The anticipation of long distances

Since coming home, I frequently find myself actively dreading the end of the summer - when Josh and I will be separated by 800 miles again. Knowing that we have the rest of our lives together after my last nine months of college doesn’t stop me from pouting about how life isn’t fair and wishing [...]

I might actually be a good wife

My sister has always been a messy person. The only reason she cleaned house when she was a teenager was because our mother forced her to for allowance, and weed didn’t come free, even back then. And when I was little, our house was usually spotless. But when Jennifer moved out and got her own [...]

My first pap smear

First, as promised:

I think I am finally sufficiently over my horrendous jetlag (which, by the way, is significantly worse going backward in time than going forward) and have familiarized myself with the family members I was cut off from while in Ireland. I still don’t feel normal, but then again, I can’t remember the last [...]

IT HAPPENED!!!

First of all, I am home and I am not yet settled and so I am going crazy. But I’ll be okay once I have birth control and a new bite guard, because my to-do list will be significantly shorter.
Secondly, I had a daydream two days before I left Dublin that Josh would propose to [...]

Shit, I’m actually going to miss it here

I’m getting in a cab to go to Dublin airport in less than half an hour. After what was probably the most exciting semester of my life, I’m just now realizing how sad I am to be leaving this place.
I miss home, and I am so ready to go back and see and talk to [...]