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Can you believe we have lived through a month of 2012 already? I am not yet used to writing the new year on checks. I feel like I have been sleeping since we rang in the new year.

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I went to look at apartments with my oldest son this morning. I think my statement this morning may have been misleading as this is not the first time for him to live away from home. Essentially he has been gone from home for four years. First he lived in a dorm (but came home for spring quarter and the summer), then an apartment with one guy, and for the past two years in an apartment with the same two guys, and a cat. One guy (both roommates were his classmates since kindergarten) has plans to go to Europe, and the other is in disagreement about the type of apartment he likes. And so, my boy will live alone. The apartments we looked at (sorry, no pics, they were occupied and I didn't think it would be right to take pictures of other people's stuff) were small. They were very small to be precise. But college boy said they were "fine." The least expensive one was $600 and the entire apartment was as small as my daughter's bedroom. It was like New York city small, like prison cell small. It was also, how shall I say, meager? Sparce? Spare? Bare bones, that's what it was. But it was furnished tidily, and, as they say in realty, it has "location, location, location." On a campus boasting 1700 acres, that means something. He would be close to the ag campus where most of his remaining classes will be.

His dad and I are going to help him financially as much as we are able, but he'll still be graduating with a small mortgage, which makes me sad. I hate that Americans have bought into this "higher education" mentality and so few people think it's even possible to be successful without a college education any more. Pft.

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I posted my very first "Pinning it down" post today on my food blog. I admit, after much trepidation about Pinterest, that it's quite fun and has not had a negative effect on me (i.e. I have not become covetous about "stuff" found there, or negative about "stuff" in my own home). In fact, since finding several of my favorite internet friends there, I have found it quite like strolling through Target with a girlfriend. There is much variety and mostly it's all just fun.

If you are on Pinterest, leave me your Pinterest name, so I can follow you (sounds a bit like stalking doesn't it?)

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And on an entirely different subject, have you heard that Susan G. Komen has split with Planned Parenthood? Good, good news. Great news! That is quite a blow for the pro-death community. Kudos to those who fight the good fight for LIFE, especially those who have gotten into the rink with PP and Komen.

Praise be to God.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.

Keep on offering those rosaries.