I passed!

I got an A+ (99%...whats up?) and a B+, which I think puts me at about a 3.7 or 3.8 for my GPA. Hopefully I can raise it up even higher next semester. Until then, I'm going to enjoy my week off before I have to go back to school and start kickin some ass again. :)

Just for fun, here is the link to my favorite design product. I used the mother of pearl tiles for the accent wall on my final project. http://mayaromanoff.com

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!

Yup, this is totally my life right now. Finals are coming up next week, so I have been living, sleeping and breathing drafting. Wish me luck!

Happy Birthday to meeee!

So, it used to be that having a birthday made me feel more mature and grown up, and now days it seems like all that my birthdays are doing is making me feel old. Even just a few short years ago, I remember calling up my friends and planning out what bars we were going to hit up to celebrate, and of course, I always made sure I had the day after off of work. Not so much because I needed to recover, but more because the party typically ran over well into the next morning. As the years have gone on, however, birthdays have become less of a thing to celebrate and more of a thing I try to ignore. If it weren't for my car insurance going down every year, I think I would just skip them all together. I'm so not ready to be turning the big 30 soon!

How fast they grow!

I got to see my neice on Easter and I can't get over how much shes grown since I saw her last month. Not only is she bigger, but she is starting to look less like a baby and more like a little girl. She is reacting to things much more than ever before. She has been a very expressive baby from day one, but now that she comprehends things more (or atleast tries too) you can't help but keep your eyes glued to her to see what funny thing she does next. Its strange, I guess I had never paid that much attention to babies before, but it is so amazing to watch them try to take in everything and sort it all out. I can't wait to see her grow even more. I can already see she has a lot of the great qualities that her mom has that make her the amazing woman that she is.

Knowing both of her parents, I'm pretty sure its only going to be a few years before she starts trying to help birds with broken wings and builing huts for the bugs in the backyard to live in. My nephew has been sprouting like a weed too. He is coming up on his first birthday and already seems like he is ready to take on the world. We took him to the zoo the other weekend and I was pretty sure that he wasn't going to have any idea what was going on. Much to my suprise he was wide eyed (well, for most of the time) and wanting to explore everything. He was also kind enough to share some of his rice snacks with me. Granted, by the time that he handed them to me they were so covered in drool that they were mostly mush so I had to decline. None the less, a very nice jesture. He seems to be becoming very empathetic. I swear it was only last week that he was a newborn, unaware of the world and the people around him. I'm not going to lie. Part of this whole thing makes me excited to have kids some day and another part of it makes me scared to death to have children of my own. They grow and change so fast, I don't know how I would ever be able to keep up with that! Well, as for now I am content to just watch from the sidelines and try to take as many notes down as I can before I have to take the field.