Jonathan passed it off as a running joke. At parties and dinner nights with friends he would call Crystal, "my not-so-graceful ballerina," as he squeezed her tight or sloppily gave her a kiss on the cheek. Crystal kept her eyes down and flushed a bit and brushed off her apparent clumsiness with the same old line, "I kept climbing, but there were ( Read more... )

Time to pander for votes!

LJI Week 2 Polls are up, and I'm still in the 5th tribe!  I would appreciate any and all votes, and I'm also going to be updating a list of favorite entries this week as I go through reading them all, so as to highlight my recommendations!

Favorites:
lostin_thestars - Made me GEEK OUT
dslartoo - So very sweet and well told.  I cried.
beldar is writing as beldarzfixon ( Read more... )

Nobody gets through life unscarred, and I want to meet Nobody to ask how he does it. It seems like the experiences that shaped me the most are not the ones that left scars; instead they were the deep festering wounds that healed clean on the surface, but left a small knot of sensitive tissue below the skin. How Nobody is uneffected is beyond me ( Read more... )

Voting is open for LJIdol HERE until Tuesday at 9pm EST.  I could really use the votes!  I'm down in tribe 5!

Real life post coming soon.  Life's... gone to hell again.  Ugh.

Dump trucks, cement mixers, cranes, loaders, bricks and mortar, blocks and Legos, hours upon  hours of painstaking building and rebuilding.  I am a nanny and  babysitter, and with so many of my charges being small boys, obsessed with construction, I get to help with a lot of it ( Read more... )