This Little Baby Milestone

In some ways, it seems like forever.  In others, I feel as though I just started yesterday.  At any rate, my first semester of college will officially end today.

My final class meets this afternoon, and I've already turned in my final paper...dropped it off yesterday afternoon, in fact.  Today's not required, seeing as how final grades will be turned in before our class even meets.  I'm going, though, so I can retrieve my folder, to which I have an unhealthy attachment.  It cost me twenty-seven cents, don'tchaknow...and this gal is not one to throw money down the toilet!  As an added bonus, I'll get my final paper back as well.  I have this almost obsessive need to see what the instructor writes on my work...without that paper in hand, I wouldn't feel as though the class had really been completed.

Did you happen to notice the number of times I said "final" in that last paragraph?  Four.  An oddity, considering there's really nothing final about any of this, and that I'm not even taking a final in the class.  Final, final, final, final, not really final at all; just the beginning, really.  The end of the beginning?  Perhaps...I'm no philosophy major.

To celebrate this little baby milestone, I think I'll have my momma come over.  I could use her truck for a trip to The Cheapo, and I may even let her help me install the new fence and gate to close off the front yard from the doggies.  Ooh, and she can totally help me build flower boxes for the windows on the front of the house.  Landscaping, here we come!

Finally.