Hello Loves
just giving you a heads up I'm deleting my 'photo accounts'
on redbubble and... instacanvas
I just found other photo sharing ways
annnnd.. DIY things too!
so lets save our money!
besides... the companies get like... 87% of the money anyways! yeesh!
I'll keep you posted!
I'll also write a less lame blogpost soon.
Love Kristen

thankful to urinate and poop in peace

A treasured valued friend and I were talking on the phone today
(one of the very few people I will talk on the phone with)

annnd.. we were talking about some pretty deep stuff.
like.. health related stuff.
like.. sad, upsettting worrisome stuff..

so..
lets not take things for granted k?

"like... think how many days you go to the bathroom in the day without even thinking about it. Some people its just not that easy. like... think about how often you sit on the toilet and multitask by texting on your phone or something" 

"yeah.. i pooh and text all the time!!"

see? serious stuff. (and actually those things I just quoted.. WAS in a serious context)
but seriously...
think about it k? how you really don't think about how grateful you are that you can urinate in your own home without the help of someone else. without the struggle to even GET too the toilet.

like.. some people aren't that lucky
.. and we should be thankful and appreciative

(no. not just because thanksgiving is around the bend.

 and no thanksgiving has nothing to do with this blog post!)

I love you valued treasured friend of which I was speaking on the cellular device with. I'll be crossing my fingers till I hear news from you again. (I will also be crossing my fingers that this stressful school week coming up will be easy breezy beautiful, and you actually get some snoozing time in!)

roses are red, school is pooh

sometimes..
if I am super lucky
(and Aryk has time)
I will come home from a likely long day
to find a super cute note!
you know..

"hey you, hope you had a great day with ______ and that ______ and ____________. I will see you later!  Love you! Aryk"

or something like that..

anyways..
I got up in the morning, 
when Aryk was already long gone off to school

and

saw a note

which immediately has me going 
"WAHooo!!"

smiling away to myself,

heart all pleased

tralala

birds chirping

fawns a prancing

or something like that. 

He makes me feel special when I get notes okay?!

and now! leaving the privacy from our own home!

into the public life of my blog

THEEEE "I think of you when I get up, and want your day to be beautiful"

LOVE NOTE:

...oh.

Roses are Red

Violets are blue

I love you Aryk

but your 'love notes' are pooh.

my happy babes

Appleeverythingmaniarama

It's been apple mania!! I have a giant apple tree in my backyard and I refuse not to use this apples as much as possible! It's unfortunate that the boyfriend is allergic to apples.. Fortunate that he is not allergic to cooked apples! :)

upside down smile ish

so...
unfortunately things in my life right now (okay.. year 2012 in general) is not being very rainbows, butterflies and unicorns (can you imagine if it were??!).. if you were wondering how many times this 'Kristen' girl can get beaten down on her luck.. well.. its hundreds of times.. involving ALL areas in her life.

(one of the reasons I started this blog in fact

 is to have me continue to look at the things in a

positive, funny light)

but.. it seems as though not many are wanting to do this whole 'hug it out and be happy' way of life... instead its lots of pushing Kristen to the ground and kicking her, leaving lots of bumps and bruises (especially on her heart)

as Kristen was telling Aryk yesterday

  "Its like if one thing in my life was going wrong it would be like one gun shot to the heart... which most people could handle just fine and end up surviving to tell the tale. But when someone gets shot more than once.. they are experiencing LOTS more blood loss, and have many spots they have to pay attention to on putting pressure on that wound, and its very difficult to 'hang in there'" 

mostly just blows at Kristen's personality is how she is taking it..

BE STRONG KRISTEN

HANG IN THERE KRISTEN

2012 IS ALMOST DONE KRISTEN

you should go travelling again Kristen..

anyways..
just when you spend a little to much time
(as in any time at all) 
sulking, and self put downs, pouting.. all those lame things..
you open your email to get a simple email from your Uncle with this photograph

and its like all these sucky things aren't that sucky anymore.. cause even though all these things SUCK and your down on your lows... someone is thinking of you... and someone is out there wanting you to smile.. without any kind of acknowledgement that you are at that current moment BEFORE the email NOT smiling. 

as a reminder.. that I always try to remind myself... WE 

(as in everybody)

have not a clue what is going on in peoples lives... 

so we must treat everyone with love and bring them happiness in their lives. 

Friendly smiles, holding doors open... it just causes peoples hearts to feel a little lighter. 
seriously.. its like hugging it out and being happy. WITHOUT frightening a random stranger that you are randomly hugging them.. 

you know.. same same but different?

