The Ceiling Fell In!...and other New Year's Happenings

Yes, that's my landlord's wife and a worker trying to help us put our ugly chandelier back into the ceiling. I was sitting on the couch the other day painting some characters and I heard a slight crash. I looked up, thinking an ornament had fallen off our Christmas tree, but as I looked, pieces of ceiling were still crumbling down. The chandelier had literally just fallen right out and hung there swinging by the wires. I laughed as soon as it happened because I was so oblivious to the whole thing. This was just before Christmas I think. So now that it's past New Year's, I'm just looking forward to vacation. School has recently been at that point where you just know you need a break. At this rate, I'll be crawling my way to the Philippines. Finals next week and my concern is growing smaller every day, not because I'm studying more, but because I'm not motivated to do well on the tests just to prove I can memorize 800 characters in a few days, only to forget most of them until the next time I study. Anyways, not a whole lot interesting at the moment. Everyone's been sick lately including my now-going-on-three-week cold, but I'd gladly take that over the one-day-strongly-cheating-death viral bug everyone else seems to be getting. Our New Year's night was pretty uneventful. Had dinner with Trum and the Castig's and some of their friends, played Mario Kart on Nintendo Game Cube until the clock struck midnight (and I might add that I beat all the guys pretty badly...no pride here, just stating truth!) and then I went home to snuggle up with my pillow. We watched a couple football games which was fun too, except for the losing part, but at least my Dawgs won the SEC Championship and got very close to making one of the greatest comebacks in bowl history. I'm SO glad Texas beat USC, it's about time they got beat. Whelp, that's gonna do it for this update...just to let you know, I'm probably not bringing my computer to the Philippines, so there won't be another update on here until mid-February. So Happy Birthday early to my brother Kevin, his girlfriend Lauren, my Aunt Deb, and all my other friend's birthdays in the next month! Love ya'll! P.S. The next pics you'll see of me will be when I'm tan! :)