Damn, its amazing what a little sunlight can do to improve your mood.

I like the holidays. I really do. Every year I get excited about the lights and the tree and the time off work and the trip to see the family. The problem is, it seems that year after year when January 2nd rolls around and all the excitement of Christmas and New Years festivities is over, I look at my life and feel discontent ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas from the frozen North! Enjoying the snowiest December on record up here. Snow piles 15 ft tall all around. It's awesome! I may make one of those vacation posts later but for now its off to my sister's for popovers ( Read more... )

Why is it that every one of my instincts tells me that following my instincts will only make things worse? Where am I supposed to go from there? :/ What's worse, I'm pretty sure doing nothing isn't going to work either.

This shouldn't be this complicated.

Roofus

So I had a couple interesting dreams last night. The first was a bit too personal to talk about other than to say it was a happy dream that made me sad when I woke up.. The second, however, started cheering me back up. I find it interesting, actually, how a dream can help immerse you in a concept that you already understand intellectually to the ( Read more... )

Just wanted to share a sketch my talented friend Rudder drew for me this evening to cheer me up. He's been drawing for less than a year and has already gotten quite good, IMO. Go throw him some commissions ( Read more... )

So, it occurred to me today that so much interaction between friends is taking place with things like LJ and Twitter that it is almost uncomfortable for people to talk about deep issues RL. But some issues are really too personal to just share with the world and other things you may want your friends advice on but you're ashamed/embarassed/unable ( Read more... )

So, I filed my first accident claim today. I phrase it that way because I don't think I actually got into an accident ( Read more... )

So yet another neighbor complained about mika doing his business on their lawn, even though i always clean up after him. I acknowledge it's their right but, damn, things just aren't like this in Minnesota. Dogs poop when they're out walking...and they have a dog themselves so I'd think thry'd understand. I don't know...just disappoints me that ( Read more... )

So, I found this pretty interesting so decided I'd do it myself. Most of my LJ posts yielded Stephen King or David Foster Wallace. However, I've been fiddling with a short story idea i had and have about a page written so I entered that and got..


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