Is anybody else as happy as I am that Joe Bruno will not be seeking re-election??? YAY ( Read more... )

What do you get when you mix 4,000 kids, thousands of flowers and plants, dedicated city rec staff and a 30 awesome americorps volunteers? Flower City Kids Day ( Read more... )

4:00am. My brain is full of ideas that are too convoluted for me to even make sense out of, or for that matter control. It is always at 4:00am that I pull out of the strange funk I live in, and magically am full of self-esteem and decent ideas to solve sizable problems. I'm not sure if it's a glimpse of my potential as a person, or just ( Read more... )

This just arrived in my inbox... Ya know... If you want to let the world know you "hate fags" then so be it. I can get my head around that and understand you have a right to feel that way. Even though I disagree, and I find your language appalling, I understand you have the right to tell others how you feel as much as I have the right to express ( Read more... )

I have been accepted into Rochester AmeriCorps ( Read more... )

woah... has it been that long since ive posted in livejournal?  it's all different now...

In other news, my boss put a little blurb about me leaving the Church position I have at the end of June. A lot of parents have been asking me why, and I'm getting kind of sad to leave. (Also kind of freaking out, because the end of June is fast-approaching, and I don't have a full-time job lined up!) I have been getting dinner offers and ( Read more... )

So I went geocaching for the first time yesterday. How nifty! I went with Kyle, Denise and Dave. Denise's new roommate, Kyle, introduced us to geocaching. He described it as "going for a walk... with a purpose." We hiked through the woods out in West Henny near the Thruway, hunting for the cache box. He let me navigate our little adventure ( Read more... )

So there is much more to the story, but I'll keep it short and unfortunately un-sweet. I crashed my poor tercel and sold it to a junkyard for $25. With everything wrong with it, it honestly wasn't worth much more. I got another car for free from a good friend. (Another with 246,182 miles on it, that is.) Jumped through hoops gallore to pay off ( Read more... )

ok... pet food recall... scary... they are still adding more food types to the list daily... now including some dry foods... some of the types that were "wet only" now include some dry (ie science diet, w/ prescription i think ( Read more... )