Mr. Darcy loves Elizabeth, but he likes Ariel, too.

I've been working on a paper for Banned Books and Novel Ideas, so I haven't been able to blog since Friday.  But, a lot has happened since then!  To begin, Isla has started walking and I finally got to see it for myself when I woke up Saturday morning- a great start to what turned out to be a fantastic day!

After feeding Isla breakfast, Isidro and I went to drop her off with my aunt (her nani), Ann.  I have hardly seen Ann since I moved in, so it was great getting to see her.  After dropping Isla off, we went to meet Hallie at the salon and went to get lunch at Dirty's, which never fails to impress.

Later in the afternoon, I met Elly at the Texas Book Festival.  We sat went to a couple of the discussions: "For Your Next Book Club" and "Families in Crisis."  The second discussion was much more interesting.  It featured three authors, who wrote books about families in different situations.  There were two that I was kind of interested in reading.  One, Man Alive by Mary Kay Zuravleff, was about a neurological pathologist who gets stuck by lightning and starts acting like his teenage patients.  The other, At the Bottom of Everything by Ben Dolnick, was about two best friends who have grown apart.

 After I got back to the dorm, I saw Karen and we decided to go to the pumpkin patch :)  We drove over to the Tarrytown United Methodist Church and found a pumpkin for mine and Sara's room and two little ones for Madlin and Elly.

My Man, The Scarecrow

Afterwards, I introduced Karen to my favorite cafe, Mozart's.

I drove home that night, since the game kept getting delayed, and saw my family.  The next morning, I worked in the nursery at church, but I didn't have any kids.  Afterwards I babysat for a family that I babysat for all summer, the McDavids.  I got to watch Josie and another girl, Ellen, that I watched when I worked at the preschool.  It was fun getting to work with kids again, and I got to watch The Incredibles again.  It's Josie's favorite, so I've seen it at least six times since last June.

I didn't think I was going to get to see Christina, but she texted me just before I was going to head home.  I got to see her and Mallory :)

Then of course, I got to see Sara when I got back to the dorm.  We both went home this weekend, so I hadn't seen her since Friday afternoon.

I had a registration advising appointment first thing this morning.  My advisor is super nice and helpful! I already had most of my classes picked out, but she gave me some advise for picking my first upper-division English course.  Then I pretty much worked on finishing my essay all day.

Once I submitted it, I fell asleep on the floor in our dorm.  My bed was unusually cluttered, and I was super tired.  When I woke up from my nap, I went with Sara and Kristynn to HEB to get groceries, and Sara and I got fishies!!!  We each picked out one of the big-eyed goldfish.  Mine is the yellow one.  I named him Mr. Darcy.  Sara's is tentatively named Ariel.  Aren't they cute!?

Figuring out those directions!

#teamwork

Thanks for the plants, Kristynn

Freeing the fishes

Mine is the yellow/white one and Sara's is the orange

Karen and Kristynn helped us to set up the tank and get the fishies "moved in."  Then we sat down for another classy dorm dinner.  We were finally able to have a centerpiece since our plants looking lively.

With the addition of the fishies, I think our room is finally complete.  Garden, fish, TV, microwave, fridge, Keurig, a stack of books, coffee mugs, owls, fall decorations, a picture of Mallory and me, another picture of Sara's best friend's dog, artwork by Isla and Monet, and an African mask- yep, it's complete and I love it!  It really feels like home.

Well, goodnight everybody.  I'm glad to be back on Blogger!

P.S.  I'm obsessing over the song, "Meet Virginia" right now, so you guys should give it a listen.  Really, I'm obsessed with all of Train's songs at the moment!