From today until after New Year's, I am going to be so busy. My best friend came home from college for Christmas (she went out of state very far away), and now that she's back from visiting family in another state I'll be spending her last few days home with her. Today I have to pack my stuff and get ready to go. Then, as soon as I come home, I have to get ready again for Jon to come pick me up and whisk me away to spend New Year's together. I'll be spending the night at his house on New Year's...

I'm still trying to wrap my head around what happened. I've been trying to pull this off for a year now, I didn't think it would ever happen.

On Thursday I sat down and had a talk with my conservative, over-protective, old fashioned mom. I stayed very calm and respectful. She didn't, however. Even though I asked her before I ever started talking to please, please let me say everything I had to say before she jumped in, she must've interrupted me at least 10 times. And she yelled....