Moo.

It's the last official week of summer - school starts tomorrow! Hooray for getting stuck behind school buses in the morning!

I wonder how many blogs there are floating around the internet?

This is where I'd rather be, instead of where I am now, fighting my way through traffic, packed elbow-to-elbow in the Walmart line, crowded in everywhere I go.

I went to the dentist today and had a bonding experience - literally, he bonded my teeth. The first time I have ever gotten Novocain, and now I understand what the fuss is all about. I much prefer laughing gas. My upper lip was completely dead for 3 hours; I had to stay away from hot liquids and hope that I wouldn't be pulled over on the way home.

Which brings me to my next problem: I have lost my license. Try explaining this story to a cop with a mouthful of Novacain: I can't find my license, and I also can't find my social security card (which the DMV requires as one form of accepted identification). The dumbest part? Apparently the state commands that you need one to get the other. What kind of broken system do we have when the social security office won't accept a birth certificate because it's "not a current form of id?"

It gets better - the social security office will accept certified school transcripts as a form of identification. Transcripts take up to 3 weeks to be processed and sent to me, and once I go to the social security office with them (and take a half day off of work to do that), it will take up to a week to receive my new card in the mail. All together, it will take up to a month to get a new card...and the DMV will issue me a temporary, 10-day license until I gather all the necessary forms of id they require. Since I'll need about a month, what happens after the 10 days are up? Will I have to go back down to the DMV? Every other year is too much for me - a trip to that place is like a week long vacation in hell.

Sigh...why is it so complicated? I wish I could call the governor and tell her to fix this annoying, broken, complicated, time-consuming, stupid, backwards system and make it easier for people to just live. They even have my license, with picture, on file - why can't they just pull it up and look at it?

It's like I'm playing tug-of-war against society.

Another rainy night. Sigh. After two weeks of 90 degree temps, it seems like summer's over and fall is here.
I'm awake, alone upstairs. It's cold outside, and the sun's just rising. One light burns in the window of the house across the street; the world is waking up. The cars on the street are so much louder at 6:30 a.m.

Worked all day, came home and did the dishes, cleaned, and finished the article that's due tomorrow and has been hanging over my head all weekend. I'm happy with it. Have you ever met someone that inspires you? That makes you think, "If they can do it, then so can I"? I met someone like that last week, and I wrote my article about her. It wasn't supposed to be, but I changed it, which is fitting since the theme is change. I need a change. I think we all do.

Oh, and I'd like to celebrate my first follower on here! I'm not sure what a follower is or what it means to have one, but I'm still excited about it!

It's the end of the weekend, another rainy Sunday night. That blob of light is a car making its way down my street in the rain. It looks lonely outside tonight.

Too hot.

See that sun? It was burning at about 100 degrees today, with what must have been 130% humidity. After feeling like a limp stalk of celery for a week, I kept reminding myself that fall is a month away... and we finally broke down and put in the air conditioner.

Ahhh...

I love summer!

I heart houseplants.

I was bored one day so I was shooting around the house. Who knew a plant in the window could be so pretty?

Don't wake the sleeping bear.

He would sleep all day if I didn't wake him up.