I know, I know, I keep going AWOL. But I've got a good reason this time.

So two mondays ago (July 11th) my grandmother was air-lifted to the Emergency Room because of severe, severe heatstroke. For some reason she decided to mow the lawn (all three acres of it...) at 2 in the afternoon in 99 degree weather. Papaw found her laid out on the ground by ( Read more... )

Haven't posted much lately.  I've been really busy and then my computer crashed on me.  It seems to be running fine now, and I'm just praying that if it does crash again that it will wait until AFTER I turn in my term paper on Thursday.  For a few days it wouldn't start up, and I kept having to run the Startup Repair and System Restore, and then ( Read more... )

When I was little, my absolute favorite book was Cloudy was a Chance of Meatballs. So you can imagine how excited I was when I saw they were making a movie of it, and furthermore, it didn't look like they were going to completely ruin it. However, for whatever reason, I never had a chance to see it.  But it just came on TV so I got to watch it ( Read more... )

Step 1: Start off poor. Here’s the basic set-up: middle-class single mother who works as a teacher. Upper middle-class father who could probably pay my school tuition and everything on his own, who looks at the equation “Pay money to ex-wife to support children” and only sees the “pay money to ex-wife” part, and therefore is not good with the whole ( Read more... )

(Might I pre-warn any prospective readers that this post contains references to such fun bodily fluids as mucus, but I’m assuming that if you are here, that you know me from Fanfiction.net, where I once wrote a very popular oneshot combining mucus with romance, so I’m going to assume you can handle that word.)

My immune system is made of the same ( Read more... )