yeah, I decided to unlock my diary for a while, because my parents have kind of given up on trying to get into this diary, and at the same time a lot of other people want to read it... and... yeah. I don't write anything really personal anymore anyway, and I guess the unresponsiveness of a small crowd gives me less motivation to talk about crap than lots of random comments from whoever wants to read this... so... umm... yeah. That's the deal.

Anyway, Thanksgiving was good, we went down to Keokuk and visited all the relatives... went to Grandpa Edwards's house, hung out with my aunt Joyce, Unlce Joel, Grandpa, Cousin Jared (Joel's son), second cousin Jager (rhymes with "dagger"... Jared's 5-yr-old son)... not really a lot of people this year, but that's okay...

then we spent some time at my mom's parents' house, even though she didn't go down to Keokuk this time (she had to work 3-11:30 on Thursday), where I visited w/ Grandma and Grandpa Humphrey (mom's mom and stepdad), Aunt Katie (mom's youngest sister... half-sister, I guess), Uncle Philip (Katie's husband), Cousin Toby (Katie & Phil's baby), Aunt Theresa (Mom's second youngest (half)sister), Uncle Brad (Theresa's wife), Cousin Ben (the 2-year-old wonderboy... Theresa and Brad's son... such a cutie!)... and... I think that was it...

anyway, yeah, a lot of fun.

I think I linked back to an older entry that talked about "a christmas story" about a week ago... I believe that entry also discussed the family tree a little more...

But I was happy because I got to talk to Joyce and Brad, the favorite aunt & uncle... good times, good times.

Lots and lots of food... that was awesome...

Mary Lou, Ron, Gretchen and Jen were missing from my mom's family for the first holiday ever... they're in Georgia now... they're coming back to Iowa for x-mas, though, which is good... they're all really "homesick." ("homesick" is in quotes because technically their home is in Georgia now... unless you go w/ "home is where the heart is" type stuff, in which case they would probably have two homes... or... something... yeah.)

So, that's Turkey Day in a nutshell.

Somehow my plans for last night went from going to Roro's to watch "sandlot" (because I haven't seen it and am apparently seriously deprived... but kate hasn't seen it either, so ha!), to going to lisa's to hang out with her jordan and dietz, to going to kates to watch lord of the rings, to spending the night at kate's and not doing anything really exciting... but still having more fun than I would at home.

So, yeah... I watched about half of the 2nd lord of the rings w/ kate and roro (we fast forwarded through all the boring/non-sexy parts), and then roro left and kate and I sat around and watched crappy tv, and then we slept for a while, and then we got up and watched more crappy tv, and then I came home.

(*flashback of "but you've slept in my bed!" being yelled really loudly in the parking lot...*)

*cough*... sorry.

anyway... what's been up?

THE SKY!!

and... lots of random crap... sometimes I'm in a really good mood, sometimes I'm not... but I guess that's how things go... *shrug*

I've been talking to roro and beast more than usual, which is cool... and chemistry is a riot now... even more than last tri...

last tri it was the dysfunctional group, this tri it's just the group that doesn't care enough to listen, and instead write notes to each other all period...

heh... kinky slinkies...

lots of little random inside jokes in this entry, I guess.

woohoo, entry number 540...

That's a lot... I think my daily average has been significantly lowered lately, though.... *sniff*

I'm 17 tomorrow... that's kind of exciting... only not a whole lot, because... I don't know why. it's just another year... there's nothing really significant about 17. I could already drive, I still can't smoke (not that I would want to) or vote or any of that... I guess there's the whole R movie thing, but I've been going to those for quite a while anyway...

Eh. 17.

It's just another number...

it doesn't really help that I don't know what I want for my birthday, either... people have been really bugging me about it, and I honestly don't know... right now, I'm happy with what I have. buy me a CD or something.

money is always good, too...

hehe...

oh yeah! dietz, you owe me $3!!

GRR.

umm... I think I'm supposed to go sweep the kitchen and clean the bathroom now... laters.

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