There seems to be some confusion about my housing purchase, so here's the scoop. I could have sworn this came up back when we all hung out in January, but mayhaps it did not, in which case I'm heaps of sorry I didn't tell all of you this before ( Read more... )

Plus - I'm buying a house.
Minus - Buying a house requires a HUGE amount of paperwork and faxing of historical financial documents and I am onsite at a program, making the collection of these things rather stressful especially as the hotel fax machine charges, I shit you not, $6.25 for the first page, and $3.45 for every subsequent page.
Plus - ( Read more... )

Inspired by a number of different things -  new season, blogs, Stacey, turning 30 - I have taken some casual stock of my life and quite frankly I'm pretty pleased. I have awesome friends in Philly and elsewhere, a job that I like 80% of the time, a house I love, a pretty hot boyfriend, my health, and a sweet cat named Cecil. All of these things ( Read more... )

I saw a moose this weekend. That's pretty much all you need to know about my labor day. 

Over the last 30 days, I may have purchases 26.4 lbs of licorice. Maybe.

Work is absolutely killing my non-work productivity. All this actually having to get things done while I'm in the office means I don't have time to get other things done, like catching up on my correspondence, paying bills, shopping online, and of course, posting here. Someone should do something about this. As it stands though, nothing will really ( Read more... )

In 7th grade we had to pair up and make a papier mache animal. Laura Phelps (who had the other half of my "Be/st Fri/ends" necklace (I was Be Fri) and who would spend every Friday night at my house doing mad libs and making crafts with Friendly Plastic) and I teamed up to make a hippopotamus. It was about 30 inches long and 7 inches tall, the head ( Read more... )

Laura's comment reminded me of my days at Summit Grove Church Camp. I went there the summers after 5th and 6th grade, and possibly 7th, but I can't remember. Summit Grove was co-ed and was located on the border between PA and Maryland. Instead of staying in tents or cabins, everyone slept in dormatories. Some things I remember:

* Every morning you ( Read more... )

Fun facts about foxes:

Foxes like marshmallows, beef jerky and hot dogs. They do not like hershey bars and are neutral on hot dog buns. They are not stealthy. I bet you thought they would be. I thought so too. Instead they are loud like bears or raccoons. They will shake open a plastic bag and not try to be quiet at all even though you are less than ( Read more... )

Do you remember, way back when, back in the day, when LJ used to be a thing? When you checked it as much as you now check facebook and you posted as often as you emailed ( Read more... )