Project 365. Days Three-Sixteen through Three-Seventeen: Happy Christmas Eve Eve!...

It's practically here. Can you feel it? Slight insanity, crinkled wrapping paper, very full, feasted tummies. Christmas. And, I happen to think that this is going to be "the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Cosby danced with Danny effing Kaye!"
And guess what? I got an early Christmas present....

Tim and Em over at Today's Letters have been competing to become the "Best Blog of 2010". In the latest round of voting, bloggies cast their vote by comment only. Well, Tim and Em have posted some of their favorite comments on their own blog...and...I can say I'm touched that they considered my comment meaningful. Hello, Xmas present numero uno! Nothing quite beats having your appreciation reciprocated right back atcha ("atcha" is a technical word....I know b/c I'm an English major).

You can take a look-see at Tim and Em's post here (but, don't forget to cast your own vote! Today's Letters definitely deserves some winner winner chicken dinner!).

Today's Highlights:

1) Case in point: Xmas present numero uno. Did I mention I threw up a victorious fist pump...alone...parked in a parking lot? Well, I did. Bam!
2) Food Wars w/ da Hubs
3) Having 99% of Christmas shopping done. Huntsville's lack of shopping possibilities + finals + work = me shopping all.day.long. But hey, somebody has to keep Mr. Kringle on his jolly toes.
4) Looking forward to sleeping in w/ da Hub-a-saurus in the morning
5) Annnnnd, cooking with him all day long in preparation for holiday feastivities. Hopefully, I'll have dreams full of Julie Child, June Clever, and Emeril tonight. Ole!
6) A good mornin' cup of rasp. hot choc. @ The Sweets pre-shop-off :)
7) Jason being OFFICIALLY OFF WORK through the New Year!

Don't forget to go vote for Tim and Em!
And to all a good Christmas Eve Eve!!

Project 365. Day Two-Eighty-Five? I think?...

Slick, my computer, is sick. And, until he is back to normal I'll probably be blogging from my phone.

Today's Highlights:

1) Dr. D pushing the due date of a big project back to Monday (instead of Friday)
2) ...AND Dr. D cancelled class on Friday which gives me added opportunity to work on my 10,000 projects. This, maybe, might have, possibly caused me to throw my hands up in the air, jump from my desk, and hug my professor in front of the whole class. Joy.Could.Not.Be.Contained.
3) Being in charge of the fireplace for the night bc I am woman, hear me roar etc and so forth.
4) Pretty fall colors and leaves sprinkled from my favorite campus trees--they were like little presents for my rainboots to walk through :)
5) Finding maybe all of my articles for one of my annotated bibliography projects
6) Conputer problems forcing me to "unplug" from life briefly, make use of the campus library, and be appreciative that I a) married an engineer b) have the greatest husband ever c) have a husband who is also hardworking and determined and smart d) all the above

hint: the answer is 'all the above'

ok, keepin da Hubs up! Good night moon!

Project 365. Day Two-Fifty-Five: I Spy...

...With my little eye, a bushy-tailed friend!



Or, as my Dad would say, a "furry tailed tree rat."

This week has been super busy. Sorry for the slack in the blog :(

Today's Highlights:

1) The other day I came home to find that da Hubs had placed the last few stepping stones just how I wanted them. It was such a thoughtful surprise and I've enjoyed skipping across the stones to my car everyday since !:) Don't worry, I'll take a picture :)
2) Colleges Against Cancer meeting
3) Treadmill time
4) Going to bed without having the pressure of trying to finish a paper.
5) Oh, and tomorrow is FRIDAY!

Project 365. Day Two-Fifty-Four: The Appreciation of an Acorn...

The Acorn

An acorn on an oak tree grew,
The wind around him gently blew,
It whispered to him quite softly
'Some day from your mother
You will be free
To grow and be a mighty tree'
'Who'? 'Me'? A mighty oak'?
The little acorn thought this a joke.

Cruel autumn wind whistled round
And knocked the acorn to the ground.
A little girl passing by
The small acorn she did spy
She picked it up but let it fall
Down a nearby rabbit hole.

All winter long it lay inside
Soon it withered and turned dry

In the springtime a shoot of green
From the acorn could be seen.
It grew and grew, as years rolled by
Soon it reached up to the sky.
So it was a tale come true
A mighty oak
From the acorn grew....

Joseph Enright

Project 365. Day Two-Forty-One: The trees I get to say hello to everday on the way to English...

I like this row of trees b/c they seem so artistically placed. And, I get to see them everyday :)

Today's Highlights:

1) Getting to wear my rainboots/ use my bubble umbrella for the first time on campus
2) Getting out of my morning class a whole FORTY-FIVE minutes EARLY! This real college thing is awesome!
3) Tinsley's Thursday w/ da Hubs
4) Tomorrow is FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDAY!

Project 365. Days Two-Fourteen>>Two-Twenty-Three: Back from my Blog-cation...

Well, I wasn't really vacationing, I just wasn't blogging on here for good reason...

1) We've been moving, and are officially in our new place
2) We haven't had the internet
3) We've been exhausted

But! We've got internet now!

It's been an insane few weeks but, we're making the bend now, thankfully.

I'm having trouble uploading pictures right now so, you'll have to settle for just this one of a tree in our front yard. He's way up there, that Piney Wood. He was, however, a highlight on that particular day. Get it? HIGH-light ? Bahahaa! Or should I say, he was a high-LIGHT ? Oye, I kill.

Anywhoot, I think it's important for me, in this time of transition and change, to make sure I appreciate my daily highlights that life is so grateful to give me. ...Pretty sure that's how those, "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books got started afterall...atleast, it's a good assumption.

Welp, as a preliminary to the updating to come, here ye be....

Today's Highlights:

1) Yesterday/today being the first time in, what seems like forever, that Jason and I have had a chance to even remotely relax and not be fixed to a hard-knocks sched. T.V., leisurely waking up around 7:30am, b-fast, and unpacking on our watch. Perfecta!
2) Discovering the good eats in town together
3) Going to CS to spend some time with Brian/Kim/Madeline
4) Dinner w/ the fam
5) Back to the blog!
6) Getting to write da Hubs letters on here again :)

Dum,da,da,dahhhh (that's my trumbucket trumbucketing)!

Dear Husband, I think you're a warrior. No, but serious, you've battled this move with skill and grace. I don't believe I could've survived without your strength and determination but, especially not without your faith that everything would work out. You've always been the man I've needed you to be (yourself, you're wonderful) but lately, you've really stepped up to the plate. I admire you so much, and wish I could adequately express that admiration to you. You are this family's backbone. And, even though I'm sick of boxes, I'd live in one as long as I was with you. Or, we can just make a sweet-awesome fort in the middle of our livingroom out of some instead :) I love you endlessly.