I have yet to have a miracle happen to me near this place. I haven’t given up hope yet.

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So, we have discovered that at the local bowling alley/glow in the dark mini golf/laser tag/arcade place, they have .50 cent Skee Ball. It’s fun to stop in for a few games. Last night it was giving me extra balls but only registering the score for 5…which made it look like I really was sucking…not true!

A dream of mine is to someday have the capabilities for fountain soda, Sonic ice, and a full-size Skee Ball game in my house.  I just have to graduate first…

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On MLK Jr. day Teresa and I went to play some disc golf in Research Park. It was a glorious day outside. This was our first time in the park, and I must say that despite the course looking a little confusing at first, we had a good time. Well, we had a good time up until I lost a disc in the pond. Damn you water hazards! Oh well, now I just have to buy another disc.

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Hey foks! This week was a very exciting one, even though it was short. I had my case presentation at work, which was very nerve-racking and made me pretty anxious. We celebrated with happy hour at the Dixie Chicken…well deserved!

And, Wednesday afternoon, the young man who lives next door came over with a VERY tiny puppy and told Wylie that his dad wouldn’t let him keep it, did we want to? We thought that perhaps it was a sign since we had just been to the shelter on Monday to look at pups for us, and had started thinking about all the things we would need to do to get ready. Well, this puppy was very sweet, and we got a bottle and were able to feed her some and she was licking and nuzzling with us…the thing is though, having a puppy that small was going to take a lot of time and structure that we don’t feel able to provide right now, and we weren’t sure how big she was going to get…So, the sad ending is that Wylie took her over to the shelter on Thursday and they were excited and amazed by her young-ness. Luckily, though, they have the know-how  to take care of her better than we could…although she did capture my heart…

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Whew! A three day weekend is just what I needed to catch up on 10-Gallon-Hatting! It has been pretty busy around here for the last bit…Most importantly, I turned 30! Hooray! It is very exciting to be a real grownup…whatever that means! Wylie and I also had a few Christmases…We had one here, where we made a Tofurky and had champagne from Messina Hof (which is right down the road). Then we headed to Lowell, MA to visit with his folks. I was pretty nervous since I hadn’t met them before (but we were Facebook friends already, so I don’t know what I was worried about…). Turns out I had nothing to worry about! We had a super-funtastic time! I had never been to Massachusetts before really, so it was an adventure. It started in Austin, where there was some question about whether we should even try to get on the plane because there was a ton of snow happening in the Northeast…basically though, since we’re a couple of badasses, we did it. When we landed it was snowing and the wind was blowing it accross the tarmac and it looked really eerie. Very cool.

The good news is that all the snow made it so we got to chillax some, and I got some mad cookie skills from Wylie’s mom. (I have been practicing them here at home…excellent skills to have, I must say!)  In between the chilaxing we were very busy! We visited Concord, where I learned that it is REALLY fun to kick snow piles. And we went to Boston twice, and it made me want to go back when it is not 7 degrees with the windchill because everything is so cool! I saw Harvard Square (though not Click and Clack, even though I was looking!), and Boston Common, and Newbury Street and the “T” (not named for me, though I will continue to tell myself that it is), and the North End (where I had some amazing manacotti and a canolli and dined next to some very adorable old men, who in the story I made up in my head about them had something to do with important Italian families…if you know what I mean , and lots of historical things like the place where Paul Revere is buried! It is very cool to see the things I learned in history class.

We also squeezed in a road trip to Pittsburgh to see Wylie’s sister in The Nutcracker. It was really awesome and some pretty incredible stuff that those dancers can do. Along the way I saw the ACTUAL Eerie Canal (and I sang the song, and it made my heart do a little backflip to be right there singing about Sal!). And a trip to the beach at Plum Island. Again, it made me want to go back in the summer, but I was pretty enamored with a snow-covered beach!

It was a jam-packed trip, and I was glad that I had taken an extra day off to rest up before going back to work.  The spring semester looks like it is going to be pretty amazing at the SCS. I will be co-leading a group for first generation college students this semester, and I am super excited. We are also starting to think about looking for jobs for next year (if you know anyone who needs a really incredible, though unlicensed, psychologist, I’m SO your girl!)…which is kind of stressful. And, I am dedicated to finishing my dissertation this semester…in between practicing my cookie skills.

This week was really fun because we were having interviews for the next round of interns, and three awesome kids from my program at Auburn got interviews here, so we had some REALLY fun company!

Today was for relaxing, and I did it like a champ. I finished reading (for the second time) Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris. Can I just say that he is maybe the most funniest man alive. We also went and saw The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. It was very pretty and visually amazing, though I felt that the story left me wanting a little more. That being said, I am sure it’s not that easy to put a movie together when you didn’t get to finish it as planned, so I am overlooking some of that…

OK, one of my resolutions is to write on here more often so it’s not these mini-novels every month or so, and then I can start sharing more funny stories about our neighbors and their eternal quest to get their cat inside at odd hours…

I hope you are all having 2010’s that are off to great starts!

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