A month ago while I was in Home Sense I found a "Baby Naming Journal." It seemed like a good thing to have if you were pregnant and overwhelmed with, well, naming your baby. It was the last one of its kind. It was only $3.99. So I bought it, and hid it with my other journals just in case my mom finds it and overreacts.


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Happy Belated Birthday to...

LISA, who turned twenty on the sixth;

&

ELEASA, who turned nineteen on the seventh.

Have a wonderful year, ladies.

And to the boy who rescues me on a daily basis and doesn't even know it,
happy twenty months.

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Despite all of the problems in my life, I am feeling excellent.

Thanks to friends
& family
& co-workers
& strangers
& even customers
& of course,
my favourite person

For all of you, I am grateful.

Chrisia's Keeping-Me-Sane-But-Making-Me-Wish-I-Was-Able-To-Stay-Another-Night-In-London playlist:

Seu Jorge - Starman
Seu Jorge - Life On Mars
Seu Jorge - Rebel Rebel
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside
Coldplay - The Scientist
Iron and Wine - Naked As We Came

I can't wait for this month to pass.

My room smells like

(Spanish tutorial - Oct 17)
The TA explains how unhelpful our $155 textbook can be:

"It uses the word coger. It works in Spain because it would mean 'to take' or 'to catch.' So you might say, 'Cogiendo un taxi' -- 'I'm taking a taxi.' But don't use it in Latin America! Because coger would mean 'to fuck' and you definitely don't want to say 'I'm ( Read more... )

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