Since I haven’t posted in forever, quick recap of my life this summer:

end of May-beginning of June: Social Studies class. We played for 3 hours a day & had to write lesson plans due the next day. As with all my methods classes, easy A.

June: no class! Kristin & Marie came to the Cities for Leah’s wedding June 23, & it was lots of fun to see my friends again!

1st part of July: Exceptional Child class. Take notes for 3 hours a day–so fun. I ended up with 70 pages of class notes (handwritten) & almost 80 pages of book notes (typed). Lots of tests–my first grad class with actual tests! However, I discovered that no sleep=better grades! We had our Back-To-School floorset the weekend after 4th of July, so that completely screwed up my sleeping schedule. Working until 1:30 am is great when you have an 8 am class!

Middle of July: my store is getting a remodel & expansion…finally! I spent the last week of my Exceptional Child class taking 2 tests, writing a paper, & making a brochure, along with packing up the backroom at work for our move to our temp location, trying to get everything organized for the move, & attempting to get through as many boxes of shipment as possible to put on the floor since we have almost no stockroom in our temp store. Also, Heidi’s bridal shower & David’s parents’ block party. That was amusing–the cops came. We thought it was to arrest the neighbors or something neat for shooting off fireworks, being drunk, & letting their children run around. However, it turns out they just had nothing better to do so they decided to come visit the neighborhood.

This week…(technically last week, I guess) 7th Harry Potter book out! I stood in line for 10 minutes on Friday morning to get a wristband to hold my place in line (1st 300!) to get the book that night. After eating sushi, David dropped me off at Borders about 11:30 so I could get in line for the release. I got to jump ahead of the majority of the people & had my book before 12:45! Officially this week, now, my family’s vacation at Weslake. However, since David & I both have class, we were only up there for the weekend (where I read my book). I started my 3rd & final summer class, Psychology & Pedagogy of Literacy, today, along with finishing getting our temp store set up–the next couple months at work cannot go fast enough. Our current location is gross. The top third of the walls are painted lavendar, lime green, & mustard yellow. Ew. And it’s carpeted, so we have to vacuum. And we have neat plywood, shower-curtained fitting rooms. This BTS season will be amazing. Or not. This weekend is a college friend’s wedding, then Tim & Heidi’s in another 2 weeks. Then we’re done with weddings for the summer, only to begin again in the fall for Kristen’s!