So it's finals week. A great week to be in the hospital. Now, not only do I have to worry about cathaters, IVs, and infections, I have to worry about making up all the finals I am missing *looks at clock* ... right now.

I've been here since Saturday with a strange and painful infection the doctors have yet to put their finger on. They've contented ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday Katey!

I have a date.

As you may or may not know, I am participating in the Avon (insanely long) Walk for Breast Cancer this year. In order to participate, I have to raise $1,800. Yes, that's right, $1,800. I am fundraising in many different ways, one of those ways being asking my closest friends for donations. That's you guys. No donation is too small and (of course) ( Read more... )

Had a fun birthday! Hung out with Nina and Drake for a good chunk of the morning and had a blast snuggling the baby and chatting away with Nina. I forget how nice it is to have friends that are girls ;-). Got an awesome photo album of baby pics that I can't help but carry around with me wherever I go so that I can show my adorable godson to random ( Read more... )

Peace

Peace flows into me
As the tide to the pool by the shore;
It is mine forevermore,
It ebbs not back like the sea.

I am the pool of blue
That worships the vivid sky;
My hopes were heaven-high,
They are all fulfilled in you.

I am the pool of gold
When sunset burns and dies--
You are my deepening skies,
Give me your stars to hold.

--Sara Teasdale

My favorite ( Read more... )

I want to go to sleep. I need to be up at 6:20. But I can't. I just lay there and think. I hate thinking. Last night I got into bed at 1. I read until 1:30 then shut off the light. At 2, I was still awake. I picked up my book and read somemore... in fact, I finished the book, which I had just gotten yesterday, and finally fell asleep at 4:30. I ( Read more... )

So, as it's after midnight, I just completed my first tearless day. Yes, that's right, I went a whole day without crying. It's not much, but it's a step in the right direction. One day down, a lifetime to go.

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1. How old will you be in five years? 23 ( Read more... )