An update for Lori!

I got a request to update from Lori, so Lori, this one's for you!

The past couple of months have kind of caught me in a whirlwind. Everything moved so fast and I found that I needed something like twenty six hours in a twenty four hour day...didn't quite work, but thankfully, I am done with the semester and can actually take some time to relax and enjoy myself for a couple of weeks.

I hope that gushy romance novels and painting consume my time while I'm at home. Of course, I will be spending time with my family and walking to my grandmother's house just about every day for coffee at three. I don't drink coffee but she always has a cup of hot chocolate for me. It's times like these that I wish I drank coffee...or could acquire a taste for it. I enjoy sitting with my grandmother and sister while we talk about the happenings around town, who's doing what...In such a small town, everyone knows everything. It makes me wonder who is sitting down with their grandmother at that moment, discussing the very same thing we are...or even if anyone still does that.

We don't gossip, really, just talk. But it sure is funny when my grandmother has a friend or two over to drink coffee with us as well...two or three older women sure do know how to gossip.

It's always so exciting when my family gathers at my grandmother's house. If you have see Raymond, that's what our family is like. My grandparents let themselves in our house whenever they want, and we do the same. We've started to call them Frank and Marie...I think they secretly get a kick out of it as well...they laugh.

I must say though, this is the first time that I haven't rushed back home for a holiday. I finished finals on Monday and here it is...Wednesday evening, and I still haven't even packed for home. I'll get there eventually. Maybe it's because I'm sticking around to see the friends that I won't see for a month, one in particular. Or maybe it's just a sign that I might be growing up and am able to live on my own...without my parents. I will always need them, but have reached a new phase in my life...I don't know.