Last week I ran upstairs to retrieve an item while my Andrew and I were watching a recorded episode of The Voice. When I came back he had a song cued up that he wanted me to listen to. "This is your song. This one reminds me of you." It was "She's Always A Woman" by Billy Joel. My husband, the man who enjoys music but couldn't care less about ( Read more... )

I'm sitting on the floor of my living room, glass of wine in hand, watching a recorded episode of The Voice while my husband is upstairs showering. There are hours of unfinished charts on my laptop, which sits untouched in my work bag. It was a busy day at work, but a good one. I absentmindedly pick up my phone and open the Timehop app, which shows ( Read more... )

Tonight, I'm sitting next to my husband in the loft of the home we built, watching this week's episode of our favorite show on our high-definition projector (the one my husband has claimed for The Walking Dead episodes). There's a gray-and-white cat lying between us on a fuzzy blue blanket. She's enjoying the rare privilege of being allowed ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to return to journaling for a long time, but somehow have not brought this from idea to reality. I can recall a moment shortly after starting my career, while driving to Telluride, that I determined to start journaling again, but somehow it kept getting shoved to the end of my to-do list. About 6 months ago, I was caught by ( Read more... )

Right now certainly isn't the best time to sit down and hash out the events of the last few weeks, months, etc., what with tomorrow's impending exam and in-class essay (both of which are embedded in a 9:30 - 5:00 class day followed by a 6:00 - 10:00ish shift at work). Aside from all of that, I feel the need (and desire) to briefly document my ( Read more... )

I'm backdating this entry (by exactly one year, six weeks) because I've failed to keep up with college life as meticulously as I did high school life, and possibly the most exciting thing of all happened on this day (January 19, 2008).

My second semester of college had been in session for a week or so. We had Martin Luther King Day (January 21st) ( Read more... )

 i haven't posted since before i went to the coleman rodeo this summer, so there's this big gap between graduation and college. i wish i could go back and post all the events and changes that have gone on. i guess, briefly, there was the bahamas. what a blast. (we ran face-first into a shark while snorkeling in the mangroves. and we caught a shark ( Read more... )

i finally turned eighteen yesterday!! and it was wonderful, and i'm excited to have turned eighteen but i wasn't necessarily desperate for it. this whole growing-up-too-fast thing really dawns on you when graduation and your eighteenth birthday and your first year of college are approaching. em says she doesn't want to grow up...i really don't ( Read more... )

i can't quite get it through my head that in two weeks, we'll be done with austin high for good. we're graduating seniors. we'll be alumni. no more "see you guys in august." i guess it's sort of like austin high took in these young, naive, fresh and frightened fourteen and fifteen year old doe-eyed kids way back when and worked it's magic on us all ( Read more... )

I'm so ready for school to be over. TAKS week had me spoiled. Friday Carly and I skipped altogether and went to Craigo's to pick up our paychecks and wound up sitting for hours with andrew, peter and marshall and being there with friends and tons of time and having nothing to do really felt like SUMMER.

Getting the graduation announcements today ( Read more... )