My last grade and some news

Microbiology: A+ (It took my professor long enough to get those scantron sheets graded!)

That's my final score for the semester, so I ended up with two A's and four A+'s. All in all, a good semester. I'll let y'all know when I get my class ranking.

TJ and Theresa came over the other night, and we had some Italian chicken concoction that Mom saw somewhere. It was quite good. Before dinner, we sat around the dinner table playing with my 20 Q game that Callie got me. Everyone thought it was the coolest thing! We got it to guess a Beer Bottle, a Unicorn, and something else, I forget. We couldn't get it to guess mistletoe or a Grizzly bear, but it was quite fun all the same. After dinner, we just talked for the next few hours; it was quite relaxing. Of course, dirty-minded me had to come up with something smart to say or not say everytime someone spoke. I think I restrained myself quite well.

Yesterday, what did I do yesterday? I can't really remember anything beyond last night. Let me think...Oh, right, I helped my Mom wrap gifts (she wrapped, I put bows and ribbons on the gifts and then arranged them around the tree). That took a lot of time, but the tree looks so pretty, and the gifts look so pretty. Christmas is going to be great. Our parents broke it to us kids the other day: Santa's on Holiday. He's not sure what to get us for our Santa gift since none of us really wanted a big santa gift, so he's going to fill our stockings and that's all. And then I tackled the kitchen because no one had lifted a finger in there since the Italian Chicken the night prior. That was oddly refreshing. Anyway, after that, I went out and saw Eragon with my very charming date. I haven't read the book yet, but I liked the movie. The dragon was so cute when it hatched! Add to that a great cast: John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou and Rachel Weisz, and you've got a pretty good movie on a very, very good night.

An excellent night. I'm still smiling! It was a great night, followed by a very sleepless night. First my room felt like an icebox, and no matter how tightly I bundled myself into my blankets, I couldn't get warm enough to fall asleep, so I had to wait until I was too tired to stay awake any longer. I woke up just after five to the sound of my parents arguing (such a lovely way to awake). I could hear what they were arguing about (the shouts were loud enough) and all I could think was, "Didn't we have this same argument last Christmas, and the Christmas before that, and most likely the Christmas before that?" Why can't they get along!?! So, I waited in my room until my Dad went to work and my Mom went out before I came out. I feel that if I had talked to either one of them, and that if they had tried to confide in my about their argument, I would have snapped and just gone off on one or both of them. I really just want to tie them both to a chair and yell and cuss and scream at them for a while, and then I'd like to place them in separate sound proof rooms and have them talk through me just so I could cut through all the bull shit and have them communicate exactly what it is they want to say. Enough of that! So, in summation, a wonderful night, followed by an angry and somewhat dismal morning. Such is life!