Pizza makes Everyone happy right?

This has been by far the craziest... meanest, baddest semester for both of us.

But good news is I survived my most feared class....and well! Austin did a lot of his senior writing classes for the most part, and next semester applications go in! The guy has managed to do so awesome that every last school has waived his fee for applying! (I think Nebraska we might have to pay... but yay!) Something like 13 schools each $50-$80? Go Austie! For those of you asking, most of his applications don't even need to be turned in until March 2013... I assure you there will be an awesome post when we find out!

I get CPR certification, and CNA classes start in February! And of course my favorite, my BFA!

Seven plates people, I have done seven pieces with copper plates!

And you know what I did last night when finals finally calmed a bit?

I read this bad boy. It's my second love.

If anyone has good books, I'm totally into it! Austin, I'm sure, doesn't ever want to read a book again after this semester. He had two 20 page papers, and two 10 pagers? Yuuuck.

Plus he kept getting Amazon.com boxes with more and more research books. I was kind of jealous so I used my birthday art card to Dick Blicks and ordered myself a Guerilla Box Painter. I cannot wait till I can paint for FUN!

Oh, and just some word of advice on keeping husbands happy during finals,

save all the pizza from class. I can't eat it anyway... Austin has scored. I dunno why my professors keep bribing my classes with pizza, but I always end up with a box of it staring me in my gluten-intolerant face. So I do, I take some. But then I give it to Austin which = no more finals grumps.

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