QWP, from a locked post by mtaiilauren here. Per request of the author, comments have been enabled here.I've been mopping the floors of my home for fourteen years ( Read more... )

Originally posted by genesisdesire, here.It always bothers me why we don't bother keeping schedules with ourselves. For all other areas of our lives, we are set down into contracts that we must obey, or there will be consequences. From the moment a body hits five years, there's the set-down expectation that school shall be attended on the weekdays for a set ( Read more... )

Originally posted by theuglyvolvoSo first off, I’m aware that you’re going to think I’m weird and maybe disgusting, but I’m fine with that-I was fine with that years ago. But I’m sitting here on the beat-up love seat that used to be in my parents’ living room, holding the waistband of my late grandmother’s underpants and wrapping it around my hand like ( Read more... )

Originally posted by bluepapermateSome days are like this ( Read more... )

Originally posted by zoethe:

I can't decide which is weirder: that a misdialing little old lady from New Haven, Connecticut called my toll-free number with questions about the disposition of antique bird of paradise feathers under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, or that I knew the answer.

Originally posted by billijeanOkay. I need to come clean with you ( Read more... )

Originally posted by theuglyvolvo, here.I am taking the seeds out of a Pomegranate the way I was shown by Holly, the forty-two year old woman who I worked with two jobs ago. You cut the Pomegranate into fourths, leaving the knife in what looks like a puddle of translucent, magenta-toned blood on the cutting board. You fill a large mixing bowl with cold water ( Read more... )

Originally posted by anahata56, here.On Facebook recently, I had the interesting experience of seeing a photo album posted to an acquaintence’s page. This acquaintence was someone I knew from having attended the same church she currently attends, long, long ago ( Read more... )

Originally posted by amenquohi, here.We lay snuggling in my bed, our nightly ritual after bathing, putting on jammies, reading and discussing the school day. I’d put her brother to bed a few minutes before her, then we snuggled in under the big comforter and she picked a subject for us to discuss - another ritual. The sky is the limit, and the only caveat ( Read more... )

(Originally posted on June 28, 2009 by msanborn here; locked entry, posted with permission)

In response to Billy Mays Death, Is there really that many or just that many being notable because they're in the media. As I just responded to flutterbychild's post about too many, too soon, what's going on ( Read more... )