I really hate to even think about making this journal entry right now but I'm mad and I want to remember why for some point in time where I get another burst of 'hope' and need a little 'knee to the groin' reminder. One night shortly before my grandmother passed away, I posted an ad to a personals site. I guess I was afraid of being alone after ( Read more... )

My grandmother passed away this morning at 3:10 AM MST, a little less than three months shy of her 88th birthday due to what I assume was ciculatory complications from diabetes. She was a much beloved sister, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, a homemaker, an aspiring real estate agent though she never finished the course, part owner of a ( Read more... )

Since last night, I've read a couple of journals here and over at FurAffinity about a young woman who was murdered in her apartment. I didn't know her but I certainly feel sorry for those who did. Most of the journals I read mentioned not having talked to her in a while and now I suppose it goes without saying that they won't have the chance. It ( Read more... )

Dear Life,

I already know I'm a complete loser. Please refrain from rubbing my nose in that fact every chance you get.

I've been trying to let this journal die a slow, quiet death by not posting anything here (even though I do check my friends page a couple of times a day still. I just don't comment all that much any more) because it seems really futile. However, it seems I once again find myself in the awkwardly uncomfortable position of a number of friendships ( Read more... )

So according to some "experts", events such as the black plague, the Amercian and French revolutions and the decline of the Vikings are NOT the fault of social, economic, or political changes but of the environment instead. I guess the people of France owe Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI and the rest of the French aristocracy a HUMONGOUS apology for ( Read more... )

Recently I was in an electronics store buying the classic film 'To Kill a Mockingbird' when the clerk commented that his English teacher had forced his class to read the book and watch the movie when he was in high school. While it wasn't explicity stated, I could see by his demeanor that he desperately wanted to ask why I'd ever buy the DVD as if ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I reorganized my DVDs into my own personal filing system, giving 'classic' films (from the 70's or earlier) their own category. Since then I've been taking greater note of older films such as Orson Welles' Touch of Evil as well as those classic monster and UFO films of the 50's (the ones I didn't already own that is ( Read more... )

If there's some other way I can totally fuck up this weekend, I sure hope I don't find out about it.

Sometime this past week, I got it into my skull to actually make my own salsa. I don't know what particular demon prompted me to. Perhaps I'm trying to stretch my culinary wings a bit further. Anyway, I bought several ingredients like tomatoes, onions, green peppers, cilantro and a few Anaheim peppers. I spent more than an hour last night ( Read more... )