Learning how to operate an automobile WELL is like learning how to make love WELL. I am at the point in my inexperienced driving career where indeed, I can maneuver from point A to point B safely and successfully. However I am just tapping into the nuances of becoming in tune with my vehicle, learning how to take cues from my car as to how to best ( Read more... )

Funny note from my brother on our bulletin board, found after my family left after staying with us for a weekend:

(Pinned to $40) "Bump the heater".

Sometimes I forget how sensitive people living in San Diego can be to the slightest reduction in temperature. Sorry guys!

This is the closest thing to a poem I have created in years. I am not sharing because it is good, but because I am in a bizarrely nostalgic mood and feel as if I should ( Read more... )

Either I've been staring at this screen too long, or it is actually flickering pink at me ( Read more... )

Have a child cuz tax refunds are amazing ( Read more... )

I was explaining why crying is good for you to Jeff recently. I found myself saying, "It's like ejaculating for your sadness." This also applies to other emotions such as anger, frustration, despair. He seemed to appreciate and understand the analogy. Talking to boys and helping them understand you really takes a lot of creativity sometimes.

Sometimes it is just not in anyone's best interest to acknowledge just how shitty a situation is until one is moving on out of it. And now that I have found a job, finally, I can safely say that that was the shittiest, most stressful, suckiest, lamest, most profoundly heartwrenchingly fucked job search I have ever had to do. I love my Jeffy dearly ( Read more... )

Dear love of my life: grow up. Thanks.

I am not going to say I feel much more optimistic than the last time I posted here. Today Ayla spent the day at a strange house with a strange lady with a dying mother, two dying dogs, and a very dying cat. All this so I could pay her more than half of what I made working in a strange environment myself. This too shall pass, please oh please. ( Read more... )

I have never felt the full restrictions of being a parent like right now. There are many job opportunities and job seeker workshops that could be helpful that are simply infeasible because of childcare issues. I am nearly frustrated to tears. I understand this is just a phase blah fucking blah, but it is getting desperate. I am missing our old ( Read more... )