I don't know if any non-Russians are on this site any more. A Reader's Digest update on the past years of my life, possibly sent into the void:

I did finish the Auto Tech program, then took one GE class at a time to finish the requirements to get my AS degrees. Josh graduated as well, then moved back home - it's our ten year anniversary in a couple ( Read more... )

[Subtitle: Melissa proves to be incredibly unromantic by comparing her boyfriend to a major appliance.]

I've had conversations along these lines with more than a few people lately, but I feel like laying out my thoughts on the matter. Maybe I'm a weird one to be throwing in my two cents; after all, Josh is my First Real Boyfriend and 23 was old to ( Read more... )

Unlike facebook, which I am on pretty much constantly ( Read more... )

Allofasuddenlike, there is an incomplete abridged history of my insanity published in short article form on the internet. This might or might not be the brightest idea I've ever head, but now it's out there. Linking it from here doesn't have much impact because pretty much all of my livejournal friends have known me through the crazy; however, I am ( Read more... )

Things have been up and down, much like my moods for the past while. I'm less stable than I've been in a long time, but I cope. Anxiety sucks. But at least I finally started working again; at least that's good ( Read more... )

It's cold, so when I went out for a smoke I wore my hideous-but-obscenely-comfortable chenilley black sweater with the accent stripes in colors like the 70's threw up all over it. On top of my light blue kitty-cat muumuu. Over Josh's awful yellow-grey-black fleecey camo pants. I felt like that little kid whose mom buys them terrible clothes who one ( Read more... )

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I have to periodically teach my phone things like 'haha' and 'smudge' and 'Ashley' because it doesn't think they're real words and even after I teach it it forgets again eventually. But tonight when I tried to type 'designations' and skipped a key by accident it came up with 'frigoctions'. How can 'haha' not be considered commonly used but ' ( Read more... )

I was trying to find the procedure sheet/book time for parasitic draw testing at school [Hal came in at a shiny 34mA] to staple to a worksheet when I found this gem of a thread on, and I quote, 'another way ao avoid an angry PCM' [sic]. When we saw the title we knew we had to click, and after I saw someone write about talking to cars as they work ( Read more... )

[And yes, I'm aware these are all privileged first-world problems. Too bad. That doesn't mean it doesn't suck ( Read more... )