The first thing I'm going to do when I get home is drive out to Iowa and visit my grandparents. There is nothing better than spending a sunny day going 80 on some backwoods country road with good music (or possibly really fabulous nineties country) blaring. My god do I miss driving. I feel like I'm going to crawl out of my skin if I can't do it ( 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 got back from Iowa on Friday afternoon. I drove the entire way home which took my week total to 800 driving miles. (Damn! That's a lot!) I'm glad to be back. I can't handle things moving at such a slow pace ( Read more... )

Well, I'm in Iowa. It's not bad. I drove half way out here. That was exciting. Today we did pretty much nothing. Gma and I started a jigsaw puzzle. Fun. It makes me want to scream. It's one of those aggravating 500 piece puzzles where everything is the same color. Gr ( Read more... )

Finally, a safe haven! How wonderful it is to know a computer again! I hate being out here when everyone else is out here. My cousins are such pains in my ass. Well, not all of them. Just Brad and Brian. They act like they're nine.... which would be okay if they weren't nineteen and twenty one. Jesus. You'd think that they hadn't grown up ( Read more... )