Lily Elteto, a vivacious and delightfully weird person and my first ever true friend in my life, who was pretty much the #1 reason I moved to Portland to begin with and is someone I consider family-by-choice, died earlier from a seizure in her sleep. I spent the last half an hour bawling my eyes out and have only stopped for now because the mucus ( Read more... )

Whilst reading a story about a girl who is “differently brained,” one part of the story has her saying how she can't sing along with the national anthem, even though she wants to. It made me think about how the same is true of me. It's something I notice a lot about myself, something that bothers me every time I notice it. I find it difficult to ( Read more... )

The Arts family traditional birthday song:

Happy birthday to you,
You live in a zoo!
You look like a monkey,
And you smell like one too!
Forever more, till you're one-thousand, eight-hundred, and 94! ;-)

XOXOXOXOXOXO!
---Fay

Thank goodness, Lilla accepted my apology. :-)

Chaotic Blessings;
---Fay

I feel like an ass. I upset my friend Lilla by being jealous of her faith in her beliefs and acting like a dick to her. I get like that sometimes, and I hate it every time I do. You see, the reason is that I really don't know what to believe, and despite what my Goddess Shao'Kehn tells me, I often get into these thoughts of maybe I'm just trying to ( Read more... )