At last

Time, where does it go? It's now Sunday evening and all is well.
Its been a short month time wise since I posted.

Now to catch up...
Eric is in his new home, the outpouring of well wishes from those who know him and Maia was phenomenal to say the least, food baskets, cards, gifts, expertise, and time from their friends. Today he stopped over, looked like the walking dead, UPS is in its busiest time of year and he's working until past 10 every night, then went to the company party, boy does he look it!

Alan and Melissa did some of my shopping today, it was so nice since I wanted a gift from Bordentown and also needed a few things in Flemington. We split the distance. Its so nice to have help.

Two weeks ago, Alan bought a new (to him) truck, he's been feeling guilty using his work truck after hours even though the boss said go ahead and use it. Anyway, Dave took him over to the dealer to pick it up and saw a sign outside of the Toyota dealer advertising a hybrid sale, long story short, we stopped in and I drove out with a Prius. a big difference from the Volvo but fun in a different way, especially going to the gas station!

Last week there was an ad in the paper for puppies, we replaced Florence, our lovely Saint Bernard who passed away in June '06 with Rosie (or Roselita) a little white chihuahua, she's 4 months old, weighs in at 4.2 lbs and the vet said she may hit 5 but probably will stay near this size. She's a definite lap dog, Vickie and Rosie are starting to play and chase each other around, they share food and it looks like it will be a good fit. Dolly could care less, as long as she is getting fed we could bring in a thousand new dogs and Dolly would be fine with it.

Rutgers, oh Rutgers, two more classes and it will be done, this semester had one useful class in library magagement, and one that was a waste of money and time, Field Experience, that would be like making a teacher with two years expereince go back and student teach. I wish they had another class for those who were already working as librarians, more than half the class fit that description so it would be a viable option for Rutgers to allow a little lee-way.
I am looking forward to Children's Lit to Movies and will take cataloging as the last two classes, then it will be all over. I really made some great friends in the program and despite of myself and the Rutgers road blocks, have learned both useful and nonesensical things. Once again, I learned how not to treat students, one of the best lessons from undergrad, the first masters' and this one.

On knitting... found a great baby sweater pattern that goes pretty fast, picked up some pretty lime green yarn today for my cousin, Darcy's first baby due sometime between Dec 9 and 19 so hopefully it will be done before the baby goes to kindergarten. She didn't want to know boy or girl which limits the yarn choices, I'll try to remember to get a picture before sending it off to the little one in California.

Time to go and get the holiday cards written so they can be mailed tomorrow, too.