Wow. I feel like I've tried so many times this year to come back to LJ, and it hasn't worked out. It's pretty distressing. I've been diagnosed with a chronic illness since I left, and I am always tired and nearly always in pain. I just don't have the energy for much anymore ( Read more... )

I'm so excited about this that I'm posting it to both of my journals.

I just got back from SuperTarget. I went armed with a grocery list that filled both sides of the note pad page, and a stack of coupons.

I was victorious. I just SAVED $31.67 in a one-hour-long shopping trip, and we had a trunk full of groceries. HUZZAH ( Read more... )

when I got home from the movie. It totally wrecked my mood, and everyone went to bed and left me sitting here, sad and alone. I didn't know what to do with myself so I went to my Netflix instant queue online and watched a movie I'd never seen before (I usually turn to old favorites when I'm sad but not tonight ( Read more... )

JUST FOR TODAY, I will live through this day only. I will not brood about yesterday or obsess about tomorrow. I will not set far-reaching goals or try to overcome all of my problems at once. I know that I can do something for 24 hours that would overwhelm me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime ( Read more... )

This evening I got sick of the way I looked, so I went out and had 8 or 9 inches cut off my hair ( Read more... )

I find that the older I get and the more responsibilities I have to juggle, the less drama and immature bullshit I am willing to put up with ( Read more... )

but I haven't been reading my flist at all for the past few days. I haven't read fic, haven't read personal content. I've just been trying to catch up in life and live more outside of the keyboard. I'm starting school next week and I want to feel like I didn't leave things undone ( Read more... )

What have you done with your life? List of 100 things, swiped from dragonmad.

Bold the ones that you've done or are true for you.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band Does being a roadie count?
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland ( ( Read more... )

I just nearly had a heart attack! I'm sitting here doing my schoolwork and I've been hearing scary popping noises outside which I wasn't sure about; it sounded like it could be gunfire or it could be fireworks or who knows what else. So I turned off the dining room light and turned on the small kitchen light over the stove, and went on studying ( Read more... )

Naaaah ( Read more... )