From a woman in her sixties:

"He's a good man except for the 5 people he killed."

She really meant this.

For a little context, she said he has a very traumatic life...but still.

This happened only hours ago, and I want to remember it. My fiancee and I went to the store today to put items on or wedding registry. While we were there I thought I heard him say, "I should not have gone home last night and been swinging my sandwich: my back hurts today." Cue a confused reaction from me. He clarified that he had been swinging his ( Read more... )

Now that all of the immediate decisions and memorials are over, reality just feels surreal. I know in my head that Guy is gone, yet I somehoe cannot fathom that it happened and in the way that it did. 

While I was heading to young adult mass yesterday, I got a text message from my mom stating that my stepdad Guy had gotten extremely weak and was hardly eating. He had been battling cancer for a while, and it had started to spread. Though Mom said we didn't need to come immediately, Stephen and I went to mass, asked for their prayer, then went to ( Read more... )

Friday was the coldest day I think I have ever experienced. When I left for work it was -20 degrees. Saturday when I left, it was 50 degrees warmer. Because....Michigan.

The Michigan football team has a new head coach, Jim Harbaugh. It remains to be seen if he will turn the team around, but I like him already.


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Well hello again livejournal! Here I am once again, wishing that I had kept up with jotting down my thoughts ( Read more... )

BIG FISH ( Read more... )

On Thursday 9/12, I had my last stop of the day in Bloomfield Hills and from there headed home. As I was on the entrance ramp to I-75, I felt my car start to lose power. I stepped harder on the gas, but the speed remained the same. I had been told it is much better to get off the expressway and pull over than to stay there, so I kept going, albeit ( Read more... )

Over the past few months, I have been seriously considering taking a recurring hour of Eucharistic Adoration--even though the practice still seems strange to me, logically. When I called to sign up, the hour I wanted was taken, but one hour later was open. It is later than I want to be up, but I decided to give it a few week trial run ( Read more... )