November's Happenings

The surgeon decided PRK was a better surgery for my eyes. Thus, I had PRK done on November 10th. PRK is the predecessor of LASIK. The biggest drawbacks of PRK over LASIK is more pain and a longer recovery. That being said, 6 months later, there is no difference between the two surgeries. Two weeks later, my vision is still blurry and sometimes my eyes ache. Even still, I am definitely happy that I had surgery.

I have about two weeks left until the end of my final semester of my first master's degree. I can't wait to be done and resume a more "normal" life having only to juggle family and work instead of family, work, and school.

We are also only 2.5 weeks away from our Colorado vacation. Even though it seems Alyssa and I just got back, I'm still very excited to return. It was a great visit in early November, but it just wasn't the same without my hubby.

I'm still hoping to get dog in the spring. My intentions are to adopt a dog from the SE GSP Rescue. Just google them and you can check out all the beautiful dogs they currently have available.

On the Horizon

I'm busy, busy, busy, so this will be a brief note. The AF has approved me for LASIK. Alyssa and I are heading to CO on Tuesday for my surgery on November 9th. LeMar is bummed he can't go; he's stuck in FL working. The AF has also agreed to send me to school full time to get another Master's degree. (I finish my current Master's this December.) This means next summer we'll be moving to a college town so I can go to school full time starting in the fall. The AF allows only 18 mo to earn a MS. Since it's such a short amount of time, we're planning to stay in Florida (UF-Gainesville) so LeMar doesn't have to re-certify for law enforcement jobs. I had been hoping to go for a PhD, but this news is still very exciting. I may be able to sweet talk them into letting me stay at school for a PhD once I get started.

Last but not least, there are two new links of pictures on the right of the page.

Hip Hop ABCs

Nearing the End

I'm now in the final semester of my Master's degree program. I'm taking two classes, one is cool and the other is lame. Because of the nature of my degree, I am also required to complete a comprehensive exam over several of the courses I've taken since I started back in January '08. I'm working on the exam this week, and it is due on Columbus day. It covers 6-7 classes worth of material. So far I've put almost 30 hours into it, and I still have one and a half of the six sections to go! At least my boss has given me my weekday afternoons to work on this. There will be much rejoicing when it is done! After this, all that remains on the master's degree checklist is three assignments, a midterm and a final. Then it will be, "Look out Colorado, here I come!" TTFN!

It's been ages

Family and friends,

I know it has been AGES since I've posted anything. I'm sorry for the delay; I'm a terrible blogger. Life marches on for our household. Alyssa is now walking, talking (about a dozen words), and throwing temper tantrums. I have entered my final semester of school for my master's degree. I cannot wait for it to be over, I am counting down the days in fact. LeMar is working days now, which is wonderful. I enjoy the fact that he is on the same schedule as the rest of the world. When we have weekends together, we've been going camping and rock climbing in Sandrock, Alabama. It is this great venue about 6 hours north of here. Although it is quite a drive, it is a great experience. Not much new other than that, life marches on. Drop us a line sometime; how are you?