Hayley Mills or Lindsay Lohan – Pick your poison

In memory of Natasha Richardson, Chad and I watched both of the Parent Trap movies over the last two days. Though Richardson was only in the second of the films, Chad has been living in a cave for a while, and so hadn’t seen either film, resulting in the obviously required viewing of both movies. [...]

What’s My Age Again?

Recently while running errands in Des Moines, my boyfriend Chad and I found a new bookstore in an old strip mall, a Half Price Books. We were forced to browse until we had exhausted all the areas we could possibly be interested in browsing. Besides books, magazines, comics, movies, and records they had used CDs, [...]

hate/love: poetry

I have a lot of love/hate or maybe actually hate/love relationships. Like one of the fast food restaurants in town – Chad and I call it by different names depending on if we like it or not at the time. It’s a combined KFC and Taco Bell, and we both like Taco Bell but not [...]

How do you dream about vacation?

Exciting revelation from yesterday: I now have a little more than a week’s worth of paid vacation days accrued.
This might not seem exciting to some. But this is my first job in which I have paid vacation or sick days. I find having my own insurance exciting too, but I’ve had insurance before, so it’s [...]