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9:45:43 PM Molly: I hate John and his stupid face.
9:45:51 PM Molly: We were reading an evolution article and he was like
9:46:03 PM Molly: FLYING IS VERY LIKELY THE NEXT EVOLUTIONARY STEP FOR SPIDERS
9:46:05 PM Molly: FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
9:47:03 PM Donna: DIE IN A FIRE.
9:47:08 PM Donna: INFORMATION I NEVER WANTED IN MY BRAIN.

And now you know too. I am not alone with the knowledge that I will never be safe again.

Do you have any friends who love to traumatize you? I do. Trust me, never Google The Human Centipede unless you don’t have a single squeamish cell in your body. Reading the summary on Wikipedia made me want to die.

Ever let stuff pile up so long that you just want to ignore everything and hope it fixes itself? I just did that for quite a long time. It didn’t work so well so now I’m just trying to reorganize my life. It’s actually rather refreshing. Reorganizing this website is one bit I’m starting with–I really miss having an outlet.

Some Stuff I’ve Been Doing for the Past Year

1) Hanging out with my great grandmother. She decided not to get her pacemaker replaced when she found out it was dying so, unfortunately, in August, she passed away at 101. She was an awesome, hilarious, ridiculously strong lady and I feel horribly sad for anyone who never knew her.

2) Making the World’s Best Chocolate Cupcakes. My mom doesn’t even like cake or frosting and she effing loves my chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting–both homemade and amazing.

3) Playing entirely too much World of Warcraft. I’m excited for the new expansion on December 7th. >.> Lemme know if you play WoW. :D

4) Having completely epic conversations with many of my friends. AIM, how I love you and your support of my capslock fests.

5) Making a lot of jokes involving your mother and/or your face. Or just other people’s moms in general. It’s a weakness, I’ll admit it.

Stuff I Want to Do

1) Get a job ASAP. \o/ I like monies and I need MOAR MONIES to go back to school eventually and to buy a new computer.

2) Bake and cook more. I have a ridiculous love for cooking blogs with flashy photography, not going to lie. And right now I want jambalaya more than most things in the world. The things I do cook are generally awesome, but my cooking repertoire is sorely lacking variety. I’d like to work on that quite a bit.

If you have any favorite cooking websites or blogs, I’d love to hear about them, even if they’re specialty or vegan or focusing on meat, I don’t care. XD I love all sorts of food.

I love baking in particular and I inherited my other grandmother’s recipe box when she passed away eight years ago this month. I’m UNSTOPPABLE. You haven’t lived until you’ve had her maple cookies with maple icing. I’ll post the recipe when I next make them and can take pictures. :)

3) Move to Bellingham. I moved there on a whim in the summer of 2009 and loved it. I love the town, I loved the nature, I loved the rent prices… I plan to move back after I’ve saved up a bit of cash.

4) Get into photography. I’ve never really owned a good camera or a camera at all until sometime last year. I’ve always wanted to get into photography because I can’t draw or paint or any of that, but I frequently have these really strong visions in my head that I feel the need to capture or recreate or sometimes I just see a scene that I’d like to immortalize. After I’ve saved enough money to move and get a new computer, I think I’ll save a bit of extra money to get a decent camera. I’m not sure what to start out with though but my budget is pretty limited.

5) Blog and write regularly again. I’ve always assumed I was going to be a writer, but I’ve gone about this dream by avoiding writing which seems like entirely the wrong thing to do. This is as good of an outlet as any.

I’m filled with nerdrage and rant relatively frequently. Long ago I used to post these in my LiveJournal and it seemed to be the posts people enjoyed the most–as well as the posts I enjoyed writing the most.

As I mentioned above, I have all sorts of little projects I’m getting into (cooking, photography, etc.) and having a place to log that would be fantastic.

5) Get more involved with my online communities again. In addition to the blogging community, I want to get back into my LJ social circle, etc. Life has been crazy and pulled me away, but I’d like a stable foundation in my online groups again.

Hmm, that list ended up a bit longer than I thought.

EDIT: I realized I have two number fives on the second list but I think I’ll leave it that way. <.<

The reason I do my “This Week Was Awesome” thing is because it helps me see the awesome even when my week has been utter crap. It helps me think of that instead of dwelling on the shit.

However, this past week or so hasn’t been good, health-wise, for my family.

My great-grandmother is turning one hundred and freaking one years old on the 19th¹. She is old. She went into the hospital last week during the day, but was home by that night. The doctor told my aunt and uncle that she’s in the very beginning stages of congestive heart failure.

People can live for a while with congestive heart failure, but she’s 101 so what could be 10+ years for many people, probably won’t be for her. I’m hoping for a few more years, at least, but I’m trying to take advantage of the time I have with her. She’s my last living grandparent and a snarky one at that. I love that lady. When she was 98 she told me she wanted to slit George W. Bush’s throat. I nearly died laughing. It was beautiful. On Inaguration Day this year I called her and she was giggling she was so happy. She’s so adorable!

Then last night my dad had to go into the hospital because he faceplanted on some cement after tripping over a boulder in his friend’s backyard. After several hours, his head wouldn’t stop bleeding. It looks like someone shoved a baseball underneath his skin. This is disgusting. Thankfully, he didn’t have a concussion. A few stitches and they sent him on home. As a sidenote, apparently the first thing he said when he walked into the house was, “Now, I don’t want you to be worried, but…” before coming up the stairs² to show my mom his face.

Want to know the most worrying words in the English language? Those are them.

Also, my brother went to the doctor and found out he’s been walking on a fractured foot for over a year ever since a wrestling accident last year. *facepalm* And our family friend who lives with us had another seizure a couple days ago.

In other news, I have been having a lot of migraines and bad headaches lately. They always start behind the same eye and that’s making me nervous. I should really make a doctor appointment, though I’m going to wait until after my finals are over and done with this week.

Oh, yes, finals. I make things way too difficult for myself. If I’d just done stuff when it was assigned, I wouldn’t have to spend so much time worrying about the fact I wasn’t doing work. :P But I find it incredibly difficult to do schoolwork or anything, even, when I’m stressed out and distracted. Meh.

1. Funny story: Last year around July she was trying to make a doctor’s appointment over the phone and the receptionist could not understand when she gave her birthday as “12-19-08.” She just kept saying, “But…this is 08,” even when my grandma clarified she meant 1908 as in, SHE IS OLD. I lol’d in real life. ↩
2. We live in a split-level house with an entryway and then stairs leading either to the basement or to the living area floor. This means no matter what, we have to walk up an asston of stairs to get into the house. Fun for my brother–see above! ↩