Yea! It's Friday. Two weeks, then exams, then 2 weeks of BREAK! Oh, and New Year's Eve. Wahoo!

2/2 and it's much cheaper than a home connection. Now I'm trying a new mobile blogger option for added convenience. We'll see how it works!

1/2 Mobile Blogging
I'm still resisting Internet access from home. I'm actually finding that my cell phone does a fairly good job at websurfing

Holiday $hopping

I got home from "Ungrateful-giving" (as opposed to "THANKS" since I'm obviously the most selfish brat on the planet according to my family) and finished all of my holiday shopping on Sunday. I wrapped it all today and hope to ship it out o Saturday. Don't hate me!

Can't lose for trying

Spent Thanksgiving at Hilton Head, SC with the family. This time, I got yelled at and I didn't even SAY anything. Long story, but suffice it to say, I DON'T think I'll be making it home for the holidays again anytime soon. Any holiday.

Sugar Mule Flies Again

I left Seattle on Monday night with a backpack full of DoubleTree Hotel chocolate chips cookies. 6 dozen or so, to be exact - enough for all of my students! I flew all night, landed at 6:45 AM and was at school by 7:15. I was greeted by one of my cherubs who gave me a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. I am now at the Atlanta airport (phone blogging!) as I transport the pie to Hilton Head. Can't wait to see what I bring home!

Sugar Mule

So I transported 2 dozen pastelitos here to Seattle to share with my non-Miami friends. Now I have unlimited access to DoubleTree Hotel chocolate chip cookies. I am hoping to transport a large quantity back to Florida. I am no longer a sugar monkey; I am a sugar mule.

Travel Mojo strikes again

I'm in Seattle for the annual convention, and getting here was quite an adventure. I was supposed to fly out of Ft. Lauderdale but couldn't seem to find a ride there. Instead, I took the MetroRail, the Tri-Rail and a shuttle to get there, only to find out that the flight was going to be so late that I would miss my connection in Dallas. They offered to put me up in Dallas overnight, but instead, I told them to get me a cab back home and put me on the direct flight from Miami the next morning.

It all worked out, but the bad thing was I missed the opening staff meeting on Friday morning. Not a big deal except that I had 2 dozen pastelitos to give out as treats. We had them that afternoon instead. Everyone was happy.

Sailing the High Seas

Tia is WELL connected in the cruise ship biz and got an invitation to spend a night on the new Azamara "Journey". Azamara is a new "deluxe" cruise line under the Royal Carribean/Celebrity company so they are already VERY well versed in how to run a cruise line. The best part about "introducing" the ship to everyone is that everything was FREE. Nothing says "have a great night" like a free mojito on the sea. (Except the mojito wasn't so great. Tia and I agreed on that!) Still, the food was fabulous, the show was hysterical (more about that later) and I even tried acupuncture (which was so NOT free).

We even fed some money to the slot machines. Larry the Lobster was not there, much to my dismay. The monkeys ate my money again, but they toyed with me enough to stick with it for awhile. I actually made a little bit on "Money Storm" but then the damn sea monkeys took some back without even blinking. Once again, never put your money into machines that have animals as their theme.

Fresh paint

Here's the latest on the house....everything is painted and the floors get started tomorrow. I have to decide on the kitchen cabinets by the end of the week. It's going to be close, but I should be ready by BITNY (Bing in the New Year).

Edible office mail

The high school had bacon for lunch today. Know how I found out? The Leopard Princess of the Universe sent some to me by way of InterOffice Mail. It was very tasty!