I think having beach volleyball on at the gym motivated me to run 2 minutes longer than I otherwise would have. Exercise can make me six inches taller, right ( Read more... )

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I keep having bad dreams about the wedding; almost exclusively, they're about me forgetting things or people (including E) forgetting to come, and me being very chill about everything until some breaking point. ( dreams are boring, though, for everyone but me )

I update all the stinkin' time when I'm alone ( Read more... )

1) I now have an edible necklace of phallic symbols ( Read more... )

We got our first box from Crate and Barrel--and it's strange how much more tangible our wedding seems now. It's still two months away, but man, people are buying and sending us things! This means we have to go through with it, I guess ;o ( Read more... )

I miss giving thanks: I miss calling out to a benevolent, all-powerful father and sharing a quiet moment of gratitude. Saying "thank you" to God would spread a kind of warmth and deep peace through my core; without the direct object, without the "you" to thank, it feels more like self-satisfaction. I've never been so acutely aware of air molecules ( Read more... )

I have such a love-hate relationship with my life (not the act of living, but the ways I choose to spend my time)--and I'm in a place where I'm really, really happy right now ( Read more... )

Sometime in the past few years, I've decided that I am not a Christian. I want to write about that slow realization, but it's too much, and too painful. I think I can approach it in pieces, though; I hope, I hope that this can start a healing process. I'm trying to express a really profound sense of loss, not engage in a discussion or debate over ( Read more... )

1) I finally ordered shoes for the wedding. Got them online, had them sent to my apartment. Got upgraded to overnight shipping for free, so hooray! I'll have them in time to go back to PA to get my wedding dress fitted and hemmed! They were even delivered today! Except, oh, wait, I put our old apartment address, and someone in the office there ( Read more... )