Good Ole Family Time

Today was an amazing day.

I woke up at about 1000 from Mom asking me if I wanted to go get breakfast with her and Dad. I threw on some clothes and we headed over to Wegman's. Nominally Wegman's is a grocery store but they have a coffee bar and some take out food areas (I don't care what anyone says, suburbia has its definite strong points)...

Anyway, we got some food, and sat around talking for awhile. Then Dad and I picked out a prime rib to fix tonight for a Mother's Day dinner.

We came home and I just layed around reading for awhile, and then requested my last final exam. (It's a take home, but we only get it for 24 hours, so we have to e-mail the professor asking for it.) The professor sent me the exam and I proceeded to ignore it, and instead did some more reading and took a nap. When I woke up I put in about an hour's work of worth and then helped Dad cook dinner. I made pasta and sauteed a bunch of vegetables, and made some salad...thankfully Dad stopped trying to make me set the table years ago.

Dinner was good, too. The prime rib turned out perfectly...mmm. Mom and Dad let me have wine with them, which was something new...Dad would only let me have one glass though, since I don't have my essay done yet and I need to finish up tonight. (He wasn't impressed when I told him that graph theory homework always went better with a drink or two, but layed off when I told him I got A's on all the homeworks...)

So, we finished up eating, and then Dad and I cleaned up, and now I'm stretched out on the sofa in the living room listening to music (mmmmm Elton John) and working up the interest level to finish writing about the UN and International Organizations.

Overall, today was a completely normal day, and really that's what made it so awesome. Everyone was in such a good mood; I had a really good talk with my brother last night; I'm nearly done with the semester...these are the things I try to hold dear and look back on when things get hectic and unfun.

Summer is nearly here. 6 more pages and I'm golden...eeeee!!!