So, yesterday my grandmother had high CO levels in her apartment; they thought that they had fixed it. That night my grandma had to call and the fire department came out; the indicators for CO were going off before they even entered the apartment. The levels were so high that if she hadn't been awake, she and her neighbors would have died (they ( Read more... )

I was sitting on the sofa in my family's living room, playing The Sims 3 while my younger sister was playing some handheld Nintendo game. Our mother was seated on the love seat, checking her e-mail and Facebook. It was sometime between 5:30pm and 6:00pm EST when she announced that she needed a group hug. I asked her what was wrong and she pointed ( Read more... )

Still alive. Sorry I haven't been around. Things were crazy over the summer trying to get ready to come to Williamsburg for school (Tribe Pride!) and things have been pretty crazy and busy since I've been here but I'm here and alive and doing good most of the time. Hopefully I'll be able to give a more thorough update before the end of the year ( Read more... )

Last night was Tricia's first band concert. They didn't do too bad. Some people were flat and some were sharp but there wasn't as much squeaking coming from the reed instruments as I remember there being in my first band concert. The 7th and 8th grade bands sounded quite good. The auditorium was literally packed out. Being on the other side, ( Read more... )

So tired. So very tired ( Read more... )

About six and a half hours now until the release. Hopefully in seven hours I'll either be home or on my way home from B&N. My sister and I got there a little after 8am this morning (our original aim had been 7:30 and then 7:45) and there were already about 30 people in line. By the time the store opened at 9am, there were at least another 30 ( Read more... )

I am now typing on my brand new HP notebook computer that I got Saturday night as an early birthday (and Christmas) present from my mom.  It's so pretty and shiny.

So, a lot's been going on the past month and a half that I haven't been online much since our family computer died and we were relegated to using my old used laptop that I bought two ( Read more... )

So, my spring break was this week and I don't fell like I've had much of a break. Frickin' lazy ass people I work with keep texting me this week out the wazoo, asking for people's numbers, trying to give up their shifts. I swear, every time I hear a cell phone make a noise now, whether it's mine or someone else's, I get twitchy. I'm really ( Read more... )

My (Great) Uncle Tony died this morning. So...yeah. They're not sure what it was that actually killed him. He had AIDS. He'd gotten an infection and the doctors thought that maybe it had gotten to his heart or brain but both were fine. He'd been doing some illegal drugs.

Valentine's Day sucks ass.

It's Christmas morning and it's raining.  Raining.  Bah.  I'm still sick -- sicker than I was yesterday morning.  I was feeling better yesterday morning but I guess I overexerted myself at work a bit and then going over to my grandma's yesterday evening and inhaling her and my Uncle Tony's cigarette smoke didn't do my sore throat or aching sinuses ( Read more... )