Happy 9-9-09!

Joke of the day: Today's date, 9-9-09 in German would be translated, "No, no, oh no." :-)

This weekend Tim and I are getting our engagement pictures taken! There are a couple of places I have in mind. There is a park strip across from the church that would have several neat places to take pictures, and there is a botanical garden that I want to check out too. Hopefully it doesn't rain. Summer is definitely over. It's been in the upper 50's and lower 60's the last couple of weeks. This week the highs are about 60. It's nice sweater weather if the wind's not blowing, which is great!

We were at the bookstore on Monday and I found a DVD to teach sign language! It comes with a book to help you learn the signs and I watched part of it that night and learned lots of signs for different family members, rooms of the house, and basic question words like who, what, when, where, why, and which, and different prepositions, some of which I already knew. I really like signing and one of the TA's at work is fluent in ASL because both of her parents are deaf. I don't have anyone else to sign with, but I just like it and think it would be neat to know.

I'm practicing my piano every day and am getting better at the exercise Larissa taught me. She also gave me a book of simple solos and I learned the theme to The Munster's among others.

There are so many things I want to do. I also have lots of books on my bookshelf that I want to read. I really need to start reading my book for my class that starts in less than a month. My goal was to read it before the class starts so I'll already be familiar with it. One of the intervention coaches is really good at drawing, and that made me want to start drawing again. There's just so much I like to do, but I never take the time to do it. Plus there are the things I NEED to do, like laundry, and call my dental insurance, and plan a wedding (although I'm finding that most of what's left can wait until I'm home in November and December). I got the flowers done so that makes me feel better!

Well, I should get back to work. Just wanted to update since I hadn't written in a couple of days. Oh, and our Save the Dates should be going out by the end of this week, so that is exciting!