ok, it's been a while.

Umm...what's been going on? Well, the last time I updated was Christmas, and I don't remember much of the last week.

Fast forward to New Years. Me and Will decided (Will decided) to have a New Years Eve party. He invited a bunch of his friends, and I invited a few. Not many people showed up, but it was fun. Atleast I had fun. We got a lot of food, but no one really ate. We watched the gators game, and it was a blowout, so we started playing drinking games instead. I watched mostly at the beginning. They played Fuck You, which is one of the weirdest card/drinking games I've ever seen, then they played Kevin's crazy card game where like you end up drinking 50 times. Everyone started to, um, loosen up a little, and we played a rousing game of kings. Much easier for me and Jen, since I had not had more than one drink at that point, and Jen was drinking Coke since she had to drive home. Fun stuff though. We had a champagne toast at midnight. And my slightly intoxicated brother got the champagne cork stuck on the corkscrew. He learned the next morning that you don't use a corkscrew on champagne bottles.. Anywho...sometime in between the first champagne toast and the champagne toast for the central time zone we started doing shots of jagermeister. Then Will and Ian decided to chase the shots with champagne. That proved to be a lethal combination for Will (after having had 5 beers and three rum and cokes during the drinking card games). He spent the next few hours throwing up and drunk dialing. We watched a bit of Mr Holland's Opus before finding Will passed out in his bed. Atleast he was on his side. Then about 3 AM things started winding down and I got blankets for everyone and played hostess for a bit. Took about 30 seconds for Kelly and Ian to fall asleep, and Tom and Kevin were already asleep on the couches. Then I had to clean up a LOT. I basically threw stuff in the fridge that needed to go in and went to bed. I set my alarm for 10, but slept through it, and by the time I got up everyone had left. New Years Day was a lot of cleaning, then a few of us went to see Polar Express in 3D at the imax in Fort Lauderdale. I enjoyed the movie, but the headsets were really annoying. My favorite part was going in the science museum. We'll have to go back there after they open the CSI thing.

The 2nd was Will's 21st birthday, so we basically did a whole family day thing. We saw Sideways, which was...interesting, then went to dinner at Fridays, and Will ordered his first (legal) drink. They didn't even card him...it was disappointing. For his birthday I bought him this little thing, it's shaped like a flask, and it's an electronic bartender. It tells recipes for over 500 drinks and says like what food to serve them with and what kind of a glass to put them in. Not that it matters since 80% of the time those drinks are served with pizza in dixie cups in gainesville, but still, he seemed to enjoy it. I also got him a set of shot glasses with playing cards on them. Seemed appropriate for the 21st. Will was mainly upset that his days as an illegal gambler came to an end. o.0 Whatever.

Yesterday (Monday) a few of us went and saw Phantom of the Opera, which was AWESOME. Then I had to hurry home to get Hershey to the vet because she has something wrong with her eyes. The vet wasn't sure exactly what was wrong, but after a ton of testing ($260 worth, to be exact), they determined that she must have rolled in fire ants or something and then "self trauma" caused all the ickyness around her eyes. Now we have to put this ointment on her eyes and give her antibiotic pills every day. And she has to wear one of those cone collars for the next week to keep her from scratching her face again. It's HILARIOUS. She keeps walking into things, like walls, and getting stuck. Her new nickname is "Lampshade." I told my family that it's official...after this week I am definitely going to hell. Ah, poor beagle. Oh well, atleast she's not smart enough to understand what we're laughing at. Tomorrow (which will be listed as today in the date) I have to take Sasha and Kitty to the vet for their annual physicals and vaccines. Rackin' up the vet bills. By the end of next week, we will have spent more than $500 at the vet. That's what I get for having 3 pets. My parents really wanted to skip the cat's physical since she doesn't go outside (on purpose), but I finally convinced them to let me take her. She's getting old, and it's really important to have her checked up and vaccinated. It's just irresponsible to have a pet and not take them to the vet annually. So tomorrow should be fun, having the big dog and the cat carrier by myself at the vet... Wish me luck!

Hopefully I'll get back into a rhythm of posting more regularly. If not, this one should be long enough to last you for a while. I'll leave you with some Counting Crows.

It's been a long December
And there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the time I've tried to tell myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass

2 glances | Never look back.