I'm going to spend tomorrow morning finding out just how many things are wrong with the townhome I am under contract to purchase at the end of May ( Read more... )

When are you supposed to settle? When is it ok that it isn't perfect and you just accept that? When do you need to move on ( Read more... )

I am tired and hungry and totally useless ( Read more... )

Go back about 5 entries, to the one titled "And so it goes ( Read more... )

On Monday the class I TA for had their first homework due and without fail even if you tell them several times where to turn it in some of them will not be able to find the box. The point of putting the box across the hall in the copy room was to not have 30 kids wandering into my office throughout the day on Monday... well at least half of them ( Read more... )

My dog is dying today. He is a very sick dog.

I'm tired of being sad.

It is supposed to snow here tomorrow... my first Carolina snow... for some reason that reminds me of just how much I didn't expect my life to be the way it is... I would have never imagined ending up in North Carolina or Florida or Brazil or Chile... none of these things are bad, it just sort of amazes me what I have done with my life thus far... ( Read more... )

I love Bacon!

I think this is the second entry devoted to my love of bacon...

I think that as soon as I have a 'death of a loved one' or some sort of bad medical diagnosis for myself or a loved one then I will have experienced every possible life transition within the past 5 or so years. Sometimes I am amazed at how I can be simultaneously balancing everything and also feel like everything is falling apart. Well, maybe not ( Read more... )

Struggling to find a good christmas present? I would start looking here: http://www.charitynavigator.org/

My personal pick would be to donate here: http://www.villagebanking.org/