Monday, May 30, 2011

Monmouth, Memorial Day and No Job

Hello blog readers,

Heather and I went to Monmouth on Saturday to hang out with Stephanie, and I have to say it was a lot of fun.

We met a few friends of hers (unfortunately no pictures), but they’re so nice! We played card games (Brandon and I were owning for a while, then we both lost- bummer!), got dinner at a 50’s diner, and stayed up until 5:30am! It was a good weekend with good people and I am so glad we went up.

*Note: Stephanie’s sisters Missy and Dana were there and we all (her friends too) had lunch at the Bread Board. OMG the best thin pizza ever!!!*

Here are some pictures from the ride up (I had too much fun to actually take pictures the whole time so these are all I have.

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The truck in front of us was mirrored! :)

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This is the view from the sunroof- e were right in the middle of the rain cloud. Only Oregonians would look up and say you’ve got about 3 minutes of pouring rain ahead of you! Haha

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This is the cutest little house!

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Marilyn did an amazing job straightening Heather’s hair!

 

Today is Memorial Day so (even though I do this every day) I want to say thank you every serviceman, their family and everyone else who has put their lives in danger for our freedom. Another special thank you to lose who gave their lives for us to keep ours. You were all a special kind of person: the best kind.

 

On another (less sad) note, I have been job searching like crazy, but haven’t found anything yet. :( It’s really hard not to get disheartened. All I can think about is my car insurance payments are coming up soon, and that I still need to get my stuff shipped back from dad’s house. UGH! Hopefully soon all my good Karma will help me out.

 

Anyways, I hope you all have a great day and I will talk to you soon,

Kristen

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Tai and Kristen Go Veggie Rules!

 

Hey blog readers,

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First of all if you don’t know this is Tai! He has a Youtube so don’t forget to subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/iPodTai

 

Anyways, Tai and I finally settled on the terms/ rules of our Vegetarian challenge:

  • NO:
    • Seafood
    • Pork (no bacon!)
    • Turkey
    • Chicken
    • Beef
  • 1 post Per day/ person
    • Food Diary in each blog must include 3 meals (or snacks)

 

I added some rules in for me to follow as well:

  • At least 1 post per day
  • Daily Exercise
  • Daily Water Consumption
  • 1 good Veggie recipe per week

 

This “challenge” will go from June 1st, 2011 to June 30th, 2011, and we will have weekly check in’s with each other to check out our progress.

 

http://taikristengoesveggie.blogspot.com/

Thank you all for reading and please follow our new Veggie blog! We’ll have introductions up within the week:

http://taikristengoesveggie.blogspot.com/

Having three blogs is going to be difficult!

 

Lots of love,

Kristen

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Bingo, Contacts, Road Trips and Vegetarian Challenges

Hey blog readers, it’s Kristen!

So I wanted to give you all a quick update on life

 

First of all: still no job :( I’m frustrated and annoyed, but I’m still going to keep plugging along.

Second, my parents and I went to Bingo last Friday and had a blast. If you want to hit the Bingo hall, go down to Sunset Bingo in Beaverton. The people rock and you could win a grand in one night!

Third, I finally got my prescription for contacts finalized! Thank goodness. I am so excited to finally have contacts again.

Next Friday my cousin Chase is graduating High School. Congratulations to him!

Unfortunately I can’t go because I have to be home the next afternoon for Heather and I to go to Monmouth and visit Stephanie :) I am so excited for Girl’s night. I can’t wait to hang out with them again

 

For the month of June Tai Le and I will be adopting the vegetarian lifestyle. We haven’t settled all the rules yet, but I will update you in a different blog post later.


Just another life update

 

Thanks for reading and don’t forget to read my other blog Living Pagan.

Have an awesome week, and I’ll talk to you all soon,

Love,

Kristen

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Update and a second blog!

Hello Blog readers!

To be honest this blog is really a vlog, so please watch the video :)

 

http://newlyoutedpagan.blogspot.com/

So I hope everyone will go to the new blog and at least attempt to understand what I believe in. If not that’s cool too.

http://newlyoutedpagan.blogspot.com/

That’s all for right now, I love you all very much and I hope you have an awesome week.

Love,

Kristen

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Flu, Fired, Weekends, Mothers and Dogs

Hey everyone, so I’ve had the flu for the past week that quickly turned into the flu with two ear infections. Yuck! Then I got my mom sick too! Double yuck.

Anyways, so last week I got a call from one of my bosses at DSW. The store wasn’t doing as well as hoped and they weren’t going to continue with me, but they would keep my application for later if they had open positions. So now I’m out of a job. :( So I’ll be putting some job search blogs up again I’m sure. *Of course I find this out after I order some stuff from The Body Shop. I have terrible timing.)

