Agradecido.

Can you believe it’s that time of year already? I’m off for the rest of the week after today, so this’ll be it until Monday. Jenn and I are spending Turkey Day at Aunt Martha’s house, then we’re going with my mom down to the Hill Country, and Jenn’s going to meet Mom’s side of the family for the first time ever. Very exciting!

As we take the time to celebrate this wonderful holiday full of family, friends, and the best food in the universe, don’t forget to count your blessings and be thankful for what you have in your life. In these turbulent times, it’s more important than ever to remember that while there’s a lot we don’t have, there’s plenty more that we DO have.

I am thankful for the Heavenly Father above, and his son who was sent to die for our sins, both of whom I would be completely lost without.

I am thankful for my beautiful and amazing fiance, who I’ll be marrying in just a little over six months and spending the rest of my life with.

I am thankful for my awesome parents, who have been there for me more times than I can count.

I am thankful for my excellent friends, who bring so much laughter into my life.

I am thankful for my job, which allows me to earn the money I need to pay my bills.

I am thankful for my college education, which I will be completing in the Spring so I can earn MORE than the money I need to pay my bills. 🙂

I am thankful for you, friend. Thank you for reading my quaint little ol’ blog whenever you get a chance. I’m not exactly bringing in massive amounts of traffic here, but I know I have a dedicated few who enjoy reading my blog as much as y’all can. And that’s all I need.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, my dear friends. I hope you are able to enjoy it as much as I will. And when it’s over with, let’s all celebrate that magical time of year where we dust off the Christmas albums and listen to them until our ears bleed. Ha!

So what are you up to this week? Travel plans? Eating plans? Sleeping plans?

Sink-oh day My-oh.

Well, hi there.

Sorry I haven’t blogged the past couple days. Friday was the proverbial pits. Spent the entire day in the foreign language labs working on the ancient Windows 98 machines, making sure they were all ready for the AP Spanish Testing that is going on today (which I’m supervising right now, in case tech support is needed). There were numerous epic failures to deal with, but we got just about all of them up and running for today. I’m watching the kids start their testing right now, and so far things seem to be running smoothly. They have to listen to some dude yak at them in Spanish via a recording on the master console, then answer some multiple choice questions. Later on, there’s a conversation portion where they have to talk to a pre-recorded person using their headsets. The fun part will be having them save the mp3 files and turn them in, so I can burn them to CD to be graded. Hopefully they’ll be able to save them across the network properly!

Anyway, other than this wackiness, things are going okay. Jenn and I spent the entire weekend painting the living room and hallway of her house. Misty, Colin, and Jenn’s mom all helped us out on Saturday, which was really cool. Jenn and I really got to have a lot of bonding time this weekend while working, which made everything so much more fun. 🙂 I’ll have pics from the painting experience up soon as I can.

I had yesterday off for Cinco (Cuatro) de Mayo, which was really nice. Got to sleep in a little late, and I went up to Jenn’s school to see her and her crazy kids in the afternoon. We even got to have a Subway date before I had to go to UTA, which was awesome. I love when we’re able to eat dinner together during the week. It helps both of us feel so much better when we’re able to do that.

This week is dead week at UTA. Finals are next week, so it’s the calm before the storm. I’m praying that I pull through all my courses okay. I’m feeling pretty confident about them all, so hopefully everything will work out.

Oh, and we’re going to see Star Trek on Friday at Studio Movie Grill. Woo-Hoo!

No Photo Booth Shot of the Day for today, since I’m not using the iMac in my office today. So instead, here’s a picture of Captain Kirk after eating too many tamales:

I NEED PEPTO NOW!!!

3.5 Day Weekend.

Off today for President’s Day. I think Arlington ISD is the only district that still takes this day off. It’s weird to be off while Jenn has to work. 😦

Sitting in doctor’s office about to get blood drawn. Gotta have it done every so often to check my systemz and make sure my BP med isn’t jackin’ me up. Wheeee.

Still have class tonight. Bleh. At least I don’t have to wear work clothes like I usually do.