i made my first ever new year's resolution, and have, for also the first time ever, accepted january first as the actual beginning of an actual new year. time to start anew! all over again! things are going to be DIFFERENT ( Read more... )

i need legitimate winter shoes. ones that are leather or rubber and will hold up to snow and salt. did you know that the salt stuff they use on sidewalks stains your shoes white? well it does. i need boots that will stand up to that. and feet, not inches, of snow ( Read more... )

he said "you have eyes like a gypsy"

i said "gypsies have brown eyes"

he said "no they don't"

it's not that you don't believe me. it's that you don't care.

although my residency is not official, not in the photo identification sense, i live in the land of lincoln. true, i have never been to springfield. i have also never been to all saints cemetery to lay flowers. or candy. or newspapers. i have not been to a corn field, i have not outrun a tornado, and i have not hunted out the site of a certain ( Read more... )

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there are some things that break my heart. they probably shouldn't. but they do. it's nice, i guess, to know that no matter how strong or tough i may think i am, still i can be shattered by little words. by empty beds. by all sorts of tiny and regular things. i am powerful, yes, but the world is bigger and stronger than i.

i had this dream in which we were trying to go to the ocean to see these whales ( Read more... )

i have a problem saying no.

i used to watch little house on the prairie. on tnn, in the morning. after my mom dropped me off, in my blue and red st. edward's catholic school uniform. i don't remember that woman's name, but i remember her living room. i remember her house was a block from school. i remember watching little house on the prairie.