I worry that I'm forgetting my mom. I can't remember the stories she used to tell me, our stories. The ones about her and me sometimes with supporting appearances from my brothers and dad. The ones about the things that happened, the silly things I did when I was a kid that I never wanted to remember and the times I was sweet and made her proud ( Read more... )

I worry that I'm forgetting my mom.

The ad for sending your LJ friends birthday gifts kills me. Only 0.99$? US dollar signs go before the amount, not after.

I work in the mall. A works in the mall, too, full-time 8+ hour days. I wind up having to go in with her in the morning and sit around until my shift. There's a cafe (with internet--I'm glad I did not discover this until ( Read more... )

Mom died two years ago. I don't quite know how I feel about today ( Read more... )

Today would've been my parents' 31st anniversary.

My roommate's mom has stage 1 breast cancer. I feel like it's not really my place to say much about it, but I called my dad to talk to him because I feel like every time I try to say something to her about it, no matter if I mention it or not what she'll be hearing is "when my mom got cancer and died," which is not something she needs to be ( Read more... )

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget ( Read more... )

I was going to rant about what bullshit it is to say that birth order plays a gigantic role in who you are but I decided not to ramble. (Long story short: the oldest is supposed to be the most intelligent and the perfectionist but if school work is any indication, my oldest brother at the very least isn't a perfectionist; the middle child is ( Read more... )

So that paper I wrote, that I had such issues with yet an awesome title for (Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Hell: The Issue Of Gender in Roaring Camp)? I got it back, last week but I didn't look at the paper until last night because I thought I failed ( Read more... )

Me: My parents' anniversary is coming up on the 4th, and I can't go home for it and I know my brother is going to forget about it ( Read more... )