  I finally got my Learner's Permit on Tuesday, after month of being to lazy to get my parents to go with me to DMV. Wednesday (my 16th birthday) was rather uneventful. The majority of my family local to this area went to Old Country Buffet in Beaverton to celebrate.
Fun, I guess... I got a Van de Graff generator which, upon assembly, fail to operate. That was a rather large disappointment, since I had spent almost 5 hours on it. Yesterday, We had our "Christmas party" of sorts at school, and I finally invited Gwen to the Winter Banquet (after several schedule conflict which I had to resolve before I even knew if I was going to go), but now my parents are getting more restrictive, and saying that I should ask her to pay for her own ticket, because if I pay for it, it'll be a "date"...
I never really got that reasoning, but I guess I'll just have to flow with it... Later that afternoon, Goody's family (minus two siblings), Peter, Rachael, Emily, and I went to see The Two Towers . It was way better than I thought it was going to be, but I was expecting more people to be coming.
Later when I got home, I received a message from Brady informing me that I had not, in fact invited them to it, though I had been operating the last couple day, with the expectation of seeing them there... Really stupid of me. Consequentially, I am prolly going to go see it again with them within the next week. 
