so apparently DSS cares more about if you're a parent smoking pot in your home than if you're a schizophrenic parent hearing voices to strangle your children in their sleep.

Who would've thought?

So Tom and I are leaving today for the Outer Banks....ahhh....I'm so excited to have a whole week (actually over a week) of sunshine and beach. The weather looks to be perfect. I love the Outer Banks because it's not a crowded meat market, it's just a relaxing open beach with very few people. We're taking Rosco there to see the ocean for the first ( Read more... )

I was just voted one of the Employees of the Month in our company!

Each month three people get voted in based on the feedback from the clients and their parents, as well as feedback from our coworkers. Then they look at quality of work and professionalism...wow, that was totally unexpected! A nice feeling, I will admit. I've been feeling so down ( Read more... )

So why am I never on here anymore? I miss myself on here.

So my big news is that last Saturday I got to see The Flight of the Conchords in Atlanta! It was an early bday present from Tom and as we were sitting in the audience during the final encore, Jemaine jumped down off the stage and I got to hold his hands for a second! It was surreal. He was ( Read more... )

so I've forgotten to mention that I'm going to be an aunt this Fall!

yes, yes, my sister-in-law, Brandy, is preggers. They're hoping for a boy.

My parents' reactions were so sweet.


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Woo, I feel as though I've been to Hell and back.

It's truly terrifying the dark places the mind can go and not expect to come back. I'm always surprised at how I crumble between November and March. It never fails. My mom told me that every year in mid-February I would suddenly come down with some horrible sickness and be unable to go to school. ( Read more... )

So I found out in my clinical meeting this morning that I'll be getting a $1,000 bonus for bringing my brother onto the company as a therapist! Woot!

Anyone else want a job in mental health? lol

It's big, has a doggie door, and my bedroom would have a vaulted ceiling. :) It needs some superficial inside work to it, but Malindi is really excited about it and since I'm moving in with her once she finds a place, that makes me pretty damn excited, too. Bachelorette pad!


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"Everyone knows perfect love in their heart, for the human heart is a direct channel through which absolute love pours into this world. At the same time, human relationships are imperfect expressions of that love. This creates a painful gap between the perfect love we know in our hearts and the imperfect, incomplete ways it is expressed in our ( Read more... )

So despite all the turbulence, I'm actually feeling quite good right now. I got a lot of nice solitude/writing/reflecting time in Asheville as I wandered around, walking, walking, walking until a homeless man recognized me so much he proposed to me. lol So then I just decided to sit in some coffeeshops with my iPod and listen to Fleet Foxes. Got ( Read more... )