I Am Not a Jedi

Although a slacker/procrastinator, I’m also a perfectionist. If I’m involved in a project that involves leadership, I am the leader. If it’s something creative, I go all out in creating. I take art and aesthetic very seriously, even if it’s a simple stupid construction paper and magazine cut out collage. This doesn’t always mean what I produce is fantastic, but, well, it’s the best I’ve got. (more…)

This has been a good weekend, but today ended up a bit more hectic/frazzling than expected. (more…)

This was my status update for tonight and Karen said it fit under the FB/everyday poetry category, so I’m using it as my blog title. Has anyone seen any good FB lines recently to make the EDP list? Let me know… (more…)

I’m exhausted and am going to bed like, now, but I just wanted to write real quick so 2 days didn’t pass without anything in my blog. (more…)

It’s Saturday morning and I’m up before Donnie due to an early morning asthma attack. Although that was not fun, I’m glad to be awake, enjoying the sunshine spilling through the windows in the living room. We’re hopefully off to Ocean City today, maybe spending the night down there (thanks for Tim for allowing us access to their condo…). (more…)

OK, I know I said I don’t like just posting videos anymore, but this is hilarious. I totally LOL’d, OMG.

thank you, Kate Gorton for posting this ala facebook…

So, there’s this gas station that I go to nearby work–prices are fairly reasonable and it’s the least out-of-the-way place outside of Camden (there’s one station in Camden; they don’t display their prices on a large sign like every other place I’ve ever been so you don’t realize they’re 10 cents higher than the local/national average until it’s too late). Another plus is that the service is good and the men who work there are all very nice. (more…)

So, everyone is well aware of the forgetting, but less mentioned is the tendencies of collecting or hoarding.

This is something that we are all too familiar with in my family–just look in my mom’s handbag and you’ll see the things that she especially likes to collect. Generally, it’s yarn or crocheting needles (before the disease advanced to where it is now, she was incredibly crafty and a few years ago, she was able to still at least make little doily-like circles. Now she just twirls the crocheting needle around a piece of tangled yarn). For whatever reason, a newer obsession has been toothbrushes. Leave one in plain sight and leave the area and consider it as good as gone. I’ve made this mistake many times, most recently last weekend. (more…)

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore and pick this shit up NOW.

I’m serious.

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