Long story. Quite a few of them. Haven't got time to get into any of them right now, but I will. How can I be so sure? Because I just deactivated my Facebook account. And I'm off tomorrow. See you soon.

UFBB

In a year thus far full of suffering, loss, and grief, I feel a strong desire to come back to LiveJournal and...journal. Wanting to keep my LJ as positive as possible and distance it from the bleakness of 2014, I'm going to start with a quick Thankful Thurtuesday list.

• Missy, The Girls, and Baby Chicken & The Nubbin Brothers, Tubby & Scabby. My ( Read more... )

When my mother was 36, with 4 children to raise, she lost a breast to cancer ( Read more... )

Jesus, I just saw that my last post was very early January. I can remember posting two, three times a day. I miss those days. In my defense, I spend 10 hours a week driving to and from work.....I could post a lot in 10 hours. Anyway...in the inrterest of getting back into the swing of things, here are a few brief updates ( Read more... )

Today is day two of my first complete weekend off since very early November (perhaps even late October, not entirely sure) and, while I made a promise to myself to not waste anymore days off spacing out in front of the computer or television, I can't bring myself to feel bad about updating my LiveJournal. There's really no comparison between ( Read more... )

The Mrs. is sick. Very sick. So when I woke up this morning (ah, a day off) and found that she had left me all but one cup of a fresh pot of coffee, I took it as a sign. One, she's fucking awesome (but we already knew that, didn't we?). And two, I need to get wired out and update my LJ. So here we are. Thanks, Missy ( Read more... )

Why I voted for Obama ( Read more... )

So anyway, over the course of the ten months we were apart, we managed to get together roughly once a month...Missy would come down here, or I would drive up to Huntingdon. At some point in December I got a cell phone, and I began calling her at least once every day ( Read more... )

Gonna try to keep this post a little shorter and slightly less detailed than the last one. Jesus, I wrote five pages and only covered twelve fucking days. So here's some more, in a nutshell ( Read more... )