Last night my husband called me into the bedroom, saying there was something I needed to see. I walked in, and he pointed at the TV. It was a baseball game. Just as I was about to ask him why I should care, he said, "It's the Cubs. Trust me, you'll wanna see this. Sit down ( Read more... )

I took the advice of my son’s teacher’s aide and applied for aide positions at other schools, and after multiple rejections, one school called me back. I went in for the interview, which went quite well considering I haven’t been on a job interview since the 90s, and in a few days they offered me the position. I will be working with special needs ( Read more... )

Apparently today is National Poetry Day, so I figured what the heck, I'll post one of the poems I wrote for one of my college courses. It was actually inspired by a post from an old LJ friend, oselleCircling the Drain ( Read more... )

So, like many others, my husband and I binge-watched Netflix’s latest Marvel series Luke Cage over the weekend ( Read more... )

1. My husband's deployment has been postponed until early December! Which means ( Read more... )

I had a bit of trouble motivating myself to get out of bed today. At 3 a.m., I dropped my husband off at the airport for a month of deployment training, and as soon as that training is done he’ll be on his way to Afghanistan. The ultimate departure date is just getting closer, and I guess I thought I would handle it better than this. It’s like I ( Read more... )

( Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Agents of SHIELD, and the Cap movies )

I have taken to power walking for an hour on a treadmill at a steep incline at least five days a week. Aside from sore leg muscles, I don't have much to show for it. No, that's not true, my blood pressure has lowered a bit, it's even out of the prehypertension range every once in a while. I know my BP is pretty damned good for someone over 40, ( Read more... )

So, I'm helping my husband with an online writing class, and the time has come to pick a topic for the research paper. We're currently doing a small assignment where we write a couple of paragraphs about how the Internet has changed our ideas of friendship, and I'm thinking we could base the research paper on that as well ( Read more... )

Every now and then, the webcomics I enjoy post images that stay with me, for various reasons.

Kimchi Cuddles posted this one today. This is me, at various stages of my life. Every last one of these things has happened to me, and I do sometimes feel invisible. So this was nice today.

( Fun Fact: Bisexuals exist! )