Where Are You Christmas Summer?? Why Can't I Find You??

Here's how my Saturday went:

• Woke up right on time and Nora slept just long enough for me to get ready...perfect! 
• Headed to work in the sunshine, enjoyed a warm afternoon in the gift shop, and enjoyed wearing shorts all day.
• Got done working at 5:30 and went on a nice long walk/jog with Nora in the jogging stroller.
• Barbecued burgers  and ate in the backyard.

Doesn't that sound like a wonderful day??

JUST KIDDING.

Here's how today actually went:

• I did really wake up on time, but was still rushing out the door, how does that happen?
• Loaded Nora and the bags up in the truck and then realized there was a layer of ICE and SNOW on the windshield, so we had to wait ten minutes for it defrost because I couldn't find my scraper...uggh.
• My gas light came on as I was pulling out of the driveway, so I had to pump gas in this ridiculously freezing weather.
• Got my cinnamon sugar bagel with honey walnut cream cheese and a coffee from Bruegger's (this went really well actually, no complaining here :).
• Went in to work at the Riverboat and got a lot done--only downside was taking forever to get people their change from the register because my fingers were frozen.
• Went shopping at Old Navy with my Nora, so easy to spend money on girly summer clothes!
• Nora had a pretty crazy meltdown when we got home because it was too cold to use the sidewalk chalk or the stroller.  If only she could have understood me when I kept saying, "I know EXACTLY how you feel, I would LOVE to be playing outside, too."

Sorry for the complaining, but snowing and freezing cold on May 18th?? Seriously??  Obviously, we're patiently impatiently waiting for it to warm up.  In the meantime, I guess we'll have to stay inside, watch some more Dora (si!) and pray for sunshine so Nora can work out all her almost-two-year-old energy in the grass and I can get some color on my ghostly "I haven't left Alaska in a year" legs.

This Week's Bests: Finals Week Edition

I seem to do my best non-educational writing when I have a whole lot of writing to do for school.  With two papers and a powerpoint to do by tomorrow night, why wouldn't I write a blog right now...?  But with all the stress of finals and our serious lack of summer weather, I figured I needed to come up with some bests this week to put me in a better mood.

• One class down: Though I've been a glass-half-empty kind of girl this last week with school, I'm excited that I'm already done with one of my classes! (So I guess the glass is a quarter full?) Accounting is DONE, I just need to turn in my project.  And no matter what, no matter how late I'm up for the next couple of nights, all the projects and tests I have to do this semester will be over by Wednesday. Woohoo!
• Breakfast with the girls: Yesterday, I had breakfast at the Cookie Jar with two friends from high school that I hadn't seen in forever and all of our babies--five total!  It was great catching up and seeing the kids play peekaboo and laugh with each other.  I see more mommy-baby dates in the future. :)
• My little kid: Nora has gotten so big and she's SO smart.  I turn into a gushy mess every time I think about how she's not a baby anymore.  She's talking so much and has such a funny imagination.  Just look at this:

Okay, I can't put it off any longer, off to do my finance project...