Oy, has it been a week. I am glad it's over, and I hope everything only gets better from here. At least it was sunny today. And I love my friends ( Read more... )

... In this case, it was chocolate chip cookies still gooey in the middle and a bubble bath with candles and my favorite book ("It was a dumb thing to do, but it wasn't that dumb. There hadn't been any trouble out at the lake in years....."). The past two weeks have felt like I'm barely keeping my head above water, and it felt good to relax and ( Read more... )

So it is now the second day of classes for the spring term. This is also the first tues/thurs of the semester, so I get a brand new set of classes to sit through syllabi for ( Read more... )

Quite offically the first day of school, which still doesn't end for me for another 3 ish hours. I hope less, that this teacher decides he doesn't want to spend 3 hours in class the very first day. Night. *dies ( Read more... )

I feel like today was some kind of turning point, though I can't quite put my finger on why. Or how. Now that I have fed and watered myself (not one of my greater culinary expeditions tonight, but I'm going to say that salsa counts as a vegetable, and dark chocolate ice cream was my dairy and call it quits) I guess I can get on with the dumping of ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago Kev asked me to tell him a story for one of our Skype-dates (which I love that I can see his face and talk to him at the same time =). I was a little taken by surprise, and ended up spitting out a fair recitation of Snow White and Rose Red, which has been one of my favorite Grimm fairy tales for forever. It went a little less ( Read more... )

1. Where did you ring in the New Year?
   Last year, my room mate Lacee came up to Placerville to stay with me for a few days. We attempted to light off the bonfire, but it had been raining for a week before that so we weren't very successful. We still ate marshmellows and drank cider though.
    
2. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before?
   Decided to ( Read more... )

Actually, it was ok for the beginning of the day. I even got to go on a walk. =) woohoo endorphins and burning calories. I certainly feel like I ate enough of them today ( Read more... )

So it's the day before Christmas Eve, and I am super bored ( Read more... )

So I am yet again back in Placerville tearing my hair out from boredom/loneliness/my mother being aggravating as all hell ( Read more... )