Once again...

Papercuts. Those are the battlescars of a file clerk. Once again I trudge into the file room at dad's office to make a little dough for next semester's books, gasoline, and the like. I find myself sneezing more, yearning for chapstick and hand lotion, and guzzling more water. The exciting job for today was re-ordering and numbering by hand 359 pages of medical records. Glorious!

In other news, Christmas was a success! We (Mom, Dad, Mich, Jeremy, and me) had fun cooking, opening presents, eating, playing Settlers (which I won by the way) and Sequence, and dancing our lives away on a borrowed DDR game. I especially loved watching my dad get into the moves. Maybe Michelle will post pictures.

Tomorrow, Mom and I are going to pick up my wedding gown-YIKES! I'm going to be a bride! I'm taking the day off, because Dad is not going to the office downtown, and because Austin is coming back Friday night, I will not have had one day with my mom to myself. It will be a great giggling time. Too bad Michelle has to work :(

Last Christmases at Home

It is going to be my last Christmas Season at home this year, and then on to married life. This past weekend, Austin and I along with Gabe and Libby traveled to meet a crew of friends in Milwaukee, WI for Shannon and Josh's wedding. I wish I could post some pictures, but I left the cord to connect my camera to the computer at school. Shannon looked so beautiful, and Josh sang and played to her as she walked down the isle, but he couldn't completely make it through the whole song. We could all tell they were so thankful to finally be marrying one another. Behind them, a beautiful scene displayed through a gazebo of windows of snow gently falling onto everything already blanketed in white. Their reception was wonderful, too.

But all that beatiful snow made it difficult to get to Indiana, where we stayed at Libby's parent's house until we could make it out of first, their driveway, and then their country road. Austin and I then drove the cleared turnpike back home, and came upon the tail end of the snow as we entered Cleveland. It's so nice to have snow here at Christmastime. The last two Christmases have been green, and finally we have another white Christmas.

So today, I have driven Austin to the airport, and he is in the air as I write this, headed to SC for his last Christmas as a single man.

I think that I am starting to feel the growing up period approaching, or maybe it has already begun. But, I know that wherever Austin and I land in the future, we will be together, learning all about how to cleave to each other (do you like that word?) It's a strange time, all this leaving and cleaving business, because it leaves people feeling sad that change is happening, and it leaves me confused, trying to figure out how I need to love all those around me.

I know that time will help me to figure it all out, and the Lord is going to teach me a lot!

Finito!

Classes are done... now some studying commenses. Only three days of finals left, and I will officially be a senior in the nursing program.