This week has been exceedingly hard for me emotionally. I'm going to cut-tag for length, but I'm not going to apologize for content.

( This is what being a woman looks like right now. )

This is what you get when you transplant a body part or organ (who knew Bone Marrow was an organ?) and the match is not exactly perfect and the graft (or transplanted part) fights with the host (or recipient of the graft) through the immune system.

All kinds of things can happen, from the slightly annoying to the life threatening.  In the early days ( Read more... )

Yesterday a friend posted about getting a costume to wear to a Wild Wild West party.  I immediately pictured some sort of Annie Oakley gear - shirt with fringe, jeans, boots, and a hat.

Of course, she's going to be wearing something a little racier and girlier.  Probably involving satin and feathers and hose...

Then I started thinking about all the ( Read more... )

I don't really crush that often, but I do tend to crush *hard.*  Case in point: today, I was reviving my Franklin Planner for work.  I haven't carried this one in quite awhile - the latest pages in it were dated 2003.  As I was cleaning out the old pages, and seeing what items were still salvageable, I turned a page and found an old and smudged ( Read more... )

I'm not getting paid for xmas day after all.  I never received a clear explanation of how holiday pay worked on my contract before today - when it's too late to do anything about it.  
This is the story:  after memorial day, 8 hours of holiday pay mysteriously appeared on my paycheck.  Huh.  After Independence day, no holiday pay.  I had only ( Read more... )

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I had said before:  attending this on my own was a pretty big stretch for me.  By and large, everyone I spoke to was thoughtful, intelligent, sincere and friendly.

It's true.  I'm a borderline introvert, hooked up with an extreme extrovert in RL.  I like to live inside my head.  I like my space, my quiet.  It's definitely how I recharge.  But. I ( Read more... )

You know, I started this journal purely for entertainment.  I thought to use it as a pathway to finding interesting, entertaining and stimulating topics, hopefully all leaning toward the light and hilarious.  I’ve got a broad spectrum of friends though, and my flist reflects this.  I write about things happening in the moment, mostly of a light or ( Read more... )