Whew, 2013 is over! Don't get me wrong, this has been a very GOOD year, but it's also been very BIG and busy and overwhelming. We moved to big city in a different state and had to adjust to living in a part of the country with hills and seasons. I joined a way bigger temple and met a ton of new people. I got a new job, and I still feel like I don't ( Read more... )

...and the sun in the morning is waiting to rise!

Some friends asked me to baby-sit tonight (they know I never have plans) but now, in addition to the two little girls I sat for last year, they also have a relatively new baby. Babies are breakable! And Rebecca has never in her life held one, or changed a diaper. I've been promised that she'll be in ( Read more... )

Two things I'm loving about this new year: going back through my journal and collecting the first sentence of the first post for every month, and getting a new Emily Dickinson calendar! I've had a calendar featuring her poetry since 2010, and I really love them. Sara got a cool new calendar, too. It's the page-a-day kind, and each page has a tiny ( Read more... )

For some geeky reason, I love posting these. My first sentence roundup for 2010.

January
I went over to my mom's house tonight to try and watch a movie with her and my brother, but it went so badly that I got up and left halfway through.

February
Mom, Ben, Adam, and I took a trip to Houston on Saturday, and unlike most trips anywhere with my family, ( Read more... )

I went over to my mom's house tonight to try and watch a movie with her and my brother, but it went so badly that I got up and left halfway through. Welcome, 2010. And now, here's the first sentence of my first entry for each month of 2009 (or, if the first sentence alone made no sense, the first two).

January
Calvin: Wow, it really snowed last ( Read more... )

Calvin: Wow, it really snowed last night! Hobbes: Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new! Calvin: A new year ... a fresh, clean start! Hobbes: It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! Calvin: A day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes ... let's go exploring!

I hope to have my 2008 Book Awards ( Read more... )

The first sentence of the first entry for every month that I posted an entry in 2007. I flew by myself to a foreign continent in September, but the last Harry Potter book's release in July gets mentioned more than anything else!

January
I usually keep lists of all the books I read, not all the movies I watched, but in 2006, I did both.

February
I ( Read more... )