Finished Fall Semester!

I survived fall semester! I know it doesn't sound like that large of an accomplishment, it being my sixth finished semester and all, it's nothing new. But really, I survived. In order to graduate in May and do an internship over the summer I needed to take 19 credits this semester. Yes, you read that right 19, but there is more. I needed my CPR/AED certification redone which put me at a good ol' 20 credits. Two of these are during interim that will be added into my GPA, but I still had 18 credits - 6 classes. Wonderful. I have no idea how this arrangement happened seeing as how I have 15 credits next semester and for 3 classes waived, but counting pre-reqs it came out that way. It made for a lot of time spent in Oshkosh (remember me ranting about Wednesday's 8:00AM to 9:00PM - not good!), but it's all over. TitanWeb told me today that 3 credits still need to be graded and submitted but I'm sitting with a 3.66 (darn B) keeping me in Cum Laude range for May graduation! The end is near!

Now, I was very happy about finishing the semester and finals, but I didn't get much of a break as I needed to take my GRE Wednesday (today). This put me on the couch reading that big purple book and studying the "GRE's 500 Hardest Words" until last night when I gave up and took a break with friends. This test, unlike others gives your scores back immediately and I have to say I'm ok with them. I'm well above what the grad school's I'm looking at want and I'm not confident if I tried again I would do significantly better so I'll stick with where I am.

So NOW I am officially done, besides work, until January 3rd. January 3rd will start a chaotic schedule of opening the school's fitness center at 6:00 for a few hours, taking a morning class, working, taking an afternoon class, and studying for the first week, then they all go online so I should get a bit more of a break. I'll take it - it's WAY better than 18 credits.

These next two weeks I'll be in and out of work, but we're going to take some time to celebrate the holidays and hopefully get outside in the snow! Last night we finally got some packy snow so we're going to try and build Brode's first snowman tonight! Our Christmas celebrations will start Friday night and go straight until Sunday night. We'll be lucky to get any sleep and poor Brode won't even have time to get all of his new toys out.

I cannot wait to see his face when he opens his presents. He is a little hesitant about Santa coming into our house, but excited too. The holidays seem much more exciting with a little kid in the house! I'm ready to get it all started! The week after Christmas I'm sure we'll be busy seeing all of our friends in town and playing with all the new fun stuff!

Everyone have a great holiday! I'll try and post over break as much as possible because we'll probably do a lot and get some fun pictures, but if Brode is as excited as I am about his presents we may never get a break!

Merry Christmas to All!