so the semester approaches at lightning speeds and I kind of think its going to be a goodish year.

So to catch up, Christmas was good. We went to Tyler where Heather’s sister lives and we were there for three nights. It was bearable and at times enjoyable but still a bit too much sports for me. See, Heather’s family are all big sports fans where I couldn’t give two rats asses about sports. I think I did pretty good with my gifts received, even if they were a bit practical. I got things like a memory card for my camera, a wallet, money with which to buy a new lens. Things like that. Heather did get me some bad ass movies though, so I still got something fun.

New Years was a BLAST. As you may have read in an earlier post, we decided to open up our home as a haven to those who didn’t have a place to go for New Years, which turned out to be our best friends. Even though it wasn’t a party, per se, we told everyone to make it a cocktail pajama party. Everyone showed up on some form of jammies (mostly sweats and t-shirts) and we drank fancy drinks. We did flip on the TV at about three ’til 2006, but we couldn’t find a channel doing the countdown so we just flipped to the weather channel and counted down the seconds ourselves. Then we started a monster game of Trivial Pursuit: Pop Culture DVD edition. That damn game lasted until nearly four in the morning (congratulations akvanecek and hubby for pulling the win at the end, and thank you for putting us all out of our misery).

akvanecek, we’ve really enjoyed your company lately, what with the free lunch deal, the New Year’s party, lunch at Beth Marie’s, etc. We’re all really happy to have you two hanging out with us. We look forward to seeing you two again, soon.

This week hasn’t been too bad. We got our free Toxic day off and the rest of the week has been pretty lazy build up to the next semester. I’m still trying to decide if I’m taking one class or two, this semester. It’ll be a bit more expensive, but I have to start taking two classes a semester at some point if I ever want to finish, and there’s a fairly enticing one being offered this semester. I just don’t know. I guess I’ll decide by next semester.

Nur and her kin are back in Denton and living with us again for the time being. She’s got her husband and her cutie-pie baby. They only got into town on Tuesday, so we’re all still getting settled. Eventually I’ll get to where I can sleep through the sound of someone else’s baby crying, right? No really, its not that bad… its only been two days, I can’t complain yet. Really, the only awkward bit is that her husband is really shy and quiet, so you never really know what to say to him. At any rate, we have a full house again and while it’s not that big of a deal, I still can’t walk to the kitchen naked to get a drink of water.

I didn’t get any photography done this break and I feel a little bad for that, but then again, I got a lot of rest and I feel really good about that. I feel very close to all my friends right now too, so I’m pretty happy. Hope you all are, too.

Yoko Kanno – Too Good Too Bad – Cowboy Bebop