i can't call this a thanksgiving post since that's over

i'm sitting here after having made a long and color-coded to-do list of all that needs to be done in the next week or so, and i just thought, here i am. i didn't know how i was going to get here. and it was a crazy and tiresome couple of months but now i'm sitting here with one week left and everything is feasible. and i wonder how magnified this feeling is going to be next semester when i graduate. isn't it a surreal moment when your daydreams become tangible?

last week was thanksgiving, and i would like to publicly vote for every thanksgiving weekend to be the week before dead week because i don't think i've ever felt more subdued about finals as i have this semester (though, to be truthful, that may just be the senioritis talking ;)).
life is full of so many ups and downs. and in the past few weeks scott and i have had some run-of-the-mill bad luck that has made it particularly easy to fall into a mopey slump. but i sure am glad for the small beautiful moments. sometimes those are the only things that keep me afloat.

like every night after scott and i have said our prayers and settle into silence before we surrender to sleep i whisper "scott, i love you" and every night he whispers back "i love you too, allie."

or the road i drive up to campus that has the best view in town, i'm convinced. and even though it's brief, that glimpse i get, in the early morning fog, and the small bit of sunlight stretching to fill the valley, i look forward to it every day. that moment is never nearly long enough.

or sitting down to thanksgiving dinner, surrounded by my new family. love. bounty. happiness. well goll, it's just overwhelming isn't it?

pinch me.