| - Lonesome Tears Of course once again it's been a long long time since updating....and as always there has been much drama and confusion and unfortunately sadness and loss. The break was great even though I found out how much of an undisciplined little brat my niece has become. It’s really disappointing in a way, but in another way I think it will make me a better mother when that time comes (many many moons down the road  )
Christmas was great and we had a wonderful time spending time as a family (not to mention the girls had a great time doing some “excessive” shopping). The puppies had a great time together and Muffy finally began to accept the new puppy and they really enjoyed playing together. We all got much more than expected for Christmas and I think I have enough “home” stuff to fill 2 houses when I graduate lol…
Now for the sadness and loss part…a few days after Christmas (Dec. 29th) my mom, sister, grandmother, niece, and I were out together when we got a call that Granny had passed away. It didn’t come as a surprise because she had been doing poorly for a while (very bad Alzheimer’s and many health deteriorations that went along with the disease), but when someone passes away it isn’t just something that you can be fully prepared for. We headed straight home to pack and head up to VA for the viewing and funeral. We came back to Knoxville on New Year’s Eve and my mom told me that I ought to go ahead and keep my plans for that evening and get ready to go out.
David came to pick me up around 9 and he, of course, looked wonderful and the family insisted on taking lots of pictures as always. We then went to a party in the Fort and had a great time (although I think we confused many of his friends and some of them gave me funny looks all night ). After a while we went back to his apt so that I could finally see it and wound up talking for a long time about all sorts of stuff. It’s kinda funny because now of course my mom now thinks that we will get back together and keeps asking me why I won’t admit that I still care about him. She just doesn’t understand does she
School is great so far and I only have something like 15 weeks left till graduation (very excited indeed). One teacher (Contract) is insane and doesn’t seem to understand that lecturing the WHOLE time in a studio is not cool especially since she gave us less than 3.5 weeks to do a ridiculously involved project. CAD is really easy so far and I don’t think I’ll have a problem in it at all. Professional Writing is also easy and I’m not worried about that class at all. All in all this semester looks alright other than Contract, but honestly I’m not worried about it….even if I get a C in the class my GPA won’t really change, of course I’m still trying for the A but I’m just not concerned about it as much as usual.
Well there’s the absurdly long (and yet condensed) update of everything that’s been going on recently….more later!! Bye bye!! | 
