Holy cow its already Thanksgiving!

Well, at the behest of my mother, I have decided to post another entry. I feel like no time at all has passed since I have last posted, but then I saw the dates on my blog and was met with the shocking reality.
There is not much going on in my life at the present. I am enjoying school, mainly due to the fact that I have had little to no homework this entire year. Another reason is that I generally like to learn. Hey! Stop laughing back there! But seriously, I guess that my mom ate something very strange when she was pregnant with me to have instilled this trait in me, but its there. I especially enjoy my government class, We the People. It's a debate class based on Constitutional issues. We have a regional mock hearing coming up on December sixth, and we are very confident. This is only the second or third year that my school has offered this class, so we are fairly inexperienced compared to other schools, but again, we are confident that we'll do well at our competition.
My sister Lexi just finished performing in her school play, Shakespear's "Comedy of Errors." She was very good, and I was pleasantly suprised by how well the rest of the cast performed. Lexi rehearsed and practiced for about eight weeks and it paid off.
Katie, my other sister, made the varsity basketball team, and we are all very excited for her. This is her...third?...year playing basketball and she loves it, even of she comes home sore and bruised.
Nick and Luke are doing fine in school and with their respective instruments. Lucas just had a concert where he played very well for only beginning about a year ago. Nick is constantly "challenging" the other trumpeters in his band for first and second chair postitions and is very excited by the fact that he can usurp another student from the glory seat.
Oh yeah, I turned eighteen on Wednesday of last week. I felt so old, especially when I brought home a permisson slip from school for my mom to sign. When she wouldn't do it I started to explain what it was for, but then she said, "Michael, you're an adult now. I don't have to sign these anymore." It left me speechless for a second, but then I was elated at the realization. Add to that the fact that I got my own Costco membership card today, and I am feeling pretty good about my age. Who ever said that getting older was a bad thing? Wait, did I just see a gray hair?!