Happy Halloween (for real)!

Happy Halloween!!  All-in-all I think we had a successful party.  Still cleaning up the feathers!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is Monday!  I will be spending my Monday locked away in the confines of "the dungeon" (the clinic...no cell service, no windows, and hardly any heat) and class.  I won't even be home for the trick-or-treaters, which I'm slightly happy about.  This way I don't have to buy so much candy and then give it to the 16 year old "vampires" with pillow cases that show up at my door.  We are celebrating tomorrow night with a party at my house.  Should be a good time.  The boy and I are dressing as Colonel Sanders and a Chicken.  I finished up my chicken costume last night. Don't worry, there will be plenty of pictures! Right now I am a little stressed by all that goes into hosting a party: cleaning, cooking, decorating.  I really am too anal for throwing parties but I'm still pretty excited about it! Gotta head to Sam's Club and Walmart for some last minute food and drinks now!

Hmph.

So, I haven't really been inspired to write anything lately.  Not because nothing has happened but because I haven't really had time to think it out.  I like to write most blogs in my head first but this one is spontaneous! Don't get too excited.

I like lists.  So here are some.

Things I am excited about: (listed in chronological order, of course)

• Anthony's phone interview with UK (1st step in the possibility of him living in the same city as me for the first time in our four years!) 
• Sleeping with my Tinker on Thursday night
• Going to Keeneland
• Seeing my parents
• Going bra shopping (don't know if this is something you brag about at my age, since it mainly means that you have gained weight, but I need a bigger bra!)
• Halloween party!!
• Surprise Bridal shower (planning still in the works) for one happy bride
• Thanksgiving break (seeing my Saster!)
• Making everyone their Pinterest inspired Christmas gifts! haha
• There is a lot more but I'm gonna stop with the first week of Dec.  Decemeber could have a list of exciting things on it's own (and I'll probably blog about that when I have nothing better to do).

Things that I am worried about:

• Finishing my Lit review for research without having to pull an all-nighter tomorrow.
• Having to turn the heat on, and leave it on, until like March. Yuck.
• Cleaning my house sufficiently enough to impress the in-laws who are visiting this week (not actually worried about this, but I still don't really want to do it)
• Figuring out what to wear to Keeneland this weekend, might be kinda chilly. 
• Saster's dog 'Cakes has a torn ligament in her leg and they are facing another expensive surgery and possible long recovery.  Bless their hearts. I want to hug them, but my arms won't reach to Florida :(
• Voice exam about crazy voice things

I am very thankful that my excited list is much longer than my worried list. And the worried list contains very few serious things.

Life is exciting. and exhausting. and good. :)

Just Take a Deep Breath

Oh Grad School.

I have been so busy and a tad stressed to say the least.  After a weekend full of studying (all alone, I'm really not used to not having company on the weekends) and a little bit of crafting (thanks again Pinterest, I am completely obsessed)  I got to spend 11 hours at school plus 4 more hours studying on Monday and 9 more hours at school today.  2 midterms, back to back, along with the routine other things (that I haven't quite finished yet).  Here I go complaining again, but I have already admitted that complaining is a part of who I am, so what do you expect?  So through all of the stresses of grad school there are so many times that I have literally instructed myself to "just breathe." Stop thinking about everything that I should be doing and take a deep breath.  It seems to help. At least for that moment in time I can clear my mind.  But for tonight after the longest two days that I can remember, I am doing nothing. Went and had Mexican and margaritas after out test,  P.J.s on by 9:30, under the covers, and TV.  School can resume tomorrow at 9am but I am unavailable until then.

Enjoy everything.

It is much too late, I will likely be mad at myself tomorrow for staying up to do this, but I have been mentally writing this blog for about a day and half and I would really like to get it out. 

I had a really nice weekend at home.  Nothing remarkably wonderful happened, I didn't even have real plans. It was just nice.  It even started off rocky with a less than desirable trip to the O (apparently their pizza really dislikes me these days).  More and more I have begun to realize that it doesn't take much for life to be good: just enjoy everything.  Easier said than done, I know, but I really feel like I did that this weekend.

We had a safe trip home,  we stopped for gas 30mins from home and it was cold and breezy, really felt like Fall.  And, for once, the thought of Fall didn't seem so bad.  I enjoyed that.

After dropping Anthony off at home and visiting with his pony of a dog, Willie, I came home to my mother talking on the phone to Beth.  She had me say hello, and that turned into a 30minute conversation.  I enjoyed that, it made me really miss her, but I enjoyed that.

I was sick as a dog in the Oasis bathroom (TMI, maybe?) any my Momma was there to nurse me.  She fanned me with my sweater and brought me a cold rag (toilet paper).  After the fact we were kind of able to laugh about the whole situation, and believe it or not, I enjoyed that.

Saturday we had brunch (which, I enjoyed of course) and headed to Walmart.  I hate Walmart.  I spent the rest of the afternoon working on a Halloween wreath that I was dying to make thanks to Pinterest, which by the way I am totally obsessed with right now. I really enjoyed that and  I think it turned out super cute.

What do you think?

I did a little bit of reading while Mom and Dad worked on dinner and a random football game was on TV.  We had an excellent dinner with some excellent wine then we headed for the couch.  Mom, Tink, and I snoozed while Dad talked to Granny on the phone.  It was simple and warm, and I enjoyed that.

I drove home to Lexington with the boy on a beautiful sunny Sunday after lunch with his parents.  We talked.  My friend Sarah came to stay with me for the night because she needed to be in Richmond early tomorrow morning.  I hadn't seen her since the middle of August.  We went to Kroger and I basically went about my Sunday evening routine, but I had good company.  We talked. A lot. (I talked a lot).  I enjoyed it.

So I know you get the point, I enjoyed this weekend.  But I think I am impressed, maybe even elated. This weekend I just able to enjoy living and all that it entails.  Despite everything that is going on with school and what-not (and despite that fact that I did little to no homework, which might make this coming week kind of bad) I just enjoyed life.   Maybe it's this time of year, thinking about the holidays, and family, and being home.  But I really hope it doesn't stop here.