Man, having that holiday really threw me off learning JavaScript...
New plan is to still do JS (I'm 99% set on that now, as I know what I want to do with it), but take a different route. That book in the course I was following was dull as all hell, so I'm going to not use it, but I'm going to learn the language syntax and basics on codecademy, then start reading and finding more interesting tutorials and guides elsewhere.
Something else that's cool, I remembered I'm doing web design in school now as well, so JavaScript ties in perfectly