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I live in Los Alamos, New Mexico with my husband, daughter and two dogs (and whichever mice are currently living under the house). I like to spend time with my daughter, knit, bike, run, and tear my house apart, but not all at once.
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My anatomy class ended on more of a whimper than I had hoped. Several things happened at once this week which all lead to me not studying as much as I probably could have for the final exam. One, Neale stayed late at work a few times, Ginnie was in tantrum mode, and I just got to the end of my rope with giving a care about the class. Oh well, I still got a high B on the last test, and a very solid A average in the class. I'm happy. As Neale said, I didn't study any more than I needed to. That is certainly a difference between the student I am now and the student I was before Ginnie came along. I can be happy with my scores in the class, because they were plenty good enough, although not perfect, and I got to spend time with Ginnie still.
We've been approached to host an exchange student this fall. I've been testing the waters with friends and family and the response is completely positive, which is encouraging, because this was a little unplanned. Now we're looking forward to it, and I'm happy that we can put our scads of living space upstairs to good use. We actually have everything we need for the student - bed (with a new mattress no less), desk, lighting, and the only thing was a dresser. Since we never actually bought a new dresser for Ginnie when we got her bed a couple of years ago, I went into CB Fox and got a great deal on a six drawer dresser. They were running a 20% off sale, and threw in another 10% off for a "scratch", which basically got me a larger dresser for just a little more than what a three drawer dresser would have been. Neat! It's the low kind of dresser that can take a mirror on top, to turn into kind of a vanity for her for when she's into the vanity thing. So now the cute little dresser that was a hand-me-down from the Robinsons will belong to the exchange student while she's here. We just need to finish cleaning out the bedroom upstairs of stupid odds and ends we should have gotten rid of a long time ago. We're giving her the north bedroom upstairs, with the twin daybed and the desk, and we'll still have the south bedroom with the queen-sized bed for guests, not to mention the pullout downstairs.
So after that little errand for the dresser we ran around town taking pictures to send to the student, and then ran home and got the application and pictures together for the exchange program. Did I mention we started teaching our bike class today? I think I'm the queen of multitasking. Ginnie got to spend what sounded like a fun evening with the babysitter tonight. That's good, because I really haven't been able to do much fun stuff with her this week.
Happy early birthday to Neale and now I'm totally wiped out. More bike class tomorrow, which don't get me wrong, is pretty fun. And then Neale's off to Las Vegas (maybe), and then when he gets back we're off to Denver for a few days, and then home in time for our student to arrive. Oh well, you can't say we don't live life to the fullest. I guess we could try skydiving.