Things have been busy around here. I have been doing my comprehensive/qualifying exams so I can advance to doctoral candidacy. I scheduled with my mentor to do this during a particular week and she went the questions a week early. So I just kept them and wrote my responses. It was a hard week because I had crammed stuff into in thinking the next week would be the exam. But I went to the workshop I signed up for and did my visiting teaching for church and taught my Sunday school lesson, and did my exam. Basically your committee gives you questions and you write long papers responding. In two weeks, I have the oral part where my full committee gets to grill me about what I wrote. I was right in the middle of my exams during Valentines' Day. We went to the Boy Scout Fundraising dinner like we usually do. I gave Brian chocolates and an Obi Wan action figure. He gave me Downton Abbey season 5. I ordered Hannah a cash register and it came in time but I forgot to give it to her on V-Da...