Our dog is SO weird!

We love our dog. We love all the compliments we get on our dog, especially that people think she's a miniature Irish Wolfhound. But our dog is nuts.

1. She loves spicy food. She'll steal hot sauce from me when she gets the chance, and is not deterred by the pretty high amounts of red pepper that happens with some dishes.
2. She LOVES getting sprayed by the water bottle. We're hoping to take a video later. It's supposed to be a deterrent, but she keeps trying to get us to spray it so she can drink from it.
3. She has no idea that she's not tiny.
4. She thinks cats should want to play with her. She really doesn't understand that cats don't like it when you sniff their rear ends.
5. She starts eating all her food she's spilled as soon as I start vacuuming it. But, if the vacuum is anywhere else near her, she runs away in terror. Or, drops her tennis ball on it.

But that's okay, because she lets me dress her up, move her around, carry her, and just in general make her move when she's in the way. Plus, while it drives me nuts, it's really cute that she comes over when I'm studying to make me play with her. :-)

She's definitely our baby girl.

This semester is a hot mess.

I have been awful about updating, but it's been insanely busy! We just got through our exam week (which was really a couple weeks of just non-stop exams and projects). Well, "just"-- it ended Monday. In addition to the exams, Rosie got sick randomly with a stomach bug, so we spent 2 nights in the veterinary ER-- the first night to fix the dehydration and tummy bug, the second to fix what they did the night before. Rosie got a lump from the water from the dehydration fix, so she got some antibiotics, but on Friday I had to take her to the vet yet again, because she couldn't walk at all. It was so sad! I literally had to carry her down the stairs... Then back up the stairs. She felt bad enough that she didn't even wiggle, she just sat in my arms as I carried her up the 4 flights. (It's the one time I really wished she was a tiny puppy.)

I feel like we've been really boring people, but it's been so, so nice to just be able to spend time together and talk! We started watching House Hunters on HGTV.com, and it was so much fun! HGTV and Food Network are pretty much the only things we really miss on Cable, so it was nice to catch up on our shows while I made a weighted snake! (Shown above with Rosie.) I want to make another one-- I apparently really like deep pressure on my shoulders, as it makes my upper traps relax. :-) We have been able to talk about where we want to end up, where we can see ourselves, and where I should look for fieldwork opportunities. It's coming up sooner than one might think!

Dr. Rosie agrees-- the real world is coming soon!

Also, I have the most patient dog ever.

This weekend was our catch-up-on-shopping weekend, so after a breakfast at Cracker Barrel (so much fun!), we went to Tanger Outlet. I am now in LOVE with JCrew, as their regular pants are long enough on me! They fit, too, in the waist, which is amazing. I also got 2 adorable knit tops in orange! I have an orange obsession right now apparently. JCrew has a 15% student discount, so we actually ran home so I could grab my ID before I bought anything. I also grabbed some super cute tops at Ann Taylor, which will be great for fieldwork in a couple weeks. :-)

Rosie decided that Daddy needed cuddle time when he was feeling under the weather. <3

Aside from that, Seth's doing the work thing, and I'm in school. Spring break comes after field work, and my only to-do is to finish The Hunger Games trilogy-- the first book was amazing, and I want to read the rest now! But I'm not allowed to pick them up until break. Books really are my one real addiction in life; I can give up anything else, except maybe music, but books = 100% needed, always.

Reason 145729 we <3 Charleston: It's spring in February, and we have pretty flowers on campus.

And the winter semester begins!

School started a week and a half ago, and thus far, it's been one heck of a semester. 8 a.m.s two days a week, and 8:30's the other two. It makes a girl wish she drank coffee! (And it definitely is a good thing for everyone else I'm near that I don't drink coffee, as anyone who's seen me on caffeine knows!) I actually really love our pathophysiology class, and have even been really enjoying musculo lab. I know that the basis for everything is needed before you get into the fun stuff for applications, but it's still nice to do more practical things now. :-) It just makes me feel like I'm going to be a real OT!

Seth is still doing well at work, and we're loving Charleston. We went to the Charleston Tea Plantation with my parents, and just in general had a lovely time with them as we celebrated Seth's birthday! Although I sadly keep thinking he's a year older he is. I made the mistake of doing bad math, forgetting the time of year when I added, so I am somehow convinced in my subconscious that his 30th birthday is next year. Fortunately, it's not, so there's a better chance that I'll get to spend his 30th b-day with him!

We got a couple last minute Christmas gifts, one of which included Chocolates from Seth's grandmother. I've decided I need to go down with Seth so I can learn how to make the chocolates myself. :-) I'm still madly in love with my Nook Tablet, although I did just order the Hunger Games trilogy in hardback so Seth can read it, too! I read the first one, and the library doesn't have 2 and 3, so I've been desperate to read them. Now I have to wait until next weekend, but still. I am currently a little in love with Peeta. I seriously hope the movies can live up to the book, because I was so ridiculously involved with the first one, and I know 2 and 3 are going to be just as fantabulous.

Although school just started, I am super glad that we have a 3 day weekend this week! Seth and I are enjoying a lazy day today, so tomorrow will be work day after church and grocery shopping. :-) I have a ton of objectives to do, so yay for long weekends to do catch up! Right now we're watching The Italian Job, which is always fun. "I said I had a bad experience!" So funny, every time. <3 Mos Def!

Best of all, we have some tentative plans for over the May break, just us and the Roo! I am ridiculously excited-- we're looking at a cabin in the mountains in North Carolina! We'll hopefully also have a chance to stop by Savannah either over May or over a long weekend while we're down here. I've been missing travelling to new places, as awesome as Charleston is, so I'm really excited to have a chance to go hiking and whatnot. :-)

And that basically covers all that's new in life until fieldwork kicks off.

Cheers,
Cassi