new year

Happy new year! Okay so I'm a day late, but this is my blog so I can do whatever I want. Christmas ended up going a little bit better than the rant I made below, TJ's family was really nice about everything. I felt pretty bad about the gift-giving; TJ's parents ended up buying me at least $200 worth of stuff, including a $100 gift card to Younkers, and all I got them was a couple of candles that spell JOY when you set them next to each other. TJ hadn't gotten them anything yet by Christmas day, so on the 26th, we both pitched in for a $60 gift card for a really nice and ritzy-expensive restaurant called Biro. As soon as we handed it to his mom, she started bawling and said, very seriously, that we shouldn't have gotten them that, we should've saved our money. Blink Blink. She then informed us that her father, TJ's grampa, wasn't doing so well, that he might not last through the day. He passed away a couple hours later. TJ's parents went down to Florida for the funeral and left TJ and I to watch the house and dog.
So far all I've been doing is sitting on my butt watching movies and tv. I wanted to go for a run this morning, considering it's almost 40 degrees here, but it's now thunderstorming, pouring rain. So, once again, I'm sitting on the couch watching Unsolved Mysteries right now about hauntings. I'm glad that it's daytime while I'm watching this, TJ's house is old and really big, so my being alone in the basement makes me a little creeped out.
The most exciting thing that's happened around here lately was that one of my best friends and her fiance came up to ring in the new year. It was pretty fun.
I'm having trouble sleeping lately. I'm getting really nervous about dental schools now that it's January. Marquette told me they'd make a decision on me this month, after they receive my updated grades from this past semester. I got decent grades, and even managed to argue one of them up from a B+ to an A-, in a 4 credit class even, so I'm really starting to get nervously excited about things. I think it will help when I head home and get to go running again. I'm seriously considering the offer I got to be an aerobics instructor at one of the health clubs back home. I've already got my job at Olive Garden lined back up, so at least I know I'm set with making money one way or another back home. I'm really hoping I find out I'm in dental school before I start classes, so I can just work and make some money next semester.