Saturday Fun

So it's been quite a week. I gave all my students tests last weeks, and got them all graded early this week, so that's done till the end of the semester. I also finished my novel and have it printed off (after much stress!). Then Thursday and Friday we had two half-days, so on Thursday Carolyn and I went over to Taipai 101, the tallest building in the world. It's about 4 blocks from our apartment and I hadn't been there yet! It was quite the entertainment district, it felt like London or Los Angeles. We saw Alexander (bad movie - don't bother) and did a little shopping. The stores were all pretty expenisve, but I did get a lovely rose zip up sweater. The best part was that the Christmas decor was so over the top - they were blasting fake snow over the entrances, so when we came out it felt like it was snowing! And there was a three story tall reindeer. Then after a movie and shopping we went to Jillian and Amin's for the last few episodes of BBC's The Office. So enjoyable.

Then, as you can see, on Friday we had a half-day trip to a hot springs spa up in the mountains. It was luxiourious and I had a wonderful time. I came home so relaxed. Today I worked, and made more than enough money to relieve my guilt from my little splurge on Thursday. Its great to have $40 hour for my extra jobs - I'm lucky to have so much 'on the side' and to be still in the multitasking workmode that got me through my overcommitted university career.

Ah - and now I'm ready to celebrate Christmas. I made my own Nativity scene from Ikea pillow case, angels, toys and animals. THen I have two lights strings to make my room glow. The NaNoWriMo site suggests I put my novel aside for a month and bring it out in January to fix - which sounds like good advice to me. So if you think of any suggestions while you're reading, you could email me them now or later.