You made my day....

"Also, I wanted to tell you know how happy we are for you that you're almost finished with your LPN degree. I really admire people like you who work and go to school at the same time, that's got to be rough! Hang in there for the last few weeks and good luck on your finals!"

This was part of an email from John's sister. After the day that I had today at clinical, it totally made my day!

Happy Thanksgiving...

Wow, what an awesome 2 days! Yesterday, I woke up really early and began to put the final touches on Thanksgiving dinner for my parents. Everything turned out great, except for these gross potatoes that my mom told me to make... (we ended up sending them to the cabin with my dad, uncle, and cousins) We ate tons of great food for brunch around 12ish, then headed to my aunts to play games. FUN FUN FUN!
Afterwards, we went to John's family for another meal around 6ish. It was also very good. Being that everyone was drinking and not paying attention to the food, the sweet potatoes caught fire in the oven. It was quite a sight to see... I wish I had my camera..... We stayed there a long time until I finally drug John out about 1130pm. I was not about to have him interupt my day of shopping.
I made a pot of coffee and Michelle and I headed out for 'Black Friday' about 1AM. We had a blast. We hit the outlets, the mall, Toys R Us, Old Navy; you name it and we were there. The best part was just watching people. It is seriously like a stamped! Route 30 was backed up for miles, bumper to bumper.
We had an awesome time and I will totally do it again next year. I am so proud of Michelle; she is becoming quite the pro. (thanks to some training.... haha)

TSO

So Sunday was DDMP's first ever Christmas party. It turned out to be a lot of fun. We started out going to dinner in Hershey to a place called What If.... It was really nice and they had excellent food! We then had tickets to see the Transiberian Orchestra's Christmas Show. It turned out to be about 3 hours long, but it was totally worth it. They put on an amazing show. John was happy because they had colored fire in which they timed perfectly to music. My favorite part was the 5 minute drum solo where the drummer just totally rocked it out! Everything was great and everyone had fun!

*Only about 13 days left till graduation!

Is that legal?

Yesterday, I stopped at Turkey Hill quickly to fill up on gas and to purchase 1 stamp. The store only sold a pack of 2 stamps, which was fine. The thing is, they were going to charge me $1.89 for both of them! I totally went spastic! How can they do that? That is a government run thing, right?!

My birthday went well. I campaigned for Mrs. Phillips at the poles and so John and I both got home pretty late. He brought me a beautiful arrangement of flowers and card he wrote by himself. It was very nice. Other than that, we just hung out here... nothing special.

Ahh, and tonight, I made chicken corn noodle for the first time ever. It was awesome! I am so proud of myself.