It's been yet another four months or so since I last wrote one of these things -- sorry if you're one of the few people out there who still reads these things. :/ I know I've drifted away with most of the people I've met on here; some of that is my fault, obviously, but some of that is definitely for the best (read this thread if you want to have ( Read more... )

••• First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH for all the well wishes you sent my way since my last entry, both here and on Facebook. It was a tough time for all of us, so all your comments really helped, and I appreciate that.

( Here's what's happened since then... )

Since I haven't done a linkdump in a while, I figure I might as well do one now. There's a lot here, so it's all under a cut, with very little commentary of my own unless it helps clarify what the article is about. Enjoy! ^_^;

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Lots of stuff happened over the past month or so, so here goes:

••• My dad is going to be losing his job by the end of the month, and while it's stressful, we kinda saw it coming. :/ He's been working at this company for the longest time now; he was laid off -- I want to say about four or five years ago? -- and was out of work for a year, only to ( Read more... )

Another entry because I'm bored and I feel up to it. ^_^;

••• So, Christmas went relatively well! It wasn't very eventful, and I've had far better Christmases, but it wasn't too bad, all things considered. Here's what I managed to get:

( Under the cut: Loot, long-lost family, acting like an asshole, and illness... )

••• So my first year of NaNoWriMo...didn't go so well as I'd hoped. I know I vented/complained about this on Twitter, but I started losing focus big time around the weekend of the 17th and 18th, and it never really recovered. I just fell into another huge depressive rut where I was unmotivated to do anything except go to bed at 4 AM, stay in bed ( Read more... )

CURRENT FAVORITES:
Bat For Lashes, "Marilyn"
Fuck Buttons, "Rough Steez"
Sky Ferreira, "Everything Is Embarrassing"
Yeasayer, "Fingers Never Bleed"
Yeasayer, "No Bones"

••• So, the trip to Vermont a little over a week ago went extremely well! We stayed at the Waybury Inn in a nicely decorated "rustic" room (I wish I took pictures of the place because I ( Read more... )

Since it's been over a month since I last updated, I figure I might as well write one up now.

••• A lot of stuff over the past month has gone better than expected! When my aunt and cousin visited us at the end of last month, it was pretty uneventful in a good way; I didn't get to see my cousin a lot because she got sick and had to be by herself a ( Read more... )

So it's been about two months since I last updated. Oops. ._., A lot of things have happened since mid-June, though I can never figure out whether or not those things are noteworthy enough to write about here, so I just kept putting it off. And lately Tumblr has become a time-suck yet again, and I'm trying to figure out ways to use it less because ( Read more... )

I need to go to bed somewhat early tonight, so I'll try to keep this short:

--Now that I've been off Tumblr for a while now, I've started to work my way through the backlog of movies I've been meaning to see for the longest time now. I don't have time to review each one, so I'll just list them:

Movies that were great:

• A Separation
• The Fall
• Super
• Antique

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