happy late birthday amberdreams! your ideas for bigbang art are fabulous. :D also you're just a genuinely talented and nifty human being ( Read more... )

since we last, er, spoke, i have been to a birthday party (where i ate a lot of cheese and watched some nutbar videos), curled (and tied), gone to work, done a dumb thing at work, met my mom and sister for dinner (twice), been to a funeral, and mightily resisted telling the new tax partner that if she wanted her new office professionally cleaned ( Read more... )

(the outsiders was on earlier. everyone in it looks so young! they were all babies ( Read more... )

i think today was the last day i'll get to spend any time in my parents' house. it was definitely the last day to get anything i might want to keep. (the haul included two prints, a painting, my grandma's medical school diploma, and half a family tree.) (my sister has the other half.) i spent some quality time cutting photos, diplomas, and misc ( Read more... )

today's random discovery at the parents' house was a letter in the inner pocket of my grandpa's american legion uniform jacket. it was from a guy who had belonged to the same american legion post, but had moved to ohio and wanted to transfer his membership. it was actually a really nice letter - he'd known grandpa for like twenty years, for as ( Read more... )

ugh, work. reentry after a long weekend is always kind of a pain. i submitted an expense report for one of the partners last week, and it keeps coming back to me with "please provide a receipt for this meal", even tho i keep trying to explain that i can't because there is no receipt. (this particular partner is not very forthcoming with helpful ( Read more... )

today is my sister's birthday. everyone wish her a happy. :D not sure how she feels about dancing boys, tho. she had a party saturday night, hosted by one of her work friends at his loft - it was a niiiiice place - and some of our cousins came! which is always fun. my sister has a camp friend she's known for like thirty years, and the friend ( Read more... )

yesterday i had a dentist appointment at 8:30 because i wasn't thinking, and when i got home i didn't know what to do with myself. >.< i was awake and dressed and had even left the house before i normally get out of bed! so i had a bagel. eventually i shifted my ass and went to the library to try and do some research for my bigbang, and they ( Read more... )

title: The Stories We Tell
topic: open topic
(note: this is actually non-fiction)

This is the story my mother tells:

( When he was thirteen, her father - my grandfather - fell off a train. )

today is my parents' anniversary. i know i've told the story of how they met - my mom's brother and sister-in-law lived down the street from my dad's brother and sister-in-law, and the sisters-in-law knew each other from a neighborhood bridge game - but apparently my aunt pat, who was my dad's sister-in-law, talked him up to my mom a couple months ( Read more... )