Good news on the job front.  Debbie was offered a job yesterday that will start Jan 3.  We have a packet of information coming that will spell out all of the details.  It seems to be a better fit than where she was and it seems a better insurance plan.  That has become all important right now as we move off of COBRA in January.  We had great insurance with my old company. 

The final papers are slowly getting done.  My final for Theology seems to keep working it's way down the list almost like I was putting off doing the paper.  I won't be able to do that for too much longer.  It is due on Tuesday next week.  I have about 35% of my Hebrew final done.  Luckily for us it is a take home this year.  It wasn't last year.  I have two classes completely done out of six.  One more is mostly done.  The other two still have a decent amount of work.

We have our Advent Event tonight.  Dinner and drinks and music.  It should be a fun time for all and a great chance to take our mind off of school and release a little bit of stress that has built up in everyone this last week or two.  It turns out from Thanksgiving until the end of school is pretty much non-stop school work.  Twelve to fourteen hours of it a day, six to seven days a week gets old after a while.  My brain starts to feel like mush and doesn't want to operate like normal.  I know, what is normal? 

Thankfully Debbie has handled all of the Christmas buying.  Not that there is much of that right now, but she has handled it so I don't have to worry about it.  She is really good about doing that during Christmas and always has been.  What a help for me who doesn't like shopping anyway and doesn't like spending money in an even worse way.  Christmas has become too commercialized.  I would love to have a Christmas of no presents for anyone so we could bring our focus back to Advent and the celebration of the birth of Jesus.  I doubt that will happen in my lifetime.  Maybe a trend can be started to bring the focus back.  But what power is the church against the marketing billions of dollars spent to tell us what we have to have to measure up?  Only as an act of God for sure!  Come Lord Jesus!

Starting Theology soon, got to go.  God bless each of you.  May your hearts be open to the Holy Spirit this Advent season.