Hey everyone!  I know it’s been a long time since I posted, so I wanted to do so!  I’ve been back at school for 3 weeks now.  It’s crazy how time flies but it sometimes it still feels like I’ve been here forever.  My mom is in the process of planning our wedding shower.  It’s February 18 at 12:30.  If anyone is interesed, let me know and I’ll get you more details!  Trav and I are both under the weather today and neither of us know  why.  With that said, this post is going to be a short one because I’m off to stare into space until I get off work at 8 and can go stare into space in my room!

I just booked our honeymoon property! It’s oceanfront, and we get it for a whole week.  Here’s the specs:

Here are some pictures of Oreo, our panda bear hamster:

Here’s the stuff I’m trying to juggle at the moment:

• Teaching
• Planning Lessons
• Grading Papers
• Discipline
• Community Involvment
• Industry Involvement
• Internship
• Portfolio
• Observations
• Masters Program
• School Law Class
• Homestead
• Clean house
• Decorate house (not really a priority)
• Vehicle Maintenance
• Becca (which is good, cause I love this part)
• Seeing her at UK
• Hanging with her on the weekend
• Getting married
• Planning the honeymoon 

I’m not complaining. It just helps to write it out sometimes. I know I can do it. Life is actually falling into place, just where I want it.  Time to put my head down and plow through this like there’s no tomorrow.

I really like you.

Here are pictures of Becca’s wedding dress (Click on them for a larger view):

I am ashamed to call myself a man…If you recall,  I had a little trouble getting the shelf put together by myself.  Beck so graceously agreed to help me…and she did.  A little estrogen and some anger (directed at yours truly) provided the fuel to literally beat the shelf together. If someone would have heard the rubber mallet beating the posts into submission, they would have sworn there was a torture chamber somewhere around. 

In all fairness, Becca did have the rubber mallet. I was using a regular hammer.  But still, it was amazing to watch.

For those of you who don’t know, I work at Citizen’s Bank and Trust Co. in Jackson (where Trav now lives and works).  The bank is a pretty good place to work, especially through college, as they work around my schedule and I pretty much work when I can/want to.  But, on days like today, I wish I worked somewhere that money was not involved.  With Sunday being the 1st, today was a very busy day!  It’s hectic around here at the end of the year anyway, and when you throw in a holiday, a 1st of the month and a Friday…It’s Craziness!  This is the first real "break" I’ve taken all day and I have been working 9 1/2 hours!  My time will soon be pulled though, so I must go get caught up on the last few minutes work so that I do not have to work even later than usual!  Happy New Year to All!

Normally, I try to be a little more articulate when I post about the comings and goings in life in my little space. Today, though, I need to vent. I bought this wonderful industrial shelf at Lowes yesterday in an effort to get my office organized. I set forth putting it together at around 2 p.m. It’s now 11:23p.m and the shelf remains unfinished.

Why?  Because the design is stupid! Yes, that’s right, stupid!  Assembly requires that you "tap" galvanized steel connectors into  little slits in order to make one long beam out of two shorter ones. Tapping on a galvanized connector with a hammer and then tapping the second beam onto the other side of the connector is an extremely difficult process. Because of my clumsiness and inability to hold things straight, the connectors are horribly bent. I managed to get three of the four posts connected, but the last post  is mangled, I’m afraid, beyond repair!  I only hope that Dad can resurrect my mess, since I need (and really like) the shelf!