SHOO Flay ta dah!

I found out Friday that I am the recipient of the Shuflata (pronounced Shoo-flay-tuh) Master's Fellowship Award for the 2008-2009 academic year. Its an annual scholarship presented by the history department at UNO to one graduate student just starting the writing of their master's thesis. The Shuflata family has set up an annual gift fund and the department votes. This year, they voted for me!!! Woo-hoo! We're in the money.... I mean, not so much... if only they could award us 19 more of those scholarships, we could pay off our dental school loans. :) But, the real award is the prestige and honor it will bring to my Curriculum Vitae. I am deeply grateful and honored.

Skatedaze...

I went rollerskating last week for our Faith in God activity! It was the Elmwood and Rockbrook wards combined. Several of the girls hurt themselves badly and needed ice packs, but overall we had a great time. I hadn't done that in what, 25 years!? Peter and I like to rollerblade on various trails outside, which is very different from skating endlessly around in a circle with loud music and punky teenage boys twirling in circles around you. I have a great calling.

Me in the arms of another man...

This is Jake. He's 6'8" and Meredith's husband. Sooo..... Peter absolutely hates our url address: princess and pete. He doesn't want to give out our blog to anybody he knows because his wife's choice on the address is .... how you say - LAME!? Admittedly... it wasn't first or second or ninth choice, but I was playing around, and them boom, it was too late b/c blogger accepted it. Wonder why? Because nobody else would be so cheezy. :) Can't we just start over? Sorry Peter. I'm now in the arms of another man who doesn't think I'm cheezy. Sure, he's my sister's husband, but I needed comfort.