Below are the 13 most recent journal entries recorded in The Burwell Family's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
8:40 pm	Stuff DOI- Took D3 to see Disney on Ice last Friday. He loved it. That is just a short version. Andrew (a skater from Canada) was great and did a full back flip on ice for the crowd, which isn't done by many skaters even today. Surgery - will be going back to work on Monday....finally I guess. It has been some pretty long days sitting around the house. (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
8:57 am	TO the library... Taking D3 to the library today...he loves it there, and I guess it can't be a bad thing for him to get used to finding his away through the stacks. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
4:58 pm	Readings...on Vampires For years, I wasn't reading much even though I learned to read late...I wasn't able to read a book by myself until i was around 12-13 yrs old. Then the only thing I would wade through would be Shakespeare or Stephen King. Funny though I remember my first chapter book I read...A Wrinkle in Time... But that was then...I just finished reading the three books that I got by author Michael Schiefelbein. Vampire Vow and Vampire Thrall were very good. Well, I think. Basically wrote from the idea that the main character hides out as a monk in order to not be located. I like how the author doesn't spend a lot of time dealing with the sex in the books but builds the character quickly and completely so that there aren't very many unanswered questions about him. I also read Blood Brothers, Volume 1 - which I didn't know that there might be more of these. But since he called it volume 1 I am assuming so. It appears that Mr. Schiefelbein has another book called Vampire Transgression that I hope will continue on with the story where Vampire Thrall left off. But the way he left the book it doens't have to have more...but it would be nice to find out if these two nondead men get to "live" their lives as planned...Body and Blood is to be due out soon as well I think... I have heard that Vampire Vow might be made into a movie, or has but I can't seem to find any information to substantiate this...Just seems that a book based on a man who was trying to sleep with Joshu (young Jesus) just might be a bit controversial in its days.... Current Mood: weird Current Music: None (Comment on this)
8:48 am	Schools Daze.... Off to school today, compared to yesterday, I got up on the right side of the bed, hopefully I will be ready to learn my new thing today. I am a firm believer that you learn something new each day or you shouldn't get up. So I wonder what it will be today? (Comment on this)
Monday, January 29th, 2007
10:17 am	Snow and more snow... Finally, winter is here... Current Mood: crappy (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
6:18 pm	Cleaning...and Napping... Yeah, Just another slouchy Saturday...we did clean today for about two hours and haven't got a dent in the mess. Just got the Xmas tree down yesterday finally. Other than that--D3 and I napped while Steph watched the first Batman movie. I think that is going to be the highlight of the day. Current Mood: sore Current Music: BOB 94.7 (Its something new) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, January 19th, 2007
1:57 pm	Are you what you read? Something has been bothering me lately. I have been recently judged by what I have been reading? I am currently reading a series of three books by Michael Schiefelbein called "Vampire Vow", "Blood Brothers", and "Vampire Thrall". Recently a few people have made quite rude comments on how could I read such disturbing pieces of literature. "Vampire Vow" was definitely a vampire novel of a man who hid in monestaries. Now I am almost finished with "Blood Brothers". Up to this point I don't think it is going to be a vampire novel, per say, but I started "Vampire Thrall" and you then realized that there was something missing. I went on the hunt for the second book and realized that it should be read before the third. At which I am hoping to start the next book this weekend. I have always been interested in Vampire Movies since I was a young child. Not that I know everything there is to know about all of them. But I stumbled into these books and realized that they were on Vampires and thought that I would read them. I am quickly learning that there is vast amounts of novels wrote on vampires, some of which are apparently true accounts? I won't judge that. I was always glad that I read when I was younger. I got out of it for years until Steph has been pushing back into it. As most of you know she reads all the time. I have many friends who read all types of books. But I never thought of judging anyone from what they are reading. Well I think I am done with the soap box now. Just occured to me while I was doing some cleaning that it might be good to get that off my chest while I was dwelling. Current Mood: sore (Comment on this)
1:33 pm	A whole Year.... It has been a whole year since I have updated this. Steph and I are starting to feel like somedays we are just not keeping in contact well enough. We are going to try to update this much more often so stop back for our ups and downs and all the great stories of D3. Current Mood: busy (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
4:26 pm	F***ing School You know what: This semester has been the most fucking annoying semester in all my life. Can you beleive that try as hard as I might I can't seem to pass a fricking class this time around. As it stands right now, if I Ace my finals next semester I will be able to get 63% to 65% in both classes. Now how much of a pain in the ass is that. Though I work my ass off for my one professor, I screw up the homework and have to record what he puts down on the board so I have the answers for later...he thinks I just never try! But I digress, why prove anything to him! I shouldn't have to. For the most part most of the class doesn't do the assigned shit anyways. I absolutely love school! Is it possible to fall out of love with it as well. Have I gone too far and maxed what I can learn.!! Well that was a stupid thought, does the mind actually have a limitation or capacity for knowledge....I mean we do forget stuff and constantly replace it with new things... anywhos...I read G! blog on his frusturation and reminded myself that I have been putting too much time into my schooling and not enough into my family and cleaning. I am just too damn pooped after I try my