I'm afraid to hope the election should go the way it should.  I don't see how it's possible, with a God like this.

I can't study for my test tomorrow, either.  I just don't care about anything.

Oella will die in the next couple days, and there's nothing we can do.

Also, I've been putting off schoolwork lately making waxed paper cranes for The Crane Project.  It helps me pretend I'm useful, but it's also awesome and you should totally do it with me.

We got a kitten on Saturday.  Her name is Oella.  She's two months old.  We got her from my friend at school whose family was adopted by a pregnant stray, and they took care of the cat family until the kittens were old enough to leave the mom.  I was the first to take one of the kittens ( Read more... )

I have been married for one year today.

Nathan is supposed to be home in the late afternoon, and we're going to put together the wedding book we never finished.  We're on a $0 budget because the money situation is bad.

Nathan needs braces to fix one molar that keeps getting fractured when he chews, and apparently fixing one tooth costs the same as ( Read more... )

My sister co-stars in a newspaper article in her bikini.  For work.

It's September!  Effective today, I am without health insurance (except catastrophic) for the first time ever, and Nathan has fairly good insurance for the first time since he was a dependent.

This is great because I can now pay out of pocket to continue to be treated for what I don' ( Read more... )

One other thing:  I am suddenly really into cooking lately.

Today I made:
- Roasted Butternut and Cauliflower Soup (sooooooo good--and I don't even like cauliflower)
- Frozen Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies (I haven't tasted these yet...seriously, I haven't!)
- Sweet Potato Croquettes (I modified that recipe by forming it into small patties and ( Read more... )

I took my finals for summer classes on Monday and Tuesday.  I think I'm getting As in both my normal classes, which surprises me, even though I know how much work I had to do for it.  And I don't care if everyone else thinks it must be an easy grade-inflated girl major, and I don't care if it really is.  I had 12 hours of class and 20+ hours of ( Read more... )

Tonight I am having a sleepover with my best friend in the same bed-with-trundle where I had all the sleepovers with all my best friends of the past 20 years.  And now I'm an adult coming to my mom's to visit, and the best friend is married to me, but the bed is just as tiny and uncomfortable as it ever was, and he will stay up gossiping until just ( Read more... )

So, here we are.  We live in Dallas, Oak Lawn to be exact (just down the street from the Catholic school Wikipedia mentions).

We first got here Friday night around 10.  I had worked my last day in AISD that day, got out early around 2, and when I got home Nathan and his family and Kristen had pretty much completely loaded the truck.  Most of what ( Read more... )

It's okay if you didn't read all of my last post.  It was kind of a long list.  So perhaps you missed it:  my father's father's father's mother's father founded a town in north Texas which is named after him.  Yes, I am indeed a direct descendant of a small-town namesake!  You may read about my great great great grandfather's town here:  http://en. ( Read more... )