Life Around These Parts

Why am I so bad about updating my blog this year? Honestly. My bad. Here are the updates for the past couple weeks in the Harris family's life.

Lish went into work a couple weeks ago for his internship job. School was out and everyone was just preparing for the fall semester, so he didn't really have to go in, but he thought it'd be a good idea, just in case something came up. While he was there, a secretary came into his office and said, "I thought you weren't teaching this fall."

"I'm not. That's what I was told."

"Well, we have your name on the schedule for teaching the intro class again. You might want to go ask someone about it."

Long-ish story shortened, Lish was on the schedule to teach this fall, but he's in charge of working in the internship office as well. They told him that if he does teach, not only will he get paid extra for teaching, but he'd get some award money from another teaching award that he won. Had he not taught this semester, he would get paid what he initially expected, but he wouldn't have gotten the money from that award. So, he's teaching again for these fall and spring semesters, which means he got a raise. Yay!

With the raise and having thought about this for over a year, we went out and bought a new TV. We love it. It's a 42" plasma screen. It's beautiful.My birthday came and went. I'm in my mid-20's now. That's weird to me. Good, but weird. Lish woke up early and made me breakfast. I headed into work, and when I got home we went out to dinner with some friends. Lish made me dinner the next night and it was delicious. So it was kind of like a 2 day celebration. We didn't do too much, but I was so worn out from work, so I was okay with that.
My little sister moved up to college last week. It's so weird. She's growing up so fast, which means I'm growing up so fast. I thought time wasn't supposed to get away from you like this until you were in your 50's or 60's. Why does it seem to be happening already? Anyway, she seems to be loving it. She's living in the dorms with her best friend, and although she feels overwhelmed about school right now, I know she'll do great!
Back to Lish stuff. He's starting the application process for jobs. The job market is looking much better than it was last year, which is great! It's fun for us to think that we'll be moving on to the next stage of our lives soon. He isn't being picky about where he's applying because we just want to make sure he gets a job. We both would love to move back out west so we could be closer to family, but as of right now, most of the jobs listed are on the east coast. We're okay with that too, just as long as where we live isn't as hard to get to as Tallahassee is. Anyway, he's busy working on that and continuing to do his dissertation.

Besides those few things, life is just about as normal as it can get. We love the experiences we have here in Florida and we love getting to spend so much time together. It's a good thing we like each other.

Finally, an Update!

We, the Harris duo, have been slacking on our updates. Remember when we used to do them weekly? Well, we've broken that, haven't we? Lish has been busy and so have I, but I've also been lazy.

Anyway, I thought, what better time to do an update than now? The longer we put it off, the more I'll not want to get around to it with so much to catch up on. Then as I continued this thought, I remembered we don't have much to catch up on to this point anyway. But we're both alive and well and that's a good thing to report.

Lish has been keeping himself ultra busy. He's taking his comprehensive exams at the end of the month! I can't believe they're coming up so quickly, and neither can he, but he's looking forward to the day when he knows he's passed them and doesn't have to worry about them ever again! While he is busy studying for these exams, he's also having to keep up with his coursework. He's taking 2 other classes on campus, plus the one that he's teaching. I don't know how he gets everything done during the day and still has time to hang out with me in the evenings and do the laundry. He never ceases to amaze me. He's participating in a city league basketball team again, and they've been doing well. The only losses they've had have all been to the same team, so we're also looking forward to the day when we've given them a lesson in humility! He's enjoying playing and it's a nice release for him. It's fun to watch him play.

I've been busy at work (except for right now, which is why I'm writing this post). We've been out of a receptionist since the very beginning of February, but my bosses have finally hired someone and she starts on Monday. I'm excited to not be getting pulled in so many different directions. Our patient load has been increasing too, which is a great thing. When I get home from work though, I usually don't want to do much, hence the laziness factor. I'm continuing to go to my ballet classes once a week, and I'm loving it! Dancing really is one of my biggest passions.

We're both doing well with our church callings. I just gave another talk in Sacrament about a week and a half ago, which went over well. For those of you wondering, Jazz is doing well too. With the weather starting to warm up, she's been shedding, which is gross. She's getting her haircut next week though, so that will help. We enjoy having her around!

We really haven't done much else. Our lives are pretty regular and routine around here these days. We're happy and healthy, so no complaints. We hope everyone else is doing well also. We love you all!

Seriously, it's December?

Hey all! Life has been getting busy, with the holidays here and finals coming up. It's been great! I love this time of year and I hope Lish will learn to love it as much as I do someday, or at least half as much.

I guess it's been a few weeks since we wrote last. Lish had his conference up in St. Louis, and lucky for me, it was a shorter trip than we had originally planned. He had a good time up there though, catching up with his friend from Kentucky, Jim Kanaan, and getting to meet some new people. He told me it kind of gets boring because you don't really know anybody, but it's such a great way to make some contacts. He got some nice compliments from people who want him to apply for teaching positions at their school, so that's always flattering. Since the conference he's been busy doing research papers and other projects for his classes. After this week though, his load will lighten up quite a bit I think.

While Lish was gone at his conference, I didn't do much. It was nice to just relax and have Jazz to hang out with. I finished sewing our Christmas stockings, which was a fun project to work on. Things at work were pretty busy in November, but we've since discharged a lot of patients and haven't been getting as many referrals, but we're still keeping fairly active. I must say though, it was nice to have a long weekend last week. I was in dire need of one.

For the Thanksgiving holiday, Lish and I made a trip down to Jupiter, FL to visit his grandparents. We got to see his cousins, Andrea and Robyn, and their families, and his Aunt and Uncle. It was great to be with family again (especially since I had only met Andrea and Robyn once)! We got to sleep in, exercise, eat lots of wonderful food, go to the beach, eat some more, watch football, go to a museum, watch the new Bond movie, and eat some more. We had a really nice time and the weather was amazing!

This week we're just getting things checked off of our to-do list before we head out for the holidays. We hope everyone else is doing well and can't wait to see some of you in just a few weeks! Take care and keep us updated on life!