Ok, i was gone for a little while because of two things.  one being it was the end of school and i had tons of homework and exams (finally done....graduated this year! woohooo) and the other reason being that my computer has been really messing up latley.  it had gotten so bad that we couldn't even log onto the internet for more than 10 minutes without it shutting down or freezing.  so my mom was working on fixing it...and we're pretty sure that it's done and back to normal now.  i've got a lot of reading and catching up to do! but if i'm gone for a little while again, and don't come on to say its because of vacation...that would be the reason!