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"Waiting for my Petrichor"

by the_bell_jar

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January 31, 2014

May 25th, 2011

All of my favorite childhood memories are with my grandma and papa. They were my favorite human beings to ever grace this earth and I would do anything to spend just one more day with the two of ...


January 31, 2014

May 23rd, 2011

Heroes I can't pick just one! 1) Albert Camus Ok I first heard about him my senior year of high school back in 05/06. But I was such a little rebel back then I didn't pay attention to how trul...


Dear J, For someone I have literally only seen five times, it is quite amazing the emotional roller coaster you rode with me. Flashback to August 2008. King's Inn Hotel- Seattle. You walked into...


January 31, 2014

May 22nd, 2011

When was the last time you ran? I went jogging with Holly a couple weeks ago. I told myself I'd get back into it since I got my running shoes, but I haven't had much luck health wise and still tr...


January 31, 2014

May 21st, 2011

Day 3: Letter to a Friend Dear Andrea, Remember how much we hated each other growing up in the same condo complex? I was intensely afraid of you. I don't know what I thought you were capable of...


January 31, 2014

May 20th, 2011

Day 2- Write a poem about life from a different point of view. The murahaleen are doing this. Marai Bai is no more than dust particles floating around. I am breathing in the village I grew up ...


January 31, 2014

May 19th, 2011

Ok so a friend of mine just joined this wonderful website and we decided to do the 31 day note challenge! Seems like fun! So here we go: Day One: Write about yourself! Ok sounds easy...right? B...


January 31, 2014

April 12th, 2011

Well working at Wal-Mart has been absolutely horrible. I am still trying to find a different job, preferably a restaurant gig, but nothing so far. I need a little luck sent my way!! I feel like a...


January 31, 2014

March 17th, 2011

Dave and I are living in our own little world together and we know we want to spend the rest of our lives with each other. Every day we talk about our future and we are going to be going to Kay's...


January 31, 2014

March 14th, 2011

I finally got a job. It is in the deli at Wal-Mart. I had to sit through some boring, corporate-type bullshit orientation for three days and take 35 CBLs. It is a computer based learning system t...


January 31, 2014

February 24th, 2011

It is snowing like crazy! I've never lived anywhere that actually snowed so this is amazing me. It was Jasper's first time in the snow and he didn't really know what to do. He seemed pretty excit...


January 31, 2014

February 21st, 2011

Yesterday was a great day. I hung out in downtown Oly and met up with Nahaci to workshop my abecedarian poem. The next poem we will be working on is an acronymic one! I might design it around the...


January 31, 2014

February 16th, 2011

The job fell through because my background check came up "ineligible". It was fucked off too the way they called me 2 hours prior to starting my training. I was in the process of getting ready f...


January 31, 2014

February 15th, 2011

I've always had this weird thing with sex. Especially sober sex. I mean I wasn't always like this. Sex used to be easy, fun, enjoyable. For the past five years or so it has been awkward, disgusti...


January 31, 2014

February 5th, 2011

So I have been in Washington for about three weeks now and I absolutely love it. Unfortunately, it has been hell trying to find a job. The job I was hoping to get at the new restaurant opening up...


January 31, 2014

January 14th, 2011

Three more days of my life in California and I have so many people I need to see one last time before I depart. I said goodbye to Brindle and dropped off some DVDs and stuff for her and Sophie. I...


January 31, 2014

January 4th, 2011

Well my dreams are finally coming true. I am leaving California for good in two weeks and moving to Washington. I got an apartment with a girl I met online named Holly. It is in Olympia. Oh yeah ...


January 31, 2014

November 10th, 2010

I tend to spend a lot of time analyzing my past. And it is very easy to do so because I have many reminders of my past decorating my environment. Journals, pictures, scrapbooks, souvenirs, etc. I...


January 31, 2014

October 12th, 2010

2010 has been the crappiest fucking year thus far in my twenty-two years of existence. I guess today a lot of anger from everything that has happened this year has really surfaced. I was reading ...


January 31, 2014

September 27th, 2010

What I am going to miss about California is all the new age/spiritual shops I have gotten so used to dropping in on every now and then. Most of them are in Claremont, especially my favorite one. ...


January 31, 2014

September 16th, 2010

Today was day sixty of sobriety. I went to a meeting and my parents came with me. Bill was there, Sam, Pam, and Frank too. They are all my favorite people at the club so it was awesome that they ...


January 31, 2014

August 17th, 2010

I need a vacation. I need to get away. I am having a really hard day. All I want to do is go get shitfaced at the bar and forget everything, black out, pass out. But no, I have to be strong blah ...


January 31, 2014

August 10th, 2010

Yesterday I went to a good meeting and we talked about not taking life too seriously and I shared about how I have the opposite problem and I haven't been able to take life seriously enough. It w...


January 31, 2014

August 8th, 2010

Day 22 of sobriety. Song of the day: Kiss the Rain by Billie Myers I have about six months to save up a good amount of money to move to Washington. I am nervous because I have about 100 bucks to...


January 31, 2014

July 20th, 2010

I went to a Youth Peoples meeting tonight and I really liked it. But this whole sober life is scary. I mean...can I really do it? The only reason I even thought about going to a meeting is becaus...


Book Description

OpenDiary is shutting down in two weeks. I am beyond devastated; therefore, I am moving some of my entries to this site in hopes of continuing my online journal and meeting fellow writers. I know it will be nothing like OD, but it is better than nothing!