if it weren't for your maturity none of this would have happened ( Read more... )

ok, so as most of you probably noticed i wasn't in school today.
it was a combination of a couple of different things.
first of all, lately, i can not keep myself from getting sick and stressed.
so i realized something...all the stress is making me sick.
and you want to know the what sucks? 
I'M CAUSING MOST OF THE STRESS.
i procrastinate so much on ( Read more... )

to whom it may concern,
i'm scared.  i don't want to get too attached....
scratch that, i don't know what i want.

love, elyssa

well i've been afraid of changes
'cause i've lived my life around you
but time makes you bolder
even children get older
and i'm getting older too

a decade ago
i never thought i would be
at twenty-three on the verge of
spontaneous combustion woe-is-me
but i guess that it comes
with the territory
an omnious landscape of
never-ending calamity
i need you to hear
i need you to see
that i have had all i can take and
exploding seems like a definite possibility
to me

i take a stand
and it's all uphill from here
(at least i hope so)

'tis the season to be jolly
NOT
bitchy!

growing up it was just me and my mom ( Read more... )

as i get older the question "Elyssa, why don't you have a boyfriend?" becomes more common ( Read more... )

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