to b&n for more book browsing.

ross is experiencing crunch time with research papers and presentations and exams for school. while he was at class on saturday morning, i took peyton for a long walk at the park. we had bought an anti-pull harness at wal-mart with vague hopes that it would keep her from choking herself in her enthusiasm at the park. i was blown away! it worked like a charm. i usually can only walk with her for about 1 mile before my arm falls off. however, on saturday we were able to go for a peaceful 3 miles. ross and i took her together tonight and we decided we definitely could be on an infomercial for this product...amazing!

after class, ross called peyton and me to join him for sub sandwiches and an afternoon sail! he brought along a life vest for peyton which is so cute/hilarious, look for pictures soon. she loved being on the boat i think, though it made her somewhat nervous. it was a gorgeous day and we enjoyed a long afternoon just relaxing on the lake. at least i did. i guess ross was working relatively hard sailing us where we needed to go. but we all had a great time.

this is the last week of the 2nd 6weeks of my semester! tomorrow the students have the day off, and i have a staff development day at a ranch near san marcos. tuesday i took a personal day, so i had to arrange for a sub. so, a short week for me this week, and then a super short week next week before thanksgiving!

p.s. why is walmart playing christmas carols? isn't it still november??

p.p.s. i propose that as aggravating as it is when the computer crashes and you lose your work, it is even more aggravating when you lose an evening's work due to you personally in an act of stupidity overwriting your finished work with a previous version.

p.p.p.s. i have been watching the colts/chargers game tonight while working on the laptop and i do believe it was quite possibly the strangest football game i have ever seen!