Something to Blog About

The holidays are upon us again, and I've got some things that are rattling around in my brain. I found out today that I have an advocate at PLU, a new position that was created, The Dean of Academic Success, and her job is to help the students be academicaly successful. Now all I have to do is talk to them.

That's the hard part.


But on to other topics... my mom is really depressed, this is the first year without her mother, my Nonna, and it is very hard, on all of us. My brothers came home yesterday and helped to decorate, we had sooo much fun! And then they showed me all the gifts they got their girlfriends, and it took the fun right out of the day. I'm not jealous, just sad that I don't have someone to buy things for me, get so excited because they found the perfect purse to go with my favorite outfit, or to buy me a new pair of shoes that they know I would love because they just know me that well. And then, to add insult to injury, Andy keeps asking me for my real gift wish list, because the one I gave my family is lame. Mom explained that the boys want something fun to get me, not the stuff I put on my list. The thing is, I thought my list WAS fun. I like cook books and flower vases and flavored coffee and shopping at Target. I can't tell them what "Fun Things" to get me because those are the things that someone would know when they KNOW me...

*shrug*

What can I say. I'm lame that way, I guess. And maybe I'm not, but sometimes I sure do feel that way. Funny, who the slightest word from a loved one can be taken out of context or not in the way they ment for it to be taken, and send a person reeling...