Happy '08!

Happy New Year to all! (A little late, but that's okay)
What a winter break this has been... a few short stories for everyone-

1. Derek finished another quarter at IADT, then came to my house on Dec. 22nd for our Hanukkah party. We had a blast- awesome food, fun people, and of course, presents!!

2. On Sunday the 23rd, we took the early morning train down to Hillsboro. Monday night was X-mas eve, so we went over to his aunt & uncle's house to meet up with the family & exchange gifts. Derek gave me my big gift over there- a rainbow sapphire bracelet! GORGEOUS! I got to show it off to his family, so that was fun. The adults got a bit wasted later in the evening, so the "kids" all retired to a back bedroom with drinks and food to play Guitar Hero 3 on Rhett's Playstation. Now, Derek used to play guitar in a band, and Rhett plays the guitar on his own, and I have never touched a guitar in my life. So the two of them are rockin' out, and Derek decides to take a break, and guilts me into playing against Rhett. So I figure out how to finger everything and even how to do the riffs, and I totally KICKED ASS!!!!!! I was amazing! Yes, I beat him EVERY time! He was only slightly mollified because I was playing on easy & he was on medium, so I switched to medium and STILL BEAT HIM!!!!! WOOO!!! Then Derek came back and I beat him too!! (On easy, but when I was on medium it was really close!) Hahahaha I ruled!

3. When we went back to his house, Derek woke up in the middle of the night and was sick...like 3 times. Poor thing had stomach flu. X-mas morning was put off to more of X-mas afternoon until he felt better and was able to sit up.

4. Wednesday was just a hanging-out kind of day, and then Wednesday night... I got the stomach flu. YUCK! It was awful. Of course, this continued into Thursday morning, when I was supposed to come home on the train. I was feeling more normal by then, so I went home, but man, that was the worst 4 1/2 hours I have ever spent on a train. I sat by myself just curled in a ball, slowly sipping on 7-Up and nibbling a cracker. In a whole day I had 4 crackers and 1/2 bottle of 7-Up. Yew. At least it was only a 24-hour bug, because after I was sick all night, my whole body just ached, and every muscle, even my skin hurt. That was horrific.

5. Other than all of that excitement, I've just been relaxing, shopping, driving my new car, and getting ready mentally for going back to school. I have a bunch of new ideas that I want to try to put into my lessons, so that'll be fun.

That's all! How far away is spring break?? :-P