Okay, now that my class is finished, I can start in on Christmas for real.

Tree? Check
Stockings, hung with care? Check
Wreath on front door? Check
Garland on banister? Check
Gingerbread house? Check

And all of the various other decorations are now in place. I should go shopping so I can put some presents under the tree, but I really don't have that much to buy this year. I almost feel like I should put out some fake wrapped boxes, just...

All in all, 2007 has been a good year for me. Family, friends work, school, health (for the most part) has all been really stable.

Even my dad, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma earlier this year, is doing incredibly well. He's really, really tired, but hasn't been sick or anything from the chemo and he managed to keep his hair. The tumor around his aorta had shrunk by 75% at the last checkup and what remained was full of holes. So there, cancer!
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I rarely forward emails, because I'm always pretty sure that it is something that the whole world has already seen by the time my mom sends it to me. (I'm still puzzling how my whole family had seen that J.C. Penny's catalog email and nobody sent it to me once, let alone 16 times, from each individual person!)

Anyway, I got this link from a friend and it goes to a personality test I've never seen before, so I thought I'd share it here. It's visual, and I kind of liked that. ...

For those of you following along at home, I finally got in touch with my presentation partner, and after figuring out our communication problem, we got the max points on our project!

I had sent away for a DVD to use, and paid extra for overnight shipping, and 15 minutes before I was walking out the door to leave for school, it magically appeared on my patio. Thanks UPS man! Then I went to school to get set up, only to discover another class in our room. Once we got that straightened...

We have to do this big presentation in my class. Mine is Tuesday. I was working by myself and then someone came into class the second week and got assigned to be my partner. I don't want a partner!

Okay, so then I have this lady, and she is all high-strung and teaching full time and getting her credential and taking 3 classes. She's a nightmare, honestly! So we've been talking about the project and now we're down to the last few days, right? On Tuesday...