I just got home from working the night shift. It's gray and wet out but I still took the scenic route to Columbus Ave. Now that we've finally had some rain, the flowers around here are almost fully bloomed. Splashes of color all over nature's canvas. Looks great. It would look better if the rain would stop...landscapes are always better with the ( Read more... )

My weekend with the family was fine, though I was sad Chris couldn't come. Now I'm back and for the first time, I looked at a calendar. My first mistake. I won't panic. Tomorrow is May 3rd and that's perfectly fine. I'm calm, collected and okay.

Paris...I need snuggles.

<3 Nicole, Slightly Unsettled in Boston

I'm giving up soda. The image of a decomposed penny is forever engrained in my mind so thank you for that Chris. Oh and congrats on Jasmine Sola! I'll definitely be harassing you at work next weekend. Unless I'm with Mark, lol. Another thing I need to thank you for ( Read more... )

I got this quiz from Maja's journal and thought it was kind of amusing:

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
I definitely think that learning English phonetically inclines you toward picking up other people's inflection and ( Read more... )

Today was one of those rainy days where lethargy is explained away with a look out the window. I won't lie and say I was really productive. I wasn't. But it's okay. It's nice to just slow things down once in a while and do nothing. What's more...ENJOY doing nothing. It's more fun than it looks ( Read more... )

Ignore everything I said last night. I was just being melodramatic. It's been known to happen ( Read more... )

I'm back. Marcel's recent entry about his travels and travails in Boston had fueled me to tighten my own threads and jump into the world that has consumed some of my closest friends ( Read more... )

lol...my GHification is complete. I took a quiz on which General Hospital character I am most like. Today was a good day. Finals are over, Jip is over, my hunt for the perfect gift is over. Yep, life is good.


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[1.] Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it ( Read more... )

For the past couple days I've had a chip the size of the world on my shoulder. It wasn't just the literal snowballing of all the work that was due today but a thousand little things that have just been weighing me down ( Read more... )