I am thankful for many things this year. I am thankful that it's Thursday and I am still running on the same tank of gas this week. I'm thankful that the clutter is beginning to diminish and my house is starting to come together the way I'd hoped. I'm thankful for the lunch crew, who are helping me to navigate my series of decisions regarding ( Read more... )

To stay or go? That's the question on my mind today as I wind down another week in the grind ( Read more... )

If anyone had told me that I'd be living on Arlington Drive again in this lifetime, I wouldn't have believed them. The move has been made, I'm working to get situated there, and although I'm grateful to be moved in and whatnot (read: a foot of snow will fall by tomorrow), I still feel like I've outgrown the place quite a bit. I've become accustomed ( Read more... )

I've got to change my mindset a bit. Okay, a lot. I've got to start to think of this area as "home" once again. There was a time when I would have characterized Mayfield/Lyndhurst as my "adulthood home," but all of that changed in 2013. I quickly snapped back to the strongest sense of where I belong, and to whom. I'm a Youngstown girl...born and ( Read more... )

I've watched summer turn into fall and, typically, the fall is going to be short-lived this year. There's a chill in the air when I leave the house and when I arrive at the garage to unload. Last night, as I was packing up and loading the car, I was on the phone with Toni. I declared, "I don't want to leave here. I am going to miss this place so ( Read more... )

I can't think of any other way to entitle this entry. I need to trade beauty for ashes today ( Read more... )

I can't even pretend that I'm not annoyed anymore. Gah! The end of every nine weeks is rough. But these days, in recent years, it's only gotten rougher. It has. Currently, I don't have a paper to grade on my desk and I'm just...well...look at my icon right now. That's how I'm feeling ( Read more... )

It's really funny. I keep looking for an email or a text from him, even though I know there will be none. I took a straw poll about the money he owes me and I got mixed reviews. I heard, "You should ask him for that money and he should pay you right away." Then there was, "Consider it severence pay. If you don't recoup that money, you got out of ( Read more... )

Today has kinda sucked ( Read more... )

I'm convinced a fight is going to break out today. It's a harvest moon...and that always corresponds with irrational behavior at school and pretty much everywhere. I'm anticipating trying to hold down the fort today especially but all week, too. We're getting close to the end of the nine weeks. Kids are going to be wired ( Read more... )