So...hi there, LJ! It's nearing 3 am, we are driving to Spokane in the morning, are maybe 1/16th of the way packed for it. Ty is out working on Grimm and will be home ???. Should very much be asleep right now ( Read more... )

On Christmas Day, mom handed me a letter from the mother of my best girlhood friend who'd moved to California after graduating from HS & vanished into mystery after that. I was so excited and happy for about 30 seconds, until the content of what I was reading finally seeped its way into my head, it took re-reading a few times because the words ( Read more... )

Gearing up for my last-ditch effort to get into nursing school by raising my C grade in Algebra--I'm hopeful, not only am I highly motivated to really do my best but I already KNOW that passing this class is possible. If the worst happens and I still do not get in this year....well, the next step is probably reevaluating my options in some other ( Read more... )

Hello LJ! Having a decent enough summer here so far. Figured out how to make tamogoyaki in a round frying pan, doing a lot of gardening, read a couple of books for the first time in a LONG time, forcing myself out on little adventures here and there with the kiddo to keep from fretting myself into another deep dark hole. We've had the pickup truck ( Read more... )

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Ups & downs lately, but no more of the crushing unremitting feeling of hopelessness that was the hallmark of this last winter. More like a crushing, intermittent feeling of hopelessness. ;) Starting to rebuild some semblance of a life--not having a job, classes, band to play in or any other outside Thing to Do has been disastrous to my sense of ( Read more... )

Not going to really plan on going out anymore, where "going out" means venturing into bars. It makes me into an clingy, anxious weirdo and drinking anything more than a glass of wine with dinner makes me depressed for at least a couple of days afterward. In my previous life it was fun, but now it's plainly not worth it. I kind of want to move to ( Read more... )

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On a happier note, the CNA class is finally over, life can once again return to normal! I have a lot of running around to do tomorrow and it will cost us close to another $200 for all of the fees to get all of the paperwork turned in, then there is a three week wait until I can take the state test, but the toughest part is over with. Some days it ( Read more... )