An excerpt from a letter to my penpal dated August 16th, 2007:

On the bus, going home after a surprise visit to my grandmother's.  My grandmother is such a complicated person -- to understand, to relate to, to relate with.  We sat in her one-bedroom apartment together and wept.  For ourselves, not for one another.  Now that you're turning nineteen, ( Read more... )

5.5 months. 22 weeks. 154 days. 3696 hours. 221760 minutes. 13305600 seconds.
Approximately, that is how long i have been away. I spent a small portion of that time living, a large portion merely existing, and a portion that i really cannot measure trying to figure out the difference between the two and wishing/trying to do the former more ( Read more... )

My birthday was very nice. When i was little, i would always wake up really early on my birthday because i was just so excited. I'd climb into bed beside my mom and shake her a little until she opened her eyes and then i'd say is there something you want to say to me? and she'd smile and say happy birthday and then she'd give me a kiss. Then, i' ( Read more... )

Nikki, Debra, and Harry came over tonight and we played LIFE. It's sad how at the end of the game you get all these LIFE tiles with such amazing achievements like winning a Nobel Prize or curing cancer or something else that'll never happen. I mean, how realistic is it that you get more than five of these at the end, when you go to your ( Read more... )

on friday, my parents were too cool and took me to a murder mystery dinner theatre place. it was so awesome and hilarious. we had dinner, and after all that the actual mystery began. it was so funny, the actors were really amazing. they even included me in the mystery because it was my birthday. professor plum named a flower after me and i ( Read more... )

a week ago, nikki invited me to her house on wednesday (yesterday) and we were gonna watch a movie. a couple of hours before i left for her house, she told me that she invited everyone as well, not really for a surprise party. just a gathering because i was talking about how much i missed everyone. i love nikki, she's truly amazing ( Read more... )

( happy birthday to me )

new layout, kinda. changed the pic, basically.

anyway, today i did nothing at all. leon went to visit my grandma, so i had the house to myself. kinda got a headache, but meh. anyways, my birthday is in 4 days, and i was thinking about what Charlie said in the perks of being a wallflower about how he thinks kids should give their mom a present ( Read more... )