Losing focus

Well, its the end of the semester. I made it. Today is my last day of work, I turned in my last two final papers on Monday, finished my baby shower gifts on Tuesday and went to Ruthie's mexican restaurant in Lorena with some girl friends, took a friend to the airport in crazy weather then made the "sweet potato cheesecake" I mentioned before, on Wednesday, Thursday was our office party and gift exchange, and last night (thursday night) went over to the Schwartz's and played games with them, Matt, and Angela.

On a side note, games was really fun (though we missed Sarah). We played regular Settlers of Catan and Jessica won (!) - Angela and I tied for second place, the guys tied for 4th. Then we played Up and Down the River (or Muffins) and Angela won. Jessica got 2nd and I got 3rd. It was the best game night for the girls since the day that we played three games of Settlers in a row and Jessica, Sarah and I each won one and blanked Joel!! :) This was the first time I'd had a chance to play games with Matt and Angela - or really even spend a good amount of time with them. It was really fun and I look forward to some more adventures in the spring.

Because I have been working so hard all during the semester, it has been hard for me to do the few things I know that I need to do for my WSU (washington state university) application (hence the title of this article). I have to edit a writing sample today - but I think I'll do it at home this afternoon, since I leave here in 30 minutes and am not working on it at all yet.

Two of my three recommendations are turned in for WSU (thank you RCC and Frank!!) and one is supposed to be happening this week. I hope so... I really don't want to have to call his assistant again next week to follow up. I think I also have to edit the statement of purpose from the UCLA app to be appropriate for WSU. AND, I'm going to try not to do it while I'm at the Fergasons.

I'm excited to be at the Fergason's for a few days with no homework. I'm also excited to visit my folks next week after not having seen them for so long - I think my folks, Ben and I are going to play Settlers almost non-stop, so that is great fun. ALSO, Derek Robinson (D-Rob), his mom, and his girlfriend are all coming over for Christmas dinner - HOORAY! There is also a chance that dad and I are going to take a quick trip to Tucson and LA for quick college visits and that I might get to see both Erin O'Hara and Gretchen Musgrave - sweet!

Thats it for now. I have some pics to post of the burp rags and of a cool wall hanging I got in Kenya. I'll work on that later.

In the meantime, sorry for the randomness of this post - see, focus issues.

:) Tiff