NO Shame

What can I say? My cat is fat and she doesn't care who knows it!

Christmas Tree--Finally!

We got our tree on Saturday, but we went over to the coast yesterday to see hubby's family, so didn't get to decorate it until today. Here's a look:

I still need to put out some presents, but I think I'll do that tomorrow.

Now, I have a slightly disturbing video to share with you. Here is my cat, Tiber, with her favorite part of Christmas.

Two More Classes Until Midterms

It's weird how at the beginning of the semester, it seems like midterms are soooo far away, yet, somehow, once you get to about the middle, time flies by and all of a sudden you are face to face with exams. I have 3 next week (Property, CrimLaw and Tax) and one the following week (ConLaw). I have made outlines for all but Tax, but they all need major work. Since CrimLaw tomorrow night is a review session, I hope to spend the day revising it so I can get any questions I have answered in class. Of course, Property is a much more complex and voluminous topic and I need to work on that too.

Tax is open book (the tax code book) and we are allowed to hand write anything we want in there. I'm going to need to work on that this weekend. Since ConLaw is only on "Topic A" which was covered the first 10 weeks of class, and we had a practice test on that already, I have a completed outline for that class, but I plan on simplifying it after the first 3 exams. Since that test is open note and book, I doubt I will do anything there until after the others are done.

My Thanksgiving weekend was nice, but went by too quickly. I loved having my daughter home! It just seemed normal to have her here again, and I was glad to be able to spend the time with her. We also spent a lot of time with my family, which I enjoyed, since I don't get to see them much this semester with my schedule. My sister was here from southern CA, so my daughter and I got to spend extra time with her. The 3 of us love to hang out together. Here we are lounging together on Thanksgiving:

Early Anniversary Gift

Look what I got today:

Our anniversary is not until Sunday, but hubby sent me this gorgeous bouquet from Ivy Crest. They always do the most beautiful arrangements!

We're going out to Fleming's Steakhouse for dinner on Sunday, and my real gift is going to come in little blue box....my favorite kind! : )

Less Than One Week

Now that it is less than a week before my daughter is home, I'm getting excited. I cannot wait to see her! I really don't feel like studying for that stupid midterm tomorrow. (I have, but I'm sure the professor will throw more at us than I will be able to handle anyway.)

Even my cat misses my daughter:
We are all looking forward to seeing her SO much! Three months is such a long time, when the longest I had gone without her before was 3 weeks (when she did a summer school at UCSD). I know the 3 days she is here are going to go by way too fast. But I think it is going to help me finish out the semester because I've just been too sad and lonely without her.

Changing the subject, I finally got motivated to take the pix off my camera from this weekend. (Easy to do when you don't feel like studying. Suddenly, you become motivated to do all sorts of things!) Anyway, these pictures don't really do justice to how nice our room and the view was, but here they are anyway:
Gotta love a room with a full wall of window! (BTW, the lights at night were much brighter/prettier than this shows, and during the day, we had great views of the mountains! Loved it!)