Time to Celebrate!

I passed!  I am so happy!  It was such a peaceful day the day prior and all leading up and through the meeting.  I seriously only got nervous for less than 2 minutes the whole time (and the mtg turned out to be 2 hrs!)  It was a miracle!  Normally I get so dehydrated and my heart races!  I knew it was the prayers, I was just so covered by them.  Thank you all so much!

My committee is so awesome!  I love them!  They were interested, and had brilliant ideas.  Their feedback was helpful.  They were not critical.  In fact, the main feedback I got was something I wanted to do and my advisor didn't want me to do-so I now I get to do it.  Basically, I wanted to put my opinion front and center.  He wanted me to be more fair and balanced.  Now that I can do it, I feel more genuine with my writing and even better about my project than before. 

The only thing that is a bummer is I need more data than I have.  The district has it, so it is just a matter of getting it from their system, but the district can be less than helpful.  I may have to wait until the principal's secretaries come back (they arrive first, but still they are gone already for another month or so). Not that I don't have plenty to keep me busy until then, reworking what I already wrote, but still...My committee and I are not sure I will get done by October (my previous goal), but it is still worth shooting for.  It's going to take a lot of focus and discpline!  I can't imagine doing this when the new one arrives, all sleep deprived and obvious priority shift, so hopefully I can make this work.  Other than that peace of information, it went better than I ever could have hoped for!

I was able to celebrate with my coworkers at lunch after, and then my mom and I got pedicures!  She surprised me with flowers and candy bars (I have such a sweet tooth!)  It was so nice of her!  I had a girl's night already scheduled, so then I went straight to see my college friends for dinner.  It was a great day!  The only bummer was my cell phone got lost over the weekend.  I had to finally give in and pay my insurance deductible and got a loaner phone.  But, I have no contacts in this temp phone.  So yesterday, I got all these sweet texts, and I had no idea who was sending them!  And I only had a few numbers written down to tell the good news.  Normally, I could have updated my blog and facebook from my phone, but not with the loaner-augh!  So sorry for the delay.  There is good news on that story too though; despite an outrageous deductible, they upgraded my phone times two because they were out of mine.  I told dh it is still a crummy brand of phone, but now I have the deluxe model!  I have joined the world of 3g, and hopefully my battery will make it through the day now.  One can hope. :) 

Thanks again for all the sweet comments and prayers!  I am floating today.  Hopefully, now, I won't wake in the night with lists of to do's floating through my head.  That is the worst!