t-minus 8 days to Christmas...
I can't believe that is actually true. December has come and halfway gone at lightspeeds. The incredible thing is I feel like I've gotten much less busy over the past month 1/2 than I was for the first half of the semester. As always of course there have been deadlines, cramming for tests and last minute finishing of projects, but when is that not the case?

Today is our first day of finals...
I had an 8 a.m. this morning but it was really very easy. Art students are kind of slackers when it comes to finals. For example, our final consisted of showing the web page that we designed for our latest project. http://studentweb.uwstout.edu/blanchardt/home.html Feel free to check it out. Now that it is done I see a ton of things that I'd like to go back and change/fix. Also note that I am an interior design student NOT a graphic designer. I do not understand nor do I like dreamweaver in the least bit! So if you happen to think my webpage sucks, you're opinion is probably quite accurate. hah!

I also hit the slopes this last weekend and went snowboarding at Afton with a group of friends. It was FREEZING outside but stil, oh so much fun! I was sooooo pumped to go, there was definitely a lot of jamming to some hard core tunes on the way up there.

Other recent/upcoming events:
attended an Anberlin concert
made my first martini (a cosmo)
leaving for Australia in less than 2 months
I went Christmas shopping more than a week prior to Christmas....a true miracle!

haha, h'okay...
I'm getting a little long winded now. Hope you all have an amazing Christmas season.
Love, Joy, lots of hugs,
Tabitha Ruth