Frustrated...

OK, after spending a good portion of the day doing some research for the last paper I have due this past semester and running into wall after wall and coming to terms with the fact that I am going to have to go into the city for some further research I put on the Cowboys v. Eagles game and we are getting spanked! It is just not going to be my day!

I just wanted to vent. I hope everybody else is having a peaceful and wonderful Sunday! I am looking forward to the new year and beginning school again! I am up for the challenge of being more organized with my time. I also have a much better idea of what is going to be expected of me and I can't wait to have the opportunity to really dig in!

I guess I am also a little frustrated because I know that anything even remotely cool is not going to work out for new year's eve. :( I was really wanting to do something great (as always) but John is going to be working new year's eve and then he will be beginning his new job on the second so he doesn't want to stay out all night either. Oh well there's always next year...right? I feel like I am always stuck saying that. Anyway enough with the pity party and my crazy stream of consciousness writing. I am overall happy with the way things are going in our life right now, just a bad day with enough time to complain about it! Our love goes out to all our friends and family!

The Holidays

So Christmas was pretty uneventful, but nice. We slept in, had a nice breakfast, took a nap, and then went to see some movies. We saw Doubt and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Both were really amazing films. They really made us think about out priorities and the new year to come. I highly suggest that everyone go see them! Well back to internship applications and paper writing. But I just wanted to say hi. We are looking forward to the new year and a visit first from John's cousin Michael, then my little sister Laura, and last my cousin Bobby! Good times to come! We miss everyone and love everyone and hope that we will be able to see all out friends and family soon!

SO SO SO LONG

Hey Friends and Family!

I am so sorry it has been so long since I have had a chance to write! Since the end of October my life has been a whirlwind. Our dear friends Rob and Liz came to visit for Halloween and on that trip we met our other great Oxford friends Hayley and her husband Aaron in the city and spent the night at Hayley's aunts apartment. It was a blast! Then November was the beginning of my real crunch time! I had so many presentations, papers, and reading that pretty much consumed every second! It was horrible and then John was working two jobs for us and so he was working almost 70 hours a week and we really didn't see much of each other.

Me and Our Friends in Central Park.

I gave my last presentation on Monday December 15th and then went straight from class to pick my mommy up from the airport and we had another whirlwind of a time going into the city and experiencing the first major snows of the season! Ha ha it was really fun though. She just left yesterday and I already miss her a lot! But things will be fine. John's mom is coming tomorrow and then Laura is going to be down Jan. 13-19 and in the mean while John's cousin Michael and my cousin Bobby are going to be up here so we will be in and out of the city visiting them as well!

Me and Mom in Bryant Park!

Mom and Matt!

I still have one paper to finish editing up between today and tomorrow and then one more paper to finish that is due January 15th. But I am out of school and so happy! I got my first grade in for the semester and it was an A!!! I know it was a miracle. And John just got a new job! It is in marketing and he will be specifically working with non-profits. He is really excited he will be working a normal 40 hours a week and will be making about twice as much (hourly) for his time. It is a big relief because the amount of time he was working was really beginning to get him down.

Mom insisting on taking picture of John and I!

We really feel like things are beginning to fall into place for us up here. Finally! Haha not it has not been miserable it has just been a big adjustment. But we are happy and are looking forward to the coming year. Wow just thinking about it by the end of next year I will only have a semester to go! My goals for the year include beginning to go to conferences, getting a few good internships, moving into the city, studying for my comps, and beginning to get some ground work laid for my thesis. John also hope to begin working and accelling at his job, and of course moving into the city with me!

30 Rock.