Today, I was in pain (my tooth) and stressed out and I reached for my phone to call my dad, of all people. It’s been four years and it’s still a knee jerk reaction to call him. When will that end? Do I really want it to? Sometimes I call my grandparents when I know [...]

This entry is imported from my LJ, where some significant updates have been made that I have not yet written about on this blog. It’s pretty obvious from the context what the Big Deal is though. Joshua had a job interview yesterday. Of course, once we finalize our decision to move and tell his parents, [...]

We went to the beach on Tuesday (Is it really Thursday already? My computer says it is.) and Noah had a BLAST. He wasn’t really sure about the sand…we set him down and it squished beneath his toes and he looked at his feet like "what. is. THIS?" Then he promptly decided he approved and [...]

I really meant to post this yesterday but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I adopted Omega, the Omicron-sized Cookie Monster, on June 4th, 2004 when some wonderful girl on Livejournal answered my request for a feline companion. You see the little kitten in this picture? That’s Omega, shortly before I adopted him, back [...]

I usually have a goal. It can be anything – from something I want to succeed at cooking or a trip I want to take. It doesn’t matter. I’ve just always had a goal. And yet lately…no goal. Nothing. Just an intent to do something I like every day, even if that means playing NeoPets [...]