Winter Break!

Hello all -

Haven't written in a while. I have been caught up in the Holidays and fun times over Winter break. It has been wonderful to be relaxed and to have nothing to do in between work and errunds. My husband and I both worked for the first week and a half of break (I worked at CVS) and then we headed home for the next week and a half for the holidays. We had about 4 different Christmases with our two families and the extended part of those families all over the state of Pennsylvania (this happens when you are married). I was exhausting but fun. It was great to spend time with my brother and sister-in-law from New Hampshire who we seldom get to see.

Now there's one week left to break and I have a long list of things to do around the house. We just took our Christmas tree down yesterday and resituated the Christmas boxes in our storage space..It was sad. Things I have to do include thank you notes, cleaning the house, going to the bank, getting groceries (we are completely out), and other random things. Currently, I am on hold with the IBM parts department. My computer that the school leases to us has a dead battery. We were warned that we should replace this battery before the warrenty was up in July 2009 (1 year warrenty), but my summer was so crazy with vacations around that time that I forgot! So, I am stuch on hold and going to have to buy the replacement battery which I don't know the price to yet...

Another thing I have to do around the house is to puppy-proof it - we are going to be getting a puppy in about 3 weeks! She is a golden retriever and her name is Lily. We are super-excited and are going to be so exhausted in those first couple weeks! At least most of the rush time for fraternities will be over by the time we get her so I will have an ounce or two more of free time. My co-pledgemaster and I have been working on things over the break for the upcoming round robin and rush nights that are held during the second week of the spring semester. Each fraternity has a rush night where anyone who is interested in joining can come and meet the other members and see if that fraternity might be something they want to be a part of. Each fraternity has its own platform to offer. Our rush night is Luau themed with hula hoops and smoothies for those interested. We have to plan the whole night including the food, games, decorations, and apparel. After rush night, we send out bids and those who wish to join return the bids to us by a certain date. Then we start pledge meetings and so on. SO I will be kept pretty busy the first couple weeks of school...there may be no exams yet, but I will have rushing and a puppy to worry about instead. I can't wait!

Still on hold...I am going to work on some more stuff around the house. I work about 25 hours this week so I will have enough time to get all of these things done AND relax! I must enjoy winter break to its fullest!