New Horizons

Well, it's been a little while since my last post. My apologies for leaving you out of the loop, my loves. As you you know though, this road to PhD can be time consuming, very demanding, have several twists and turns, and be intense, yet always rewarding and somehow entertaining at times too.

What you've missed: I have been in the copy editing process of the dissertation so that it can be copyrighted and published. Copy editing is the final step of the dissertation process before the degree is awarded officially. So while I completed the doctoral program in December 2012 and passed the oral defense of the dissertation, I still had go through copy editing. Yes, there are many steps in this PhD journey.

Fast forward- today, I awoke to two fabulous e-mails (and these were no "April Fool's" jokes)! One was to inform me that my dissertation has been sent to the publisher. Yep, that's right--yours truly will be a published author within the next week! The other e-mail notified me that the dissertation process is complete. This means that my degree is now mine LOL officially. I am awaiting it to be conferred and mailed to me. Oh and get this: The graduation ceremony is scheduled on my 5th wedding anniversary this year. This, then, means double CE-LE-BRA-TION time! The celebration (again, although not another extravagant yacht party like last year to celebrate completing the program) for completing copy editing and becoming published starts now and will likely involved dinner and dancing, amongst a host of other social activities. As for the anniversary, I'm hoping we'll be beach bums in Hawaii.

XOXOXO