so, friends, i know it has been forever since i have posted, but i have made a vow to begin journaling more (and this time, i really will keep it).  i've felt somewhat double-minded about creating a new journal, but i've finally done it.  i resisted at first because this journal has such a history, but then i realized that oftentimes it is our ( Read more... )

( part one; love, uncomplicated )

it is officially winter recess, and i am beside myself with relief ( Read more... )

my entire kindergarten class just rocked out to nirvana's "smells like teen spirit".
these kids are way beyond their years.

9 january ( Read more... )

to begin something by stating "everything changes" is trite. it is insipid. to begin something by discussing the act of beginning something is contrived. it is obnoxious. it quickly becomes clear that i have forgotten how to write; forgotten how to take the words and make them fit. so, in my unruly garb, i will proceed tentatively.
everything ( Read more... )

so, as promised, here it is:
(and on time, to boot!)

2007

1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before? rode a bike (!!!), took a bath in a river, became an auntie!

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? i've been thinking a lot about resolutions lately.  particularly the fact that anything to ( Read more... )

so, i was just about to begin writing my yearly retrospective, when i found the half-written journal entry i'll post here, under a cut.  sometimes lj saves the things i half-write, and sometimes it doesn't.  in the interest of full-disclosure-journaling i figured i'd post it before my retrospective.  yeah.

so, in the midst of writing an entry of ( Read more... )

this just about sums it up:


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I got my palm/cards read in New Orleans a few days ago, and apparently I will have twin boys. 
Yes, sure I will.
She also told me that I like to have things my way.  Real surprise there.  Doesn't everyone though?