Yesterday Denise came in to work and had a meeting with the bookstore staff and Lucie and Shelby..she said she cannot keep working two jobs, she's completely exhausted and grumpy. The Literacy Council just doesn't have the money for her to work more hours, so she had to resign yesterday (she was originally going to give her two weeks' notice ( Read more... )

In Shackleton's Wake by Arved Fuchs (Oct 1-3). Recreating Shackleton's lifeboat voyage after Endurance sank does not sound like my idea of fun D ( Read more... )

Sometimes I get an idea in my head, like "does a painting of a four-poster bed exist?" You can find most anything online, but I was still surprised when I found this one!

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When I was a kid, me and Ryan and mom drove to New Braunfels, Texas with our friends Julie and Madison (I'm still friends with them on Facebook!) in May 2001. On the drive we listened to a story, which I wrote a little about in my journal, which says "we just listened to a story. It was about a wolf who tries to eat a hen named rainbow and Jimmy ( Read more... )

1. Are you and your birth family close? Yep ( Read more... )

This week Denise took off work for both her jobs, because today is her birthday! She asked me if I wanted to see Twisters with her today, and I was like "ummm YES" haha. This morning I read "the $80.5 million domestic opening makes it the biggest opening weekend ever for a disaster film and the second biggest for a live-action film this year," so ( Read more... )

1. When did you last read a physical issue of a magazine? Hmmm..not sure. I usually just flip through them quickly ( Read more... )

Today mom and I went to the Midnight Sun Festival with mom's friend Sarah (it's the biggest one day event in Alaska!). The day was beautiful and cloudless (except for the smoke plume from that fire south of here) and quite hot. Vicki said she was going to get there around one and watch the silk dancers at two. We ate first (mmm Navajo tacos and a ( Read more... )

1. What kinds of non-music sounds do you like falling asleep to? White noise ( Read more... )

1) What are your five favorite birds? Chickadees, ravens, redpolls, Swainson's thrushes (their birdsong is SO relaxing), penguins ( Read more... )