Tonight I went on a date. A first date. For the first time, my stomach is in knots awaiting the next date. I'm tearing up for no reason. I'm nervous that I'll say too much...or not enough....or the wrong thing at the wrong time. Or the right thing at the wrong time.

This is real.

"Humor is just a funny way of being serious." Peter Ustinov ( Read more... )

I've come so far in such a short time, it seems, that I wonder what awaits me next. Stay positive and be the person that would make your family proud and your friends thankful ( Read more... )

Two days in and already something feels the same
thought this would be the chance to see some change
It's just not the time to want anything more
But two days in is twenty-four
-no matter how you count them

these days I sit and wonder ( Read more... )

If i hadn't been
and you weren't
do you think we'd have...ever?
no, I know it's absurd.
oh, I agree.
And the two of us together? please
I just
Well of course we are
and I wouldn't want to ruin that
yeah
I guess I just wonder sometimes.

So how are things with him?

~original

Define "Grandma ( Read more... )

All of them have songs
scents, posts, memories,
pieces of me that I can't get back.
But you don't.

~original

An old cd is playing behind me
For the first time in months.
And when I thought I couldn't,
I accidentally remembered you.

~original

It's an upward slope. I knew when I started ( Read more... )