Portland news is almost better than Eugene news. I am not making this up: "Americans love their fast food, but experts say slow food is better. We'll tell you all about it, coming up next." Experts? Wait, this is news? Then, Nicky visits Paris in jail, because this is important for me to know. Then, "What your mother always said is right: ( Read more... )

It's not cool when someone awesome suddenly disappears from your life.

It is cool, however, when you come home one random day a year later to find that he is now taking up residence in a camper in your yard.

I decided I needed an Official Road Trip Notebook to organize my Official Road Trip Thoughts, so I checked the thrift store. (I prefer to write in old rather than new notebooks ( Read more... )

Out my window, a family of deer bounding gracefully through the field.

Across my floor, a tiny mouse scurrying wisely for its life.

And that about sums up how I feel about life right now.

Today I found out that church retreats count as "continuing education". And now that I am full time, I get to do the rest of my hours from home. My job gets cooler every day. Minus being called "doodlebug" and receiving care packages from my 75-year-old wannabe boyfriend. Heck, including that.

is that I only know two modes of functioning: timidly standing still on the shoreline waving goodbye to everyone swimming away, or taking a running start and diving in at full speed with no protective equipment. It is quite discouraging to believe the lie that your only choices in life are do nothing, or screw up. This is one of the ways I ( Read more... )

Thank you for shipping my Hair Pal so promptly! I especially enjoyed the bonus gifts. Here are some blurry pictures of me enjoying your products. Please feel free to use them on your website, etc.

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I have played on four playgrounds in three days, and one of them was at my very own new house. That has to be a good omen or something (not a bad omen, like dying). Life basically could not get more rad. But it can, and it will, and it is... I feel like I am an actress playing myself, but not at all in a bad way ( Read more... )

Lots of people get mad at me at work because we don't have a public restroom. It is amusing or irritating, depending on the customer. But this man... this man, after I informed him that we did not have a public restroom, started cussing me out with his eyebrows. At first I didn't know what was happening because I have never been cussed out by ( Read more... )

I stopped crocheting for five months because I forgot how to join the yarn. Last week it took a couple minutes for me to look it up on the internet, and start crocheting again. I almost finished my bag that I could have finished five months ago ( Read more... )