Good Bye October

I can't believe October is nearly gone. It went pretty fast.

What I really can't believe is what comes next... November! AHHHH!!! Run and hide!

I start November off with a wonderful Saturday of CSET testing. Followed directly by moving into a new apartment ("followed by," if not accomplished simultaneously). About 10 days in, I start graduate school at APU. On day 14 we have a friend visiting from India. He'll be here for about one week. His stay also includes corrdinating his luncheon at NewSong Church on the 16th. About a week after he leaves, Thanksgiving rolls around the corner and right into my lap. I lovingly and gladly volunteered to host Thanksgiving at our new apartment, which includes hosting(and cooking for) my brother, sister, father, and Aaron's father and mother.

These are all things I'm excited about, but it's slightly daunting knowing that all of these boulders are rolling toward me at once. None of them can I pick up and throw back up the hill.

Better yet, I have cold.

Good bye October... hold on November! Wait for me!!!

Used Furniture Rocks

I spent most of today buying and selling furniture. It's really quite exciting knowing that I've just furnished my second room/office for about $130 (this includes 4 pieces of furniture - 3 piece[chair] couch, a huge bookshelf, a coffee table, a new printer stand)! How amazing! All I have left for the office is our desks which each cost $180 (new) and some accessories. Still pretty good!

I've also gotten rid of two TVs! I also have a butterfly chair, cd rack, 2 lap trays, and a side table/printer or tv stand up for sale. Let's hope someone grabs.

New best friends: Craigslist & Freecycle

and PS if anyone sees a candelabra for an amazing price or FREE, definitely let me know!

Christmas/Birthday List... so far

For the sake of... well... my husband (by his request) I've started to compile a "Christmas/Birthday List"

so far... (which isn't very far)

• a pair of Tom's shoes, like this or this in size 6.5
• a magazine subscription to Real Simple (I have a great coupon for it too)
• Ticket to Ride board game
• Wicked The Grimmerie: a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hit Broadway Musical (hardcover)

I'm sure there will be more to add later. After all, it's only October.

An Oregonian at Heart?

Aaron and I went to Oregon last week... and it was AWESOME. I really like it up there. I discovered that I can't handle the streets in downtown because they're too crammed and busy, but other than that I felt like I fit in. It's weird to say because I never really admit this aloud, but I think I feel most comfortable with the artsy-hippy crowd that exists in Portland. Not to mention that Powell's - the best book store ever - also exists in Portland, and I can definitely handle that! 3 stories high, one city block large, new and used books on the same shelves... c'mon! An amazing bookstore and constant reading weather (foggy chill), what wouldn't I totally love about being in this city (except for the driving, we already established that).

It should however be noted that I do turn into ultra-nerd in Oregon. We went on this amazing hike (behind waterfalls and all!) and I was totally content taking photos of mushrooms. Uh huh, mushrooms. I intend to post the pictures for my very-large(hardly existent) fan base here soon. Some of them turned out to be pretty cool.

The last day we were in Portland we went to this cute cafe called "Sound Grounds." The coffee was great, they had art on the wall (good art too, not corporate reprints of crappy patterns mixed up and called art), and they sold vynals on the side. Uh... yeah...

The houses there are even cute. I mean it's all that slightly old architecture that looks like it's transitioning out of the victorian style, but is way cute. I'd love to own a house like that. I can picture myself growing old in a house on a cute little, tree-laiden street. That's after I have kids playing under the large oak tree and building forts in the backyard, of course.

Oh Portland of my heart...

News Flash

...I need a new place to live and a new place to work...

Book Club

I think it'd be cool to start a book club. I think a dinner book club would be cool. I like to host people so I wouldn't mind hosting it (at least a few times). And I think it's cool to be building common group based on books. ...because I like books.

It'd be cool to do a book per month for one year - meeting once a month. All year we can have a theme - like Coming of Age, Strong Women Leads, Love Stories, Memoirs . Or we could pull books off some list (like the Pulitzer Prize winners).

Just a thought... maybe I'll act on it someday!

Toms Shoes

So... at work I called a girl to tell her about TeachOverseas... instead she totally sold me on her company!

Check this out! www.tomsshoes.com For every pair of shoes you buy, they give a pair of shoes to a poor child in another country who cannot afford shoes. They're super cute shoes too! So, for Christmas or my birthday... I want a pair!