The grief has come in waves during the last few days; I've been feeling like absolute hell. Whatever pain I was feeling during the last seven months my brother battled the cancer is nothing compared to how I feel now. I still don't know what feels worse; having watched him suffer through everything, essentially watching him die...or how I felt ( Read more... )

So, I briefly mentioned in the last entry about getting word that I was moving back to my home area in the Fall. (Well not I, but 'we', really) With only about four months left in LA, I thought of a list of things I felt I still needed to do/see before I leave SoCal forever ( Read more... )

I feel the need to write an entry in tribute to Jay Bennett -- I'm not really sure why exactly, I just do. Even though a lot of good things happened throughout my week-long trip home (like moving back there by the Fall! yayness!), hearing the news of Jay Bennett's death halfway through my trip saddened me quite a bit. When I saw I Am Trying To ( Read more... )

It's amazing to me how certain songs, or even albums, can be like time machines for me. By that I mean, that they can instantly transport me to another time and place. Case in point, Whiskeytown's "Pneumonia" album. Listening to that instantly takes me back to living in Santa Rosa, circa 2004. I remember as clear as day the first time I heard that ( Read more... )

I decided to declare all Sundays from now on as Tenacious D day at my house. That is all. Back to your regularly scheduled programming...

Here's my life, as of late, in lovely positive/negative form. Damn you, South Park, for permanently linking that phrase to the "check minus" idea. Sheeesh.

+ The SO and I are going to NYC for Labor Day. Yay! My first time there. EVER. I'm majorly psyched!
+ Saw Pinneapple Express the other night. Effin' hilarious, though certainly not for everyone. ( Read more... )

Let's see, what's been going on around here lately....

- Saw Dark Knight again but on IMAX last night. Wow! Truly amazing movie to see on IMAX, especially since it was the first time I'd seen anything on IMAX. Kick ass.

- Major heat wave going on in the early days of August around here. Not cool. I wasn't prepared for it to get 100 again, thank you.

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If I were to have a mantra for my life as of late, it would have to be, "I'M SO BEHIND!!" Seriously, this is no joke!

I finally finished the mix trade that the lovely

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I thought since my last few entries have been heavy, if not at least loaded, I thought I'd make a list of the things I'd like to do this year now that I'm living in an area like LA where these things are finally possible. I'd love to hear what other people's lists are in this vein, too, so please share!

- Attend at least two Angels baseball games ( Read more... )

Please someone tell me that I won't wake up from my current life as it has been for the past week. It is absolutely surreal in every way that if an alarm were to go off right now and it were a dream...while initially, I'd be pissed, it would be okay...because it would've been one hell of a dream. In short, my boyfriend told me not only that he ( Read more... )