Well well well... A lot has happened since the last time I posted anything in here. Quite a bit of it is the sort of deeply personal family stuff that I generally avoid on Live Journal, but just to summarize: My grandpa passed away, and Natalie and I had another IVF failure. Obviously, both of these occurrences were very difficult, one of them ( Read more... )

Yep, it's been a long time, folks. But I guess that's kind of been the norm for me over the last several years, hasn't it? 2014 has been a really busy year for me so far between work, family issues, home improvements projects and IVF stuff. I also just turned 30 last month, which has been messing with my head a little bit, and there might be ( Read more... )

I'm so sick of making compromises ( Read more... )

First of all, I just have to bitch again about the limited amount of space that Live Journal gives you in the subject line. I had to mangle and bastardize the lyrics above just to get them to fit into the box. Aarrrrggghhhhh ( Read more... )

I felt the need to post something tonight, mostly because I haven't posted anything in so darn long. I don't really have a whole lot to say right now, but I guess wanted to talk about a few of the latest developments in my life since the last time I wrote anything in here... I recently switched to a new beat at the newspaper, one that is a little ( Read more... )

Well, I just spent the last 90 minutes writing a long-ass entry in here, but then my piece of shit motherfucking Live Journal got all jacked up when I hit the "Post" button and lost it all. Needless to say, that REALLY pisses me off. I've been meaning to post something in here for at least a month now, and this is the kind of bullshit it pulls on ( Read more... )

Well, it's that time of year again: Summer is here, and I've found myself forced to confront a whole bunch of conflicting feelings that have come rushing back. But honestly, it's different now than it used to be. I'm well past the point where I'm nostalgic for the summer of 2002 and wishing that I could bring those days back. Oh, don't get me wrong ( Read more... )

Whoa, what the hell has gotten into me? Two Live Journal posts in less than a month?!? That's crazy! And it also means that I've already eclipsed my total for all of 2011, haha... Anyway, this entry is actually somewhat related to my last one. When I was writing that super long review of the Kathleen Edwards song "Alicia Ross," I started thinking ( Read more... )

I don't know if I've ever really done this before, but I think I'm going to make a post all about one particular song... I've been listening to Kathleen Edwards quite a bit lately, which has been a nice change of pace for me, as I haven't spent much time listening to rootsy Americana music in recent years (although Edwards is actually Canadian, lol ( Read more... )

I feel like for the last few years, I've started off almost every new LJ entry the exact same way: talking about how long it's been since the last time I posted anything. I guess I've been sort of gradually phasing this journal out of my life, or maybe just started to lose interest in it. I almost quit LJ at least three or four times in the past, ( Read more... )