Makes it all worthwhile

Being a working Mom, a good wife and trying to get an honors masters degree all at the same time often feels as though I'm visiting some psycho sadomasochist fetish on myself. Nights like last Monday when I was up until almost 2 am busting my brain over this paper come to mind. J' stayed up with me as long as he could doing his best to talk me out of throwing in the towel — it's much appreciated, Muffin, cause I did well and want to go sleep.

I'm glad he pushed me to complete it though because the paper counts for 17 points out of the 100 for the course. I felt terrible the next morning because I was sure I was going to get a depressing grade, but instead I opened my grade book today to see something that makes all the pain and sacrifice worthwhile:

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The List (Dec. 2007 Outcome)

Figured I should look back and see what went down for my Christmas 2007 list:

• No Wii — But I did get awesome crimson on black DS with Brain Age 2 and the Sims 2 Castaways! All thanks to J'. He even teamed up with our old neighbors and friends who got me a sexy black hard case to match! I was running around the house screaming like a little child. Moo Moo was looking so confused, poor baby LOL
• J Crew pea coat — Thanks Dee! It was right in the palm of your hand but they didn't have my size. You're a terrific friend, good looking out! *hugs*
• Sweaters and/or shirts from Long Elegant Legs or Express — Well, LEL's sale prices are a joke and the Express at our mall closed down. So there went that.
• No watch — I found the one I thought I'd lost squished in Moo's car seat two days after I made that blog post.
• No Puma Sprints — The ones I like are apparently only sold in Europe. Go figure.
• As for the makeup — What a joke! So I find back the makeup that was originally missing, only to come down with an eye infection and have to throw out half of that plus most of the new makeup that I'd bought to replace what I thought I'd lost! And I had to throw away my very good brushes. Talk about upset. I'm now eyeing some Bare Minerals but why on earth does this stuff have to be so darned expensive?!
  

Mi feel shame...

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Happy 200GR8!

And to kick things off with some good belly laughs, here are Fark.com's top headlines from 2007:

HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: Bear attack victim had 'tender heart,' according to friends, family, bear

Runner-up: Man who beat his girlfriend with a flashlight charged with assault. Flashlight charged with battery


SPORTS HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro downgraded from Spalding to Elmer's

Runner-up: Skiing champion killed after sudden encounter with a tree, the great white shark of the ski slopes


GEEK HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: Scientists develop an adhesive so powerful it could stick a criminal charge on a rich white guy

Runner-up: Today may or may not be Erwin Shrödinger's birthday


SHOWBIZ HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: CSI team currently at Anna Nicole Smith residence in the Bahamas. After turning on special light that illuminates semen, the house could be seen from space

Runner-up: Congratulations to Larry Birkhead, winner of the 2007 Anna Nicole Smith Vaginal Dumpster Invitational


WORDPLAY/PUN HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: Mom wants schools to ban books filled with sin. There goes my trigonometry textbook

Runner-up: Bingo hall worker B-10 and robbed


POLITICS HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: Barack Obama campaigned door-to-door in Iowa on Saturday. In other news, Des Moines police report that they have received a large number of calls from frightened residents claiming there is a black man standing on their porch

Runner-up: Japanese lesbian begins run for parliament purple monkey dishwasher I once killed a man. Let's face it, you stopped reading this headline after the first two words