I feel like this past year a lot has happened in my life, yet somehow,...I still haven't moved forward. In fact, I think I've taken a few steps backwards, all in all. I thought I knew what I wanted from this life, and had some direction, but now I'm wandering around as if I don't know anything anymore ( Read more... )

My dad went to a pawn shop today to get rid of some gold. The guy at the counter told him that since the economy is basically broken, the best thing he can do is stock up on flour, sugar, rice, ...and basically any easy to cook, easily stored item. He said compared to gold, these things have risen in price over 300%, compared to the gold which has ( Read more... )

I find that most problems are like onions,...there's the outside layer, and you keep peeling away until you get to the inner layers. My dad has so many of these problems he's like a whole bag of onions ( Read more... )

Okay, they gave me today off from work, and I was thinking "oh it's gonna be great to have Halloween off!"

WRONG.

I'm writing this at 11 a.m., but I've pretty much been awake all morning on and off, since my grandmother calls me at 2 in the morning, right before I'm about to go to bed, and tells me her sump pump in the basement is spewing water and ( Read more... )