damndest to pass these dang things. i swear that I need to grab the bottles of liquor from the bar and just start a sampling! Started my diet a week ago and I am down 10.8 lbs. I guess that is a good thing. I don't feel my meds have been working well with my OCD problems (as the psych calls them). Of course the OCD is acting up as well as the anxiety issues. ALWAYS anxiety issues this time of the year....why can't the brain just fucking fix itself! I am so frusturated with trying not to clean the house and work on studying that it just drives me nuts! How many people are driven nuts because they can't clean!!!!!!!!! I just try to maek sure that I keep on my med schedule as I need to be. Just because I have good and bad days, I am told, I can't stop taking the meds. ADD - can you believe that you can be diagnosed with adult ADD. They claim that I can't concentrate on something, funny! Why then are the damn credit cards piling up again. I sure have no problem spending money that I don't have and I definitely can concentrate on it! Again, according to the shrink, i "could" have a spending compulsion that has formed (he isn't sure if it is part of the OCD that manifested or a mania. But since I feel bad afterwards he is thinking more towards compulsion. We will see. Can you believe that a compulsion can change form? He thinks just because I am trying to fix on compulsion another one is manifesting? NO SHIT! Do they really pay this man to figure these things out. Now whether it is a mania or not. He nor I know. But I am sure we will find out. I think I need to find a personal therapist who wants a case for a book. What next porn addiction? That will be it, I will be addicted to Inet Porn. I am beginning to think that I am a hyperchondriac. But the psychiatrist doesn't think so. I know though if i go off the meds all hell breaks loose. Well I have to go for now, have to get back to that last law class and see if I can salvage anymore knowledge out of it. db ps G I will get back to you for some of those ideas. Current Mood: confused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, December 2nd, 2005
5:18 pm	Coming up on those days... Sorry guys coming up onto the finals stretch and I am sticking my nose to the grinding stone to survive the best I can. I will update when I can. db Current Mood: crazy (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 6th, 2005
11:16 pm	Wating and Watching Currently just waiting for time to go by so I can schedule my classes for next semester.... Current Mood: tired Current Music: None-- It will wake the baby! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
8:36 pm	Just another manic Wednesday..... Just wanted to pop online and *sigh*. Just finished a huge accounting test and I need to pass this class so that I can continue on with my major and I have a pain in the ass professor! OK now that I am off my block and realized that I am in the same boat that many other college students are I am gonna go and watch some TV with D3. Current Mood: pissed off (Comment on this)
Friday, October 21st, 2005
3:28 pm	In a nutshell First of all what was I thinking: For anyone who knows us - only D3 can fit in a nutshell. Neither Steph nor I will ever be that small again. For someone who is just stopping in while browsing to other more interesting sites, I will let you know that D3 is the nickname that my son got while at a friends birthday party. I am not really feeling well today though I am hanging in there. I messed up some of my meds, yes, meds do exist so that people like me don't hurt people like you :) *not* and I have been having a really rough couple of days. I had to take the day off from work today so that I would be able to rest and relax a little, umm oh yea, and get my meds back on schedule. D3 is napping now so I have a little more time to update this thing since I set it up three weeks ago and haven't done squat with it. SO far lets see, I have cleaned house, (still working on that), updated the check book, and cleaned the pet fountain, fed D3 and still have a little bit on energy left to work on this. Not bad since I have been having a frusturating day managing moods. I used to think that moods and mood modifying drugs were something that was made up to make the world complacent as to what the norms wanted us to be like. BOY was I wrong. The drugs are made so that I can manage the norms that are around me and so that I can keep them around a little longer while I reproduce and take over the world. Now that is a reason to take drugs. OK OK, I know that was a little odd, but you just have to know me. I will live on my little island outside of NYC while others take over the world. Me and my little pests. But for some reason I will make sure that D3 is taking over the world though. Someone told me at school not to think great things about your child and you won't be disappointed when you child doesn't live up to those things. I sat wondering about that lately and came up with this: As a parent I am an example for my child, and for a lot of other people I meet in my life. But I digress, If he never disappoints me, then who has failed, him or me? I am thinking it sure the hell isn't him, it MUST be me! I haven't tought him that it is OK to fail. That you won't be the best at everything and sometimes you come back wondering why you tried at all. You may not know at that time what you learned from failing and you may never know but one thing is for sure. You take something away from all losses. Great winners are also great losers. Isn't healthy for a parent to hope and want the best for their child. To help them learn the ways of obtaining what they want in life and to be there to comfort them when they learn the things that you can't teach them. I have thought that I wanted to teach him everything so he can't be hurt and then I realized. I realized that somethings cannot ever be taught. How do you teach him how to deal with heartache when he thinks he is in love. What do you tell him to expect? I have decided that the person whom told me this first of all, is ignorant and secondly, I found out she has not children. If he comes running home someday with tears running down his face and as he runs for his room, I will be there to let him know that the sun will rise again tomorrow. And although he may think that his life is over, he has just stepped up upon a new stone and take this lesson to heart while he reaches for the stars. Current Mood: complacent Current Music: The Rembrandts (1 Comment |Comment on this)