My family's not perfect. I'd be a blind idiot to think otherwise, because my family is comprised of people; by association, since people are imperfect, flawed-so is my family to a degree. Family became that much more important to me when I buried my little sister. It was always important, but when I buried my sister, there was a thought that cut through the haze of mourning and grief like the light beam of a lighthouse: I was nineteen and all of that remained of my family was my mother. … [Read more...]
Know Thyself
Veteran readers of SDS.net know that one thing that gets to me stress wise is work. I love my job, I love what I do, what I get to learn, the challenges it presents because I pretty much walked into a field I knew next to nothing about, and the fact that I get to see places because I travel quite a bit for it. When you think about it, my job fits me well; its demands mesh with my being a perfectionist and a workaholic. I often say what I do is the equivalent of being handed only a few puzzles … [Read more...]
Where My Cool Chicks At?
I think most of you will agree that the pickings for interesting people is slim. For me, finding people that are themselves always do me in..because the chances of running into someone with the attitude of take me as I am or not all..and mean it...are way slim. Narrow that down to just guys and the chance of finding an interesting man is even slimmer. Ok, a lot slimmer it seems. Let me share an observation with you. When I first moved to the Charleston area, I used the Interweb to put out … [Read more...]
Casa Primer, this Love's for you
Dear Casa Primer, I know you don't hear me tell you how much I adore you, but I do. You know I do baby. I got you a kick ass wardrobe, look after you, you know, do what baby's mamas are supposed to do. But I just wanted to tell you I love you, you and I, we're soul mates. I heart you Casa Primer [even though I'm using you for tax breaks, s'ok cause we're cool like that, right? I'll get you a nice pressure wash from all the money you got for me] It's in my soul, baby Chelle … [Read more...]
Light weight
I could be 7 lbs lighter if my rack was more a nice C cup. 7 lbs. That ain't right.. On another semi-slightly relevant note...just when you thought thinkgeek's HTTP panties couldn't get any better, they did: … [Read more...]
Relating
I realized that I am a question/survey/interview ho. That's what all of my Myspace posts are. Questions and funny lil quickies that advertise that I'm a flirty whore who'll pose for the camera in exchange for sex. Kinda like horoscopes...vague enough to apply but not quite there. Here recently, there's been a lot of relationship type surveys and it got me to thinking. Don't panic, there was none of the magic smoke. I get to thinking of my Research phase- the time right out of college … [Read more...]
It was worth it
It was near 10:30 when Mom walked in the door. We hadn't seen each other in a week. Sure, we talked on the phone here and there, but for 3 days that last week, I was in training. It felt wierd, to not have talked to her and say at least Hi every day. Funny the things you get used to. Friday was a long day. I was up at 3 am, I had a two hour drive ahead of me and I had to be at my destination at 6. Pleasant drive. It was getting back that was a bit hard, I started crashing. It seemed the … [Read more...]
Scold me not
“..or I’m turning into a gay man.” “Yep, that could very well be it.” I was in K-mart having this phone conversation with my mom. She’d met me at the doc office with a Mint Mocha Frap, the new creation from Starbucks, whom I proclaim repeatedly is overrated, but their fraps are divine and I would franchise in a heartbeat if they did it. What? Life’s boring without contradictions. We had talked outside the office about the results of my blood tests and what that meant, all the while, I’m … [Read more...]
Shock
They accepted!!!!!! ACCEPTED! Oh.my.GOD. I have a home! Errr, technically will have when we walk away from the closing table....but...-squee!- I'm sorry, I really just can't get past that statement. … [Read more...]
1000 Words
My friend in JP, who drew anime me, did this for me. Funny in what ways pick me ups come in. Makes me just want to gather me up and cuddle me. Which would be quite a feat. It's actually perfect to describe the bodily coups d'etat that I've been battling for -sigh- 4 weeks now. And I really only have my self to blame. I've worked too way hard for too long that even my tried and true methods to handle the resulting stress wasn't enough. -knock on wood- I actually managed to just stop [as … [Read more...]
