She's Baaack!

Yes, it has been nearly two months. After all this time, 2005 is nearly over. It's Christmas time...finals time...crunch time. I can say that the fourteen day hiatus from prison will be greatly appreciated. Today is our fifth hour final, the hardest test I have ever taken,which consists of absolutely positively...nothing. Yesterday Mr. Hedburg told us that our final exam in his class (Criminal Justice) would be nonexistent. And we aren't supposed to be out in the halls during finals time, so naturally, our entire class left and roamed the halls. Our wonderful instructor completely disregards the rules most of the time, the man has never given a detention or a tardy in his life, and his students usually do whatever they please during his classes. So here I am in the library with 30 minutes left to go in this hour of extreme duress, and I have nothing productive to do with my time. I have a history paper that will be one week overdue when I turn it in on Monday, an English essay, and several other pressing tasks that I choose not to work on right now. I recently found out that our family had been given a WONDERFUL blessing for Christmas. I know that God is looking out for us this year. This awesome lady at our church, who has become more like a second mother to me, has really been with me through everything this year. She thought about about what she could do for us, and she decided to ask her workplace to adopt our family for Christmas. I've done adopt-a-family stuff before, and it's nice, you get the family a few small presents and it isn't much, but it is something, and the people are always really grateful. But apparently, people at her work just came out of nowhere wanting to help us. So, not only do we have more Christmas presents under the tree in our living room now than we have in years, but a few nights ago I took my brother out for ice cream, and I came home to a COMPUTER downstairs, with desk and chair and all that was just for me! I was so shocked, I could hardly speak when I sat down at my desk. They also gave my brother a DVD player as his big gift. They gave us money for groceries and helped us out with the utility bills too!! I could not be more thankful for what this woman and her family have done for us. What a bright spot in what was going to be kind of a dull Christmas season. I've really been learning not to even think about the gift part of it; I couldn't even tell anyone what I wanted this year. I don't really need anything. That surprised me, but I guess it's all part of the whole maturing thing. All I want for Christmas is for mi familia to be happy. Merry Christmas everyone!