2007 has been a wonderful year for which I am supremely grateful! I had all kinds of progress this year, and not just with my art.

I got my teeth fixed. It cost 10,000 dollars, but my finacee', my loving and adoring Renasunae (some know her as Ithunna) was willing to use her own credit to get this very neccessary work done. I can smile pretty again, and am no longer ashamed to do so. I am very happy.

I got glasses! I needed them all my life. Putting them on was like seeing the world completely transform. It was like having an old nintendo, and then playing a PS2 for the very first time. I could not afford them before, but now I can. I am very happy.

I got my driver's liscense. Yep. That's right. At the age of 31, I had never had a driver's liscense. Now I number among all the 'normal' people that have one. I don't have a car yet, but I commonly enough drive myself to work in Rena's Nissan Maxima. I am very happy.

But, most of all, I have gained many new friends who have supported me in so many ways through a year that has been difficult and full of very hard work. The changes I have made have not been easy, but they have been, as I have always reminded myself, very much for the better. And the whole way I have had friends to support me, even if they did not know their occassional kind words were needed and did help a lot, they gave them all the same.

Thank you all, for all you do, and all you are, every single day.

I am very happy this holiday season, and I hope that you are too.

- Alps Sarsis