Hello, LJ. Been a while.

Damn. How in the hell did I ever have time to have a job? No wonder I was always so rushed and tired and stressed out. I'm unemployed and living rent free and I still never get the to do list finished. Of course, the list has things on it like "take care of the puppy" and "buy a house" that take up a lot more time now ( Read more... )

( long, full of pictures, and mostly about the dog )

I picked up my girl yesterday. It's still seeming unreal, and I'm filled with the familiar sense of "Wait, should I be doing this? Oh well, too late now." But also filled with "OMG OMG OMG I HAVE A DOG ( Read more... )

So I proposed to my parents a few days ago. Proposed, that is, that they let me adopt a dog while I was staying with them. I got an email back saying that they were discussing it and that they couldn't give me an answer right away and I should call them today at noon ( Read more... )

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October again, and the first real rain of the season today. I'll be climbing the walls by January, but today I love the rain.

Ma1 once told me that one of our family, perhaps her mother or one of her aunts, wrote a poem for each month of the year. She recited to me the only lines she could remember.

Of all the months the whole year boasts ( Read more... )