Return from Boards and Our New Truck

I will admit it. I fell into the boards trap: studying intensely until June 7th, taking the extremely long 8 hr exam, and then spending an entire month keeping my mind off of the results of that fateful day.  During my month of mental purgatory I enjoyed camping with my parents, including one night of indoor camping at their house (not only was it raining but my tent would not stay closed, I swear we are hard core campers).  I also celebrated the fourth of July and thoroughly soaked in some much needed family time.  I had a fantastic mother-daughter day in which I believe I doubled my wardrobe in "preparation" for rotations.  And to top it all off I had a fantastic birthday, aside from the fact that 8 hrs of it were spent in a lecture hall listening to the worst "welcome to third year" lectures.    Despite the tedious school day, I was showered in tons of birthday love by Dan, friends, and family.  I have to admit, ashamedly, much of my other spare time was spent on the couch watching crap TV shows keeping my mind off the Nightmare of June 7th.  Watching five seasons of Psych, a few seasons of Say Yes to the Dress (yes that show, crawling into a hole), and various horrible chick flicks in the coarse of a month.... impossible? I think not.  Forgetting the bad TV, the last few weeks have been fantastic, except for that dark horrible ugly mean voice in the back of my head telling me that I had failed on June 7th.  Well miraculously, luckily, joyously somehow that voice was wrong... and I passed.  And with the doom filled month behind me I am back here... blogging.
So big BIG news... we have a new truck! 

When I say we, I mean technically we, but as far as feeling confident and comfortable in driving it I mean Dan has a new truck.  We got a fantastic deal but did have to settle on a few things.  There is no power windows or locks... she has a few miles on her, needs a few repairs and the previous owner used it as his dogs' secondary dog house (really I wish I was kidding).
After driving it home, Dan said it smelled like "wet dying dog" so as my mother's child I did some scrubbing... and then more scrubbing.  The results...

The dog also liked digging... in the truck.  So while I was scrubbing (I feel I should mention Dan scrubbed too) Dan patched the giant hole in the seat.

He also covered it in matching vinyl.  We both decided this plan was good in theory but in actuality with extremely hot temperatures and glue we are having some difficulties.  On a random side note... who likes/loves the green skull shifter?  I do!!! I am hoping with enough support I can convince Dan not to change it to the traditional boring one. 
And now its time for random CUTE cat photo...

Kittie <3 Bacon.