I can't believe it's June next week.  I have tons of things to do before this weekend.  I need to send out birthday invitations for Jarod's 8th birthday party.  Yup, my Snuggle-bunny will be turning 8 years old in two weeks.  Time flies...<sigh> and soon they'll be teenagers...  yikes!  I also have to volunteer at the kids' Jog-a-Thon on Wednesday.  It's going to be in the mid 80's when the kids at Jacob Wismer Elementary run around in the crazy hot sun to raise money for new laptops.  I have to remember to put tons of sunscreen on them before they go off to school. (Patrick burns easily...)  There's also a Volunteer Appreciation Tea thingie on Thursday that I was invited to attend.  The teachers serve tea and cookies to all the volunteers that have helped out during the school year.  It's amazing to see such a big group of moms, dads and grandparents give so much of their time and energy to make the school a better place for the kids.  It gives you such a mushy feeling inside to know that there are so many dedicated people out there making a difference in their children/grandchildren's lives.  We definitely have a strong community spirit in our neighborhood and I'm so grateful that the boys are growing up in such a loving, nurturing environment.  Anyhoo, we have a 4-day weekend coming up and I'm skipping class on Friday (shhh, don't tell anyone!) and maybe taking the boys somewhere fun.  We'll see...  :)

May 16, 2005

I have a mid-term tomorrow... ugh.  I've been studying off and on all weekend, and so I'm fairly confident that I'll do well on it.  The mid-term covers about 100 pages of text and it deals with everything from cells, tissues, muscles, nerves, central and peripheral nervous systems, etc.  The exam is worth about 50% of our final grade.  No pressure. heheh.  I did get a chance to have some fun over the weekend though.  My friend had a sushi/movie night on Friday and invited a few massage students over to do trades in preparation for the midterm.  It was pretty fun to take a break from all the craziness.  This weekend, the boys are going over their friends' house for a sleepover!  Yay!  This means DJ and I will be doing our usual dinner and movie night.  We will be going to see some Star Wars movie thing.  I think it's called Revenge of something or rather...  :P

May 8, 2005

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!  I had a great Mother's Day...  The boys took me out for a nice lunch at Red Lobster.  Then this is what we did afterwards...  :)  Overall, it was a great weekend... I got to hang out at my friend Li-Ying's house on Friday, and I went for drinks with DJ and his co-workers.  My friend Tina, her bf and I went to this dessert cafe/bar place that had live music and artwork hanging in the restaurant.  Neat.

May 5, 2005

It's 05/05/05.  Neat.  When I took the MAX back home from school today, I saw all the Cinco de Mayo festivities down on the Waterfront.  Random fact:  Cinco de Mayo commemorates the defeat of the French army by the Mexican army at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.  Eventually Mexico would go on to gain their independence and freedom.  I suppose it's sorta like a Fourth of July for the people of Mexico.  Or an excuse for people to party, heheh.   I'm thinking about maybe taking the boys downtown sometime this weekend to check out the Cinco de Mayo festivities.  There are tons of things to do... food, music, and fun arts n' crafts for kids as well. 

It's the first day of May! When I woke up this morning, the first thing Patrick did was hand me a beautiful bouquet of coffee-filter paper "flowers" for May Day.  He's such a sweetie!  I love Mondays... it's the one day of the week that I don't have any commitments or schedules of any sort. (other than studying for my Tues quizzes, I guess).  The only thing on my agenda today is to return library books, get an oil change for the car and meet DJ for lunch.  ***later***  We went to a new Indian restaurant out in Hillsboro called Swagath.  I'm still an Indian food newbie but the stuff they had during their lunch buffet was pretty good.  They had some spicy bbq chicken thing, some potato and broccoli curry thing and some chicken thing with a buttery curry sauce that went really well with their flavored basmati rice.  It was really good.. I might have to go back for some more.  :)