He might just be the greatest man I ever met. He can make me laugh and hard. He stays on the phone with me for two hours helping me replace the fill valve on the toilet. He tells me I'm great. And how he loves every inch of my body. And how he misses me. And how he can't wait for our third date, which is currently two months away. He tells my ( Read more... )

When you blow the candles out on your birthday, you make a wish and always keep it to yourself because you've always heard that if you say your wish out loud, it won't come true.

So I'm making my wish tonight and not telling what it is.

She met a man on Saturday night, close to midnight, in The Flats of Cleveland. By coincidence, her and her best friend sat next to him. And the man and the girl started talking. About where they were from, what they were doing in Cleveland and how he had the worst week there. He was from Tennessee and traveling for business. His eyes were the same ( Read more... )

I feel like I should say something, but this old journal doesn't seem to belong.
I moved on.
I moved out.
And did the damn thing.

I heard once, "In my day, we didn't have self-esteem. We had self-respect and no more than we had rightfully earned." So, I moved out.

Being with him was like cancer, I think it was slowly killing me ( Read more... )

A funny thing happened to me the other day. When discussing moving out and in an apartment with my boyfriend, I was prompted with the question, "Don't you have any doubts?" Another word for doubt is fear. And No, I don't. I don't live my life with fear or doubt. Fear, along with anger, is a useless emotion and nothing good comes from it. Fear takes ( Read more... )

"Your present plans are going to succeed." My fortune cookie told me this while I was sitting next to him. If that's not a sign, I'm not sure what is.

you can out drive the rain to stay in the sun, but you can't out run the truth.

I love the kids I work with, but I had a raise and then it got taken away again. Now, this summer, I'm taking an even bigger pay cut, plus Brendan will be home from school. I'm not a 14 year old babysitter and seven dollars an hour won't cut it. In fact, if I went through a Nanny Service, I'd get ten dollars an hour. And so, I have to talk to my ( Read more... )