Last day with the kids...CHECK
Finish up coursework...CHECK
Pay the bills... CHECK

Getting super super pumped.  Still a million things to do.

My grandfather passed away tonight.

Passed away. I've always thought that was a strange was to refer to death.  As though anything about it is passive.  Dying, like birth, is messy business.  Hell, living is a messy business.  But we come in to this world with help, and, hopefully, with love.  And if were lucky, we go out the same.  But its ( Read more... )

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my car just required 200 dollars worth of repairs and i think everything in the world is making me miserable.
fuck.

If weight loss were a fish, I'd have lost this.


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"I've had it with this weather," the barista at starbucks mutters as she pours my unsweetened ice tea.
"Pardon?" My eyebrows go up. I've had it with the weather, too.
"It sucks. It either rains, or its a thousand degrees!"
"Don't forget the humidity."

This seems to be the summer that wasn't. In more ways than one.

Paul's not here, but Bryan's howling at the TV was enough to draw me out of Paul's/our bedroom to see what was going on. I find Bryan poised at the edge of the couch ( Read more... )

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I came home to find that Paul and I left the front door wide open today when we left for work/school. Holy shit. I walked in holding my breath, certain we'd been ransacked.

Not a single thing was missing. Holy shit. Thank you, universe!!

In other news, Mercury is going back into retrograde on the 26th. Fuck!