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Jared and Tee are going to a movie tomorrow afternoon (Dr. Strange) which means Makenna and I get to have girls' time. :D it's one of my favorite sorts of times these days. she really is an incredibly remarkable, lovely young person. we went together last Wednesday to vote early, and even that super very enjoyable ( Read more... ) -
LJI friends & rivals: topic 10
As Mike navigated their van along the curvy road, Laurie did what she could to keep Ivy and Theo occupied so they wouldn't a) drive him batty with questions about arrival times and pit stops, or b) pick at each other to the point where one or the other ended up in tears or screams ( Read more... ) -
LJI friends & rivals: topic 9
Sarah wasn't prone to speculating about or staring at random people, but something about the older gentleman seated on the bench at the edge of Riverview Park caught her eye. She was stuck waiting at the interminable, recalcitrant traffic light on the corner of Sixth and Willow Lane when she glanced over and found her gaze staying on him ( Read more... ) -
LJI friends & rivals: topic 8
I made a vow of temperance (though it didn't feel like anything so formal to me) after I found out I was pregnant. For the most part, it wasn't a hard one to keep because it was for such a personally worthwhile cause ( Read more... ) -
LJI friends & rivals: topic 7
By some marvelous quirk of the wheels that spin the world, where there would usually have been one baby, there ended up being two identical beings. For whatever reasons (including the ones I’m conscious of which are being born much smaller and second), I’ve always tended to see myself as the copy of the original; I mean, first there was just one, ( Read more... ) -
LJI friends & rivals: topic 5
Louisa peered up into the cold night sky. For the first time in maybe a week, she could see more than six or seven stars while she did so. When she took a further moment to estimate, she realized it was clear enough tonight to see stars all over the sky for the first time in recent memory - yesterday's big storm had definitely helped clear out ( Read more... ) -
LJI friends and rivals: topic 4
Oh man, how can I ever justify or fully explain the (maybe slightly unhealthy) obsessional love I have for frog eye salad? I don't entirely understand it myself, except that somehow the combination of firmly cooked acini de pepe pasta soaked in a rich pineapple sauce and then softly combined with mandarin orange slices and pineapple tidbits, and ( Read more... ) -
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I have a young man in my life who throws everything I thought I knew about men into a somewhat chaotic state (and I'm not saying I ever knew a whole lot about the opposite gender to begin with ( Read more... ) -
LJI friends & rivals: topic 2
Charlie couldn't help but think of Sharon as a bad penny who kept turning up, often in surprising places. Either that, or like the boomerang shellacked with metallic flecks which he'd been gifted by his quirky Uncle Jerry for his sixteenth birthday; he had lost his fascination with the objects after he turned 13 and discovered the attraction of ( Read more... )