Woo hoo!!

I am officially done with school. I turned in my final paperwork on Friday and I found out that I'll probably be getting a check in January for as much as $329!! My housing deposit should all be returned to me as I have never torn up a room or left it a crazy mess. Woo hoo! I spent most of last week moving out of my campus house. This wasn't hard for me, but it was quite a feat to move out my roommate, best friend, and maid of honor Jen. She and her daughter Makenzie have lived in that house since the end of our sophomore year (2006), and she is a pack rat. Oh, man. That was a lot of packing and a lot of late nights/early mornings trying to get her out of the house by our 4:30 deadline on Friday. She didn't make it. And then she found out that our RD isn't even there this weekend because of a family emergency. ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? We stressed out about getting her out on Friday for NOTHING??? Grr... Oh, well. She moved back in with her mom, which means a lot of furniture is currently in storage to be moved into J's and my new townhouse. SHe needs somewhere inexpensive to store her stuff and we need our townhosue to not look freaking empty, so it's a win-win deal.

Now that school is over, Jen and I can actually sit down and start planning my bridal shower. She keeps asking me questions about what I want to do and a lot of my answers are, "I don't care." Ha ha. I'm pretty easy going. She's throwing me a recipe shower, where everyone prepares a dish and then brings it, the recipe, and something you need to make it (as the gift). I got the idea off of STLWed a few months back and I thought it was genius. J and I have an astonishing amount of those little gadgets on our registry, so people don't have to buy us our pots or whatever right off the bat. Like, if the recipe calls for a baster or whatever they can get us that. I'm getting real excited, though, especially because the color scheme is what I wanted for the wedding but didn't do 'cause that was one of the things J expressed an opinion on, so I caved. :-) I'm such a good fiancee, aren't I??

I can't believe how fast time is flying by. My school countdown is over, I have 3 days till moving day, and we get married in 2 months and 29 days. Ha. I only know that last one because yesterday was exactly 3 months. :-D

J and I drove down to Memphis this weekend to spend some time with my stepfamily. I haven't been down there in about 6 years and I can't believe how big my youngest cousin has gotten! SHe's 13 now. Holy moly. J and I went to a HUUUUUUGE church on Sunday morning and heard a nice sermon about slowing down and remembering time to reflect on Jesus and rememberring time to enjoy with our families. Slow down amidst all your planning and shopping and just enjoy everryone's company. He used the story of Mary and Martha to illustrate the point, and I loved that correlation. We heard our own pastor preach on Mary and Martha a few months back and I enjoyed hearing the story again from a different approach.

I guess that is all for now. I should post again before CHristmas, but just in case it isn't a substantial one, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!