Well I got my new laptop for school today, yay! It is really pretty, it is a powerbook 15 inch. I got 1 gig of Ram in it. It is really pretty and I’m thinking of naming it Dante.

I have installed a couple of programs on it and it is really easy to use which is nice. Everything installed easily and it was a painless process to get it to work. Overall it is a great machine and I’m enjoying playing with it a lot. It should be really useful for school.

I also got 2 of my last 3 books for school today. So only one left to go yay!

Now I’m getting ready for school tomorrow. laundry is done, bags are packed and I just need to make lunch. Hopefully tomorrow will go well and my classes will be interesting.

Anyone interested in donating money to help out those who were in Katrina’s path can donate to the Red Cross. Remember your donation is tax deductable and can help out a lot of people who no longer have homes thanks to the huricane.

And yes we’ve already donated.

Erin Elizabeth (Ellie) Mee was born August 27th at 1 am, she weighs 7 pounds 1 ounce. Ellie is the first great-grandchild for my grandmother. And the first grandchild for my Mom’s older sister. My mom is one of 8 and she is second oldest.

Ellie was born to Emily and Daniel Mee. Daniel is my cousin he is the younger of the two kids in his family, Ellie was named after his older sister and my cousin Erin. Daniel is only 9 months older then me, in fact he is 9 days (I believe) younger then Dan (hubby).

So congratulations on being born Erin Elizabeth Mee I hope you have had a good first 36 hours.

On other family news my Uncle Tim and Aunt Jenna are pregnant with their first child. The baby is due in March, which is a great month to be born if I do say so myself (okay so it is my birth month). Hopefully Jenna will have an easy pregnancy and delivery and I will in a few months get to meet a new cousin.

All these births and expected births kind of make me hope to one day have one of my own. However, I am waiting till I finish getting my bachlors degree. So I guess it will be another 2 and a half to 3 years for me.

Thursday we went to Borders. Dan needed to pick up the next two books in a series he was reading and I’m always up for the bookstore. While we were there I picked up a book with Sudoku puzzles in it. If you don’t know what Sudoku is just click on the word and it will link to an explanation. A basic explanation is it is a number puzzle.

Now it may come as a surprise to some of you, (not sure who, but I am sure it will come as a surprise to someone) I like numbers and math and logic. So a number puzzle is right up my alley. I don’t like crosswords, just random info to throw in here. I do like logic puzzles and the such and Sudoku is sort of a catagory all its own. I am finding getting the numbers to work in the puzzle is a lot of fun. I need to work on it some so I can go faster on them but it is definately a nice way to spend some time and enrich my mind.

On another note. Two more of my books from Amazon Marketplace have arrive. The best part of this is that the two books include the first book I will need for my history course this semester so I am really glad they have arrived. I am still waiting on three books. One of them I have gotten an e-mail about it shipping, but they shipped media mail, which I’m not a great proponent of because it can take awhile for it to get through. The other two I have not recieved info about shipping, but I am hopefully they will show up soon. One of the ones I am waiting for is my logic book for math and I would like for it to arrive so I have some time to read through and review it. The other two are history books, one of them being a book that sells new for $40 give or take, which I was able to purchase for $4.50. So great savings just need it to arrive now.

Friday we headed back to Borders because we had a coupon for 25% off and I wanted to buy Milton’s Paradise Lost. I found a nice copy of it, well two nice copies, but the Penguin Edition was a bit beat up and the hardback edition by some other publisher wasn’t. Unfortunately I didn’t pick it up because the coupon was for 25% off a cd or dvd. Oops, need to remember to read the fine print next time.

Otherwise, I am still working my way through Dante, I hope to finish The Inferno soon and start on the next book and I should finish all three books by the end of the month. I’ll probably start Don Quixote or The Count of Monte Cristo next, but I may just pick up Milton and do him next instead or maybe Chaucer I’ll just have to wait and see what I’m in the mood for.

So we are painting the kitchen this weekend so that at least the base color is down when they finish up the construction in there. We had to decide on a color for the kitchen. The living room is a color called Soft Wine.

I really like the color. We needed to find something that would contrast it but not be jarring. We finally decided to go with a green color and chose Sea Scent.

We also chose a color called Carolina Strand.

We decided to use the Soft Wine and Carolina Strand colors as an accent. We are going to paint the kitchen Sea Scent and then around the top of the kitchen above the cabnets stamp butterflies in both Carolina Strand and Soft Wine. We figure that should help pull the color of the living and dining room through the kitchen.

We thought about using stencils but they are a pain to use and don’t look quite right so we found a cute butterfly stamp that was put out by Disney and are going to be using that. I think it should look really cute.

Dan did the first layer of paint this afternoon/evening and it looks really good. There are some spots and it definately needs a second layer of paint, but overall it is a very nice color for the kitchen and should keep it looking open and light.

Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, I’ve found my new religion. I have been touched by “His Noodly Appendage”.

So Joanne’s is having a 60% off sale on framing today. And only today. It happens once a year, according to the lady at the frame counter. We found out about it yesterday when we went to check out stamps and stencils for the kitchen and decided to come back today to see about getting some things framed.

Dan has had his diploma’s for the past 6 years or so rolled up and my Mom promised to frame them for him for his graduation present, when we found framing on sale. We also have a gorgeous dragon print that he bought back in 2000 or so at DragonCon that we needed framed. And since I just got my AA we had that diploma as well.

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The contractors arrived at 6:45am, yes before any logical person would be awake. And have continued work on the kitchen. Right now the house is really dusty which is a bit annoying. They had to cut a hole in the floor and the ceiling to lay plumbing and electrical wires. Which is nice but the dust is really obvious. Reminding me why I use to hate to go into the home depot by my parents old house.

Other then that they are moving really fast putting in the kitchen and should be finished by this afternoon. Next Wednesday the template person will be out for the countertops and then in two weeks or so after that they’ll get to install the countertop, the new sink and facets and the corner cabnet*. And we’ll be done, yay!

*The corner cabnet ended up having a crack inside it, so we have to replace it. So that should be arriving sometime next week and they’ll install it when they come back out to do the countertop.

Let’s see today was fairly quiet. I am so ready for school to start. The long summer off was nice, but I’ve definately hit my I’m ready to do stuff again point.

The appliance guy arrived at 8am which was way early. They dropped off the stove, microwave and dishwasher. Which was nice though they forgot to include the dishwasher kit oops. We had to go out later to get it. I was downstairs by 9am. Spent most of the day surfing the web wasn’t even in the mood for any videogames.

I did read the next two sections in my Math Book. They were fairly interesting. Also read a bit more Dante which was good. Other then that not much else till hubby got home around 6.

We went out to Home Depot and got the piece the guys forgot and then headed to Petsmart and dropped of K’s food and such. We then stopped at Target and I got plastic utensils and Eldest. Also picked up dinner.

Headed home and ate dinner then finished clearing out the kitchen so it is now completely empty and ready for the guys tomorrow. Other then that not much else went on this evening. As I said rather boring day. Hopefully some more of my Amazon orders arrive tomorrow.

And I don’t get to go. I’m really jealous. Apparently my Mom decided to take my two younger sisters on a cruise around the Bahamas. Of course they decided to go the week that University starts for me. So I don’t get to go along. I told her I didn’t mind missing the first week of class, but she didn’t believe me. So while I’m learning about ancient civilizations, writing proofs, and learning about micro and macro economics my mom and sisters are going to be sunning themselves on a big boat as it winds around the Bahamas.

On the plus side she wants to do a girl only vacation again next year and she promised to make sure it occured while none of us are in school etc, so hopefully I’ll get to at least go to that.