I'm on the homestretch y'all!

I’m on the homestretch.  I have one paper to write and turn in, my thesis is ready to send to the reader on my thesis committee, and I have a journal left to complete, and that’s it!  Just over a week to go, and I will be an official College graduate!  Barbara is doing much better, I’m able to help out a friend that is having surgery, and I’m beginning to feel like a bona fide grown up.  Look out world!  Here I come!!!!

So seriously, graduation is just around the corner.  My trip to London was cancelled (not enough people L )  so I took the money from that and put a down payment on my new to me truck.  It’s sweet.  I feel so lucky to have found her.  Tinker Bell (and yes, that is my truck’s name) is a bare bones Ford F-250 with every towing feature already on her that I would know to look for.  She has a gas engine and got 14 miles to the gallon first drive out.  I’m impressed. 

It was kind of funny when I went to the car lot.  I was in capris, flip-flops with bling, and a top that matched.  I told the guy I was looking for a Ford pickup and he seemed hesitant to show me Tink because she is just a work truck.  I changed into jeans, t-shirt, and sneakers when I went back to bring her in to my mechanic.  That seemed to make the salesman feel a little better.  The best part of it all?  I got this truck with payments that I can afford on a loan that is less than two years!  I’m thrilled!  God was watching out for me when he sent me to that particular car lot that day.

So, after I graduate, I will have a whopping two weeks to get everything packed up to move to Pipe Creek so that I can be closer to work.  Barbara Ann and I will be moving into the Armadillo house,

 

 it is on acreage, 

backs up to what is a beautiful creek when it rains, has beautiful bluffs,

 and this lovely little office 

away from the house so that I can have a quiet place to work.  Not only will I have a quiet place to work on my writing and illustrating, but it has windows!!!  It has windows!!!!  Okay, so I miss having a window in my office.

So here I am, I graduate soon, have a job to go to, and a new (to me) truck.  I’m going to be a bona-fide grown up (well as close as I'll ever get ;-) ).  I’m on the homestretch y’all!  Cheer me on!