Woohoo for plugins! If you’ll look over to the sidebar, under “links,” you’ll see a link to my nice new Flickr Gallery :D. Many many thanks to Ramon Darrow for the plugin :). I know it’s not a very good place for the link, but I’m planning to change the look of this site when I can figure out what to do with it, and when I do I’ll put a navigation bar under the header. If I can figure it out, that is :).
I love Thanksgiving. It’s one of those holidays that most people can and do enjoy, without as much of the fuss over commercialism and pressures to buy gifts that plague many of the other major holidays. It’s right after my birthday and about a month before Christmas, so it falls nicely in a series of festive events. The whole family, many of whom I don’t get to see very often, comes down for the holiday. And to top it off, we get to eat turkey! Mmmmmmmm. So, happy Thanksgiving to all of you who celebrate it, and have a nice day to all of those who don’t :)
The day went pretty well. I went to classes, came home and got a shirt and some Godiva chocolates from my oldest sister and The Sims 2 from my parents, along with a nice steak dinner. Then on Thursday night, my oldest brother and his family, my oldest sister, and my youngest brother (who is still older than me since I’m the youngest of the seven) came over to my parents’ house and I got some more presents, a cake, and Ben and Jerry’s chocolate chip cookie dough, woo :). I ended up with some DVDs, a sweater, a subscription to Scientific American, and some candy, so the loot was pretty good :). I’m going to town with my cousin tonight, but I’m not sure what we’ll do. Hopefully it will be something relaxing, because I’ve had a hellish day at work and I need to relax before I bite a head off…*smiles sweetly*
Well, tomorrow is my 21st birthday. I’ve written and deleted two overlong posts about people who want me to go out and get drunk on my birthday simply because it’s my 21st birthday, but I’ll spare you the reading of the rant. All I’m going to say is that I don’t have a problem with people drinking in moderation, but I don’t see the point in drinking to get drunk. In fact, I think it’s pretty stupid. I also don’t drink because I’m close to a former alcoholic and I’ve seen what has happened to that person, which is a large part of the reason I don’t drink. Maybe I am missing out on some sort of rite or passage or cultural ritual or whatever you want to call it, but I don’t really care. I don’t drink. I’m not going to drink. End of story and end of my (now short) rant.
That said, what am I going to do for my birthday? Well, my family is going to have a little party for me on Thursday night, where I’ll hopefully get some of the books and movies I want but have been too cheap (or sometimes broke) to buy. My cousin called my cell phone last night, but I had it turned off and we’re now playing phone tag, so if we manage to catch each other, we might do something this weekend. Maybe we’ll go play some pool and I’ll manage to find myself a date. That would be a nice birthday present, seeing as I haven’t had a single date for 3 months now. I’m getting bored. Anyway, going out with her is fun because she’s married, so I’m guaranteed to get all of the flirting funnelled my way :D I doubt I’ll do anything other than those two things for my birthday, although I may force myself to stop doing homework for a couple of hours one night this week and take that time to watch a movie. It may be a boring 21st birthday by some people’s standards, but I find that I really don’t care. :)
I have now finished the Psychology GRE, the last of the standardized tests I’ve had to take as a part of my undergraduate program. It’s such a good feeling to finally have this out of my mind. Now that the GREs are out of the way, I can wrap up some projects I haven’t been able to work on lately and apply to some graduate programs. In a few short months I’ll decide on a program and finally be able to move out of my parents’ house and be on my own, and better yet, be my own person and be in control of my own life. At last, the end is in sight! Or should I call it the beginning? I think so, because this feels like the beginning of the rest of my life. My life :).