Please, when you friend me on livejournal, if you could shoot me a message and let me know privately who you are and how you relate to my life (If you do) I'd be most appreciative, or if you're a friend of a friend ( Read more... )

Just so people know where I stand on the President's Executive Orders, here are the things I have concerns about, taken unedited from the list ( Read more... )

As of 8 pm tonight, I have gone for one hundred and three hours and 30 minutes without a cigarette.  This is the longest I have gone without smoking in 9 years ( Read more... )

 If you get right down to it, there has always been nastiness and hatefulness for as long as we've had an organized society and politics and religion has been involved in that society.  You can sort of trace our devolution back THIS particular round, in the past 20-30 years, to Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, Glen Beck, and folks of that ilk.  When ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in forever.  Been busy with life, work, and whatnot all else, and expect to be hip deep in the coming months, so that really isn't going to change anytime soon.  The joys of adulthood.
So, in the news in my world:

First, I have finally come up against something that is making me take steps to seriously try to quit smoking.
Before you ( Read more... )

I know I shouldn't read news stories with the same eye as I read a scholarly article or documentation.  I know this.
And still I fail to heed my own advice, and have a face-palm moment.
Everyone is all het up over the bra-like garments from the late 15th century that we're finally finding out about.  Here is the article that is getting reposted ad ( Read more... )

There's that analogy about chronic pain and spoons that people use to describe what it's like to live with that illness.  I'm gonna give an example what it's like to be in the head of someone with OCD when it comes to something simple like picking up a pair of socks out of the floor.  The reason why I'm posting this now is because this is the way I ( Read more... )

This is a weird one. 
Yeah, even for me.  Some of you I've already asked this of, so if you don't want to comment, you don't have to.

How many times in your life have you had people tell you that they either feel that "fate" or destiny had brought you together, or that they have known you in a prior life?
How many times have you felt a connection with ( Read more... )

So....
I have come to the conclusion that I am, indeed, Calontir's early period version of Dolly Parton.  I came to this conclusion as I was packing and finishing stuff up for Lilies. 
Now, I know there are some differences.  One, I'm not a multi-millionaire.  Two, I don't have her attributes.  Three, I'm not blonde.
But the similarities:
One, I like ( Read more... )

So... let's get this over with.  A couple of days ago, you guys got to witness me in a full-out berserker attack of somewhat epic proportions.  It was messy, it was violent, and it was ugly.  For that you have my apology.  This is why I try NOT to use the computer when I'm so mad I'm crying.  And because I'm crying I get angrier.  And then comes ( Read more... )