Best thing to hear on your birthday?
Your 3 1/2 yr. old nephew singing happy birthday to you. And "blowing out" candles. And demanding cake from his mother. He pretty much got the essentials down.

Tragedy struck. A gunman killed 22? 32? students at VTech ( Read more... )

I was being pretty adult like that day. I was running errands, paying a parking ticket, and depositing a check at the bank ( Read more... )

Pay It Forward is best watched at 3 am. When you need a good cry ( Read more... )

I think there are signs that mark off a person's childhood and adulthood. I hope I can keep that line blurred to a degree, but some are inevitable. I doubt that I will pass through every point towards being a grown up, most notably denying the urge to lick the batter from the bowl. Neither will I ever blush at robust rounds of "Little Bar of Soap ( Read more... )

So my friends decided, rather suddenly, that we're going to live off campus. After finding 2 just off perfect places, we've been forced to narrow it down to one ( Read more... )

Junior year of HS, Ellen and I came up with some dreaded P words: Paper, project, presentation, portfolio, and the worst of... Procrastination. We weren't allowed to mention any of these words for about a week and a half, I think. Well, I'm currently involved with multiple P words, and in order to get on with them, I need to indulge that last, ( Read more... )

I just bought myself a Valentine's gift. I didn't realize how sad that was until I thought about it like that. I bought it cus it played the Mana Mana song from the Muppets. But since it's most likely the only Valentine I'll be getting, it's just sad. But on the 14th, I'll wake up, press its button, and smile. Cus it plays Mana Mana, and that's ( Read more... )

I don't care what you think about the moive, or Angelina Jolie, the scene in Beyond Borders where Clive Owen's character tells Angelina's character how much he loves her is the best "I love you" line EVER. It's made even more perfect because Clive Owen is saying it, in his suave, but edgy British accent ( Read more... )

Alright folks. I get it. No really. Alabama is funny. Even the word is funny, all those syllables and shit. I probably spelled that word wrong. But that's ok. I'm in Alabama, and people are dumb here, right ( Read more... )