Every Monday I try to find a reason to make myself wake up and get going. Today, I remind myself I have chocolate cheesecake in the fridge that my mom brought me yesterday. Mmm ( Read more... )

I'm sitting back to remember the year like you're supposed to right before the new one comes. So let me think ( Read more... )

So yesterday I found my sister lying on the floor unable to move and barely able to speak out of sheer full-body agony, which led my mom to conclude that it was indeed a flu. (We both got it from the baby.) Except that my bone aches were annoying and kept me from being as spry as usual but still let me walk around all day, and hers apparently ( Read more... )

I do not understand the depths of intense strangeness that Black Friday drives people to. My sister went shopping at midnight, it is now 4AM, and I have no idea when, or if, she will be returning home. I'm watching the baby and can't sleep.

I hope everyone who celebrates had a happy Thanksgiving, and those who don't celebrate had a good day anyway

Right, so. I am in Florida right now with my family, hijacking my mom's computer and writing in the safety of my room in the resort. We went through the horrible Car Ride From Hell to get here. It wouldn't actually be so horrible if my dad wasn't involved. He has this way of making absolutely everything miserable just by opening his mouth and ( Read more... )

I bought this riding skirt for myself to use as a steampunk-esque outfit, hopefully for Halloween. Though if I really like 'em, I might wear them elsewhere ( Read more... )

In today's news, the power cut out and my alarm clock became nonfunctional. Fortunately, I seem to instinctively wake up at around 7:30AM-8:00AM, so the universe's attempts to make me late for work were foiled. Not that I'd mind. I think I really need a vacation. I haven't taken one all summer, and I'm definitely feeling it, at work and at home. I' ( Read more... )

In other news, I really, really love Margaret Atwood. I am ashamed that I discovered her works so late in life, (about two years ago) when I really would have gone into complete literary fangirl mode for them around high school years, when I was wasting time by reading the latter half of Anne Rice's vampire series. Right now I'm reading Alias Grace ( Read more... )

Are families something you just outgrow when you get older?

Well, in the span of these past four days, I have seen both Iron Man 2 and Robin Hood...although I don't feel like writing up a detailed recounting of those movies at the moment. I'll do that later, when I don't have relatives downstairs I'm supposed to go greet. Not that I particularly feel about it, because my uncle and my dad are sitting in the ( Read more... )