My grandfather, Jay, he died this morning in his sleep. He didn't suffer. He had his wits about him til the day he died. My family was prepared for his passing. Except for me. I was not prepared. I was caught off guard. I am sad and I am dealing, but I'm not sure of how to proceed ( Read more... )

I'm 29 years old and soon to be re-married. I have a two year old son and I'm trying in earnest to get my writing career off the ground. My fiancee Scott supports me emotionally and fiscally because he wants to provide me and my child with a stable, loving, safe and constant environment ( Read more... )

I wanted to post this when I had the time and energy to maintain composure and be articulate, so I put off my inicial reactions to the last couple of days until now. Two days ago, on the 19th, what should have been my and Dani's 10 month marker, I saw him in court. I talked to the judge in open court about reducing the in-place no-contact ( Read more... )

So last night, everyone in my house is sick, I'm looking up TVtropes on Wiki and having fun with it, when I find THIS ( Read more... )

my phone dies because I can't find the charger. Last thing said to me was from Dan this morning: "Love you back. We should go see the flesh opera together." I still want to see "Zack and Miri make a Porno", but yeah, I'm all about Flesh Opera too. Think maybe it'll be all we had hoped for but not quite recieved with Sweeney Todd? Also, I want ( Read more... )

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I was depressed when I heard that John Edwards, my main guy the last 2 electoral cluster-fucks, had dropped out of the race once more. But then I started to really watch the Super Tuesday coverage and I got to know this guy Barok Obama. And he made a speech after having won his state of Illinois that seemed to speak to me and young voters like me ( Read more... )

Today the screaming inside of me stopped. It just took a chill pill and backed off. I admit, it was all-and-all an off-kilter mood throughout the day, but in the evening, when I expected the worst of it, somehow, finally, I just felt so much better ( Read more... )