The turkey days are over and now it's time for the final grind before Christmas break.
This is always the hardest part of the semester. You've had a taste of home and relaxation and now you're expected to work your ass of on finals before you can go back again. The wonderful weather in Pittsburgh doesn't help much either...and by wonderful I mean 'really shitty with a 95% chance of precipitation'.


I have so much to prepare for London, and I have hardly had time to think about getting ready. I'm going to need a lot of little things for weekend backpack trips through Europe- money belts, a backpack, travel sized everything...and no money to do it with. I think I'm going to be an ass and set up a paypal account for people to deposit donations. Hey, it can't hurt...right?


I'm nannying all this week. Is that how you spell that? In any case, it means waking up @ 5am to get the kids ready and bring them to daycare, and then picking them up from daycare and doing the whole night routine. I don't really mind to much...audry and dylan are cuties...but it's long hours and I feel like a teenage mother. Let me tell you the looks I got when I dragged those little buggers into UCDC this morning. I guess it doesn't help that I look like I'm 12.Today Dylan looked at the lei I have on my mirror in the car and said "Hey Lauren...why do you always have that pile of leaves hangin' around?". I told him I thought it looked pretty, and he agreed. Oh, from the mouths of two year olds...


So much is going on! And it's great and overwhelming and I'm trying to enjoy it because all of a sudden I realize my senior year is coming up! Just this week I decided to drop my double major because, well, I want to spend all next year doing fun stuff. B&W Photography, American Sign Language, Belly Dancing, Sculpture...they're all on my schedule request for next semester. Although, I do have to take my Honors Thesis class, but that will be alright. Oh college, I love you...and that's why I want to be a prof so I never ever have to leave you :0)