Long time no post

So, I have been debating about whether to maintain a blog or not....I am not the world's best blogger. I enjoy blogging, but I feel that no one reads it, so if you are reading this, please, I implore you, leave a comment of some sort!!

Halloween is tomorrow and I have no freaking idea what to dress up as....I really don't want to spend a great deal of money on a costume, but I want to be something....please help!!

Short Week!

After a crazy weekend, I am thankful for a short work week. The only downside for this short week is that on Thursday, I have to go to Professional development all day long. I really don't understand why....we are forced to go....even told that we can be fired if we don't go. Now, do the powers that be really think we are going to get anything out of forced professional development. It is also my understanding that Tulsa is one of the only district that is required to go to these professional developments. The only plus side is that the professional development I am going to has been paid for by my school.
Friday night I rode to Norman with two of the girls from my cohort to meed with our advisor. Can you believe it is already time for me to begin the process of selecting my dissertation committee?!? It seems so far away, yet it is extremely close. What am I going to do with myself when I am not going to school all the time? So, in addition to all the homework I have for this semester, I must begin all the paperwork and selection processes for my advisory committee!! Just 2 and half years to go!!

Still No Samson

It has been two and half weeks and still no Samson. I have exhausted almost every resource to locate my puppy, yet it seems my quest is in vain. I pray every night that he will be sitting on my back porch when I pull in the driveway from work. Mae has been mourning for about a week now. She refuses to get off Samson's blanket when it is time to go to work. She sleeps on it all day and lays beside his toys(they are still scattered around the house where he left them....I just don't have the heart to pick them up). It is really sad, but I equate this to losing a child. I feel that if I pick up his toys, he will think I have forgotten him. Silly, I know, but Samson, Mae and I were a little family. We had routines and procedures(hello Harry Wong) and now that he is not here, it seems wrong to do those things. I just pray that where ever Samson is, he is being taken care of and loved. I know that because all dogs go to heaven, I will see him again, but it just sucks....I miss him a lot and even now as I am writing this at 10:45 at night I am crying as I think about how much I miss him. I know God has a reason, I just wish I could understand it.