All the pressure from the past week? It’s practically gone. This week will still be busy, but I can see how I possibly can get everything I need to done. And starting Tuesday night?

It’ll be a week long party.

I just hope I’ll have enough energy by then!

This weekend was incredible. I can only thank God that I got everything done that I did, because I have never written papers in so little time before.
Friday I went grocery shopping, went clothes shopping (needed some essentials for graduation), went Christmas shopping, wrote my last 2 Sunday school lessons (it was my internship this semester for class) as well as a couple of pages for my smaller paper while I was babysitting.

Saturday I finished my smaller paper, went a baby shower, re-wired the dryer, did 3 loads of laundry, cleaned my room, wrote several pages on my long paper, cleaned up a mini-flood, and rooted for my national-championship-bound Sooners.

Sunday I attended church, finished memorizing Titus 2:1-3:11, wrote on my paper, cleaned up a minier-flood, went back to church, and came home and finished that paper. Yesterday afternoon I actually wrote 5 pages of one of my papers in an hour. I’ve never written a paper that fast. I’m more in the 1-page an hour with a break, 2-page an hour without a break type of gal.

You’ve been keeping count with me, that’s my last paper of the semester, of the year, of my masters, and of my entire career as a student. I almost teared up when I put the finishing touches, and then I thought better of it.

Hmm, seems like I had something else to say. You may have a question in your head if you’ve actually read the whole post semi-carefully: “cleaned up a mini-flood,” “cleaned up a minier-flood,” what is that all about?

Yes, I had to clean up a couple of small floods this weekend. We’ve been without a washer and dryer in our apartment since August when our old roommate came back from visiting her parents for the summer and needed her washer and dryer for her new place. We’ve made due by visiting friends with baskets of laundry in our hands and making a few costly trips to the laundromat (why in the world should it cost $4 to wash and dry a load of clothes?). But this week we finally have a washer and dryer to call our own. Okay, to call my roommate’s own. She paid for them.

For whatever reason, the washer is really shaky, so shaky that it knocked the water return hose loose while I was doing a load yesterday. Water flooded the entire laundry closet about half an inch deep. It made me vaguely reminiscent to when our entire apartment had at least that much water in it last year. After getting the water to stop pouring out, I was able to mop up most of the water with about 6 towels or so. The rest of it dryed up pretty quickly as it was warm in their and it’s winter, so our apartment is pretty dry. I put those back in place as far as it would go, and thought we’d be good.

Not so. The same exact thing happened yesterday afternoon, ironically while I washing the towels I used to mop up the first accident. There is a learning curve to such things, though, and I was much quicker to respond and clean up. It only took 3 towels this time around. From now on, it looks like we’re going to have to make sure to push down the hose with each load, or we’re going to have more floods.

Anyway, I’m entirely sorry that this post is rather rambly. Maybe those papers took all my writing skills. Regardless, I’m going to refrain from posting until I am completely done with my school work tomorrow night. The last thing I have is a final at 6:30 tomorrow night, so by 8:00, I’ll be a free woman! Don’t expect a post right then, though, because I might just have to out and celebrate. =)