Congrats to my sister Melanie, who passed her final LPN exam this week!  She now has letters after her name: 
Melanie A. Gazdag, LPN
Yay!!!  I'm proud of you, Smell!
More happy news: Some dear bloggy friends and I are getting together next month at the Oregon coast for a girls' beach weekend, and I'm so excited!  Starting in October 2006 at a Time Out for Women, my friend Claudia and I began meeting them "in real life."  Since we check in with each other online pretty often, we've become quite close.  Last year we spent a weekend in Colorado together and had so much fun, and it'll be great to see them again!  Yay!!!