Things are going better. The house has settled down, I'm writing fanfiction again (latest chapter of one of my stories is going to hit 40 pages by the time it's done), college is going well (I just finished my first ten-minute short film, and it came out fairly good), and I'm about to ask my girlfriend to marry me - make the whole thing nice and official. I've got the ring and hope to give it to her on Thanksgiving. So, with any luck, I'll be engaged within a week.