Bored? Go vote for all the best icon makers on LJ at besticonmaker! There will be voting posts in a jillion categories. (Someone nommed me for best overall icon maker and I choked on my coffee lmao ( Read more... )

I am convinced my family is cursed. I'm not a superstitious person normally, but I've said it for years, and now something else has happened that lends me to believe my family has a curse on it. It's my mother's family, actually. There isn't a month that goes by in which something terrible doesn't happen to someone. As evidence, I will briefly ( Read more... )

so monday i went to my grandfather's funeral. it was...well, it was a funeral. i think the worst part of the whole thing was having to sit through church. i mean, i was raised jewish so i don't understand what the hell is going on. add this to the fact that i am a staunch atheist, and you can see why i had such a great time. all i could think ( Read more... )

my grandfather died the night before last. but i'm not exactly sure how i feel because the family disowned him 4 years ago. we disowned him because after my grandmother died, we found out that he had had an affair with my grandmother's sister when they were younger. once both of their spouses were dead, they decided to get together again. they ( Read more... )