Lots of updates!

It's been quite a while since I last posted anything on here and thought while I had a bit of time to kill that I'd update this a bit...so here goes! (I'll post pictures in the near future, but for now, here's the run down!)

The rest of the school year wrapped up well, and couldn't be happier that I won't have to take organic chemistry again! YAY! There was only about two and a half weeks between the end of Thanksgiving break, and the start of Christmas break, so I packed up again to head home for a much longer time this time around!

This time no surprises, but I was fine with that, and was able to really relax this time around, and see many more friends! Christmas was wonderful and very simple, which was really quite awesome. My nephew was with us and he really made Christmas great. He went around the house Christmas eve and wrapped up things to give to us on Christmas. It was so adorable! He is such a great kid, and he has such a huge heart! Love that kiddo!

After Christmas was said and done, a handful of my friends and I took the south shore to Chi-town for the day! It was one of the most fun trips I've ever taken to Chi-town, and we didn't really even do anything! We ate some true Chicago style, deep dish pizza; got Garrett's popcorn (which I had for the first time...very good!); checked out the Bean @ Millennium Park (which most of us hadn't been to yet!); and just walked around talking and taking pictures! We had such a blast!

NYE we had the annual Wine & Cheese party at my parents house, which was great as always! Many games were played, some old ones, and some new, but mostly Blokus! I think at one point we had all four games being played, which was awesome!!! As the ball was about to drop, we went around the room telling everyone our favorite memory of 2008; we were just about around to everyone when the doorbell rang (which is very odd because no one rings the doorbell at the house!), so we were all very curious as to who was on the other side of the door. Well, my mom opened the door to four very drunk people asking, "Is this Tina's?", well my mom said yes, because there was a Tina in the room. Them as the drunkards stumble (and literally about fall on the floor) in the house my mom inquires more and they realize they are in fact that the WRONG house! So they stumble out the house, literally bending the storm door so it will not close unless some maneuvering was done, and move on to their actual destination (which we found out later in the week that they were at least on the right street, but about 10 houses off!). All in all, NYE was great, with a huge surprise from a friend who drove in from STL to see everyone! It was AWESOME!!!

The drive back went well, with a quick stop in STL to visit with my friend again for the evening, but then on the road the next morning. Well, or so I thought! I went to start my car early in the morning, and nothing! After a few attempts myself to get it going it still wouldn't do anything, so I ended up having to jump it with the other car, but we were up and running without any problems, and thankfully it's been fine since. Back safe and sound the rest of the way, and now in the the swing of things again with a full load of classes to keep me very busy. Speaking of, I better get a move on!

Over and out!
Lo!