So, we decided to get married ( Read more... )

Today is a bit of a pinnacle day as I have just paid off my Discover card. The credit card with 27% interest I've ignored and fretted over for years. Granted, it was not the credit card with the largest balance. But, the interest was so ridiculous paying it off seemed impossible ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the first time in the past 12 years I did not attend the Pride parade. And I have not felt an ounce of regret over the decision. I am off today, not knowing when I scheduled the vacation day that this weekend would have turned out differently. And I may not being doing much yet with the day off, at least I am tired for other reasons ( Read more... )

Today I am participating in a zombie pub crawl in Andersonville. I have wanted to do so the past three years. But, I was too shy at the thought the first time I heard of it and then spent the two years after moving each Spring ( Read more... )

It seems when things are going well, I don't sit down to say anything about it. It's only in the misery I can channel my energies into writing. Much has happened ( Read more... )

To go back in time a bit, there used to be a boy I'd talked about when, looking towards the past, I was seemingly a boy too. I think I used to call him "Check Out Boy" or "Cash Register Guy". I can't remember. All I know is, I eventually hooked up with him and then cut him off because he wanted more and I had nothing more to give ( Read more... )

I recalled this morning something from my youth. Back when I was a junior in high school, after years of torment against myself by my peers, I witnessed the cruelty of them against another. What is funny to me is the swell of pity I would feel even back then over the mistreatment of another. Reliving their helplessness because I knew the feeling so ( Read more... )

On the heels of having the flu all weekend and my general misery with work another bombshell was dropped on me. My landlady called me to say she is getting divorced and intends on moving into this apartment building. Or more specifically, *THIS* apartment. She feels bad about it blah blah blah blah, but for reasons she explained and I've forgotten ( Read more... )

I had intended on writing an entry on the fantastic fun I had in the Blizzard of 2011, but things in the city are turning sour as more days pass and the amount of snow on the ground is becoming a horrendous nuisance ( Read more... )

The full story about how the new opportunity has come along in my life goes back about a week. Make that two ( Read more... )