whenever someone i know is touched by the death of someone they love, i inevitably think of my mother.  it's the only real grief i've ever felt ( Read more... )

so, my boss's wife died last night.  she had been fighting a battle against scleroderma for a few years.  she was almost completely immobile by the time she decided to start the risky process of a stem cell transplant to grow a new immune system.  it's less risky for younger folks, but for someone like linda who was 60 years old, and whose case was ( Read more... )

i just returned last week from an amazingly fun vaycay with the fam.  we went to clearwater, fl to catch some phillies spring training.  the weather was good for the most part (had a couple of really good beach days... too bad i burn so easily now!)... except for that the one game we had really good seats for got rained out.  bummer, but dealable ( Read more... )

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i haven't been on here in a long time. i haven't posted in even longer. so, for anyone who might still actually read this, here's the update on life in old ambyland ( Read more... )

So I was tooling around in a Tori community earlier and saw something interesting that I thought I'd do here. You're supposed to pick your favorite and least favorite song off of each album. In this here personal post, I'm gonna write about why each song wins the title it does.

( Circles and circles and circles again. )

( Long and a bit rambly. )

I'm heading to the Troc on Friday to see the original MST3K cast riff a movie live and in person! I'm not sure which one they're doing, but I'm sure I'm going to have a great time. I doubt I'll get to meet him, but just being that close to Joel is going to be... like, monumental. He was my very first celebrity crush! Plus, I'm going with Jamby ( Read more... )

So it's been a rough few days. Been fighting a lot with Kitty. Saying things to each other that best friends aren't ever supposed to say. Things are okay for now, I think. Right now I don't feel like things will ever be the way they were, though. That might just be my gloom talking ( Read more... )

So summer has barely begun, but I'm feeling really excited already. Usually I kinda dread the summer. It's hot and I sweat and there are bugs. But I'm actually excited about the prospect of lots of sun. I've never really been an outside kind of person, but this whole "working-in-the-yard" thing is actually turning out to be pretty amazing ( Read more... )