Labor Day rocks

Hello everyone and welcome to the first day of a lovely long weekend! I am especially excited today because I got off work at noon and my parents are coming to visit me. In fact, they should be arriving in the next 30-45 minutes - yea! I haven't seen them since...well, about a month ago. I miss them. Yes, I know, I should grow up. After all, I am a married woman now and I live in another city and have my own life. But I love getting to see them! So I'm excited. I've been cleaning all afternoon, and Derek has been cleaning all week! Not that our house is a mess or anything, but we kind of let it go unless someone is coming over, you know? C'mon, you know what I mean!

I have a lot of homework to do, though. I have three books to read for next week - big ones too! I know that I have had similar workloads in the past, but I often would slack off and not read the whole thing, and later felt bad about that afterwards. Well, this semester, I really want to try and read the whole thing and learn as much as I can from these books. I mean, I'm sure our professors assign them for a reason, right? Just keep telling yourself that, Mare...but seriously, I do want to do a good job this semester and learn as much as I can. I'm getting near to the end already - after this semester, I'll only have like one more semester of real classwork, and then just comps after that. I can't believe it's already over halfway over! Grad school is a lot quicker than undergrad! But honestly, I'm ready to be done with it already, so I'm glad it's going fast.

Those are my thoughts at the moment. I'm going to go make one last run-through before the 'rents get here. Have a great holiday weekend, everyone!