It's a rainy dreary day, but I'm making the best of it ( Read more... )

I really like the flowers I had in my yard growing up. When I was living with my grandparents, we had honeysuckle vines growing on the front porch. When you walked out the door at a particular time of year, it smelled lovely. There was also a pink peony bush right by the stairs. Also, at some point some blackberries started growing right next to ( Read more... )

I don't have very many friend up here in NY.

While I occasionally get a little lonely, I am unbelievably happier than I was when I had tons of friends because lots of friends means lots of drama.

I drove in snow for the first time today. I slipped a little getting onto the highway because it's this mega curve on-ramp (I don't know who invented the mega curve on-ramp, but they are inconvenient). Also, I was probably 10 under the speed limit at times, but I made it to my job at the mall in one piece and promptly cried in the parking lot ( Read more... )

Today Stephen and I went for a walk through Elmira. I took picture of the houses we saw along the way.


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I had a bad dream last night. In my dream, Stephen got bored with me because I never did anything interesting, so he lost interest in me and started liking someone else. I woke up feeling pretty freaked out because I DO feel boring lately and so I want to do things to make me a more interesting person ( Read more... )

I hate when I have to use a public restroom and they have one of those automatic motion sensor toilet flushers. When I lean forward to get the toilet paper, the motion sensor decides to take that as a cue to flush even though I'm still sitting on the toilet! It is most unpleasant. 

Mommy blogs are full of pictures and ideas on how to make food as cute as possible. While it's fun to look at the picture and go "Awwww!" and kids are probably more likely to eat that tuna sandwich if it's in the shape of a cartoon character, from a non-mommy perspective, it looks like a competition. I'm sure moms have enough to do without having ( Read more... )

There were three little girls walking through the mall yesterday, around ages 3, 5, and 7. The 3 year old was wobbling back an forth and loudly proclaiming "I'm so wid-dle. I'm so wid-dle!" It was the cutest thing ever and this little post does not do it justice, but I wanted to remember the moment because it makes me laugh.

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