I try to take it one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once. When that happens, things get backlogged and I try to catch...
31 December 2009
27 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: XIX, XX, & XXI
December 19th--Car ride. I guess you all know what is coming now. April 15th. Car ride of the year, I guess. There's a blog post about i...
21 December 2009
The First Day
Today will be my first day of working at a carpet cleaning place, working on their company records and stuff. I am a wee bit nervous. In oth...
17 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: XVIII
December 18th--Shop. A sad but true fact is that Goodwill probably, most definitely, got most of this year's money. It is sad because mo...
17 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: XVII
December 17th--Word or phrase. Multipersonality . 2009 included so many different events, emotions, good days, bad hair days (possibly a bad...
16 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: XVI
December 16th--Tea of the year. Did you know that bamboo tea tastes and smells like fishwater? That sounds gross but it actually isn't. ...
15 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: XV
December 15th--Best packaging. Oh dear. I had an answer for this one but now I've forgotten what it was. I guess I'll come up with s...
14 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: XIII & XIV
December 13th--The best change made in the place you live. I do not know which change was the best. We changed couches in our living room, l...
12 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: XI & XII
December 11th--The best place. No thinking here. It's church, of course. It's, like, the only place where I actually enjoy singing m...
11 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: IX & X
December 9th --Challenge. The greatest challenge in my life is to survive. :) The greatest challenge is the one we all have--to forsake wha...
10 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: VII & VIII
December 7th --Blog find of the year. The prize for this goes to Lucy the Valiant , I think. I found that blog sometime earlier this year wh...
09 December 2009
No Time Like the Present to Procrastinate
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness." -- Charles Bukowski So, today I was going to be all industrious and hardworking and pro...
08 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: V & VI
December 5th --Night out. This one is a tough one. What about the night we had thirteen people over sometime in the middle of May? We mostl...
07 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: III & IV
December 3rd --Article. Well, I really don't read articles. I mean, I run across a few but they don't tend to stick with me and I d...
06 December 2009
The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: I & II
I ran across this this morning, it's a challenge for the month of December. Every day you are given one prompt for reflecting on 2009 a...
04 December 2009
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Kristen's brain is fried and on an extended vacation, she is trying to produce good grades (whatever those are) without it. Kristen is a...
30 November 2009
School, Again
Monday. Eh. I am now a third through my geometry course. Yay! I'm hoping and hoping I can get all this stuff done in time. AhhHHHHHHHH!!...
29 November 2009
Yours Truly Speaks
Today, after lunch and after I sent an email to My Friend Who Needs to Come to My House and See Me, I took off my shoes and put on my hoodie...
28 November 2009
What t' Wear?
Am I the only one who is plagued with this? I feel bad for the people who have the "My closet is full but I have nothing to wear" ...
27 November 2009
Did You Know...
...That if the sun was replaced with the biggest known star it would reach all the way out to Saturn? Did you further know that when somethi...
26 November 2009
Lunch Extraordinaire
I had turkey, sweet potatoes, creamed spinach, croissants, stuffing, fizzy cranberry and concord grape juice, and frozen fruit salad--what d...
25 November 2009
Thanksgiving Eve
I am so glad to have the Thanksgiving Eve service behind me! I really stressed out about my PowerPoint duties because of the fact I really f...
24 November 2009
Cunctation Station
Procrastination is my curse, It brings me so much sorrow. Course I can quit most any time-- In fact, I will! Tomorrow! -- Anonymous So tonig...
23 November 2009
Childhood Career Choices
"I wanted to be an architect when I was a kid, but I couldn't draw because I was always smudging the lines so, I became a computer ...
22 November 2009
One of Those Days
Today was one of those days that made you wish you had a really bad memory. But the funky thing about memory is that you remember the things...
21 November 2009
Chesterton, Chesterton, Oh Chesterton
"'I have wondered,' said the Marquis, taking a great bite out of a slice of bread and jam, 'whether it wouldn't be bett...
20 November 2009
The Wisdom of Lemony Snicket
"Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is somethin...
19 November 2009
New York Photos VI
This is a picture of the Vanderbilt Mansion. This mansion belonged to Frederick Vanderbilt, the last of the Vanderbilts and this was Vanderb...
18 November 2009
New York Photos V
The Korean Art Village. Kelsey taking a picture of the landscape from our table at the Korean Restrauant. We each had a different Korean te...
17 November 2009
School
I wish I was done with school. Not because I'm tired of doing it. Not because I'm eager to go out and get a job. Not because I'm...
16 November 2009
Do You Hear the People Sing?
Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your...
15 November 2009
Day #15
Today is the 15th of November, otherwise known as the 15th day of literary abandonment. Yes, I'm talking about NaNoWriMo, that ridiculio...
07 November 2009
New York Photos IV
We went to a conntinential breakfast in the Villa Roma on Tuesday. The breakfast was at 10:30--who eats breakfast at 10:30?! I guess the pe...
06 November 2009
New York Photos III
The flag we ate lunch under. We sat on the ledge of its base and looked out over New York, Pennsylvania, and New York well eating our packe...
05 November 2009
New York Photos II
The side of the road we'd been driving on and some rock graffiti. Fascinating, I know. New York roads are different from Wisconsin ro...
04 November 2009
New York Photos I
The train fumes were wild. They did some things to some people. I'm too lazy to flip it. :P Kelsey and I within the first two hours o...
03 November 2009
Random Bit From My Tuesday
Daniel and Kristen are dating, and they are the most amusing boy and girlfriend ever. This has been Random Bit From My Tuesday, thanks for r...
02 November 2009
You Raise Me Up
When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary; When troubles come and my heart burdened be; Then, I am still and wait here in the silence, Until ...
01 November 2009
At the End of the Day
At the end of the day there's another day dawning And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise Like the waves crash on the sand Like a ...
30 October 2009
Essay for School
Today I plan to discuss if it is righteous to punish or reward some people for the actions of another and what culture believes about it and...
23 October 2009
Like Gravy Over Mashed Potatoes
On Tuesday we had lunch over New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and under an American flag. We had gone site seeing and ended up in Po...
17 October 2009
Going Away
In one and a half hours I am going away. I'll be off to see the wide, wide world! We, that is, Kelsey, Kate, Heidi, my grandmother, and ...
15 October 2009
14 October 2009
The Creation of Adam
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City was painted by Michelangelo, an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet...
30 September 2009
School Answering Machine Message
Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, plea...
25 September 2009
Vanilla Twilight Chimpmunkified
That is the song Vanilla Twilight by Owl City. I discovered it today (yes, I love Owl City and have for awhile but haven't heard all his...
19 September 2009
Go From the Top of the World to the Bottom
I've been on the go since 6AM this morning. That's almost sixteen hours! That's eight hours left for sleeping which are quickly ...
12 September 2009
Sundays Are Awesome
It seems like, for me, Sunday always comes just in time. It's the day where you go to church, church is very important to me. Sunday is ...
09 September 2009
The Sweetest People I Know
One of the, without a doubt, sweetest people I know is my grandmother. I can't make a complete, ranked list of all the sweetest people I...
08 September 2009
Quote for the Eighth
"My friend and I have recently decided to endeavor NOT to die in our sleep. There is a plethora of reasons for this, but the main one i...
04 September 2009
We Read to Know We Are Not Alone
I am one of those people who enjoys reading very much. One of my favorite things to do is read. Sadly, I haven't got much chance to do i...
02 September 2009
The Other Week at Kristen the Gently Mad
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