Joshua and I spent the weekend at his parents house - I read and Josh fulfilled his dream of being a lumberjack, splitting wood ALL day Saturday for his parents. Thus, it was a nice weekend. I read on the porch to the quiet country sound of the hydraulic wood splitter and Josh enjoyed some manual labor (for which he is quite sore now). We had planned on brining Mr. Moses along, to visit his grandparents and enjoy some country air. But, we decided at the last minute (when we were 30 minutes away from home with a panting, crying cat) that it wasn't a good idea due to the heat and no a/c in our car. So, we turned around and took him home. We'd never left him alone for a whole weekend before and I was nervous about it. When we rolled in last night around 7pm, I could hear him crying from the bottom of the steps (we live on the third floor!) I ran up and when I opened the door, he ran out because he was so excited to see us. He didn't go far, just right outside the door. He was an attention fiend for the rest of the night (literally, including several times in the middle of the night, when he woke us just because he was desperate for loving). I feel so bad for leaving him alone. I'm a bad mom. I'm sure he will recover, but, still the morning he is going things like lying on the floor at my feet looking up at me pathetically.

In other news, I got my hair cut again. It needed a touch-up and the woman gave me a really great haircut, but I'm afraid that it is high-maintenance. For a girl who never styled her hair on a regular basis for over 4 years, the prospect of having to at least blow-dry it, and for best results, straighten it everytime I was it is a bit disconcerting. The problem is, if I don't straighten it, due to the unrelenting waviness of my hair, it ends up resembling something too close to a mullet for comfort. So, straightening it is.

I regret to inform you that this will probably be my only post for the week. I'm slammed this week with school work. I have a pretty big project due next week in qualitative methods, and that will take up most of my time. In addition, I haven't done a lick of work for my thesis, and my advisor will not be happy about that - so I need to get my butt on the thesis train VERY soon here. Also, the cohabitation post has been suspended until further notice due to the lengthy conversations we've had over at redhurt machine .

I wish you all a great week! Pray for me during this really hectic and stressful time.