Well, this is the last one of these posts I'll write, which is probably a good thing as I don't particularly like to talk about people dying very much.  As it is, my dad's mom died this morning at 7:30 am ( Read more... )

Well, it occurs to me that I haven't had an honest-to-god entry in a while. Hell, the last five entries in my journal (which is a lot when you're only posting a handful of times each month!) consist of memes and quizzes. Based on those, I look like a fifteen-year-old ( Read more... )

Made it to Iowa City and I didn't crash the car. Quite a feat on three hours of sleep, I must say, especially because I was trying extra hard to drive off the road during the last twenty minutes of my journey. Thank god I only had to get here instead of all the way to Anamosa ( Read more... )

My cousin's house exploded yesterday ( Read more... )

Okay, New Year's post. I promised myself I'd do this before midnight tonight so my 200th post can be today. (Fitting, eh ( Read more... )

Okay, well, here's the deal... I've been meaning to update regarding the first two weekends in October and just haven't gotten around to it, so here goes. (Beware, it's a monster entry.)

( Homecoming )

I will never understand why my parents feel the need to freeze themselves. The one thing I absolutely despise about going on family vacations is the fact that it's always freezing in our hotels rooms.

Come January we're frozen inside / Making new resolution a hundred timesOther than the sub-zero temperatures this has been a great family ( Read more... )

Wow... I've had a great weekend ( Read more... )

I'm in Florida right now. It's been fun for the most part. We got here around 3 AM on Friday morning. We were four hours late. There were about a billion problems with getting here (weather, mechanical, et cetera). So far it's been fun. Friday I went to beach. I'm still as pale as ever, because sun block and beach umbrellas are my friends ( Read more... )

You'll never guess what I'm doing right now. I'm watching television with my family. All four of us are sitting in my family room watching Everwood. It's a Godawful show, but it doesn't compare to the miracle of all four of us sitting in one room together ( Read more... )