my dad was at work the other day and one of the other nurses was passing by and asked him if he'd changed deodorant. he was like uh...well actually i opened a new one today and it's a different scent that i normally use- but i'm also wearing cologne. she was like oh i know. she's pregnant and she was telling him how her sense of smell is really ( Read more... )

Slow and Steady
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took the praxis today. i think the address was wrong online or i'm completely dyslexic. took me forever to find the testing center and it turned out it was like less than a mile away from my house. it went pretty well though. i did fine on the reading and math and then came the writing. by the time i was finished with that, for some reason ( Read more... )

we have a place to live! noreen and i have been looking and every time we find a place we like, it gets rented right before we do something about it. so today we got an apartment. it is fabulous. it was funny. she called me about it and she sounded so happy, i thought she was crying ( Read more... )

My lovely brother Kevin had a cold that lasted just about all of last week. Not so much an actual cold really. More of just a cough that was really a hassle at night because he kept waking up coughing. Lovely brother Kevin's cough is now mine- except it's the whole shabang. coughing, sneezing like a maniac and more tissues than should be ( Read more... )

i survived my recent episode of single parenthood. it was actually sort of fun this time around. the kids got their projects done and somehow i had them doing homework all weekend. they didnt even realize it until the last day when i mentioned it ( Read more... )

i was out to eat today with my dad, danny and ed ( a guy my dad works with). ed brought his nine month old baby. he and i sat across the table from each other and kaley's baby carrier was on the table beside us. so she was all cute and smiley and she kept pulling herself up to look at me and she was just smiling at me a lot. so the waitress came ( Read more... )

home again. it's nice actually. now i just have to find a job. sooo...if you're in newport news and you know someone who would love to hire me, let me know ( Read more... )

i have a cold. this is mostly evident when i wake up and sound a little manly ( Read more... )

i did it. i'm done. my last exam was this morning and the extreme weight i expected to feel lift off my shoulders is still there. how unexpected. so...i guess i'll just be carrying some extra weight around for a while [literally and figuratively ( Read more... )