Argh. I should have gone out tonight. I know I should have. In fact, in about 10 minutes, I bet my phone will ring with Steve wondering where I am. But I just didn't want to go! I have a big day tomorrow. And I feel like dirt tonight. There's no way I could handle a whole party. It's too much right now. Baby steps, right?

My mom is packing to spend a week at the beach with Dad and the extended Sheehan family. She seems so overwhelmed by the task and I just don't get it. Isn't this the same woman who wrangled four kids, at once? What happened? How does this turn into a monumental task, on par with my move to Chicago? It's really amazing. How on earth did she have 4 ( Read more... )

Oh wow, Laura! You look so beautiful! You must be so excited/freaked out for the baby. Your house looks like such a home now, but I can still hardly believe you'll be walking around it with a baby. Wow. So cool!

Oh, lord. Now that my mom is home, we're celebrating my birthday again. Mom is pissed at Dad, Dad is overcompensating by being annoying loud and cheerful and telling stories about how you can decide that you're happy whenever you want!, and mom has already cried once ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of buying a new laptop for school. I'm leaning towards a Thinkpad - anyone have any thoughts? Ones to steer clear of? Features to definitely get? Good/bad experiences with various brands?

Was anyone else blocked off and on recently from livejournal? It was telling me that I had too many unsuccessful login attempts. But I didn't try to login. And I'm pretty sure that it wasn't someone here - Mom's out of town (the usual suspect for these kinds of things) and Dad never uses the home computer. I think it was lj.

Eschewing the time-honored tradition of making New Year's resolutions, I prefer to make Birthday Resolutions. It just seems like a better time to reflect, renew, etc. Every year, on my birthday, I make some personal goals/resolutions. This year, I putting them on lj, in an attempt to make them more concrete and make me more likely to stick to them ( Read more... )

When will this day end? What happened to me? I used to love birthdays. Last year, my birthday stunk (alone in Niger, no one around, really hot, electricity cut off all day, sick, etc. A miserable birthday), but I thought this year it would be better, that I'd be all excited about my birthday again.

Nope. Maybe this just happens when you get older?

Oh livejournal, it's been too long. I'd forgotten how nice it is to post anything, no matter how unimportant, in the relatively anonymous world of livejournal. The site is so dang hard to navigate, no one will ever read my boring posts. (Dangit! This isn't a creamsicle. It's just a good for nothing popsicle.) Unlike myspace, where I feel like ( Read more... )

Guess what the final hymn is at Park United Methodist (where I am pianist/organist) for Easter?

HE LIVES!

I love that hymn! It cracks me up! He liiiives!!! He liiiives! Something something soooomethiiing! Heeeee.