As the title says, this has pretty much been the best day ever. Workers finally came in and repaired our apartment, making it habitable with closing windows, a working stove, a shower that doesn't leak through the giant water induced hole in the lobby and everything. Though they came at the crack of Friday morning to do it, I'm glad that it's done ( Read more... )

Revisiting Madrid ( Read more... )

So today, I went to my cousin's wedding which was really nice, actually, and I had a great time. Later that night, I got home and was playing with Daisy, giving her envelopes from people's Christmas cards because she loves eating nice quality paper products (and nice quality everything else) and am wrestling with her to get one out of her mouth.

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Things I am Thankful For (Abbreviated Version ( Read more... )

I am feeling very restless and panicked about my life and time lately. I don't know what it is, but I think that I need to just chill out and sit down and write more in order to reflect. I just feel that my time is completely not grounded, which may be the result of not using a planner and not having a calendar for the first time in a long while. I ( Read more... )

1. Thanks mostly to Ames and to Coyote Joe's, I now sorta like country music. Never thought that would happen, but it has ( Read more... )

Is it my birthday? Yes ( Read more... )

As they would say on The Voyage of the Mimi (which anyone who attended Maire Elementary would attest to)..."Holy Chickens!!!" So much has happened in the past few weeks that it makes my head literally hurt trying to think about it all...let alone regurgitate everything right here and now. Let's just say that school has officially started. I along ( Read more... )

It's my last day as a Comp-tern this summer, and apparently I'm going out with a bang. This is the conversation that went down with my boss when I requested to talk to him about a recommendation letter ( Read more... )

Life has been pretty good lately. Just as I anticipated, the summer has gone by remarkably fast since I have been out of town every weekend this month. But that does not mean that it has been wasted, because those weekend trips kicked some ass. I got to hang with the fam in a completely relaxing environment, and got some incredible shopping done. ( Read more... )