Well, Happy New Year everyone! I spent my New Year’s Eve partying with Anastasia and her cousins at one of their “Cousins Parties” out at Anastasia’s mother’s condo. We set off a bunch of fireworks on the beach, had some drinks, played a bunch of poker with Brandon’s new poker chips set. ^^ I learned how to play Texas Hold ‘Em and some of the ins and outs of poker, which was good fun. I got a real kick out of sliding all my chips into the pot and saying “I’m all in!”… unfortunately me for me, that was one of the freak occurrences where I would have been 90-something % to win right up until the river card, when I lost it all. Ah well.

Around New Year and the subsequent days, I spent the time packing with Anastasia. On the third day of the new year, Anastasia and I moved up to Gainesville! Home of the University of Florida and their Gators. We’re gonna be sleeping on the futon until we get a bed… we’re also missing a whole bunch of actual furniture, which is good. The new place is a one bedroom apartment that’s part of a duplex, it has a living room, a kitchen… it actually has a hallway! Definitely a plus. A hall closet, too. Internal doors as well, which is kind of novel.