A happy new year to you all, and my love.
-Anna

Though the possibility of having been of use feels so sweet. <3

Out of nowhere I have a truly powerful craving for Chinese food. The wheat and soysauce kind. Grrr.

I hurt all over, like bruising my mind with that fight bruised my body too. Stupid family dynamic.

Want to read until I don't exist for a while.

So, today is what that history of Christianity class ass centers on. Today 2006 years ago "the word become enfleshed," God, which is "that than which nothing greater can be though," sent the Son "of same essence," to earth that one without sin could pay the price of death for sinners and so cancel their sin and their punishment of death, giving ( Read more... )

True or false: it is permissable, upon hearing that someone has invited their ex-wife to their sixtieth birthday party, to declair the action "nutty," without knowing the emotional situation of either ex-husband or ex-wife.

I just spent 10 minutes scrubbing out the dod dish. Really, truly ten minutes. I thought I was going to have to steelwool it, just layers of caked on hair and drool and maybe kibble and maybe things I'd rather not know about. It's a ceramic bowl glazed green, and it was brown and fuzzy. The white plastic waterdish was a slickish shade of brown. I ( Read more... )

I'm the last one awake, and my room is finally warm enough to breath in properly now that the space-heater's been hard at it for hours. I have a model horse in my lap that reminsd me of all the best things in the world, and I'm about to srat reading the book my Selkiedarling gave me for winter.

But Tory, I miss you.

And college application issues (surrouding the sister, who wasn't there) come up at dinner, and it turns into a discussion of family issues. It could have been about 3000 times worse. Perhaps we inched somewhere, my mother and I, and I know I got more practice with my shelter-style methods of keeping some control of the situation. At one point they ( Read more... )

I am back in my parents' house, and I am trying not to feel the cold, especially as my loved ones have given me such warmth within. I feel the strain of it here already - I must collect and cailbrate myself more to learn how to interact with them gracefully and with armor such that I need not feel a thing from them. I fear J-term not working, but ( Read more... )