+ sitting feet-to-head on the couch with the boy while he plays a video game ( Read more... )

"Make no mistake about it, brothers and sisters, in the months and years ahead, events are likely to require each member to decide whether or not he will follow the First Presidency. Members will find it more difficult to halt longer between two opinions. (See 1 Kgs. 18:21.)

"President Marion G. Romney said, many years ago, that he had 'never ( Read more... )

i held a fat baby today at church and it was a weird experience.  he didn't mesh into my arms like the bird-like babies in my family do.  it felt like holding a giant marshmallow with legs.  he was crying cause he's a baby, so i held him and walked him all around the nursery, pointing at things and asking him questions, none of which he responded ( Read more... )

excruciatingly broke, and a little lonely.  but otherwise very good.  spending time with the boy left nothing to be desired except more time.  i could spend every night wrapped in arms and pajamas, talking about everything we can think of, falling asleep to indiana jones.  and every morning hearing my door softly open and close followed by ( Read more... )

you know what, people? it's gorgeous outside. i can't get over this whole summer thing, it just makes me feel GOOD. i feel good! this is such a great feeling! i finally got prescribed some anti-anxiety meds, so that's probably helping too ( Read more... )

holy crap!  i totally just got dive-bombed by some birds ( Read more... )

the male nurse who said "if you do, i'll judo chop you" to my sister when she said she wanted to take the tube out of my dad's nose at the hospital ( Read more... )

stressed, a little neurotic.  randomly developed breathing problems -- wtf?  still on the search for a job, and trying to coordinate the act of moving back to salt lake in my head.  i'm sad to leave, but happy to go back home.  leaving behind the scent of wisteria in the evenings, the collection of roses and flowering trees and thick foliage ( Read more... )

i've got ashes on my skin and smoke in my hair, with starlight and streetlight poured down on me.  just bought my first real six-string, refilled on my hero of canton, and i'm ready for bed.

dangit!  2 am again!  how does that happen??