Hello 2008!

Today we're back home after spending the past two nights in Washington DC. One of my Christmas gifts to Peter this year was a New Year's Eve mini-vacation. We stayed at the Embassy Suites, one of our favorite DC hotels because it's in a great spot and they have wonderful breakfasts and went to the Kennedy Center to hear the National Symphony Orchestra before going to their Grand Foyer After Party to count down to the new year with Champagne. The mini-vacay was absolutely wonderful - just the time away we needed together after being so busy over the holiday break. Tomorrow, I'll have to share some of my favorite pics from the trip.

I have some happy scrapping news - Andrea Burns asked me to be a guest creative team (ct) member for January, woohoo! I haven't been on a CT for a long time and I really admire her work - especially her photography. I started working with her and Amber Clegg's Glorious kit today and have finished two layouts so far. It's absolutely beautiful!

Credits can be seen here and here.

Tomorrow, my Mom is coming to visit. I'm not sure what we're doing yet - maybe shopping, but I really don't have any more room in my closet, so I'd rather see a movie - hopefully that will work out. I'm also doing some more work on my doctorate dissertation proposal tomorrow. I plan on submitting that to my advisor in the next few days. Oh, and I'm going to the gym. My lazy self is going to the gym. I have to go. Embassy Suites breakfasts were too good, haha.

I've never actually written down any New Year's resolutions, so I thought I would this year. My resolutions for 2008 are:

1. To be more consistent with working out- at least 4 days per week for 45 minutes plus.

2. To finish my dissertation and to graduate this year - with May being my primary goal for graduation.

3. To finally learn at least some conversational Czech so I don't look like an absolute idiot to my in-laws when we visit Prague this Easter.

4. To blog more. I think this will help my scrapping too because I'll have a consistent source for my journaling.

Time to kick my sleeping cats up and do a bit of reading in bed before sleeping.