1. The opposite of love isn't hate. It's indifference. So why does inculcating indifference hurt so much? I'm not mad at him. I'm mad at myself ( Read more... )

I know mucus is necessary for certain things (keeping areas lubricated, trapping debris, etc.), but it is both fascinating and frustrating to know that the body can keep producing it when your allergies or sinuses are acting up post-travel ( Read more... )

Today I came to a realization about myself: I have this need to preserve things for posterity. Or rather, because I enjoy journaling and scrapbooking, I have a need for proof that something happened, whether it's ticket stubs and receipts, programs, pictures, etc ( Read more... )

(I meant to vent/post earlier this week, but before I could save the post, my browser conked out, and so did my resolve to re-write everything ( Read more... )

Take the first sentence (or 2) from the first post of each month of 2011. That's your year in review!

( year in review. )

You know you're getting older when your Christmas wish list consists of the following ( Read more... )

1. "Good Time" by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen. So ridiculously simple, almost banal, but addictive.

2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid anything. I read some of The Last Straw and The Ugly Truth with my favorite eight-year-old when I stayed with my voice teacher's family last week, and I rented the first film on iTunes -- high-larious! I was literally ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wish I could be like Regina George in that scene from Mean Girls in which she offhandedly remarks, "... please stop talking ( Read more... )

I can't tell if I feel crappy because

1. the weather is overcast and sad
2. it's that time of the month
3. I'm still thirsty from Monday
4. the future is scary
5. I feel stifled and unencouraged here

Or all of the above.

I'm slowly but surely getting through my to-do list for the week. Oy.

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." p. 2 ( Read more... )