RBO Catching Up!

• I really didn't mean to take a blogging break, but between being sick, feeling sorry for myself, digging my car out of the knee-high snow, spending too much time on facebook, and prepping for the new semester, my blog was unintentionally shoved to the side.
  

• Today is our ninth anniversary. I told the story of our first date last year... perhaps one day I'll tell the story of our second date, in which I discovered M owned a waterbed (which freaked me out a little because my parents had one... yuck).
  
  
• I know everyone is already saying it, but I'm still going to put it out there - it's freeeeezing! The news proclaimed it to be "the coldest day in Chicago in ten years." I was planning to go to the movies today, but it's just too cold to go outside. Brrrrrrrr!
  
  
• Speaking of movies, I was finally able to see another on my list: Doubt is seriously awesome! I also watched P.S. I Love You when M went out with some friends - kind of cheesy, definitely predictable, but I still sobbed through most of it. :P
  
  
• Classes started on Monday - thus far, it seems like it's going to be a great semester. Two of my classes were canceled, so I'm only teaching three (yay!!) and I have many of my favorite students in those classes. I have an excellent schedule that does not include any night classes (this is the first time since 2004 that I haven't taught at least one night class), awesome students, and enough time to put in some hours at my second job (more money!) without sacrificing my nights or Fridays (we don't have classes on Fridays).
  
  
• Although I only worked two days this week, I am exhausted. I know it's partially because I'm still sick (it's at the end, but it's lingering), but it's mostly due to those two days of classes. What is it about the first week of the semester that is so draining? It always kicks my ass!