My friend Deion habitually complains that I don't have enough "personal" posts anymore, so to please my adoring fans, ie Deion, here goes nothing.

For Fourth of July weekend, my family and I went to Fire Island beach for the usual BBQ and day out in the sun.  I think that's my favorite beach in all of Long Island - go farther east, towards the ( Read more... )

 
Well, I hope the past week doesn't set the tone for the rest of 2010, because it kicked my a**!  Despite staying at work late, I went to bed most days thinking of what I still had to do, which is never a good sign. TGIF - seriously.

My trip to Seattle over the holidays was okay.  It wasn't the best Christmas ever, but I was around my Dad's family ( Read more... )

Just wanted to say:

MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

I'm off to Seattle to spend time with relatives and sneak away for a ski trip or two. May you have a lovely time with your loved ones, and if not, or it's too much, there are lots of good movies coming out. (Like Avatar! Haha I've seen it twice - but I'm stopping, I swear.)

 
The only downside to a long July 4th weekend?

The very itchy sunburn afterwards.

I thought I covered up pretty well, until I hit the water and realized, oh shoot my sunblock is a quarter mile away from where I am now.  So my chest is a shade of red...sigh.  I was happy to be out in the sun and sand, though.  I love Fire Island--it's far away enough ( Read more... )

 Dear flist,

You're as real to me as my real life friends, so I feel that I owe it to you to know that my father passed away last night.

It's been almost a day since we found out, and I feel like I've run the whole gamut of emotions.  Angry, sad, bittersweet, missing him terribly, resolute--you name it, I've probably felt it.  Sometimes I'm kind ( Read more... )

 
What a stressful, worrisome week this has been.  My dad was hospitalized last night--something my family is actually relieved about, because he has refused to go all week.  He started complaining on Easter Sunday of pressing chest pains, and he was so stubbornly bent on resting it away that he didn't want to listen to us telling him to go to the ( Read more... )

 
Quote of the Week:  Happy Easter

This quote's for my aunt, because recently she learned that she has breast cancer--stage one, but breast cancer nonetheless.  She's the one in the family who always makes sure everyone is taken care of, the kind who cooks all day and doesn't stop until everyone has gone home stuffed.  She's going to have a ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I think mothers are partly made of harpies ( Read more... )

My favorite part of Saturdays is waking up earlier than everyone else in the house, and basking in how quiet it is.  There's no television on, no sounds of my Dad and younger sis bickering as usual over the mess in the living room.

Just...quiet.

I look back on that now, of course, because everyone else has woken up and the house no longer feels mine ( Read more... )

It's my sister's Sweet 16th this upcoming Monday, and to celebrate, my parents are throwing her a dinner party on Saturday.  I've appointed myself as her party planner, but I don't think we share the same creative vision, because so far I've shot down her wishes for a spanking new convertible, a circus-trained white pony, and a grand entrance ( Read more... )