Thank god the holidays are over. I'm exhausted. It's 9pm on the 26th and this is the first I've had a chance to get on the computer since the 23rd some time ( Read more... )

A little background:

I went off to college in 1995, moving from Chicago to a small town in Missouri (some 300+ miles from home).  I would go home for the summer and holidays.  In 1998 my brother, Ryan, packed up and went off to college at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR...2000+ miles from home.  He rarely came home.  Since 1998 I've seen ( Read more... )