i don't care how trite it is, i love the soundtrack to nick and norah's infinite playlist.  it plays exactly as it should; the perfect mixtape for a movie packed with subtle (for high school) emotional displays; the perfect mixtape for accompanying pretty much any young person's life. who cares if i'm 27 and loving the same thing a junior high kid ( Read more... )

when something goes wrong and you're involved, i don't see how anyone could not automatically blame themselves.  that is my first reaction, unless it is something like a natural disaster, i suppose.  no matter my part in the final demise, large or small, the first thing i think of are the things that i did incorrectly or failed.  i'm not sure if ( Read more... )

2008 was a crazy, adventurous year in an unexpected way.  it was like a foreign silence, but a force nonetheless. as in past years, my life got flipped around a little bit, uprighted, then flipped again, ending with a depressing fizzle ( Read more... )

i made a couple of internet purchases for christmas gifts this year, and i am nervous about them getting here in time for me to wrap and give.  i don't buy often enough off of the internet (especially during the holidays) for me to feel confident about their arrival times.  the last one, made a scant 5 minutes ago, was a sort of impulse-buy ( Read more... )

last night, right before bedtime, jesse spotted snow outside! he and i dashed outside to my balcony, where we watched the snow come down in huge flakes.  he turned on the lights and we reached out our arms and let them fall and melt, fall and melt until our sleeves were wet and cold.  and then we stuck our faces and heads farther out into the snow ( Read more... )

i finished up an unexpectedly long day (thought i was going to get to leave early; ended up staying late) at the office and headed to hobby lobby, where i met up with jenelle.  she found out i can (somewhat) embroider after i made her a dishtowel with a pinafored little girl on it, so she requested a cell phone cover.  or as she calls it, a koozie ( Read more... )

yay! time warner and i finally kissed and made up, and so after several attempts to fix and/ or make appointments that various people never showed for (water under the bridge, tw, water under the bridge...for now), i have the internet at home again!  no more checking facebook at work...er, less, anyway- no more wondering what people are doing on ( Read more... )

sorry i have not written in a long time, livejournal.  since we last talked, a hurricane hit my state (and ruined amy and jeff's house) and i turned 27 (yesterday-ish ( Read more... )

my head aches a little today, but i don't mind.  this is the kind of mild throb that happens when you sleep until 11, eat some scrambled eggs, cuddle back up in bed again and sleep until 1.  this is the appropriate response to a week so nasty and exhausting that you cry more weeknights than not ( Read more... )

things have quieted down a tiny bit around here, but since this is me we're talking about, i doubt this will be for long :)  the truth is, the sudden quiet is disturbing to me, though i know it is necessary.  i complain and complain about never getting enough sleep, but this weekend i had the luxury of napping in the afternoon both saturday and ( Read more... )