"Why? Why would I stop a guaranteed paycheck?

Because if I stay in this house one more minute I'll put a fork in someone's throat."

"But I find romance in something as simple as MB kissing the top of my head periodically while we watched Star Wars Episode III. Now that's not just romance, that's geek romance, and I'm with the World's Biggest Dork."

(this entry was for a review site that is no longer operating. I'm leaving it up because it's still a good entry)

"I should be packing right now so I can sit in my car for 4 hours to get to MB's, but instead I'm wearing ridiculous jammies and eating a NutriGrain bar and wishing for a phone call."

"I am now convinced that I want to teach middle school, and I have the greatest group of 7th and 8th graders to thank for it."

"Mom had the nuts to say that I'm quitting so I can go shack up with MB. Her words, not mine. Lovely woman, my mother is."

"Why the weird pickup lines? No idea. Needed some way to kick this entry off and hunger has sapped all my creativity."

"I was supposed to be home on Wednesday. Today's Saturday. Guess who milked her vacation?"

"Jell-o shots as far as the eye can see. I hate Jell-o, but had about 6 shots. Played lots of beer pong and flip cup. I suck at both, but totally don't care."

"We've had conversations that have been me venting and she reassuring me that Mom's just psycho and everything will work out and TL will do what she can to make Mom see that I'm not a raving lunatic also."

"She's old enough to be my mother, but last night she talked to me like her sister, and I love her for that."

"Shitload: (n) third in a series when counting, as in "one, two, and a shitload""

"But our central air took its maiden voyage with us last night, so I really don't give a shit :)"

"This is my inner drama queen speaking, so if you're looking for the real Independent Ter, keep reading."

"Praise Jeebus, it's finally happening!"

"Happy Murf Day! Go ahead, think I'm crazy, but it's Sugar Ray's bassist's birthday and I've celebrated this lovely, lovely day since I was 18. Please, let me wallow in my strangeness."

"Anyway -- I'm outta here!"

"Daddy and I cried together. Twice."

"I feel like this entry is all stunted and strange, but it's probably because typing with tips is a pain and my computer is still a giant doorstop as my desk is still 200 miles away."

"Bittersweet moment here, as I think a rusty spoon up the ass would be more pleasant, though I'll get to shmooze with the relatives and Mom be damned."

"MB had been sick earlier in the week and, well, let's just say his backside rebelled. Yeah. All kinds of fun. At 11 p.m. last night. Great. So now I'm on his hit list because I couldn't help but start humming "Ring of Fire". I am so going to hell for that."

"Now let's humiliate and expose the general stupidity of the author of this diary by saying, let's imagine that during those first 10 minutes of the set -- the peak of the buzz, mind you -- you're watching DMB on the large monitors and grooving along to songs you don't know but don't care, and you can't for the life of you figure out where the stage is."

"I can't wait. Pretend you're Ben Stein and say that last sentence. That's how I said it."

"Mom called me two weeks ago all excited. "Ter, I have some news for you!" That's not something you say happily, you nutcase."

"It's all the little things that have turned it from Tha Linkinmobile to Ghetto Fabulous."

"Such was the case after the DMB show. It had been yucky out and when MB and I got in the car at a Stewart's -- BAM! -- insta-fog. So what did we do? Like any resourceful redneck, I got out my snow scraper and used the brush to wipe the window, leading to a new one for Jeff Foxworthy: "You might be a redneck... if you defog your windshield using the brush of your snow scraper""

"Living with him has been an experience so far and I will admit I was second guessing this whole thing for a while."

"This whole "Domestic Goddess" thing I've entertained in my mind for who knows how long isn't quite happening for me."

"Bah da bah bah bah -- I'm loving it.

(Please McDonald's, don't sue me)"

"Suddenly, everyone started bowing out. Prior committments, things suddenly coming up that can't be got out of, and one wedding dress fitting back north."

"Turns out the owner just opened up a better place a couple doors down and that's where the first of 2 jäger bombs was consumed. The second was at Our Bar(tm) and in between were many kamakazes and red headed sluts with a Miller Lite and a Labat in there somewhere. Needless to say, 'round last call I was driving a porcelain bus."

"For someone unemployed, I certainly have enough to do!"

"We lost our Golden, LB, to cancer on Monday."

"Short entry this week, as I need to get a letter together before I head out to MB's company picnic. Don't tell him I got lost on the way home from dropping him off, okay?"

"I'm sitting here in long pants and a hooded sweatshirt a tad bit frosty. Independent Ter -- human popcicle."

"Now that she's here all the time, I feel like every thing I do (or don't do) is being criticized, noted to be used against me."

"It was one thing when he'd nudge me to step away from my former self at his apartment, but here it feels like he's not defending me."

"This woman is unbelievable."

"I'm missing socks."

"We need date night."

"By the way, MB can't fathom why he couldn't read over my shoulder while I was typing that paragraph. He's confused as to why I have 2 diaries: one my friends and he can read and one they can't. Boggles his mind. Kind of like how he can play Stronghold 2 and God of War all the livelong day boggles mine."