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I finally did something i've been wanting to do since i arrived in ireland...
you see i have this love of watching the sun set over the ocean. Probably my favourite part of living in san diego was watching the sun set over mission beach. there is just something so very peaceful and beautiful about the whole thing. Well, since i've lived on the west ( Read more... )

"we are black and white people..." ~Matchbox 20

yesterday, I was confronted with my very own dark side or rather, i finally realized i have a dark side. i know you might think me incredibly naive to believe that i did not have a dark side but there is nothing like a good explosion for you to see yourself as you truly are.  Yesterday I just went off ( Read more... )

I know i'm being lazy but i usually only have one or two good stories in me per month and if i send it to everyone in a mass email, well, i don't really feel like rewriting it in my blog so i'm cheating...copy.paste. done. (oh wait, there's an epilogue at the end so keep reading ( Read more... )

in the previous post i was NOT in any way referring to my relationship with Garry. i'm pretty sure that one is going to be ok...if slightly complicated for awhile.

don't worry. :-)

i would like one moment to be a complete pessimist ( Read more... )

in the past few weeks i've attended two Irish funerals, one accidentally (i'll explain later) and the other who was the brother of a woman working in our community. And once again, i am reminded of the subtle cultural differences between the U.S. and ireland ( Read more... )

One love. One blood. One life. You got to do what you should ( Read more... )

**no new year's resolutions yet...they are still works in progress, so that post will have to wait**

i've found myself feeling very pensive today about my life and this past year (and this past month more specifically) and i think i've lost and found many things....

today i found a little peace and joy. it's amazing what the help of one extra person ( Read more... )

i'm awake. i'm alive....how.....did i get here? apparently today is january 1st. HOW did that  happen? i swear i went to bed last night and it was somewhere around the middle of december. no no wait.. the last thing i remember was someone telling me thomas was leaving for a month and.....now i'm here. what kind of messed up rabbit hole did i fall ( Read more... )