I'm still here!

Sorry for the lack of updates.  I actually have a couple things, I just need too take the photos, or finish up some minor details....

But I've been so busy it's ridiculous.  At the school I often sub for, one of the teacher is diagnosed with cancer, so I've been coming in a lot for her.  And to make things easy, I try to do some of my own prep for the classes, or help her grade, whatever to help her out.  Because of this, the school is making me get certified for this state, which means i have to take two annoying 4hr tests(ugh).

In addition to that they're making me grade these IB test thingies... there's 160 of them, and they are about 10pages each.  I get paid, but they're taking forever!  I also tutor in the evens... so yeah Its like I would 12hr days from subbing and tutoring, and then I grade in the evenings.

And then on weekends I'm working on my husband to want to buy a house, so we've been house hunting.  Our radius of where we can live is huge, so most of the time is spent driving everywhere.

And lastly(the fun part) I'm trying vigourously to finish the plans for our Japan Trip in Spring!!!  I'm sooo excited, but it's sooo hard figuring all this out.  So far we still need hotels/housing/whatever for our 2 nights in Osaka, but after that all we need is to figure out the trains and how to get from this city to the next etc.

So far the trip includes: Fly into Tokyo and then immediately ride down to Osaka(to see the aquarium) then Mt Koya to spend 2 nights with the monks, off to Kyoto for the cherry blossoms(this may be the best idea of our trip, or due to the crowds the worst, we'll find out lol) and then up to Tokyo for a week of shopping and then fly home.  ^_^  Should be super fun.  We somehow managed some super central locations in hotels/ryokan ^___^