Nothing new to report except that...I sent my mom the link to this thread and she's been reading it. She called me up in tears today, saying she was so proud of what I've accomplished, and that reading all of the support and encouragement that everyone here has given me made her feel so good! I think it was reassuring to her to know that I was getting some maternal type concern even though we're 500 miles apart. So anyway, mom, once you get to this page (which, considering how long this is, won't be for a while), I just wanted to tell you, I couldn't have done one bit of this without you. And thank you to everyone who was nice to me on here and thus made my mom cry