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“Give thanks to the Lord our God and King His love endures forever. For He is good, He is above all things, His love endures forever.
Forever God is faithful
Forever God is strong
Forever God is with us
Forever“

What do you say to your grandpa who just wants to go home? Do you sit back and watch and think about the good times that you shared? Do you talk and converse hoping that he would be responsive? At this point I’m not sure.

The new year is a few days away and so much has happend this year for me. I just got engaged, finished up with school and stated a new/old career position. But with all of this I’m having a bitter/sweet time because my grandpa just wants to go home and I don’t think it’s his time. That’s my selfish nature talking, but you know. We’ll see tonight what happends

~Dru

“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!”
Not to make a mockery of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but that’s how I feel after finally unofficially finishing my bachelors degree at Northeastern Illinois in Computer Science with a minor in Economics. My final grades were:

YOU HAVE A TOTAL OF 137 EARNED HOURS

Description	Grade
Introduction to Biology	B
Modern Database Management	B
Server Side Web Development	I
Cyberlaw	B
Industrial Organization	B

So, right now all I need to do is work on some course work for the “I” that I have in Server Side Web Development and I will officially be finished. I breathed a sigh of relief last Wednesday as I finished my final project for DB Management. I know that with my impending graduation tons of people are happy for me. This is an accomplishment for me as well, finally finishing something that I started. Now I can work on my café, and with Tyrus being the family barista can manage it. This is all a dream of course, but it would be nice to have something like that since I drink tons of coffee and I like socializing.

Well Christmas is coming up in less then a week. I have not finished all of my shopping yet. I have not finished cleaning my area of the house for the Christmas dinner at the house. I have not cleaned my room yet for Hun. What have I done…I’m not really sure, work and church stuff mostly. Nicole was asking me for my Christmas list the other day, and she found it rather funny so I’ll share. Besides an ETEN x500 glofiish and Dell Latitude D620 I was looking at the following ordered by desire:

A bath robe with matching slippers

Those shoes that have the wheels in them

Metal collar stays (the things you put in the collar of a button up, they’re usually plastic)

Wicking shirts (not tight under armor stuff, but the ones like a t-shirt or sleevless)

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas (I know that’s not pc, but I’m a Christian so for me it’s Christmas) and I’ll be seeing you when I see you. Until then, stay safe and God bless!

~Dru

Well, Christmas is almost here and I can’t wait! This will be the first Christmas in two years that I’ll be spending with my family. My how the time flew by. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely will miss the sunny AZ; playin’ ball in December with the Phx crew, the white elepahant time and just hanging out with the Mah’s out there. I remember the first time Eddie and I stayed over at the Mah’s old place. Now him and Kimmie are married and I’m engaged, CRAZY! But I still missed my family while I was there, you know. I wonder how were going to work all of this out, where we’ll be spending what holidays. Flip a coin? Jon-ken-po?

This past thanksgiving I spent out there. It was nice to see Nicole’s family again. Her older brother also got married Thanksgiving weekend. I added some pictures of the wedding in my gallery. Good times.

I also added my family reunion pictures as well. Every 3 years or so my mom’s side heads out to Vegas for a reunion since it’s a midpoint for everyone. We have people coming in from Hawaii, the west coast and Illinios.

That’s all for now.

~Dru