After inquiring about a certain website promoting, "Be a Local Hero, Buy Locally Grown" from Western Mass...

...
"it was before you bloomed into a recycling, local eating, more sustainable, earth saving person
which, by the way, is pretty remarkable
you've come a long way in those regards in the past year."

Additionally, YAY Red Sox and YAY mine and ( Read more... )

I got home last night and started working on the poster of photos for my mom’s party, sitting on the floor in my kitchen (it has the most space). I have one of her senior pictures from high school that I found in a bin at home... I turned it over to stick stickiness on it to adhere it to the board and found writing. The photo was given to her ( Read more... )

I miss the carefree lifestyle of college ( Read more... )

I dreamed I was dying
As I so often do
And when I awoke
I was sure it was true

I ran to the window 
Threw my head to the sky and
Said whoever is up there
Please don't let me die

But I can't live forever
I can't always be

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This scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin
Tried to reach deep but you couldn't get in
Now you're outside me
You see all the beauty
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I've calmed down a lot since two posts ago, regarding money troubles and my woes.

While I still have some unfortunate things going on in my life medically - or more appropriately, physically, I'm going OK and things could be FAR worse.

Weston and I had a terrific trip to Florida two weekends ago, where I met his father, FINALLY! And I am officially ( Read more... )

There are two brothers from Minnesota sitting in my living room. They have been riding their bikes for seven weeks, on their way to Maine. Once they get there they're taking the Amtrak back to Minnesota with their bikes. Mike and John. Pretty great guys. Mike is 22 and John is 20 and looks it ... they're awesome. They met Ian's sister today riding ( Read more... )

I HATE money.
I hate that Ian is moving out and Weston and I are trying to figure out what to do, roommate? No roommate? I hate that I can't go out to the movies or to dinner, and that I have to shop cheap and not buy as many vegetables because I simply cannot afford it.

Some things are good, I'm not over-spending on organics, and I'm not shopping ( Read more... )

We all have those songs we listen to, during certain times in life, all the time, whatever. This first one could cover a wide array of emotions ... but mostly it reminds me of Paris and Julie, and us listening to it on the plane on the way there, while we were there on buses traveling from place to place, on the way back to Paris from London, and ( Read more... )

Well, I did it. As planned I finished book 7, the final installment in the Harry Potter series over the weekend. I must say I was quite pleased with the ending and felt ... saddened at the finality of such a long journey, but also gratified with the way JK Rowling wrapped everything up.

I thought for a minute - around page six hundred something or ( Read more... )

In keeping with my last entry, I have been thinking a lot lately about my childhood and some of my fondest memories. It should be no surprise to people who have seen me grow up that I obsess over silly movies or TV shows, like Gilmore Girls or The Little Mermaid, watching them over and over again, even though I've seen them a hundred times over ( Read more... )