Oooo Oooo Oooo! I almost forgot! My mom also bought me a sewing machine while we were away. Each of my sisters has one already, so she wanted to get me one too. We found a really neat one just by chance at a garage sale, in it's own walnut case/stand. It's pretty cool. It's still there right now, she's having it serviced and will bring in down when she comes in September. And then I get to figure out how to use it. Or it can be an end table until we move into a bigger place. But now I actually own my very own sewing machine! Yay!

(Something about the spelling in that second to last sentence just doesn't look right, but oh well.)