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K so I have more comments that are a bit more upbeat than the one I just wrote below, so I wanted to keep it separate.

I love saving money. Seriously. I'm super frugal. So when I find ways that we been able to do fun things for free or when we save on groceries, I'm super pumped. Which is why I was pumped a little bit ago when Jake and I were making the meal list for the rest of this week.

Just planned out what we are going to have for Tuesday through Friday, and we already have all of the ingredients for the full meals (so no grocery shopping- yay!). Also, the only thing we will have paid for ourselves for all of those meals will be the meatballs for our spaghetti and meatballs. Is that not stinking amazing?! 4 meals will cost us about $1.

Can't beat that with a spoon.

Overwhelmed

Can you tell I'm overwhelmed with all the stuff I have to do? On top of my schoolwork, there are loads of dishes that need cleaned and a bunch of laundry that needs done. I wanted to wait a couple of days to post my update to my checklist because then I would have a couple big things to cross off my list, but decided I should be faithful to my Monday post, so here it is. (You will notice that there were again a couple of things I had forgotten to put on here last week.)

2 site visits

4 little papers (1 page each)

1 medium paper (6 pages)

1 major paper (10 pages)

2 presentations

2 finals

816 pages to read

I just realized one good thing though. Next Monday I should have a drastic change to my list. That is going to feel amazing.

Checklist

Skipped class tonight. I was WAY too fidgety after being in the library for around 6 hours today. I need an exercise ball for easy access. I've been doing laps around the apartment when I get fidgety, which helps, but I'm sure the neighbors don't appreciate me smacking each wall when I pass them.

Ok, sorry, but this is going to be another checklist of things I have left to do. It turns out I had more pages to read than I thought. I have read about 150 pages since my last post, and I currently have more than what I initially said I had left. Here's my list.

4 little papers (1 page each)

2 major papers (10+ pages each)

2 presentations

2 finals

918 pages to read

The reading doesn't include any reading that I will be doing this week for my doctrinal synopsis paper (which will likely be around 225 pages) and my research paper for grief and loss (likely 250 pages).

My predicted favorite of all my reading: reading for my grief and loss research paper. I'm writing my paper on children who have lost a primary caregiver. Fascinating stuff- and will be extremely practical for my future career (which I hope I find at some point).

To-do and to-done. Sort of.

I got to cross a couple of things off my homework list today and yesterday, which was exciting. I've also done the dishes this morning, and plan to vacuum and clean the bathroom soon. This place is gonna be lookin' spotless by the time Jase and Rachel get here! Hopefully it will still be spotless when we have people over for our football party on Sunday (which I'm actually super pumped about). Hopefully it will then stay spotless for the friend we have coming over on Wednesday of next week. And then also spotless for when Jase and Rachel pass through on their way back. What do you think my odds are of that happening?

I also got offered a part-time, temporary job out of the blue.

Seriously. A friend of mine who is an international student at DS offered to pay me to help her study for comps. She must think I'm smart or something. Boy do I have her fooled! :) Anyway, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to help her. I obviously can't tell her anything that was on the test when I took it, but if I just help her learn the things she wants, I should be in the clear. That means I need to stay up on things like research design, Freud's psychosexual stages, Helms' white racial identity development model, and many, many more. Let's hope I can do it and that I can be helpful to her! We'll probably study January and February, and then hopefully she'll pass!

So close.

I'm getting nervous and excited to be done with seminary. I only have 3 more weeks of classes and 1 week of finals left. Here's what I have left:

5 little papers (around 1 page each)

3 major papers (of 10+ pages in length)

2 presentations

2 finals

850 pages to read

I'm not kidding on the reading. Gross, isn't it? I'm so close, yet SO far away. I think I'm going to start doing a countdown each week of what I have left. It's not for you- it's mostly for me. I REALLY like checklists. You can ask Jake if you don't believe me. I have a weekly checklist of the homework that I need to do- mostly because I like to cross things out.

I should probably get back to my homework now. Boo. I've been reading all morning long and I'm sick of sitting on my butt. I'm gonna go work out soon- hopefully that will help me focus!

Coupla things

I ate vegetables for breakfast this morning. Last night for dinner we made cauliflower mashed potatoes (very good by the way!). It's like I'm trying to be healthy or something.

A few hours ago I remembered a story from when I was younger that made me laugh. One time after one of my softball tournaments, my brother and I were sitting in the car waiting for one of my parents to drive us home. I was sitting in the passenger seat, and my brother was in the back.

So we were sitting in the parking lot, when all of a sudden I felt like the car was moving forward. I freaked out because I didn't know how to drive and thus didn't know how to stop the car. I was screaming and banging on the dashboard trying to ask my brother for help, but he wasn't being helpful.

Then I realized that our car wasn't moving forward- the car next to us was backing out.

Whoops.

Rambling

Jake and I are watching the Cowboys game right now. Well, I'm kind of in-and-out of the game. I'm currently doing laundry, during halftime I got bored and did the dishes (weird, huh?), and recently I've been cleaning part of the bathroom and dusting. Jake came in and found me when I was cleaning the bathroom and was confused as to why I wasn't watching the game with him.

It's cuz he gets intense (example: as I type, Jake just hit our mostly dead couch in frustration). I already have a rather large competitive side in me in regards to sports, and hearing Jake yell and get frustrated just makes it worse. So I decided to continue cleaning after halftime. Jake told me he'd be better, but I know better than that. I get the same way watching extremely important Cardinals games too. (new example: very good play, Jake jumps up and screams) Let's just hope that they win in the end. Otherwise it will be a very sad night.

In other news, we went to the Denver zoo again today since it was another free day. I love the zoo. I especially love the penguins. Can you imagine what life would be like if our arms were useless when we walked? I'm pretty sure we'd waddle too. It's very amusing.

Lastly, I should totally be studying for my theology midterm. I'm just struggling with "senioritis." I have one month and 8 days before I'm (hopefully) done. I just need to pass my classes this semester (and get all of the hours for my internship which is getting increasingly nerve-racking) and then I'm good to go. I care about what I'm learning, I just know that some little details I'm not ever going to remember and therefore I don't care to study them. Let's just hope I pass the midterm, cuz I should have started studying yesterday but I didn't. And I didn't today. The zoo and football were just way more fun.

The end. Hope you enjoyed the ramblings of my mind.

"I am them."

Absolutely hilarious. And fantastic.