Missing Melissa

Hello faithful readers who probably no longer bother to visit my blog! Yes, I apologize for being AWOL for so very long. If you would like to keep up with the lives of the Linenberger family your best bet would be to catch the sentence or two that I manage to post on Facebook each week. Yep, that's about it.

Oh, and you know those great photos of the boys I took for Christmas? The ones on the nice Christmas cards I had printed at my wonderful photo lab online? Well, they are still sitting on my desk. Labels, photos, and envelopes, all sitting there bundled together waiting to be put together and mailed. I do not think they will make it by Christmas. Sorry to burst your happy bubble! I kept thinking they would be out in time. I took the gorgeous photos of my young, handsome sons, placed them in a nice mpix card that was perfect, order the cards, the cards arrived, Christmas came and went. I'm really not sure where the past few months went. It's crazy! One minute it was summer. The next it is almost Spring. Well, at least that means we had a fast (although very snowy) winter. Maybe I will post those photos on Facebook now that I have announced that the cards will not be sent out... Hmmm... Maybe it can be time to update my family photos on Facebook so that you can see how wonderful our brown-eyed boys are doing. Yes, it is a plan.

I will post photos to Facebook sometime soon. But probably not tonight. Nope, not tonight. I just got home from Logan's parent/teacher conference (he is doing spectacular and they soooo adore him, who wouldn't!). Shaun dropped the boys off at scouts. I am just snuggling in bed for some reading...homework reading that is. I get to read three long articles and write one big message board post tonight. On the bright side I have finished all my other homework until this weekend. Also, Shaun and AJ are making a trip to Best Buy to shop for a new printer/scanner/fax for the downstairs office. I have the house to myself! Ahhh, the peace and quiet. I will enjoy the next hour of reading transformative mediation materials. All. by. myself!

If you are not my friend on Facebook yet... well, maybe you are not my friend then. Just kidding! Please be my friend. I love you all! Hopefully I will write on my blog again before another few months passes me by. I have so much to say and so little time.

NEED.TO.VENT

or not... I'm still unsure if I will be accepted into the master's program that I have been dreaming of for a couples years now. At this point I'm just frustrated, with myself. I won't know for a while if I will be accepted and now my file is "shakey" and I may need to take the GRE. Ick. If I have to take it I will but I am really hoping that I will not need to. I didn't score as high (by two points) as I needed on the first entrance exam I took. They are longer accepting that exam for future terms so they may require me to take the GRE, especially because my score was lower (by two points: 398/400) than accepted for the current term.

This weekend is the deadline for applications to the May term. I am wanting to be accepted for the August term. This means I probably won't know anything concrete until August, just before the term begins. I hope to hear back from the admissions rep in a week or two about whether or not they can accept the exam I've already taken, even if it is a little short on points. If I had applied for the May term I would probably be ok.

I hope this all irons itself out. If nothing else at least I'm not taking classes this summer and can study for the GRE if absolutely needed. I'm concerned that even if I do study my butt off I may not get a high enough score on that one. Please pray for me!


Ah...writing and thinking things out really helps me. Thanks for "listening!"