Things are moving along at a fairly brisk pace once again. I'm already in my second week of classes. I think it's going to be a really good semester. I've got 3 classes again, 2 accounting and 1 finance. I'm always a little scared when it comes to finance classes, but I think this one is going to be fine. It is basically discussing all aspects of starting your own business. While I don't have the intestinal fortitude to start my own business, I'm hoping that some day the information I get in this class will help me to help/guide others through the process. The job search will start up again here next week. I never have heard a single peep out of State Farm. I'm hoping that means that I'm at least in their 'pool' of people to hire if a position comes available. But who knows. I'm keeping all kinds of options open and keeping my eye on the newspaper for postings.

Mike and I are headed to Dallas for a long weekend on Friday. We'll be leaving from Champaign before the sun comes up (literally-6:30AM) and coming back on Monday evening. We're going to stay with Beth and Daniel in Champaign to avoid the hour long drive to get to the airport. We're looking forward to hanging out with Gram and PaPa and Mike's Dallas friends.

Since I last posted we had a nice break and lots of fun stuff going on. Mike was able to take off the days between Christmas and New Years, so we had tons of free time. Between both sides of the family, we ended up with seven, yes, seven Christmas celebrations!! We also attended a wedding in there. We went to Chicago for a day to go to the Museum of Science and Industry. There was a special 'Star Wars' exhibit that Mike really wanted to see. For New Years we hung out with friends from small group for dinner and board games. We even introduced them to Pounce while we were at it.

Mike is gearing up to take his P.E. exam in April. He's down to 3 months, so he is starting to really focus his studying time. I know he will be relieved when it's all over.

I think that is about it from this set of Sewells. Hope everyone is doing well!