My sister is currently in New Orleans at the ELCA Lutheran Youth Gathering, and her being there reminds me of one of my favorite stories from when I attended the Gathering in Atlanta as a youth back in 2003 ( Read more... )

Today, one of the first clients to come into my life through this job passed away. It's hard to describe how I feel about this. I heard about it while I was getting on the bus (literally, I came into work and J.'s 1:1 pulled me aside and said "hey, I need to tell you something. Eddie died today." That was followed by a little bit more information, ( Read more... )

So, I was looking something up in one of my old paper journals for reference, and I started reading back on my main journal from high school. Realizing how different high school relationships are from adult relationships is pretty hilarious. I had one boyfriend that I dated for most of high school, and it's amazing how high school relationships ( Read more... )

So I was reading back on old LJ entries and I found this quote in a comment I made to Alex ( Read more... )

I think this entry in my personal journal pretty much sums things up ( Read more... )

GUYS I'm almost halfway done with the meme. I've been doing it since last year. I promise we'll get through it and I'll try to make them interesting so you're not rolling your eyes whenever you see that I've posted an entry.

Day 13: Somewhere you'd like to move or visitWell, I'm planning to stay on the East Coast in terms of moving, so that's ( Read more... )

By which I mean, here's the meme entry I intended to do yesterday. :-P

Day 12: Bullet your whole dayI used to do this with my sister, where you write down everything you did that day, so I was already familiar with this! It's a lot harder, however, when you have a job where you're always on the go. Trying to write down everything I did while ( Read more... )

So I totally did the Day 12 portion of the meme without realizing that I hadn't done the Day 11 portion yet. Luckily, I hadn't gotten around to posting it yet. So let's backtrack!

Day 11: Put your iPod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up.Let's do this with my iTunes! Here were the first 10 songs ( Read more... )

Today started out a whirlwind, stressful day. This weekend my landlord lost a rather large rent check, and with the holiday my bank was closed and there was no way to get in touch with them to stop payment on the check and flag my account just in case fraudulent activity occurred. So this morning I had to start my day right out the gate with ( Read more... )

Finally on to meme day 9! At least I'm getting slightly better at this...

Day 09: How you hope your future will be like"How you hope your future will be like"? What? I just copied it the same way it was written, believe me. But as to WHAT I hope my future will be like ( Read more... )