Twenty-nine years. By some miracle, she had managed to live for twenty-nine years. The big 3-0 was looming in the distance. It was six months away, and she was terrified. There was nothing she could do to stop the steady ticking of time. How could one little number be so daunting to her? Why did one little number petrify her so much ( Read more... )

When I look back on my first real job, I remember it fondly. I worked at a small town grocery store called William’s IGA. There was only one produce guy, one meat guy, and then a bunch of teenagers that made up the floor/cashier/bagging crew. The benefit or the downfall of working in this small town store was that everyone that walked into this ( Read more... )

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In 1987, on Halloween, I was five years old. I had just started kindergarten that August, so I was just getting use to the whole school thing. When I learned that I could wear a costume to school for Halloween, I was excited. My mom spent weeks (maybe months) making my costume, and I thought it was the best thing ever. I couldn’t wait to be the ( Read more... )

Have you ever felt the urge to yank all of your hair out by the roots? Do you have days where all you want to do is scream as loud as you can to the heavens until you have nothing left? Does a part of you wish you could wrap your hands around someone’s throat and shake all of the stupid out of them? If you answered yes to all of these questions, ( Read more... )

I have always been the type of person to just go with the flow. For example, in high school I made good grades. If I had applied myself I would have probably been in the top five percent of my class instead of the top twenty percent. I was comfortable with just sort of drifting through my life without a whole lot of purpose. As I was an only child ( Read more... )

I stumbled upon LJIdol a couple of days ago due to the spotlight Livejournal had for it. After getting an idea as to what it was all about, I took a couple of days to decide if I wanted to do this. I spent hours reading people's entries to the first topic, and many of them brought me to tears because they were that good. Considering I want to be a ( Read more... )