it feels so good to be home. for a month. after a week of finals :-)

apparently my grandpa's vision in his right eye is temporarily gone. there was a cernia i'm assuming (not really sure what happened) and now he has to wear an eye patch that has some sort of liquid in it. but the liquid can only touch his eye for a certain amount of time every couple of hours, so the rest of the time he has to rest his head, to the point he's looking at the floor. god, can you imagine? poor thing :( i'm glad he's ok though. my uncle grant (his son) is back to drinking and it is having a terrible effect on my grandparents, once again. all this crap is happening in my family that i've been pretty much unaware of. plus grant is probably the greatest person you'll ever meet, and he has to go and ruin it for everyone by drinking and using drugs. unfortunate, since the only real reason for all this is his certainty that he's a failure in life. it upsets me since i know there's really nothing i can do or say to make him realize he deserves better than this.but no, i refuse to get upset over this. my dad told me to expect his fall anytime soon (he's been sober for about 6 months, but has been an alcoholic most of his life). oh well. i guess i just want my grandparents to leave this earth with integrity and peace within them, and he's making this very hard to accomplish.

grr, ok, happiness :-) i'm really happy it's winter break!!! christmas makes me happy, even though i don't even celebrate it lol :-D i brought a whole lotta stuff with me from school, almost everything, because i just knew i'd need it. my brother is going through some tough times now because of finals, they're pretty much killer- because he takes insane classes, with his fancy "aerospace engineer" major, jeez. i hope he'll be ok. oh! i got an A- in psych :-) so insanely happy, because i got a B on my final which i studied a lot for, and was hoping that wouldn't bring down my grade. we'll see how i did on them other finals... but in general, i'm really glad i took these classes, since they were all interesting (to some degree), satisfied requirements, and were moderately difficult.

oh, and i'll leave you with a stupid incident: when meir and i got home, and i opened the back of his car to get my suitcases and stuff, the little window that lifts up actually FELL on my nose as i reached down. yup. i was afraid i broke it (because i love the way my nose looks lol) but it didn't hurt as much as it would have if it was broken. so now i have a purple mark on the upper part of my nose. umm....colorful for the holidays?