Ok here's the deal. For various reasons I'm making this journal 99% friends-only. Please though, if you have any desire to be added, just reply to this post telling me why you want to be added, and I will 99% for sure add you.

Not sure if I'll get back to posting regularly or not. But I need to put this somewhere and I try to save my facebook rants for stuff of more political/philosophical/less personal matters ( Read more... )

Livejournal, I am ending my relationship with you. Nothing personal, I have just used you in all the wrong ways. I have used you to vent rather than asking my friends to be available to me. I have used you to vent rather than directly confronting people. I have overshared with people I have never seen face-to-face rather than given more of ( Read more... )

THANK YOU ZACHARY!!!


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So I spent allll day yesterday...literally all day...FINISHING...not starting and finishing, just FINISHING a paper for a class ( Read more... )

I am so tired of feeling so strongly what other people feel. Maybe I don't empathize more than normal people and everyone else is just stronger than me. I don't know. But it seems that I can rationalize what anyone does given their circumstance. It doesn't matter if what the person does or says hurts me, I can often understand exactly where ( Read more... )

I miss Zach.

And it also hit me today that I really miss Sue Gifford. I really want to tell her all about Zach. Pray for us, Sue!!

Zach is coming to Oregon in FOUR DAYS!! I'm so excited to show him my new home city, take him to the ocean for the first time in his life, and introduce him to my mom and dad! (From what I hear, dad may be even more excited about this than I am...kidding, kidding, but I think he's pretty jazzed.) I'm even taking him to mass at St. Mary in Mt. ( Read more... )

Only NINE days til Christmas!! This is going to be an interesting Christmas. 5 years ago I was in a sort of "are we in a relationship?" weird place with a guy, 10 years ago I was in a pretty new relationship with a guy, and now I am in a new-in-a-way-but-we've-moved-that-direction-for-a-long-time relationship. That's obviously pretty serious. I ( Read more... )

My story of going to meet Zach for the first time is now complete. And in 37 days, he comes here!!!! AHHHHH!!!