update?

Well, it has been a blast so far.

I've been to several of my sister's basketball games, been spending time with my family, reading a lot, enjoying music a lot, and missing you guys a lot.

Christmas Eve and Christmas were great. I really enjoyed the amount of time i got to spend with my family. I am becoming a big fan of holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas because it allows the family to get together and simply enjoy each other's company. This Christmas may or may not be the last one the whole family has together for a while because Maggie's searching for a job (sounds as though overseas is preferable to her). I got to cook dinner with her last night and she put together an AMAZING pot of mexican rice. Always good to have sisters who enjoy sharing recipes with their younger brothers :).

Christmas day was really fun. Scott(my younger/awesome brother) woke everyone up at like 7:00 this morning. I crawled out of bed half asleep and walked upstairs to see everyone huddled together on the living room floor next to the tree.


Ok so i HAVE to tell you about the gift given to me by my mother this year. by no means do i wish to gloat over gifts or anything like that. i thought i would share a little about one of my favorite things ever. This gift was by far the most thoughtful "stuff"- type gift(something i really just don't need) I think i've ever been given in my life.

little background--
so like i said in a previous blog, i had a christmas list. The stuff i put on there pretty much consisted of books and cd's that i was planning on buying for myself if i didn't get them for Christmas.

my mom said she pretty much ignored the list and instead bought me something that I would NEVER have purchased for myself in a thousand years.





Calvin and Hobbes. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes set. Every single C & H comic ever written by Bill Watterson.

I grew up with Calvin and Hobbes. I have all the individual books. I've read all of them through at least twenty gazillion times. I could quite possibly finish a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip if you gave me the first line of it.

My mom was the one that first shared Calvin and Hobbes with me. I remember all the times growing up when i got a new Calvin and Hobbes book through the school book order. i would have read most of the book before the day was out at school. I would come home and point out my favorite strips to whomever was in the house. Mom was the most likely to share a good chuckle with me. Mom and I reading Calvin and Hobbes could kind of be seen as the equivalent of a father and son going to baseball games together. It brought back so many memories.

so yes. a very cool gift.

if you haven't read Calvin and Hobbes before, please let me know. we can get together and read an AMAZING comic strip.


have an awesome day guys :)
-dave

p.s. if you have read Calvin and Hobbes, I'm interested to know everyone's favorite book. I think mine is probably "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" with "The Days are Just Packed" and "There's Treasure Everywhere" tying for second.