"let me explain...

No, there is too much, let me sum up" (from the Princess Bride :) So, I have been a blog slacker as of late, I guess I have just been having too much fun. :) Anyway, here is a much needed update.

So, my birthday was great. I got a ton of calls, text messages, emails, myspace and facebook posts. It was so great to hear from everybody. Michael took me to see Sex and the City and out to dinner on friday. we had a great time. then, on saturday, we had a lot of fun spending time with my parents, sis, and gabe. Also the ceiling fan outside has been wonderful. It took some jimmying (sp?) to get it to fit right, but it is up and working now. thanks michael, dad and gabe for all your hard work. Sunday, we spent relaxing and maxing. I did a bit of studying, but not that much considering it was a 3 day weekend. Good times all around.

In other big news, our dishwasher broke. I have been hoping that it would break since we moved in because it is old and we have a home warranty so I wanted to get a new one. well, my wish came true. we had the warranty people come out to check it out and they said it could be fixed, but it is the motor that is broken, so it will cost $260 to fix it. they said they will fix it or just give us that money to put towards a new washing machine. Also, they said we can buy the washing machine through them with their discount and at manufacturers price and they will deliver it to the house. So, after MUCH research, we finally found the dishwasher we wanted and one they had available. So, it is a GE with a stainless steel tub, pretty fancy. so, it sells for about $850 at bestbuy and we got it delivered to the house for $300 out of pocket. what a deal. So, michael and dad installed it this tuesday and it works great. michael and i usually rinse our dishes before we put them in the dishwasher which means we basically clean them before the dishwasher cleans them. So, we took the dishwasher for a trial run last night to see if we don't have to wash our dishes twice and it worked. we had a dish with bbq sauce dried on it and it cleaned it right off. all the dishes look very clean. it is also super quiet. all that hard research work paid off!!

Michael's sister (Lani) and brother (Chris) came into town this week for a few job interviews Lani had. She is trying to move to Dallas, but wants to find a job first. I only got to see them in the evening after work, but it was fun to hang out with them.

On the jackfruit front, when I was visiting my parents on sunday, we had scallops and jackfruit chutney. it was delicious. the first good jackfruit dish. congrats mom and dad!!!! well, my mom took me shopping for clothes on sunday as my birthday gift. we had a great time and i got some really cute new clothes. I am wearing one of the outfits today and i have gotten a million compliments on it today. Thanks, mom and dad.

In school news, it seems that the sociology course i was going to take this fall has changed topics and is no longer related to my dissertation topic, so i have to find a new course to take in the fall. if i cant find another course, i might just stick with doing the statistics course and a tutorial and leave it at that for the fall. i really want to be able to focus on stats without getting too overwhelmed with other courses. I did pick a dissertation committee chair. I asked the professor i have been working on the research with and she said she would be glad to be my chair, so that is great.

One final bit of information, yesterday was Michael and I's 3 year anniversary. 3 wonderful years of marriage. They have definitely been the best 3 years of my life and I am sure there are plenty more where that came from. thank you all for your well wishes on our anniversary. michael sent me beautiful roses at work. i love them. i got him a gift, but haven't given it to him yet, so i cant write what it is in case he is reading. :) also, we are going to the oceanaire on saturday to celebrate. It is this delicious seafood place in dallas, i will keep you posted on how delicious it really is. well, that is all for now.