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Four days without power and finally... today at noon ELECTRICITY!!! YAY!!! 

 The temp tomorrow evening:

11 degrees.

Yikes!

 Its fridgid outside and no school yesterday and today except for my homeschoolers.

Welcome, Father Winter!

 It is such an incredible feeling to wake up to a snow-covered wilderness!

We awoke to a gorgeous snowy morning, everything just looks so magical covered in white.
The kids had a snowball fight, then breakfast, then schoolwork. I love that order!

• I have one final in American Gov. and then I am DONE for this semester! Yay!
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Yes, it will get down to 20 degrees tonight up here and I'm already freezing!!!

Time to crank up the electric blanket and curl up on the sofa and watch all the CSI:Miami re-runs.

p.s.

I'm sure most of you thought I fell off the face of the Earth, but I just haven't had too much time for anything.

Shannon 

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I aced my philosophy exam today even with a migraine. I adore my instructor, he is just beyond awesome!!

The rainy day has made all of us lethargic.

Gotta see the doc tomorrow about these migraines, they seem to be coming back in vicious ways.

Raven is in Florida for a month and it's a bit weird without her here. I worry about her down there.

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 Non-stop activities -

Thursday: Fireworks in a lightening storm in the little province of Flippin.

Friday: Fireworks over the Bull Shoals Dam - we were fairly close to where they were being shot off from and it was incredible how huge the sky filled with them. 11pm - 1am: wrote Journal 1 for Philosophy class

Saturday: 10am - Mountain Village/Bull ( Read more... )

Ya  know, I do not mind spending $60 or $70 on my hair every two to three months, BUT

I LOATHE it when I do, and then it turns out completely opposite of what I said I wanted so I come home and re-do it myself with better results.

I will pay odd bills with my mulah from now on and make good use of my own hidden talents.

Happy 4th everyone!

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