What's a 5:00am post look like? This.

Well, it is a little past 5:00am, and I am already dressed and ready to go to work. It is a little early, even for me, but Brady decided it was time to get up, and so we did. Let's see, here is what has been going on with me since I last posted:

1. I've gotten just about all my Christmas shopping done, and everything is wrapped. (Thank you, Supterintendent, for that wonderful Friday off).

2. I've started thinking about what I'll do on my vacation next week. Some of the leading choices are: Spending time with Brady & Erica, finishing my kitcken counters, and maybe even painting my stairs and hallway. Hmmm...doesn't that sound like fun!

3. I've come to the conclusion that I need to stop teaching seniors (which is all I have this semester). While I enjoy the fact that I can treat them like adults, they just don't act like them! I've had better behaved freshman classes.

4. I came to the conclusion last week that I need to invest in a snow blower. Shoveling a foot of snow off my driveway just isn't fun! Perhaps I'll look for one next week.

5. I opened Brady's first bank account up. He is now a legal financial entity.

6. Patriots again this year? They've started to kick things up a notch these past few weeks. If they keep this up, they might have as good a chance as any of the other playoff teams for making the Super Bowl. Oh wouldn't it be great, too, to see Indy's streak end with the Pats.

7. I was secretly hoping for a Pats-Dallas Super Bowl. How cool would it have been to see Brady vs. Drew, little Bill vs. Big Bill. The networks would have LOVED it. Oh well, maybe next year.

8. I actually watched Bush's propaganda speech last night to drum up support for the war. I knew it was going to be a waste of my time, but I couldn't reach the remote, and I was waiting for National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation to start. Its funny, after three years in Iraq, he has still yet to come up with a good reason why we went there in the first place, and why the helll we can't just leave now. AT least put together a plan of exit, anyway.

9. Speaking of Iraq, my brother has been there now for a few missions. Not sure if he was involved at all in the recent vote, but since we haven't heard from him lately, I'd say he likely was. He's got to figure out what he'd like to do next. He was saying possibly a year in Korea. AT least that would potentially be a little safer than where he is now.

10. And finally, not for nothing, but I'd like to give a little shout out to my mother, her brother, and her parents, who recently celebrated their 43rd anniversary of coming to America. Yep, don't know what you were all doing on December 17th, 1962, but they were waiting in a customs line to get their visas stamped. Congratulations!