Once the finals are out of the way, I get to go home for break! Yay! Steve (a friend of mine on my hall) is driving me home. First we have to spend the night at his grandparents house for the night. I'm not bothered by this, because if we left to go straight home on Tuesday, we'd get there around 11 or so. Plus Steve would have to go from there to Ohio. Oh well, I arrive one day later than I thought, big deal.

Friday night Mona and I went to Josh's house (my roommate and drama team leader). We had a retreat for my drama team, so we went along because we thought it would be fun. It was; even though we had a two hour drive there and back. Since half the team couldn't go, the ones that were could bring friends. I brought Mona, Josh brought his girlfriend Melissa, our friend Jesse brought his friend Allison, and the team brought along Steve Campbell (a former member of the team, and roommate of the Steve driving me home). Jesse and Allison have previously made comments about Mona and I's relationship (that I let Mona walk all over me), so Mona and I had prepared an act that we were going to do. We were going to show what it was like for someone to be walked all over.  We let the others know beforehand, so they wouldn't be shocked at Mona's actions. While at Josh's house Mona would do things like: tell me to go downstairs and get her purse for her, bring it up, get her a mint and put it in her mouth, then bring the purse back downstairs. I also had to get her food, warm up her hot dog bun, and other crazy things. She did this all in a demanding voice, too, which is hard for her because being demanding is not her personality. The culmination of this "act" was when Mona gave me an "early" Christmas gift. I opened it and it was foot lotion. She then told me in front of everyone that it was so I could give her foot massages, which I had to do right there in front of everyone. It was actually fun, because I purposely made it ticklish, and I kept making Mona laugh. I had a lot of fun doing it, actually, and I hope Jesse and Allison took notice of it. So, we'll see if Jesse gives me a talking to about letting Mona walk all over me or something

Once we finished watching the third movie of the evening, Mona and I decided to head back (we didn't want to spend the night). We made it back safely, which is a miracle, because I always get confused on where to go when I'm at Josh's house. Two hours is a long time to drive, especially when you have a headache. Mona found this out, because she had to drive (since I don't have my license, hehehe). I kind of paniced at one point, since her gas gauge doesn't work correctly, I thought that we were going to run out of gas soon. Thoughts of running out of gas in the middle of the night flooded my mind, so we stopped somewhere and filled up. We made it back and we got to sleep in the next day. It turns out we left before the chaos happened. Two of the guests (who I previously mentioned, try to guess) went outside in the middle of the night to look for a cat they heard outside. They came back in, left a few doors open and lights on, and went to bed. Needless to say, Josh's parents wern't too happy. Let's just say they've been banned from the house...

Last night Mona and I had our third month anniversary. It wasn't necessarily on the actual date, but since we'de be out of town, we decided to have it early. Plus it was our early Christmas celebration. We went and ate at the Olive Garden where our waiter had stinky BO (but the food was good besides that). We went to the park for a little while. We went down to where the lake was, and we were going to sit on a blanket when we saw all these Geese hanging around the lake. Their leader turns, looks at us, starts quacking or whatever, and begins to kinda charge/walk towards us. Well, the nineteen or so geese behind him decided to follow suit. So we had about twenty geese headed straight towards us. Needless to say we were a bit freaked out (since when does stuff like this happen? Mona and I charged back at them, causing them to panic a bit (since geese get scared easily). We slowly backed away and found another place to chill for awhile. And chill we (or I) did. It was pretty cold out, and although I had a coat on, I started to freeze. Then we went to see The Polar Express, where I delighted in ruining the movie for Mona. You see, I kept wishing to see the CGI kids somehow die (they were all asking for it, they kept putting themselves in situations where they would die. I kept suggesting ways it could happen, and Mona kept telling me to stop. I couldn't of course.

Today I take on my friend Melissa in a competitive game of DDR. She is doomed, because I am the DDR Master! She thinks she's good, but I can beat her. She is doomed!

Well, I must get ready. Dave and Amy are having me and Mona over for lunch. I can't wait!
-TNS/AutoRock/Greg

Just wanted to give another quick update. Yesterday I decided to beat Final Fantasy X. It's a great game, but I just got sick of trying to max stats. I have the files tucked away on my memory card, so if I want to finish the job I can. It went along smoothly. The end boss didn't know what hit him. I think I finished him off with blitz ace (Tidus' Overdrive). The ending was both sad and sweet. I have it so I can beat it again whenever I want (like to show my sister. I had to show my friends the "The End" screen as proof. After that I borrowed FFX-2 from Steve so I could continue the story. Now all I have to do is beat Metroid Prime and my total of games completed this year will come to the total of four. Yes, I am happy.

In my multi-media class I was finally able to work with a video camera. My group was able to go around campus and film certain spots (like bulidings). It was interesting to see what we all came up with, since five people have different ideas on what looks cool (and what doesn't). Overall Sister Mohr (our teacher) was pleased with what we came up with. They wern't perfect (shakey shots, quick zooms, ect.), but for our first try it went great.

Well, that's all I have time for at the moment. I'll try to update as soon as possible!
-Greg