1. mom came home on saturday. she's doing as alright as she can do, given the circumstances. she's got three nasty-looking incisions that are glued shut, and a weird drain that's coming out of her side, that attaches to a collection....bulb (it looks like a grenade)...that's measured and emptied as often as necessary. due to the drain and the ( Read more... )

as i have previously mentioned, most of my weekends are consumed by home shows for work. these should be pretty self-explanitory, it's a show - a promotional event - about home improvements. people attend because they're looking for estimates, ideas, and free shit. there is a big emphasis on free shit, especially pens and candy ( Read more... )

• jesus effing christ on a stick, it is COLD outside. granted it is january in chicagoland, and it's going to suck and we're all going to think that hell has frozen over and we are living in satan's wasteland kingdom where the windchill is NEGATIVE TWENTY, but holy hell. i need to buy like three more coats to wear on top of each other simultaneously ( Read more... )

since i did a pretty awesome job at sticking to last year's resolutions, i figured it wouldn't be such an awful idea to try to make some new ones for 2007...

• Lose Weight. yeah, yeah, i said this last year...but i was kind of all over the place in trying to accomplish it. my gym attendance was sporadic at BEST for most of the year until boz and i ( Read more... )

last year was the first time i've ever made REAL resolutions. and as this is the last day of the year, i figure i might as well look back and see how i did.

#1. Lose Weight: i'm the same weight. HOWEVER. i'm more toned and already IN shape than i previously thought. i joined a big expensive fancy gym, and go twice a week, and i can see and feel a ( Read more... )

i missed waiting tables. i missed being constantly busy, and having tons and tons of coworkers around at any given time. i missed the cashflow and the dirty jokes and the way the bosses act like big kids. i missed my mexican kitchen boyfriends who were quick to tell me that they had missed me a ton ( Read more... )

i like writing, i really do. and more often than not, i entertain the notion that i'm not half-bad at it. however, like anyone else who has written anything in his or her life, i get writers' block, like now - four days into NaBloPoMo. half-on a whim, half-anticipation for my inevitable NaBloPoMo brain-fart, i shelled out the dollars for Maggie ( Read more... )

...today was a day for unsettling realizations. and i realize that that's tremendously vague, but i'm not in any kind of position to give out any details about things of such a sensitive nature. my brain's all over the place and i'm really not sure how to react to any of it ( Read more... )

first of all, youtube is probably the best site EVAR.

• how crayons are made
  seriously, who DOESN'T remember this clip from sesame street? it's old school as all hell, and i totally remember being utterly fascinated by it when i was a little kid. the orange wax kind of looks like a big vat of Tang.
  
• the "apache" dance from fresh princecarlton's facial ( Read more... )

i went down to champaign this weekend to get really drunk while everyone else moved in ( Read more... )