Finally, Robin and Patrick got married today.  Even Emma could not stop the wedding!  It was gorgeous.  Props to Brenda for pulling it off.  Robin looked just beautiful and Patrick, well, he was as hot as always.  Maybe even more so in his tux.  Hard to improve on perfection!  Have I mentioned how good looking he is before?  Now, I love Jack.  There's no one I would rather be with.  And Jack is hot.  But I can appreciate Patrick's hotness.  He just, like, super hot.  God-like, even (OK, so maybe that's a bit much, but you get the idea).  Robin's a lucky, lucky girl.

Anyway, Christmas was wonderful.  I did get the things on my list and even some surprises!  So, props to my mom, too!  Jack, Maxie, Matt, Brighton, Royce, Logan, Holden and I spent New Year's Eve in New York City bar hopping and having fun.  We crashed at Ned's place (God love him for letting us and his decision to take his family to Buenos Aires for New Year's!).

Tomorrow (well, technically, today since I'm up so late) Brighton and I are going on a pre-school ski trip to Vermont.  Her family has a cabin up there by one of the resorts, so it should be loads of fun.

Schools starts up in a couple weeks.  Classes start January 19, so I still have time to hang out at home.  But this is my last semester!  So exciting and so scary.  I don't think I'm ready to grow up, dang it!

With the end of the semester rapidly approaching, I've been working so hard I haven't had time to recount the gloriousness of the annual Quartermaine Thanksgiving!  I think I've made it clear just how much I love Thanksgiving.  It's my favorite!

Things this year were pretty tame by Quartermaine standards though.  No fights!  Not even ones of love!  Well, unless you count the little spat between the men and women about whether we should watch football or the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  I love football and all, but unless my Bills are playing, nothing messes with my parade!  In case you were wondering, we won and banished the boys to another room!  As always, Cook made the best dinner with all my favorites, especially the stuffing and pumpkin pie!  Yummy.  My parents invited the Scorpios and Jax and Brenda so maybe everyone (and by everyone I mean Tracy) was on their best behavior.  Emma and Harlan have already gotten so big!  Which reminds me that Robin and Patrick have re-set the date for the wedding after Christmas so I'll update on that later.

Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way, I've been thinking about Christmas.  My mom's been asking me what I want, so I've come up with a few things.

1.  Vineyard Vines Tote:  Collegiate Collection.



LOVE!  It has the Cornell bear!


2.  Brooks Brothers Pajama Set



I need some new pajamas and I adore these!.


3.  Sperry Nautical Print Bahama Shoe



Every girl knows life is not worth living without shoes!  So they're not the high fashion ones Maxie would pick and I won't be able to wear them until spring, but they're so cute!


So, those are some of the things on my list.  Now what I really need to be thinking about is what to get everyone else!

I'm just sitting here in the dorm getting ready for my Buffalo Bills play the St. Louis Rams at 4:00pm.  I've finished my paper so I get to take it easy for the rest of the afternoon.  The real work starts this week though since Brighton and I are starting our applications to the School of Management.  On the one hand, I really want to get in but I'm also getting pretty tired of school.  I'm sure my grandfather would give me a job without a graduate degree, but I really want to have it.  Even though he wouldn't necessarily require a normal applicant to have a graduate degree, I still don't want to feel like I get special treatment just because I happen to be his granddaughter.

I do think that Grandfather is ready to hand the company over to Ned and AJ pretty soon.  He won't say it yet, but I think the time has come.  After my grandmother died, he really threw himself into the company, but he's not getting any younger and I think he deserves to be happy and retired.  I think by summer he'll start letting AJ and Ned take over.

Anyway, I'm pretty excited about the Bills.  They've won their first three games so I hope they keep it going.  I wouldn't want to jinx anything, but is there a Super Bowl in my future?!  I hope so!  Maybe Grandfather would even take us!  I've never been to Arizona.  I bet I would like it!  I shouldn't get too excited.  I mean, the Bills are famous for choking (especially in Super Bowls) anyway.  Let's just hope they get through this game first.

Even the Big Red have won their first two games.  Maybe this is my football year.  Then again when your in a conference with Harvard and Yale, who let's face it are not exactly football powerhouses, it's shouldn't be difficult to get some W's.  We play Lehigh this weekend so we'll see how that goes.  Jack's coming for the weekend and the gang's all going to the game.  I love watching the guys watch the game because they get so into it.  I mean, I adore football, but the guys think every play is a life or death situation.  Jack has actually become quite the Cornell fan since we've been dating.  He loves coming to the games.  Tailgating, pre-gaming, hanging with the Sig Pi boys.  I swear, you'd think he went here and was a member of their frat!  They even made him an honorary brother.  And they gave him a certificate!  Royce, the president of Sig Pi, made one on Publisher and presented it to him.  It was so cute!

Anyway, my original point was this year's football potential is looking good!

Fall Break will be here before I know it.  October 11-15.  It'll be the first time I've been home this year since Robin's baby shower.  She should be popping that baby out before too long!