Happy Birthday, Kate.

Most of you would know her as the girl that inspired me to teach English overseas. At least now you know her as that, anyway. We went to school together in Abilene, worked together in Abilene, and then went to teach English at Little Genius together. Little did we know that we were friends from way back. Oh, and there was the super fun ski trip to Red River. There have been many other great times too, but that's been one of the best.
This post doesn't make sense so you'll have to go to her blog: http://generalchemistrylaboratory.blogspot.com/ . I love this!!!

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Spring is finally here!! All the trees and flowers are blooming. Allergy season has arrived. So far I haven't had any problems, except for hating the smell of the pretty little purple weed. Is that an allergy? So I've opened the windows tonight, but my dad just closed them as the neighbors smoke and it smells like a "cigarette factory" outside. Bring on the fresh air, cigarette smoke and all, I say!!! After this job, I've become desensitized to the smell of cigarette smoke.

I'm in the process of making plans for going to Monroe. I have a lead on an apartment, but haven't started looking hard yet. Still waiting to hear back about financial aid, but I'm officially registered for classes. More than school right now I'm looking forward to all the summer traveling I get to do. First Cindy and Brad's wedding -- really looking forward to that! Then at the end of June is a family reunion/camping trip in West Virginia. I haven't seen some family on my dad's side in several years. so I'm very excited about that. Time for me to get to know some cousins better! Red Mountain is after that, which will be a blast! Then the move south. All within the next 4 months.

I've been using a lot of "quotation marks" and exclamation points!!! More than I usually "do"!! So, the question is, what are your writing pet peeves? I can't stand overuse of exclamation points!!!!