Korey and I have been fighting so much lately. I feel like he truly can't stand to be married to me. And sometimes the feeling is mutual. He gets so mad at me over everything- I never can do anything right and every effort I make is not good enough. In addition, everything that goes wrong is my fault ( Read more... )

I hate the life I am living. I hate feeling like I will never finish school. I hate discovering that my dreams are unreachable. I hate knowing that I can never travel or live in a beautiful place or live an independent, sustainable, communal existence and be married to the husband I have chosen and be the kind of mother that my daughter deserves. I ( Read more... )

at the drive in ( Read more... )

If anyone knows anyone in Chicago, or how to contact Tyler, or knows anything fun to do in Chicago, please let me know within the next week.
Thank you.

Love,
Amanda

The care-free and placid days of summer are almost here. I hope the past three days' preview will be enough to hold me over. Soon, term papers on donatello's david and homoeroticism in renaissance art, cinco de mayo celebrations with the people I love most, a trip to see Spencer Santiago grow one year older and visit Cedar Point, my sister ( Read more... )

You are full of family that I love, drivers that I hate, and long ago friends that I will probably never see again. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Love,
Amanda

p.s. please inform your drivers that it is incredibly impolite and dangerous to tailgate someone on the freeway.

last night my husband and i created our own holiday confections. they're scrumptious. and, while we slaved away, we viewed "love actually", one of my favorite films of all time ( Read more... )

I'm not entirely sure why, but I feel really depressed. I just had a three hour long work meeting, and I realized that just as in every other faze of my life, I don't particularly fit in. I so well with people one on one, and I love to be with people I really know in groups, and people I don't know (who also don't know one another), but there's ( Read more... )

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lately i've been filled with incredible anticipation. im gaining new confidence in who i am and who i will become. im glad to be where i am now, with nothing but hardships, grace, friendship, low wages and a warm home filled with love to come home to ( Read more... )