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….we are this |   | close to being homeowners.  We had a few more last minute delays but they are not on our side of the fence, so to speak, and so now it is just a case of waiting for a few more repairs to the house and then we will be able to close it up and move in!  HALLELUJAH!  and it only took approximately 5 months!

….Since returning from her little jaunt up to Gmom’s, K has pretty much been sleeping through the nights, without her traditional 4-6 am wakeup daddy page to come in our room.  Coincidence?  Memorex?  I dunno but I’ll take what I can get!  Hoping the trend will continue but doubt this brief respite of reliable sleeping will survive the trauma of moving.

….K has officially been bottle-free since a couple weeks before our Vegas vacation.  And we received way less resistance than I expected, which tells me that (thankfully) she really was ready, and I don’t need to make a large deposit in her therapy fund for traumatically forcing her to relinquish her beloved bottles.  She still likes to have a wee cup o’ milk somewhere in the evening hours  (so she is still not staying dry all the way until morning) but I’m very proud of her.  And a little sad too.  All the last little shreds of babyhood life are rapidly being replaced with trappings of a busy, happy, child who is going to grow into an amazing adult in the blink of an eye, I’m sure.  Sniff.

….Speaking of moving, my work offices have finally been consolidated into our brand new downtown building.  I like having shiny new digs, but I admit, I will always fondly miss my old office in the decrepit, haunted, bug & rat infested building where I spent about 6 happy years.  I haven’t gotten all my personal little flamingo decos put back up, but other than that I’m pretty well moved in.  Our dept. was very fortunate in terms of space allocation and we also got a very large, wonderful workroom for all our tech. equipment.  It’s like Disneyland!  I just wish I weren’t so damn behind from the move, the vacation, and being shorthanded.  If only I could find the bottom of my inbox…..

….Our summer off-season TV obsession this year has been catching up on prior seasons of NCIS.  I wrote here about my originally conflicted relationship with this show and I’m happy to report that with successful counseling, we have reconciled.   Catching up on back seasons has made things a lot easier to follow.  Sometimes I still get a little lost on the plot lines, but fortunately FF patiently untangles me.  He’s the best hubby!  (and I still have a major girl-crush on Abby.)

….I am DREADING the fall semester and getting back to school.   Originally I intended to take two summer classes, and keep up my momentum and motivation, but with all the house stuff and other random unpredictability, I had to change plans and drop them (gee darn).  The break was much needed but it is going to be SO hard to get back into the swing, come mid-August.  Just thinking about it makes me want to crawl into a dark hole somewhere, plug my ears, and compulsively chant “LALALALALALALALA”. 

Really.

This is what school makes me feel like