We also got our floors finished, but I don’t have the pictures ready yet, so I’ll show you the before and after shots soon enough. *Because of the floors we don’t have blinds on one of our windows and because of it the birds think there’s a tunnel going through our house so they are flying Kamikaze style into the window. Poor birdies (No birds were harmed in the making of this blog)*

On Saturday it was Katie’s birthday party (While yesterday was her actual birthday) and I made her a blue turtle, and bought her a green dinosaur.

Sunday was Mother’s Day and the day went as follows:

  • Finished up my garden (which will be another blog post)
  • Went to Josh’s grandparent’s for a Fiesta!! (There was even a piƱata)
  • Came home and gave my mom her present

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I bought my mom a new album for her wedding pictures for mother’s day

  • Later that day we took JR to the train station for a business trip
  • Then I bought Mom some ice cream and watched some Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and went to bed.

It was an awesome day and I’m so grateful for everything that my mom has done for me. She’s my best friend and I’m so proud to have her as my mom.

Random: I decided that I wanted to grow out my hair to see if I could get it long enough for Locks of Love. If it doesn’t get long enough then I’m going to have really long hair! Haha

Today I went to the dog park with Josh and the dogs and I had a blast! Enjoy some cute dog park videos!

That black dog was all over moose!

Thanks so much for reading and I’ll do some more blogs later this week (I hope)

Lots of Love and medication,

Kristen

Sunday, May 1, 2011

The Real Reason I Deleted You Two

Hey blog readers, happy Sunday!

Before I get into the blog I know I promised you a harassment blog and it’s obvious that I’m not going to post it today. I want to say that I wrote that blog in the wrong light for me to feel okay with it being published. It was written to tear someone down and that wasn’t supposed to be my intention, so I’m going to re-write it and eventually I will post it. Thank you for your patience.
*Update: The Harassment blog may end up being published but to be honest everything’s a little bit better right now so we’ll see how things progress before I post that.

Now I want to plug an amazing singer next, her name is Cecilia. If you haven’t listened to her please do, she’s amazing. Her voice is beautiful and soulful and the whole reason I began to sing. I love her first album “Voice of the Feminine Spirit”. It is still my favorite album of hers. Please go check her out :)

On another note I want to talk about the privacy policy I’ve instilled on this blog. It’s pretty simple: For privacy reasons I don’t put the names of people I’m fighting with, and/or dislike. I just think that doing that is rude and disrespectful.

However, I do have a 100% honesty policy laid down for this blog. Without names I will be honest about what’s going on and how I feel about it. That’s a promise because if you all are going to take the time to read this blog then I should take the time to tell the truth. If you don’t like it then I wouldn’t suggest reading this blog.

Now to the real reason for this blog- Two weeks ago I posted this paragraph “ I also made the executive decision to delete a few people from my life. Their negative outlook on myself and my relationship are ridiculous. They thought they knew everything about me and who I am, but they didn’t, and I didn’t need to be upset by them everyday so they’re gone, and I feel free :)
I am really shocked by how much that single paragraph (that I forgot I even wrote) has affected these people. I don’t know if it was because I wrote it on the blog, or they didn’t expect it but apparently they were very upset and I realize I didn’t explain why I did it.

First off, let’s get some background information down for those of you who are out of the loop:
The girl that I deleted I’ve known since 7th grade. I remember sitting in class and giving her a hug when she and her (now ex) broke up. I remember being proud of her when she was voted into our class’s Leadership program. I remember watching her dance in assemblies and being in awe at the grace that she portrayed.
The boy and I met our Freshman year when he was dating my best friend. We got closer and obviously things progressed. Even after we ended we were still friends. He’s got a dry sense of humor, but he’s a good person. It may take him a while but when he lets you in he really shows you who he is. He’s funny, smart and the best person to have your back.

About Why I deleted certain people from my life

To be honest I’m going to miss them, but they’ve made it clear that I’m not their choice for Josh’s girlfriend so I’ve just decided it would be better to get rid of them. I don’t want to always be thinking about what they think rather than who they are.
I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but I really need to do this for me. We didn’t talk much before I deleted them, and we weren’t going to anyways, but it still sucks that it had to end on such a bad note.

Josh and this couple are still friends (and have been for years!) but just because the three of us aren’t friends doesn’t mean that Josh’s friendships with them will be affected.

Anyways, I just wanted to write this all out there just to put my thoughts ad reasons into words. I didn’t delete them to be a vindictive bitch, I did it because I was tired of being told I wasn’t good enough.
I’ll be blogging a bit more this week since I don’t really work, but I don’t know for sure what days. Have a great week everyone!
Lots of love,
Kristen