It’s been a draining week.  I’ve tried to write a few times about this past week,  but words fall short. 
I feel guilty that I am able to return to my life and that, while I am sad, my day-to-day life hasn’t changed all that much.  That’s not the case for Lauren, Doug and JJ.   I wish pain [...]

You know, I think this has been the best Thanksgiving in recent memory.  We had a Thanksgiving on Thursday with my family in Massillon, and on Saturday we had Thanksgiving with Funnel’s side, including relatives from Florida and Michigan.  I had such a fun time and it was much-needed – four days in a row [...]

I’ve been really anxious/worried lately.  I totally get that worrying is an empty action that does nothing to actually solve any problems.  I guess I just suck at the “mind over matter” stuff.  I’ve been trying to do better in this area with a combination of prayer, moment-by-moment living, the “6 month rule”, and hot tea.  [...]

Funnel is currently working his very last shift ever at Walgreen’s. 
For almost the whole time we’ve been married, he’s been working the night shift (8 days on /// 6 days off).  That’s meant a lot of nights alone and a lot of days where we might just get to see each other for a couple of hours.  I was [...]

Today I discovered this painting by Isaac Bushkin.  The title of it is “Lost but not Forgotten.”  I was really taken with it and stared at it for a long time.  ((It reminds me of this video.)) My heart hurts for that little bird.
I go through phases of my life where I feel like my emotions are on steroids.  I [...]

((above:))We have purchased an exericise ball, and it has come to my attention that polaroid film is being discontinued.  What the heck? 
Funnel works at Walgreens, and I told him he should buy a bunch so we can stock up, but polaroid film has an expiration date, so its not like we can just keep it forever.  I’m [...]

It’s 2008, and I’ve been reflecting not only on the last year, but my whole life.  Memory is a funny thing.  I was just thinking about how fuzzy things get the further you get away from them.  Events beome little disjointed snippets and I can’t remember conversations that meant the world to me at the time, [...]

This weekend I became aware of my need to go on sabbatical. 
Yesterday I spent 8+ hours doing exactly what I wanted to do and I still got so little done.  How horrible (because I want to make headway! progress!) and how wonderful (because it means that my little project is so much bigger than I expected).  [...]

I hate when I mess up really simple things at work. Everyone thinks I am incompetent and dumb when really I just get weary of doing the same things over and over and I make a stupid mistake now and then.  Man, it totally sucks.
I feel like a lost person, as far as my career [...]

Ohio pretty much sucks right now.
It is cold and cold is bad for my already-poor circulation.
My rings are loose on my fingers and
my toes are always numb, even now, when I have been inside a decently warm building for a good four hours.
It might even be as cold as it was when I went to Budapest [...]