updates

Ive been pretty quiet lately. Not for lack of anything interesting happening I suppose, just havent felt motivated to write.

Christmas was nice. My parents drove down from VA and my stepbrother, who nobody ever gets to see, came up with his dog from south Florida. His dog quickly made friends with the boys, and Judy got over having another dog in her home quickly enough, thankfully. We relaxed until dinnertime, when we went over to my best friend's new house. There were 15 people there, between her and her husband's family and us. I haven't had a holiday that large in...ever? So it was nice. Good food with great people.

Present-wise, I got what I wanted. My dad gave me my watch (my last watch died months ago and Ive been going crazy not knowing what time it is ever since). M finally gave me a necklace (Ive been wanting one from him). My parents gave me some work out stuff for the wii (that I asked for). M gave me my late birthday present, a warm-up-in-the-microwave bear wearing a crimson tide sweater that I saw advertised on facebook and started begging for. His family sent over useful stuff for the house. Not a bad catch at all.

My folks decided to pay for me to take the bar exam again, including a review course. I haaaaate the course (way too ADHD to sit for a 4 hour lecture) and I wasn't prepared to get started so soon, but its nice to hopefully have it overwith soon, and not have to pay for it. I was going to started a master's program this month, and I might try to do both.

M has been really helpful over the last week, which is really really nice. my parents are also going to give me some money to pay for my medical bills. my surgical wound is almost fully healed. so all in all, things are good.