It's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light...

First time since I was 14.

He is with my grandmother, helping her in the wake of my grandpa's death.

Dad lives in South Carolina now and his Southern accent is back and it was so strange to hear. So different from when I was growing up. Much more like my grandparent's voices mixed with my brother's. That was weird. When I first heard him I was like "Boy? Why are you in Florida?!" but then he was all Southern and awkward.

We had a conversation. An actual conversation, and it was strangely nice. I'm not expecting too much because I don't feel like getting my hopes up and having them all dashed to pieces, but it was nice to talk to him and not feel such anger towards someone who isn't even in my life any more.

He said he was proud of me. I rather liked that.

Imma eat my McDonald's and watch a lot of crap.

My step-father has cleared out a large amount of the high wild grass just beyond the area of their backyard they turned into lawn. I finally asked today what the random flatted circle was for. Turns out he wants to make a...wait for it...seventy-foot wide shamrock out there. With wild yellow rosebushes at the edges of it.

Apparently in Belfast his...grandfather? I think it was his grandfather. Anyway some Gallagher dude dug up his wife's wild rose bushes and she told him not to because that was where the wee folk lived and they didn't like their home disturbed. He did it anyway. So the story is that the wee folk put a curse on the family. Something about first borns...something. Which apparently has seemed to have come true. So he wants to plant wild rose bushes for the wee folk. In a seventy-foot wide shamrock.

Just... <3

(This is what people do when they retire...)

Oh HELL yeah! My vocabulary is estimated to be 33,700 words.

Now I am going to look up the ones I didn't know. Because words? They're friggin awesome, you guys.

Alison was supposed to go to bed but she just came out here to get a drink and there is no way that we could possibly ever explain the conversation that just occurred between us, but it was epic hilarity though it was the kind where you had to be there and now my stomach hurts from laughing. It was pure ridiculousness and we both laughed so hard, and I feel like I might vomit.

And then I thought, "you know what? I think I feel like this at least once a day." I think living in a house where you laugh so hard you think you might vomit at least once a day is pretty damn awesome, no matter what else is going on in my messed up little world.

Long live the LFoD and all it's denizens, past and present!

EDIT: For more examples of why the LFoD is the greatest place on Earth, I present Alison's Overheard in the LFoD tag in her journal which is chock full of hilarity and quotes.

My head hurts from laughing.

Lara....why do you think it's a good idea to erase and synch your iPod to your new computer ten minutes before you are supposed to leave? You have nearly 4,000 songs on your new computer (so far) and you know it takes more than ten minutes to do that.

Really?

Seriously?

Not smart.




At least it is school holidays, so it doesn't matter if I don't leave before 8 today. This just means I won't have a half an hour sit-down in the foyer of the Social Work building. Which maybe isn't so bad afterall but I wish the thing would hurry up!

There's some schpunt on the curtains in the shape of a shark...

Sometimes having blood sugar issues is like being high without being high. Or...I'd assume so, having never BEEN high. Because I just stared at that shark shaped schpunt for like...10 minutes, going "whoooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa". *sigh* And then I performed a hoppy dance to VNV Nation in front of my fan because I am flamin' awesome.

I've been watching True Blood. It's awesome. But LOL at Sookie naming the dog 'Dean'. NO SPOILERS, Lewi hasn't seen it. But if you think about it, it's very funny ;)

IT'S JUST YOU AND ME NOW! IT'S JUST YOU AND ME NOW! IT'S JUST YOU AND ME AGAINST THE WORLLLLDDDDD!

This is awesome. http://community.livejournal.com/dark_london/profile It's dark_london!

It has nothing to do with Darker London, and Lewi happened upon it accidentally. It's an RPG created about 7 days ago, based on the novels of Gothic London. So they're not playing original characters, they're playing the characters from those novels.

I was enjoying reading through some it it. I like when you accidentally stumble on something lovely! :D

WOW. Just wow. WOW wow wow. Fundies creep me oouttttttt!

Kirk Cameron, I dislike you greatly. And I used to love you on Growing Pains. Screw you for going loop-de-loop. This video looks like a hoax. Unfortunately it is not. My brother suggests that if you ARE on a campus where this little book giveaway happens, take the books, rip out the first fifty pages and redistribute. That way you're simply passing along literature and not a fundie diatribe.

PS regardless of Darwin's attitude towards women, people of other races, or a Nazi leader who lived AFTER HIS DEATH, that does not mean his theory of natural selection is not scientifically sound. THAT MAKES NO SENSE. That's like saying you don't like food because oxygen is pretty. THEY ARE IN NO WAY CONNECTED!

Today? I answered the phone, "Lara Moses, this is Fees speaking." And then I tried not to die laughing while talking to a student who was severely confused. I'm never going to live this one down, though I did take the opportunity to shout, "That's right, I AM FEES" to my coworkers (who were sniggering) when I had finished the conversation.

Ahhahahahaa oh god, me.

And then I ran into a divider, and while walking to lunch, I almost twisted my ankle in a pothole on Smith Street.

I am AWESOME today, but at least I'm in a pretty good mood anyway!

I have the coolest nephews and nieces in the world.

What amazing young people.