I used to hate tomatoes, you know, when I was little. I even hated tomato by-products - salsa, pizza sauce. I always loved ketchup though, I couldn't figure out why, and it drove my mother crazy. Then one day I'm at this diner, and I order some turkey-something sandwich. I was tired and hungry and didn't think twice before I was halfway through my sandwich - it was so good - they must have some secret ingredient that I'd never heard of, I thought. So I pull back the top of my sourdough roll and what do I see? The same little red slices that have haunted my finicky eating my whole life. It was amazing, it was like my own personal tomato revelation.

This isn't a true story, but a monologue that I wrote a couple of years ago for no particular reason that I came across the other day. This monologue does not reflect the opinions of the author. I have yet to have a tomato revelation. It was inspired by a conversation, yeah, you remember the one.

On another note, it is a beautiful night. Perfect for reading and writing on the patio. Also, I painted tonight. I haven't done that since I was probably 9 and I tried to paint a whale. It looked more like an abstract dream-like cow.

So I am now alone in the house until October 6th, when my father returns from Europe. It will be nice to have my own place for a while, but I assume it will get depressing. Come visit me.

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Why are Otter Pops so darn good? I mean seriously. I know Ashley doesn't like them, but right now, they are like my favorite thing in the world.

Approximately one hour after my last post about my mom's house, she came home from work early to find me bawling and curled up on her bathroom counter so that her dogs would stop trying to consume my flesh. Needless to say, I'm not so sure about the move anymore.

I'm starting the moving process into my mother's house. This is going to be interesting. And I know that I'm going to have some frustrated times, but it really is the best choice. As much as I would absolutely LOVE to move out anywhere else, there really aren't many people who I would want to live with. And of that small amount, there are even less who aren't on a lease, and even less than that number who can afford it. So, I will move the mile west to my mother's crazy house. I'm sure there will be good times, and I'm even more sure that I will finally save money. Seriously this time.

Anyone who wants to volunteer some time to help me move, it would be appreciated. I don't have very much stuff, so it will take at the maximum three trips (of a mile).

Word.

I don't really know what I have been up to lately that has made me so busy. But I am hardly ever home, and usually when I get here, all I want to do is sleep. It's weird to think of all of those semesters in which I worked this much and was taking six or seven classes. I slept about two to three hours a night and was never phased by it. Now it seems like if I don't get eight hours that I am useless and will need a nap. Maybe my body was just very understanding and patient in school and knew that I could only have so much sleep, and that it would have a chance in the near future to sleep oodles. That time would seem to be now.

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that made me quite mad for it's stupidity. Maybe someone can explain. It said "God Would Be Pro-Life." There are two things wrong here. God "would" be, this implies that the almighty He either doesn't exist or is dead. As to say, "if there was a God, he would probably be pro-life." This bumper sticker was most likely placed on the car by an extremely religious (most likely Catholic) pro-lifer. And then secondly, and most annoyingly, those who want to bring God into these arguments, like I said, are most likely Catholic, or subscribe to some sect of Christianity. Christianity has always prided itself in the selling point that God gave us free will. Free will is the freedom to choose. So it only makes sense to me that God would be pro-choice. The almighty He wouldn't give us free will and boast about it just to prefer that we not have the legal freedom to use it.

I have my license now. That is fun.

I haven't had a kinda-sorta in a while, and I like it. Things are going well.

That is all.