Sick

I guess with everything that has happened in the past week it is expected that I am sick. Not flu-like sick, but more like irritating huge blisters in my throat are making me feel miserable. Right now I am blaming it on the weather since it is cold and rainy. The weathermen have predicted snow the past two nights but instead we had just an ice/thunder/rain storm last night. We haven't had rain here in a while so it was pretty cool going to sleep to thunder and lightning. There is another chance of snow tonight so I guess I will just haev to wait and see.

How was your Valentine's Day? Ryan and I had a pretty good one. I checked the mail in the afternoon and we had several valentine cards to open that made the day that much more fun. We opened them all together and loved the picture of the boys(on our frig now). I also had an extra special card from Aunt Shirley-congratulations on my new job. Thank you so much. It meant a lot to me to receive that card!
We have been engaged for one year now and lucky for me my engagement ring was at the store getting fixed for our anniversary! They tightened a side diamond about six months ago, but in the process of fixing it, made it stick out even more and has been catching on things. Needless to say, it was loose again and I told them they had to send it in this time that I would not allow them just to tighten it and still have it catching. I got it back today and it looks great! Ryan bought me some flowers for Valentine's and a giftcard to Starbucks. Since I was so preoccupied with getting internship apps. mailed out, I didn't get him anything. Still looking...

Good news...My internship applications are out and distrubuted! Hooray! Ryan mailed them for me on Monday. That was a HUGE weight off of my shoulders. I have a lot of homework assginments that are still keeping me busy, but having the apps. gone is one less thing to worry about. Now it is all up to them to determine if I am good enough for their program.

Incase you have not heard, Ryan and I "adopted" a kitten. She has been running aroung our neighborhood for several weeks and sittingin our windows early in the morning so I have seen her plenty. I think she had owners, but she had no collar, almost got hit a couple fo times because she was allowed to just run around the streets, and they were not feeding her. She was just bones when we took her in. Honestly, I don't even think they care that she is gone. We have not had anyone knocking on the doors looking for her or missing posters hung by the mailboxes. So I think it was better for both parties! As far as I know, when Allison moves up here in May, Scarlett will be her cat. Scarlett won't make the long trip home to Houston with us.
She is really cute though and looks just like our old cat Jaz. Of course, I KNOW this one is a girl. {For those of you who don't know, I picked out Jaz from a friend of mine, thinking it was a girl because it had nipples(I was in elementary school still). I named the kitten Jasmine but then after a couple of months we realized it was a boy and had to start calling HIM Jaz. } Apparently Scarlett isn't as young as we thought and about a week after we took her in, she started doing this weird cry/calling, rubbing her butt onto things and doing a pedal like motion with her legs when you would pet her above the tail. So, one night Ryan and I are playing with her and when he picks her up, I see a bubble on her female area!!! I guess when I was younger I didn't know what the cats were doing, but after looking some information up on the internet, I have no doubt...Bobbie WAS in heat(an old cat), Scarlett was going through the same thing and I was such a sheltered child!! :) Ryan and I laughed for a while about it because he never had had a cat so he didn't know what was going on either. Scarlett has since stopped all the crazy behavior and is a sweet, and usually pretty obediant cat.

Work has been great. I actually come home in a good mood, want to do some homework, will cook supper and then relax! I am actually counseling clients on my own now and loving it. This job has a lot more down time that I am not used to, but am easily finding ways to occupy the time and enjoy if for what it is.

Back to the homework for me. I am trying to finish a big project I have this week, finish three outlines for the whole week and then catch up with my correspondence course. Wish me luck that my throat doesn't keep me away from all fo this!