It really is what's on the inside that matters. I think I've always known it on an intrinsic level, but somewhere along the line the feeling faded. People get ugly when you can't see what's underneath, and that scares me. It took a few supremely beautiful people to convince me that the world wasn't actually closing in, and now that I can breathe ( Read more... )

I have no idea. I really don't. Here I am, sitting here in a dimly lit little room in my "it's a place to live" sort of apartment, surrounded by hundreds of copies of My House, thinking about what the hell I did to make my life like this ( Read more... )

We broke into the old abandoned hospital in Valdez last summer. It was a dark, messy building with small hallways and broken stuff strewn everywhere. As somebody who gets really creepy feelings about certain places, I was struck to think about how many people had died there, how many family members had had to endure long hours of wondering if their ( Read more... )

Ski for Women 2007 details ( Read more... )

First, I have changed the "Liz has Art??" link from this journal. It now links directly to my DeviantArt page, where you will find most (if not soon all) the art I have done ( Read more... )

Meet the newest addition to our mini-menagerie, an as yet un-named baby albino rat. So far all we know about her is that she likes Yogies, climbing, and weaving her body through the slits of Ian's laundry basket. Bailey has seen her, but not interacted with her as yet. This will be my first time introducing two unrelated rats, but from what I have ( Read more... )

Why is it that everytime I find myself sitting in an airport, with the afternoon sun streaming through the windows, watching a jet take off every 1 1/2 minutes, I decide that this is the perfect existence? I spent a lot of time around airplanes growing up, and even more around pilots...they always talked of airplanes as though there was no other ( Read more... )

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The Chicago Sun-Times recently released a paparazzi photo of America's favorite black democrat walking through the waves in Hawaii, and let me tell you, it is HOTTT. :) Almost "ow-OWWW" hot. If he wasn't 40 something ( Read more... )

Let me begin this post by saying I still have no idea what's to be done about babies. And now let me explain this statement ( Read more... )