After all the recent blog-accessibility issues going on within my inner circle of colleagues and friends, I'm hesitant to post something new. Anything new, really.

But, I hate letting things stop me, you know? I like my blog -- however mindless and frivolous my posts are -- and I don't really want to get rid of it.

I suppose any *damage* has ( Read more... )

So, when I called my mom sometime mid-last week about coming home, she warned me that Ben (my stepdad) had gotten a new truck because the engine in the old one had died and he wanted a new one anyway. Sounds reasonable, right?

Well, when I got home, I learned the rest of the story.

Apparently, his old truck had died in a Meijer parking lot ( Read more... )

So, I got pulled over last night. He didn't even play games. None of that "Do you know why I pulled you over?" stuff. He flat out says, "I pulled you over because you were going 41 in a 25." Well shoot. I really should look down at that speedometer thing more often. I just nodded and gave him a rather sheepish, I-kinda-deserve-this-ticket look, but ( Read more... )

All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.

Isaiah 53:6
New Living Translation

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We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:6
New International Version

Remember how at the office today I said I was an ISFJ personality type and no one believed me? Well, I found a "portrait" of the ISFJ personality online, and I thought I'd share it. I'll bold some parts I think apply to me (but there may be other parts that do apply and that I just can't see myself).

Portrait of an ISFJ - Introverted Sensing ( Read more... )

I have OFFICIALLY finished one of the papers I had to do this weekend! Yessssssssssss ( Read more... )

Just today, I became obsessed with "Post Secret," an art project started by a Maryland man named Frank Warren. He went out and left behind piles of blank postcards with the instructions to fill them out with a secret no one knows but you and to send it back to him ( Read more... )

I know this'll be boring for most of you, but I just sent one of the Michigan Press Association convention organizers an e-mail with feedback about the convention. (She'd asked for it, don't worry! I wasn't just volunteering.) I'll copy and paste a little of what I wrote, and you j-kids should tell me if you think it was good feedback (as in, you ( Read more... )

I am so sick of my mother being so closed-minded, controlling, overbearing, stubborn, judgmental, inflexible, overprotective, critical, not understanding, reactionary, unaccepting, pessimistic, demanding, and every other negative characteristic she displays on a regular basis ( Read more... )

Okay, so I have a scary story:

I swung by the Verizon store on my way home from work today (well, "on my way"... it's actually a little out of the way, but it was a trip that needed making. my last phone bill was $150. $150. that cannot happen again. time for sprint to go bye-bye ( Read more... )