easy as cake!

... whatev. I'll get more into that in a second.

Little Sister is graduating from college tomorrow and I couldn't be prouder. She will be receiving her degree in Elementary Education with an emphasis in math.

So ... Little Sister graduates from college and she wants a party. Family sets out to plan a small graduation fiesta. Nothing fancy ... a few hotdogs, some yummy side items {which I probably won't eat ...}, some balloons, and a cake. A graduation cake, to be specific. Big Sister gets the bright idea to NOT order the graduation cake. No, Big Sister will MAKE the cake herself {'I will build her a cake!'}. So, build her a cake I did. I bought the necessary supplies at the only retailer on the planet the other day and this evening Festus the Wonder Dog and I baked Sally the College Graduate a graduation cake. {No, no ... he didn't really bake [he's too good for that], but he did supervise my decorations ...} At any rate, Little Sister now has a cake and Mom is going to make all kinds of yummy foods in the morning and then we will head for Wise for the Commencement Shindig. It will be a great day and I shall post pictures tomorrow evening if I have any energy left at all. But I am a proud Big Sister indeed. : ]

As a critically acclaimed reporter from 'Weekend Update' once said, 'Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow!'

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... and, since I am in academia and am obligated to uphold all standards of professionalism and academic integrity, I am giving credit for the title of this blog to one Ms. Stevie Nicks as found in the lyrics of one of her numerous artistic masterpieces, 'Sweet Girl'.

testing ... 1, 2, 3

hmmm ... so this is the blog world, eh?

I thought that I would venture into this venue after reading some of Jen's entries {one of my best friends} chronicling her current journey into southeast Asia. You can follow her adventures here.

I've never really visited the realm of bloggery before, but I thought that I would try this out. I'm going to go ahead and let you know now, should anybody happen to stumble across this blog, that my life isn't incredibly exciting. It is wonderful, to be sure, but you probably won't find anything too crazily exotic here.

So, here we go. I'm going to try this thing out.

I'll post more soon, this blog-creation was quite spontaneous and I don't exactly have a tremendous amount of time to reflect and write.

Quick recap of recent and soon-to-be-forthcoming events ... hmm ... the Spring 2010 semester has finally shifted itself into the park position {and thank God for that}. Commencement was this past Saturday. Mother's Day was on Sunday -- we all had a really nice day with Mom. We are so blessed that God surrounded her with His angels on November 12th, 2009 when she was involved in that horrible car wreck. She and Dad weren't feeling so great, but I think that it was a good day, overall. I'm currently on summer vacay, if you can call it that. Two of my best friends departed the US of A {on the same day!} to go on incredible journeys in Asia and Brazil. My little sister, Sally, is graduating from UVa-Wise this Saturday -- I am so very, very proud of her! I am venturing to Knoxville next week for an ACA advisory group meeting about foreign language acquisition and sharing resources. Will probably spend quite a bit of time the next couple of weeks hanging out with Mom, Dad, and Festus the Wonder Dog and helping them out with some projects. Summer I session starts at the beginning of June. In the midst of weeding through résumés for someone to take my spot here at Pikeville for a year or so because ... I'm heading back to OH-IO in August! Gonna do the PhD thing for a while ...

So ... I guess that's pretty much it for now. Happy wishes for a wonderful day to all!