Life-changing crisis averted. Total downtime: About Five Days. Lost sleep: 8 Hours. Trust that a system designed to catch its own flaws might actually work: Priceless. The fact that they recognized that this ordeal had a very negative impact on me and are taking that into consideration as well: Bonus ( Read more... )

I've had a lot going on in my life in the past few days, and I've realized that I'm at a crossroads. I don't know what's going to happen next in my life, but I do believe that I have a decent amount of control over what I do ( Read more... )

For poops and gigglies, I loaded up the old Oregon Trail game - y'know, the one where you take five people from Independence, Missouri to Oregon ( Read more... )

I think today may have been a generally rotten day for most people. I really don't want to go into the details, but it's been twelve hours and I'm still kind of pissed off by today's events. This does not bode well.

They say that everyone is doing it - so I must, by default, do it as well or it won't be true ( Read more... )

Funny little factoid about my birthday weekend: It hasn't ended yet ( Read more... )

Yesterday was one of the best birthdays I've ever had in my life ( Read more... )

In less than ten days, I will turn 28, giving me just two years left in my twenties. Many of you know that I have a tendency to feel old - especially since many of you are younger than me. I have found, however, that I am not old at all. I'm not even 30, and apparantly sometime while I (and many of you) were in our 20s, 30 became the new 20 ( Read more... )

In my mind, Christmas is not just the 25th. That is the apex of Christmas, as we insist on identifying a specific day for celebrating birthdays and have the traditional present exchange on that day (although I know many families who do many / all of their presents on the night before.) No, I believe that Christmas, for me, is the entire time I ( Read more... )

You Are 8% Control Freak
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