"So we have some news for you," Heather said suddenly. My ears pricked up. Another baby! "But you're not gonna like it ( Read more... )

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I like to do year-end music lists as much as anyone. My original plan was to repeat what I did in 2014 and use my favorite songs of the year as writing prompts throughout December, but December was kind of crazy for me and that didn't pan out. So then I was going to make it January, because, hey, it's a 31-item list. But then that fell through, too ( Read more... )

"Cathedral towers over the fields. Rotten photo. I took it through the car window after we'd been driving all day, the car still moving. I've only kept it because I remember taking it, remember the feeling of coming in over the fields and towards somewhere I sort of knew. It doesn't actually matter you can't see the towers, I know they're there. ( Read more... )

Someone at thequestionclub asked, were you friends with your parents' friends' children when you were a kid? I had to think about this for a moment. We played together, yes. We had to, we were together all the time, so our parents could hang out. But did we actually enjoy it? I don't think we did ( Read more... )

Based on a comment from richaarde in my last entry, I started looking back through my LJ for this date in years passed. I found some truly cringe-worthy stuff, like my use of "gay" as an insult or a c/p of an IM conversation where my then-boyfriend and I joked about child rape. There was also some angsting over the on-again-off-again nature of a stupid past ( Read more... )

I got my email account in 1999. I had one in '98 with Hotmail, but they had an issue with their servers for a few days once and this was NOT OKAY, not in 1998, so I got a backup with Yahoo that became my primary in 2001 when my then-boyfriend's computer, straight out of 1994, couldn't handle Hotmail. I've saved most of my correspondence in this ( Read more... )

We pull up to his house and look at one another in a silence punctuated only by the nighttime chorus of insect song ( Read more... )

"What's that?" I ask, pointing to a spot on my phone's map. "Have you been there before ( Read more... )

I told my mom, too. I told my mom that I'm in an open relationship ( Read more... )