wordpress blog is up and running! see my new blog at www.me-unplugged.com!

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...on monday night/tuesday morning, this happened. sam and i were both out for the count and definitely both jumped a little from being rudely woken up by the police ringing the doorbell buzzer at 5am. and at 5:01. and at 5:02. thinking that it was just drunken pranksters, sam went back to sleep, and i tried to go back to sleep, but whenever i ( Read more... )

i'm switching my blog over to wordpress. why, you ask? well, because i think that wordpress offers more options than LJ does, i can have my own domain name (www.me-unplugged.com - change your bookmarks! ;) and because the period of my life when i started my LJ blog is incredibly different than right now (not the least of which has to do with my ( Read more... )

i just read that katie reider, a cincinnati-bred singer/songwriter, died from a tumor last month...i had run into her older brother robbie (whom i know from church youth group back in high school) a year ago or so and asked about her and so i knew she was sick. as it turns out, services for katie were on july 26th at crossroads (the church i used ( Read more... )

CAUTION: This vacuum cleaner requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a similarly complicated field in order to be operated as intended. This space-age vacuum should be able to suction even invisible pieces of lint, but only after the optional 2-week training session for those without a college diploma. Best of luck, and try not to feel too

i knew when i came over here that i'd probably not be used to the average temperature being lower than cincinnati's. but really? right now, i want to roll a large metal barrel up here, throw newspaper and wood scraps in it, light it on fire, and hunker down with a cheap bottle of whiskey. or more realistically, throw on a hoodie and make more ( Read more... )

ok it's not THAT crazy around here, but okay, yes it is ( Read more... )

i haven't posted in ages. guess i should get on that. a lot of things have happened in the last few months, and yet nothing has happened. still single, still going to school, still working two jobs. but i've also gone to puerto rico on vacation, been reading quite a few interesting non-fiction books (see "Collapse," "The World is Flat," and " ( Read more... )

...or a normal one, i guess i should say. having a pseudo-S.O. that lives over 3,000 miles away does make it rather difficult to schedule any sort of vacation unless you happen to want to spend your vacation in your s.o.'s city of residence ( Read more... )

...have a cold, where my nose is constantly running, my head is stuffed up and i can't stop coughing (cough depressant, my ass). also, my back is hurting again, much like it was this time last year. and i really can't muster up the energy to get to work on this class that really really sucks balls and i'm completely lost ( Read more... )