as far as vacation goes, this vacation was rather lame. i'd honestly rather be going to class. the only thing i did was the family trip to pittsburgh and it was lame minus drinking lots of alcohol that my family didn't know about. i got to play with some cats for a while and then i got to listen about my crack head (literally) ex aunt complaining about one of my cousin's friends who she doesn't like because she comes from a bad home. ha! she's one to talk. well i survived the trip and i have been back to sit around and not work because i have time off. i'm at my parents house and shayna should be here around 7 so we can go eat thai food. it's odd for her to meet my parents after we aren't seeing eachother. oh well. speaking of shayna, i got her a gallon of ketchup for the holidays. when she found this out, she gave me a guilt trip because she said she made something for me. so, before we exchanged gifts i made her a fabulous t-shirt through the wonders of silk screening. i went to her house to give her to the gifts and have her take me to the liquor store to get 3 bottles of champagne. she liked the gifts and told me mine wasn't done. i wonder if she had honestly even made me something when she heard about the ketchup. who knows. anyways, i finished one bottle of the champagne and the other two will be finished tonight. wish me luck.

-nate