Ah, home again. And it's relatively stress-free so far! Hooray!

Kat's in All-Region Tryouts today, and Mom and Dad are gone for some sort of 'support the troops' luncheon... so I'm sitting here filling out applications and waiting for Kat to call me to pick her up.

Life's pretty good - I'm virtually done with the UCLA app (hooray!) and taking a break before I finish up Stanford's. Next deadline coming up is Dec 30, though I think I'm going to try to work ahead over the next couple days and get everything done before I travel out to Hawaii to spend time with Sam and his family. Gosh but that'll be fun, and probably very low-stress... his family is amazingly nice. Hopefully I won't be sick either!

Red's well, and he's lost weight! He no longer looks like a large sack of flour on legs. I may take over extended walking duties from Dad while I'm home, starting today - it'll be good for me too. The other dogs are also fine, though Di's getting somewhat old. It's hard to believe she's 13; most of my memories include her and Shadow (died summer after my freshman year). She's just always been around... Of course, this also raises the question of much longer Red will live. -sigh- Wherever I end up, it'd really be nice if I could bring Red. I hope everything turns out well... so many things are enormous question marks right now, and I won't know enough to plan until early April, after the acceptances come in. Until then, all I can do is hope.

Ok, enough fun for now. Gotta finish these apps before I can enjoy the break!