Things I am thankful for...

-My happy and affectionate bunnies
-An apartment I come home to without worrying or stressing out before coming home
-My fantastic boyfriend, who treats me like a queen, is very handsome, and is a wonderful person.
-My time management skills, that have helped me do all my homework and projects, usually ahead of time.
-My job, even though I work too many days a week, I love teaching, I love my bosses, I love the people I have met through it.
-The friends I have become closer to in my art classes.
-The now free time Jeff and I will have =)
-That the majority of my projects are done
-My brother being at the same school

My Sistine Chapel

I have 3 fabric projects, 2 photo portfolios- with 10 photos each and mats for them, one 6 page paper, one 14 page paper, and 2 paintings. I am tired of standing, my back hurts, my eyes hurt, my head hurts, my feet hurt... it all hurts, I have reached a point where I am so used to being tired and not resting I feel fine. Once I get through the next maybe 3 or 4 days and finish it all its smooth sailing for the rest of the semester. I have been going non stop since 8 am Friday morning...I am a champ. Go me go!

favorite Jeff moments

I decided to choose my top 10 favorite moments with my lovely Jeff. They are not in any order

1. First time we said I love you.
2. This summer, his birthday I went down to see him in Burnet
3. When he asked me out to dinner almost two years ago
4. French fries and lemonade on the boardwalk for breakfast.
5. When he let me decide we were Burt and Mary Poppins for Halloween
6. Hanging out in Ocean City on the beach
7. Watching Lord of the Rings at Ben and Ryans
8. When he brought me Jimmy Johns for dinner when I was super starving
9. Colbie Caillat concert
10. Every time he trys to dance with me in the kitchen

Okay maybe not my very top ten, because I am tried but 10 very great moments.

Classic Mashnouk Foods

My mom grew up eating certain foods that seem in my head to be strictly Mashnouk. Some examples of classic Mashnouk foods would be: cheese toast, farina, cinnamon toast, peas and macaroni, broccoli and macaroni, pasta fagioli, rice soup, and pita bread sandwiches. I used to not be so crazy about any of them, but now macaroni and broccoli is a becoming a favorite of mine. And farina is a great breakfast on a cold day.
Thanks Mashnouks.

It's pretty humbling...

doing the same project over 4 times. it wasn't even a real project, just a stupid technical project. Thankfully I wasn't the only one who kept messing up, a lot of people's film was acting up. I am debating on not even counting up the number of hours that equaled to nothing...But here it goes, 1 hour Friday, 5 hours Saturday, and 3 hours today...all to do one project over and over. And my other project that the same teacher assigned for the same class...as if we have nothing to do but photos, also did not come out so another 2 hours on Saturday wasted. I feel like I went backwards in time this weekend because Nothing was accomplished Saturday.

Sneak Date

Jeff and I have both been very very busy, which is sort of nice since neither one of us is always free and asking to hang out. We are just both busy so we hang out when we can. We sort of snuck in a dinner date tonight. It was short but sweet. Jeff ordered Jimmy Johns to deliver to the art building and he brought it into the painting studio and I took a break as we ate our dinner in front of my painting. It was perfect. I had starving and had not really been home to get food. And it was a nice little painting break. He is the greatest. Thanks for dinner boyfriend!

My Weekend

Okay to start out my weekend. I started Thursday, by having one photo shoot and developing one set of film. (about 3 hours of work to lessen my load on the weekend) Friday, I did Italian homework, I got a new ID and shoot more film, made myself eggplant parm(I got a double yolk in one of my eggs, it was the high point of the day), and spaghetti, then developed the film, and made 5 prints. I stayed up late....like until midnight, oh and Makenzie was there with me for most of the time. Saturday I was up early, around 7. I took the bunnies out to play. I got to the art building at 8, and did even more printing. I took a break to teach some yoga, and then back to finish developing my prints. Jeff and I made some pancakes, and then my parents came. I showed them around the art building and then went to panera for lunch. =) I then headed to the Library (all by myself) to find sources for my Art history paper. The poor girl at the desk got frustrated with me, because I did not really know what is meant when a teacher says they put books on reserve. I thought I could just look at them quickly, but since i left my ID and drivers license somewhere I could not look at them. I ended up going on a computer and printing out some really good articles. Then I was off to paint for a while. After painting I came back home, read my articles and wrote my perspectus for my paper. Makenzie came over and we made popcorn, and cookies, and watched Bridesmaids. This morning I slept until 8:45!! Very late for me. I took the buns out, ate bfast, dilly dallied on the computer for a while, went to church, Jacob and Rob and I went out to Clay Pot for lunch. Jacob ate more than I have ever seen him eat before. He even out ate me and Robbie. I came home and napped until the three of us met up again for Johnny English. Very Very funny! After that, I ran to the grocery store, literally threw my groceries in the fridge, grabbed my ipod and shoes and ran to teach spin. After I cooked up all my veggies, and beans, and quinoa for the week. I did not really eat a lot last week, I was too busy to make myself food, so I just ate a lot of rasins, and cereal. Now I am in bed, finishing up my relaxing day. Getting prepared for the week.

I gave myself an A+ for the weekend. Well maybe an A since I didn't get to see Jeff a lot. But he was busy, so nothing I could really do, So I regive myself the A+

buddy the trailblazer

Both buns were so happy to be outside today, since they missed their outside time Sat and Sun cuz we were down in Austin. Buddy likes to go in the deep weeds, that have been growing Very tall since it has cooled down, and we got rain like twice. But anyways, she hops into them, and she starts biting the weeds near their base, so of hacking a trail for herself. You can see it in one of the pictures. Robbie was out there too, enough though he is a stinker first thing in the morning and very reluctant to come out from under the bed. They both have such a great time outside, you would think they would know what was coming. And then there's my oatmeal and yogurt for breakfast.