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Back home and finals are OVER!  I am sure I passed them all, (okay there was grace on the History final), but all is done and I am confident I passed everything.  Given I was on probation the first semester because I did not have an undergrad degree it is great to get past that and be under normal status.  I know, I know, all of you are saying I will never be considered "normal".  Don't worry, I live my life outside of normal. 

Of course it is pretty crazy trying to get everything done for Chirstmas in just a few days.  I think we pulled it off though.  Now we have to wrap everything. 

I had a meeting with Tampa General yesterday.  This is where I am going to do my CPE this summer.  CPE is Clinical Pastoral Education.  While it is about ministering to people in time of sickness and crisis it is more about me getting in touch with my issues and things that have happened as I grew up so that I can deal with them rather then them coming out at a later date while I am ministering to someone. 

Danielle moved out recently.  She moved in with one of her best friends.  Hope they stay that way. 

Lucky passed away on Tuesday.  We knew he was heading in that direction, but it is still hard when it happens.  Lucky and I always had a contentious relationship as he thought he was the alpha male of the family and of course I was not going to give that up, so we agreed to disagree.  Deb and the girls however are pretty hard hit and still dealing with it.  I told the vet she could do a necropsy if she wanted for edcational purposes and she did and let us know that he had a huge tumor on one of the lobes of his liver.  It was about the size of a softball.  Looks like there was nothing we could have done.  Still it is hard to say good-bye to him.  You become used to having him around.  I hope we are able to hold off getting another dog until our lives settle down and we are going to be somewhere for a while. 

Our family wishes you a blessed Christmas and holiday season.  "for unto us a savior is born..."