Yay!

RSVPs are one thing- my mom has been sending me updates as to what is rolling in- understandably more "we'll be there in spirit"s than "we'll be there in person"s- but, on the booked guest list on our wedding page (destinationweddings.com) we can see how many people have actually booked a hotel room (one might call that a pretty firm rsvp!). The list is now up to 17 guests, plus us two. :) A couple of the people that have rsvp-ed yes (so far), have not yet booked their rooms though, so hopefully we'll still see that list grow! :)

On a not-so-yay note- I took the clocks off the blog because they were just pissing me off! It seems they were never showing the right time. After the last time change, the clocks were showing the same time for Michigan and Arizona, which are two time zones apart. WTF? Whatever... so I took em off. But of course, now I'm lost time wise. I don't know what time it is anywhere, and I miss that. Oh well.

Oh, but another yay note- yesterday was a pretty great day for more than one reason, but the main one being that I finally bit the bullet and paid off my student loan from my undergrad in one big payment! Wahoo!! Because I had the 4 year scholarship to university, my loan was a very small one comapred to what most people accumulate in 5 years at university, because it was only for my fifth year of school. But, it was a loan that was slowly taking money out of my account every month, while also earning interest, and now it's gone. Now, of course, I still have the twice as big one from grad school to worry about, but at least it's only one instead of two now. :)

Lastly, following the lead of my faithful reader Eileen, I added sitemeter to my blog. Sitemeter gives you all kinds of statistics about what is going on on your blog- who is looking at it, when, where they are located, etc. I can see by what means they got to my blog (by following a link, or by going directly to the homepage). It's interesting to follow it. And the cool thing is that you can also see your visitors on a world map. So last night, the first dots that showed up were in South America and Indonesia... I know who you are! :) Of course, I myself show up as being in Windhoek, Namibia, which is funny.

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow being Thursday but acting like a Friday in that it's the last day of school for the week. If that isn't yay, I don't know what is! :) I've been enjoying work a bit more lately- maybe because we're nearing a 2 week holiday, maybe because it's just getting closer to the end of the school year, maybe I've accepted something and am moving on- either way, I'm having a better time when I'm there, but just the same, I'm happy about a day off. :) All because of the Pope, if I didn't mention that before. He's coming for a visit. Angola is largely Catholic for those of you that don't know- I wasn't aware when we were first coming here either. But it is- all Portuguese influence on that one. We might have a chance (although it's looking slim) to go out on a boat with the family of one of my students that day. We've heard that you can see dolphins, whales, turtles and more when you go out a bit further, so it would be very cool to do that. We'll see if it works out though.

I have totally had several blog posts floating around in my head in the last few days, and tonight I have lost them (for the life of me, I cannot remember what I wanted to write about), so I will try to write them down when they come back to me. But for now, that's all the good news out of Namibia, I mean, Angola. :)

Oh, and here's another picture from St. Patty's Day- we were dancing. This is my new desktop background, because how cute are we? :)