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Well, It's sure been a wild week for me.

I got all moved out of my apartment at Idaho State, and moved back with my husband and son. I've sure missed them. My MIL drove back with me, which is a good thing because I'm doing that "completely blind in the dark" thing. Hard to drive 14 hours, but we did it.

I still have half a dozen bins to unpack, and re-integrate back into my family. I have to go through things and repack things that I don't need. I'll be saving them if I decided to go back to ISU, after everything is taken care of.

Still haven't figured out what my husband did with my main pencil pod with my drawing pencils, nor my main sketch book, but I have a back up set of pencils and sketchbook, even if the pencils are not in a nice contained pod.

One of the first things I did was find out if the local parks departments was offering bellydance. Joy of Joy! They are, and they are offering it at the new facility they built by my house. So I have bellydancing in walking distance! Today my husband took me down to a local Egyptian shop and I bought my first professional dance bra, I'm so excited! I got a gold beaded one, in the Turkish style. http://www.pyramidimports.com/bellydancing/bdbs1004.htm is a pix of the bra I got, but I sure don't have her body! :eek: I was amazed that they had a bra to fit me, but they did, and in stock! I'm so excited. I already have a burgundy and gold belled dance belt, so I didn't buy this one.

I spent the morning clearout out our pantry, getting rid of almost all the grains and open Pasta and bread mix types of thing. Some of the packages have been in there for ... gosh, 3 years, and some how, moths got into the flour products. So everything went into my neglected compost/worm bins. I was happy to see I still have some worms hanging out, neglected as they were.

This week I got my date to go to OHSU for a complete test pass.

Wow, what a week.

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You HAVE been busy! I love reading these little tidbits about your life. That bra is GORGEOUS!!!!!! I can't wait to see a pic of you in it, with your costume on. You belly-dancin' thang! I'm really, really looking forward to hearing about your tests. Git 'er done, Vinesqueen!!!!

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I'll bet you're glad to be home. There's no place better in the world.

Belly dancing sounds like fun. I think I'd be too self concious to even look into it, much less sign up and participate. Good for you.

I'm glad you're still posting what's going on with your life, I look forward to your posts.

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