5 AM?  How far is your student teaching placement and what time does school start?  I wake up at 5:45 AM, go to the gym to workout and still make it to school by 7:35 AM.  My first class starts at 8:00 (acutally, thats planning time for me, my class doesn't come until 10 AM, but I still have to be there).  I remeber those student teaching days...now almost seems like nothing.  
I would almost have to take them up on the Vegas thing.  $6,000 would be a lot of money to start a marriage with.  If I am over the age of 30, I am seriously thing Vegas or some sort of destination thing.  
Katie- you are in WV, right?  Do you know anything about Snowshoe?  I am suppose to be leaving on Sat. morning for a week of skiing (see Ann Marie, when you have your own classroom, you can go off for a week!).  I am actually going to babysit for a family that I have basically been a part of years.  I have never been skiing before, so if anyone has any suggetions, let me hear them!  
As of right now, I have bronchitis.  It seem like it has been one thing after another this year.  I have been on med. since Tues., but it doesn't sound any better.  I have not missed work yet, but teaching with no voice is getting old.  I went to mom and dad's all weekend and did absolutely nothing.  Hopefully I will be better before the ski trip...the dr. is just scared that it may turn into pnenomia (sp, ofcourse).   Spending your b-day in the dr. office is no fun!  
 
Oh well, time for me to hit the sack!  Hope everyone has a wonderful Monday!