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Pet Death
We had to put our eldest dog down tonight. He's around 13 years old and a large breed, part leonberger. His rear end was just...deteriorating. He didn't know when he was pooping where he was, his legs were arthritic, he had degenerative disks AND hip displaysia ( Read more... ) -
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As the year turns, I suddenly find myself getting involved in music again. It's about time; a whole 'semester' done without a music course of some kind. That's really weird, considering I had music courses every single semester at college, and have been taking music classes since at least second grade (which a few years later turned into band ( Read more... ) -
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I'm thinking about moving in with my boyfriend or getting my own apartment. Starting to want the independence again ( Read more... ) -
I'm alive!
I've been neglecting livejournal a lot lately. Sorry 'bout that. I started a temp job about a month ago. I'm doing pretty well so far. It's a full-time job; I spend the first half of the day working in medical records, mostly filing, and then I'm the evening receptionist. I don't get out of work until 8pm, which means I can't do some of the evening ( Read more... ) -
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Note: I'm feeling better than I was earlier. Went to Wednesday night meditation, nearly fell asleep, and focused on metta for myself, which does a lot of good. I like this whole cultivating lovingkindess thing; it's making it easier to think and feel with clarity ( Read more... ) -
Art and stuff
So. I'm back from my meditation retreat. It went well ( Read more... ) -
I'm Alive!
I haven't been on livejournal in a week at this point. Last week I ordered OS X 10.6, so that I could update from 10.5 and stop having software like firefox and flash* inform me that they won't update anymore because my OS is too far behind. That came in on Monday. But ( Read more... ) -
On Maturity, Strength, and Healing
It's been almost a year and a half since the Christmas day on which my brother traumatized me. In many ways, I'm stronger for all the work I've done since then to stabilize my emotional state -- and by extension, my physical state -- but the hurt is still there ( Read more... ) -
Oh-my-God writing from High School: Part 1
I just finished going through a backpack of old notebooks and such from high school. Found a lot of things that brought back memories. Maybe 3/4 of what I threw away (recycled) are papers from Mr. Crowley's 10th grade English class. God, I hated that class. Most of the papers I threw out were just answer sheets with letters on them--almost no ( Read more... ) -
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I don't remember exactly what I have or haven't said on this blog, so I'll start from the beginning ( Read more... )