Summer Semester Grades

1700-1945	T R	10694	SOCI/2105	Social Issues: Perspec in Soci	2	A	RE	Lepadatu, D
2000-2245	T R	10169	ENGL/2110	World Literature	3	B	RE	Johnson, J G

Oh yeah...do you see that? "A" in Sociology and "B" in Wold Literature.
I am thrilled!

Home Sweet Home...During

An enormous thank you to the most amazing family ever!

(and thank you to malissa & the priesthood from the allatoona ward)
If only I had won the lottery and could have paid movers...oh to dream!

Living room (with Malissa's arm) full of almost everything!

the BEST DAD EVER! setting up my hand-me-down kitchen table

what a mess...looks worse now!

little people entertaining themselves, they worked hard later in the day ;)

the BEST MOM IN THE WORLD!

Oh yeah...big T helping Papa hook up the dryer!

Wow Kelly...you look thrilled! I know deep down you are shouting for joy "she's got her own place now!"

Give me time to unpack and I'll cook you up a nice "thank you" dinner :)

Home Sweet Home...Before

After much toil & tribulation I have my own place again. Whew!

(Huge thank you to Kelly & Justin for letting me crash at their home)

now for the BEFORE pictures:

Front door

Living Room

Looking toward kitchen from Living room

the smallest kitchen in the world...perfect for a wedding cake baker!

the bathroom

bedroom...HUGE...perfect for a KING bed

next to the hugeness of the bedroom - this is my favorite thing about this apartment

view from bedroom window...isn't Georgia green & gorgeous

Sweet Home Alabama

It's no secret that I am a single female - that by the way, just celebrated her 33rd birthday. The unusual part was that I celebrated my actual birthDAY in Birmingham Ala-freakin-bama at none other than ANOTHER single adult conference. I'm no quitter!

Around 12:30am on July 14th (the big day) myself and other rock'n singles that had just been tortured at the dance, made our way to the Waffle House!

Oddly enough we actually had a good time stuffing our faces with things smothered, covered, chunked and...what's the other one? It doesn't matter, I didn't have hashbrowns ~ I had a chocolate chip & pecan waffle. Uhm, hello? Did you hear me? yeah...it was the most amazing birthday waffle of all time! And it was my birthday...it is perfectly ok if I eat crappy food on my birthday!

The next day (still MY day) we (myself, Malissa, Paige & Elaine) went to the conference classes in the a.m., they were amazing! Then for lunch the girls took me to eat HIBACHI! Yummy and the company was of course...fantastic! Who doesn't love sitting in front of an enormous cook top as hot as the sun, only to have the Oriental chef wearing a hat longer than his body build you your very own onion volcano and force you to catch a steaming hot shrimp in your mouth!? "No, really...I'll wait to eat my shrimp with my chop-sticks!" It really was delish! Thanks ladies!

We spent the late afternoon at a testimony meeting and dinner provided by the conference and then of course, stewing over what to wear to the dance that night, cause you KNOW Mr. Right is going to be there! You just know it! And in the end we all looked great, but I can't say that Mr. Right revealed himself. Maybe he is shy, ok?!

The dance was, generally speaking, fun. Sweet, sweet Lori made a fuss about my birthday and had everyone sing Happy Birthday to me. Not my favorite thing (people singing to me in public - especially when forced to wear a stupid hat...just an fyi) but I just adore her, so it's ok, thankfully there was no stupid hat at that point.

It would have been a great idea to get everyone we love & care about in the same picture, but that is way over our heads - we can't figure out how to get married, taking pictures might fall under the same challenging category! We did manage to grab (men from left to right) Jonathan, David & Jeff to join in a Kodak moment. Can anyone say "token males"? We need to find them wives! Only one a piece though. And the women (from left) Paige, Elaine, Malissa & me (Katherine).

Please, can I stop going to these conferences? Please!?

Favorite Smell of the Week

This is when I wish the internet had "scratch -n- sniff" capability

I don't usually promote anything that can ONLY be purchased at the mall (cause I hate the mall) but Bath & Body Works has the most amazing newish brand called Savannah Bee Company...yumm! It is fantastic!
Go ahead...see if you can "scratch -n- sniff" that picture!

The girlfriends & I took a trip to the beach last weekend and on our way down we stopped off in Montgomery to pick up Nicole. While at her place I powdered my nose in the little girls room and used (what I think was called) Blackberry Honey hand wash. Yes, I forced myself to the mall the Monday after I returned to Atlanta, just to buy this product! My new apartment MUST have lovely smelly-good soap for my guests to wash their hands!

Reading glasses...wow, that sounds old

Yeah, so I guess the downside of going back to school is having to read a lot and the downside of having to read a lot is finding out you need reading glasses.

This is not a fantastic picture - but oh well. At least you can see them and me!