Happy Holidays!

I know, I know it's been a while! It always gets so busy in Nov...Dec. that I don't take the time to sit down and really write anything.

Last week we had "Resiliency Training"...which was a code phrase for let's get some random people on our staff some therapy!! NOT kidding. Some of us were 'chosen' to attend the 'training' but all it was was a therapy session with a woman who was trying to play at being a psychic!! All I can say is, it was weird and she picked on people. I stopped making eye contact and quit participating. It was uncomfortable and sad to listen to another teacher who has been at Burnet for like 20 years talk about how it would hurt her if they close that school and she sat there and made this person say back to her, "It will not hurt me." Over and over!

Her psychic vision for me was that I'm supposed to get my Doctorate. After I had introduced myself and basically only said that I wasn't from here, was from north TX, we were affected by the hurricane because Warren and I were split up and not living in the same place, had to move, yadda yadda...she says so when are you going back to school? I said I already have my Masters. So then she says, no you are supposed to get your Doctorate, it's supposed to be Dr. and Dr. I'm like, I don't think so! I'm not going back to school for that...then it was why not...and she kept coming back to it...

Anyway, she picked on me about it, I didn't like it or her and it made me mad and I have to stop typing about it now because it's making me mad again! Who does she think she is? She doesn't know me!! I've already been through my own "resiliency training" it's called LIFE!!! GRRRR!!

List-o-rama:

1. Warren gets to do Internal Med. in Galveston starting in January!! His two classes after that are schedule for Dallas for now, but his director says it's a possibility that they could open up down here in the area.

2. Grace and Pete have settled into the apt. Grace has the routine down now and Pete is working on it. He had a hard time with it being new territory but he likes the windows and he likes trying to open ANY door or cabinet! I may have to get childproof locks for the cat! ha

3. Keep Aunt Lisa in your thoughts please, her surgery is scheduled for this Thursday. She is having her heart valve replaced.

4. I'm sooo glad I have only 2 days of school left! (I took off to come up for the surgery so I could be there).

5. I dislike unpacking. Who knew I had so much kitchen stuff! I am repacking some things to just store away in the extra closet. Tonight I'm going to try to tackle our closet and get everything hung up.

And...I think that's it for now. School is out :)

Yay, Warren came down on Saturday and we laid around and watched a movie & made some soup. It was nice to relax. On Sunday we went shopping for certain necessities...like a couch...and (Warren is rather insistent) a flat TV. I think I may have to give in on that one. He's been hounding me for it since we got married! But it might be best because I don't know that we'll have bedroom space to hold a dresser-type stand with a TV. SO, we might have an extra TV floating around if anyone needs one...that is if they work.

Ugh, we marathon shopped too. I think we went to like 10 places and some of those were the same place, we just went twice!! We ended up going back to some to re-sit on the couch and then take a photo on our phones to remember what we'd looked at.

BUT long story short, we decided on the couch at RoomsToGo last night and a TV at Sears and we've looked at lots of stuff at Target & Wal-mart & IKEA that I'm not sure if we'll need until we unpack cause I'm not sure what kind of storage stuff we'll need in the apartment. Like an over the toilet type cabinet, or a closet shelf, or another dresser. I've no idea what kind of sheets made it or got tossed (but I did find a Tuesday Morning store last night)...random stuff like that.

Also, I am supposed to be getting our deposit back today from our landlords and we are going to sign the lease on the apartment today after school. Warren has been great getting on the phone to people to turn on electric, set up installations, etc. It has been nice to have him down here to do that stuff. Too bad he goes back and starts Family Med. on Monday! Lol, we had actually had that planned pre-Ike because it puts him in the Dallas area for the holidays already.

I am excited to move in! I'll be glad to sleep on a real matress! And get dressed without worrying about flashing anyone! (Luv u Mark! But tired of the air matress and wearing all the clothes!!).

It will be nice to have Grace and Pete move back in over Thanksgiving too...I miss them!!

1. Our date night turned out to be tickets to an Alanis Morissette concert in Houston!! SO much fun!

2. We got to play with baby tigers that same weekend!! So CUTE!

3. I flew up for Halloween weekend and we carved pumpkins at Wanda's and spent the weekend at Mom's relaxing.

4. We heard from UTMB last weekend and they asked for Warren to rank the cities where he would like to start off starting in January...so his top three are Galveston, Houston, and Dallas. Hopefully he will be able to maybe at least go back and forth between Houston and Galveston.

5. We also heard from our landlords on Saturday and she said they had nailed down a time frame with their contractor and he said it would be next spring. (Duh) So she said she needed to give us our deposit back so that we could find a place to live.

6. All of that spurred us to decide to move into an apartment. So we checked on Mark's apartment complex to see if they had anything open and they did. So I got an apartment this past week.

7. Our new address is: 3045 Marina Bay Drive, Apt. 14109, League City, TX 77573.

8. We get to move in next week! I think she said it will be ready on Wednesday of next week. Woohoo :)

9. I went to Ikea and repurchased our bedroom nightstands (thankyouthankyou to those of you who sent us some $$) and a few other things that I knew we threw out...like a set of curtains and a new floor lamp, etc.

10. I also checked to see if they could replace our two bottom dresser drawers that got damaged and moldy...like if they could order the spare parts or something. BUT they had it all right there in their parts department!! So I walked away with new drawers to put together for the bottom of our dresser!! FREE!! yay :)

& that's it for now because school is over and I've been writing this for like 4 hours now! lol

Date Night!

Yay, tonight is date night! But it's a secret! Warren hasn't told me where or what we are doing! He likes to do that sometimes...I like it, I think it's fun...my only requirement is that I have to know how to dress for the event. :-) It's soo nice to have date night again...I've missed spending time with my hubby!

Tomorrow we are going to come down to Galveston to participate in early voting and then going to stop by Mall of the Mainlaind and play with some baby tigers! I'm excited! (I learned about it from the librarian at Parker, she went earlier this week.) Then we will go sit at a restaraunt somewhere to watch the Texas v. OSU football game! Go Pokes!

Also, I scheduled internet hookup for Mark's apt. for NOV. 4th!!!! It was their earliest appt.!!!!

K, later...gotta get ready for my date! Eek!

Also, another Burnet news article...

http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=94a1a6b9043c8b81 ...all of the teachers in the article are people I work with...Kusnerick is my Kinder team leader.