Tasha said: "Comment on this and I will give you a letter of your own. You then need to list 10 things you LOVE that start with that letter. Then post this in your Journal and give out your own letters ( Read more... )

And this? This shit is funny, right here ( Read more... )

How many times have I logged on and wanted to write, and I just couldn't? So I'll just write. Screw the update. If you're not caught up in my life you will be eventually ( Read more... )

I'm dreaming of Chicago. Of home. I have no idea what triggered it, but it's bad. Maybe it's just the need to escape. Or, St. Patrick's Day is coming, and I always long for home more then. I'm counting down to corned beef and cabbage. Maybe after my annual fix I'll feel better. I've felt overhwhelmed completely lately, and have been digging in ( Read more... )

At 3:48am on February 20, I helped (ha, not really, I held a leg) Ella Grace, my niece, come into the world. She was blue. She had the cord wrapped around her neck. This was not a concern as this is normal for births. Once she was pink and Auntie got to hold her for a good long time (ten minutes of my mother bitching), I left to drive back on no ( Read more... )

It is officially the fifth year anniversary of my brother Roberto's murder. Roberto was shot five times, with four of those shots hitting major organs. Three of those shots were to his chest, and two to his back as he fell forward. He was sitting in a car next to his driver, with the hitman standing outside, shooting at him through the window. This ( Read more... )

For Kevyn ( Read more... )

The rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Then tag 10 people and force them to post this meme on their LJs. Because it is good. Everyone needs a little happiness once in awhile. :p ( Read more... )

My left ear has been giving me tons of problems of late. It sorta "goes dead" in a sense, and I can hear nothing from it for a few seconds, like half of the world cutting out. Then there's ringing, and it fades back in after a while. Ok, so it's not half the world, since I hear better from my right ear, I think. Still, it's an incredibly ( Read more... )

Little Miss Muffet, Three-Time Who's Who Among America's Teachers Award Winner, Fights For Life Again, Flees Classroom.

By IMA SKEERD | Associated Press Writer.
8:27 PM October 16, 2007

TUCSON - A local schoolteacher was hard at work today, a day that began with a bobcat family enjoying a nice rabbit breakfast on the Kinder playground. School ( Read more... )