Update City. Population: Me and You

id you miss me? I bet you did. I know you are just DIEING to hear all about things in my life so I guess I will just get right to it.

Somehow, I managed to climb out of the homework hole and study and do pretty well on my finals and pulled off a 3.0 for the term. Im not gonna spend too much time talking about this at this point because its been too long since its happened and Ive thought so many thoughts about it that Im kinda sick of the subject already; but I will say this: I did myself a great disservice by allowing myself to slack in areas I knew I shouldnt be slacking in, and fixing that mistake required lots of hard work and stress that made the slacking time completely not worth it. So I have told myself that I will never do this to myself again (stay tuned to see if that actually happens).

Thanksgiving in California with Seamus was amazing. His entire family was so sweet and it was perfect, really. He and I cooked an impressive dinner for 16 which took all day, but was definitely worth all of the work. The food turned out better than we expected (we expected good, but everything really turned out great) and afterward everyone was so gracious and thankful and the night was just lovely. After dinner everyone insisted that Seamus and I not step foot in the kitchen for the clean-up, and instead we played a game of pool with each other, opened a bottle of wine and heated up the hot tub. We rewarded ourselves by getting good and drunk during a very long and lovely soak.

Other things happened during the trip as well, including a night where we somehow ended up at a small get-together in the most truly ridiculous house (mansion, really) that I have ever seen, and me being so ill in San Francisco that we didnt get to do any of the fun touristy things I had wanted to do so badly. (Alcatraz, etc.) I did, however, attempt to walk around Chinatown while very, very nauseous and that turned out to not be a very good idea at all. I begged Seamus to take me home after we walked past a dried fish market that nearly had me puking all over the sidewalk.

And I guess from there I can segue easily into saying that things between Seamus and I are unbelievably good. We travel well together, we enjoy the same things and we really enjoy each other. He has been so supportive of me with school and everything Im trying to do right now, its just been so refreshing after experiencing so much dating hell. I really am a very lucky girl.

Our pool league team made it to playoffs and tonight is the first night of that. Im stressing about that a little, but I have other things on my mind like another trip down to Cali next week and Christmas. Also, to put everyones mind at ease, I will admit that I have been thoroughly enjoying my winter break though school has helped my alcohol (and specifically, whiskey) tolerance go way, way down. This has effectively turned me into a pretty cheap date. Last night Seamus and I rounded up a few pals and headed over to the bowling alley where I beat everyone in a 3 game series for a jackpot of 6 whole dollars! It was good, clean, American fun. My break has consisted of lots of cooking, lots of eating, a fair amount of wine consumption, some game playin and a whole lot of relaxin.

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