Life is good at Christmas time. It's my favorite time of year. I love December. I love preparation for Christmas, buying presents, wrapping them, setting up the Christmas tree. We put the Christmas tree in our bedroom each year as the cats like to eat the plastic needles. Then throw them up, usually on the only article of fabric we have on the floor in the entire apartment, the living room rug.

Today I found out my cholesterol level is 225. Ouch. You don't want it over 200. I'm only 23 years old. How humiliating.

"Health food makes me sick." Calvin Trillin

I had a tonic-clonic seizure when I was fifteen. It's the same thing as a grand mal seizure, just an updated term. Since then I've only had clonic and absence, or petit mal, seizures. I was diagnosed with JME-juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Now they say I just have a generalized seizure disorder. I have a particularly defunct electrical pathway in my occipital lobe. I am lucky because I am well controlled with medication. Not all people with seizures are. 600mg of Lamictal daily keeps my brain in a nice lull. The first year I was diagnosed I took nine pills a day. That's plenty for a 15 year old. Then they took me down to two, now one, thank God. I've been told time and again that I'll never be able to go off my medicine. I'm sure this is better than having the occasional seizure.

"Always kick them while their down, never date a guy with a cold sore, and never get in a car with men in black suits." Micheal Smith