Hey y'all!

The theme for this month has been: move around everyone else's crap in anticipation of moving my own on August 1st.  My mom is completely moved out of our house, and we closed this afternoon.  Apparently it went pretty well, and the closing on her new pad is tomorrow.  My sister bought a condo in Chicago around North and LaSalle (it has a killer view of the skyline and lake from the roof) and I'll be helping her move in a week and a half. 

Then, Ben and I are taking the plunge and moving in together on August 1st.  Wowza.  Lots of feelings on this subject here, but overall I'm excited about it.  I've already begun to mentally plan a house warming kegger.  We're also going to get a doggy once we've settled in.    I can't wait for doggies!!!

I finished one summer class and have about 3 weeks left in the other.  Then, I have two more classroom classes, a practicum, student teaching, an online portfolio, and my APT test to get done, and then I'll be a certified school media specialist.  Wahoo!  Then I can find a job and read to little kiddies and teach information literacy! 

Our trip to Charlotte, NC is also still in the works, and we're planning on heading down for a long weekend in early August.  It should be really wonderful to see Ashley and Lukasz since I haven't seen them since April.  On the way back we're going to stop and visit Momoo and Papa, Ben's g-parents in Southern Illinois.  They live on a really lovely lake and have a pontoon boat for pontooning  and there's lots of deer and catfish and fun things to look at.

Speaking of funny animals and stuff, yesterday morning I was sitting in Ben's car, parked on the street, waiting for him to be ready to go, when I heard a rustling noise.  I left the door open for some air flow and thought maybe something fell out.  So I looked down, and looked forward and saw a beaver, or some creature of the like, waddling down the curb and into someone's yard.  It freaked me out, 'cause it probably waddled right past me, like two feet below my ankles, and if I startled that creature at all, it could have attacked.  Ok, it wasn't a beaver, but it definitely was the size and shape and waddleness of one.  Ben doesn't believe me, but I swear it happened.

Ok, enough for now.  Have a good rest of July, peeps!  Do zobacenia!

Annette