I'm actually on the opposite side of the country for David's birthday. Sad, I know. :(
But don't worry, it just means that we got to celebrate a week early, when I was still in DC!
We took a trip to the National Geographic Museum to check out the Terra Cotta Warriors exhibit. It was fascinating stuff. And isn't he an attractive guy?
Naturally, said trip was followed later by the movie "Hero." Because we're cool like that. And also because David is mildly obsessed with everything China. Makes me feel pretty awesome, for beating out all the Chinese ladies for his attention. :)
We also took a trip up to the temple to check out the lights and listen to the Northern Lights Dance Orchestra play some big band-sounding Christmas tunes.
FYI - year 2 of business school is hard. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. I feel like for the majority of the last month, I've been running around in a sort of maddened delirium of trying to finish out my semester. Not the stressful kind, because I can't really say that I've been that stressed. Just a delirium. Like a chicken running around with its head cut off. Yeah, that's a fitting image. The last two weeks of school I feel like I've been running around like a chicken with its head cut off, trying to get everything done. You can imagine how hard that must have been, what with no head and all.
But it's done now. Projects and papers have been turned in, presentations given, finals taken. Time for a break.
Sort of. Something tells me I'll be plenty busy over my "break."
Now, where did I leave off? Ah yes, Thanksgiving. David and I went to Idaho, to spend some QT with a portion of the family and to see some friends. And of course, to eat. A lot.
And play with the kids.
And sleep.
We also decided that this was the year to chop down a real, live Christmas tree. So we all piled into the cars and took a drive through Arbon Valley. Destination: Christmas tree farm.
And we drove.
And we drove. It was very scenic.
But not a pine tree in sight.
Once we hit the freeway, we decided that maybe it was a better idea for the ladies to go to a girly movie (where we made everyone else in the theater mad by laughing really loud at all the wrong times) and the gentlemen to go to the manly shooting range (where apparently my Dad reduced the boys to tears of laughter by telling stories of the high school days).
It was classic. That's what I love about my family. They're all flexible like that. :)
Ah well, at least the pine tree chopping permit was only $5.
Bringing it back to DC...
Over the last couple weeks of school, I was craving some serious excitement. Something - anything - to shake things up a little and keep me from burning out before my last final. Turns out, the opportunity presented itself via a presentation to be given in a marketing class by some of my friends.
Basically, they were pitching a new Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor, Good Mooove, and an accompanying marketing campaign. It's brilliant. Good Mooove has its own website, it's on twitter, and it has a fan club on facebook. And the presentation was amazing. They were just missing one thing...a Good Mooove mascot to pass out ice cream and business cards to everyone who came to the class.
Yep.
I could use the excuse of "a lot of actions are forgivable during finals week," but odds are good that any other time of year, I would have done it anyway. :) Someone else commented that I had done my charity for the Christmas season. Yeah...that was what I had in mind...I need to dress up like a cow for my friends because, hey, it's Christmas.
In that case, let the Christmas festivities begin!