Check out this great MSN video - Hero Pig Rescues Baby Goat

 Hero Pig Rescues Baby Goat

SERIOUSLY?!!! my heart is all warm an fuzzy and everything from watching this!!!
GOSH do I ever love animals :)
tralalaalalala alalaa
happy world happy world

no poo for you

yesterday I used up the end of my shampoo bottle..
today?

today I made my own shampoo

'being poo free' is what the Internet tells me

gotta admit.. I'm kinda frightened! yet nerdly excited!! (if it works)

how did I make it? and what makes this ingredients so intriguing?
well.. first off may I point out that regular shampoo is what actually messes up your hair in the first place? if your hair is dry.. or lacking moisture... oily or.. dull.. its cause of your shampoo?
as well as chemical this chemical that...

well.. after much looking like a 'odd and very suspicious' person in the grocery store (wandering up and down the toiletry isle lost and confused) I came to the conclusion that 'castile soap' doesn't exist at this particular store.
NOOOO! I already got everything! and my MAIN PURPOSE OF COMING TOO THE GROCERY STORE IS FOR MY NO POO SHAMPOO INGREDIENTS! 
so I took out my handy iPhone, and looked up SUBSTITUTES for castile soap.
good grief! I already don't know what i'm doing! I already don't know what castile soap might do to my hair.. and I'm looking for alternatives?
icarumba! 

'ivory' soap is what i ended up getting as its replacement.. Aloe smelling
- hopefully Aloe is actually IN this soap for Aloe is good for making your hair strong, think, healthy, which means moisturrrrreee!! and smoooothness! as well for aloe is used to make the 'base' of the hair cleaner, it helps so the cleaning product doesn't strip the natural oils from your hair. It is also known for treating hairloss (no I am not losing my hair) and hair growth- which might be handing for my hair is at that inbetween stage..  It is wonderful for you scalp, so goooood by dandruff, which also means goooooood bye 'Head and shoulders' shampoo THAT TESTS ON ANIMALS

I also got a can of coconut milk -> which is good for natural curls in your hair, helping PREVENT PREMATURE GREY HAIRS (apparently getting grey hairs in my late twenties should be a fear of mine) lots of same stuff as aloe... no breakage, works as a conditioner, helps your hair grow.. just think healthy hair!

annnnnd vitamin E liquid form in the pills section (at this point I realise I am watching toooooo much 'Breaking Bad' because I am starting to feel like I look like I'm gathering ingredients to make illegal drugs which is why I've been spending so much time in the grocery store just standing there... contemplating stuff..)
Vitamin E is good for decreasing sun damage to skin (I sunburn the 'part' to my head every summer.. okay pretty much everytime I go outdoors..)  when rubbing into your scalp it is good for improving circulation as well as your immune system! 

1/3 soap with aloe

1/4 coconut milk

few drops vitamin E oil..

and.. HOPEFULLY non-greasy hair... and no chemicals, and and and money saving?

Pretty much any of these vehicles are ones I love. Therefore I live this

http://radcarswithradsurfboards.tumblr.com/

cup, floor, bathroom

              Dear Aryk..

there is a cup, on the floor, in the bathroom...

why? 

cause there is one of those giant spiders... under the cup, in the floor, in the bathroom..

AND she has a babies pack on her butt..

 so she's extra giant.. annnnd... fangy,..

sooo...

why is she under the cup ..on the floor... in the bathroom??

1. couldn't kill her

2. couldn't just LEAVE her there! 

(I would have.. but I was about to take a shower)

3. I couldn't pick her up and save her either..

soooooo.... beware of the spider, in the cup, on the floor... in the bathroom.

             Love Kristen. 

OH! and she can breathe because I put her under the cup which I burned the sides of when

 i put it near the burner a few months ago..  :) yay life!

2012 top photographs

my eyes just kept seeing gorgeousness over and over and over.
I was trying to think of something to say to give a introduction to you about this website... but there isn't.
even if I did have more of a expanded vocabulary.
so
hope you enjoy it as much as I

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/06/top-50-pictures-of-the-day-for-2012/

weekend shenanigans!

a hoodlum without a hood... 

yep. thats what they'd call me!

not only am I spending my saturday evening washing pillows.

but I am washing pillows with tennis balls. 

(unused fresh out of the package.. ew gross! to otherwise!)

EH? WHAT? 
I know.. its kinda loud.. 
and sounds like someone is angry and not giving up on the door knocks.. 
BUT its not really my laundry machine... so I'm willing to see how well this works!
apparently putting it in the dryer with you pillows 'beats out' your pillows so all the moisture and yuck gets the boot with the tennis ball... I'm willing to try it! for I don't like the idea of all the bugs and stuff that march around on (or in) your pillow...

I ALSO have created things for allergy and cold season (more on that likely tomorrow)

and currently I am awaiting 'apple chips' to be ready from the oven!
(hahahah funny.. cause the timer JUST went off!)
(but don't worry... I'd stop blogging now.. but I have to take them out of the oven and then I have to turn off the oven wait a bit and then put it back in the oven! whewf! drying it out!)

the instructions say to use like normal apples... but since we have a ginormous apple tree in the backyard.. I figured now would be a perfect time to use some of them!

sooo...
you cut apples small slices...
soak the apples in apple juice (I didn't do this for I'm cheap and wanted to be cheap so I used water)
annnnd cinnamon (in the instructions it said 1tsp but I thought that was lacking so I added more)
then you let it soak 12 minutes or so... I'm lazy (and smart) so instead of cutting them and THEN soaking them... I cut and soaked at the same time.. lots of mini chop chops.. i'm sure its less time consuming for normal sized store bought apples.. 

but.. 

meh!

This is FREE!!

you have a pan.. and then a drying rack ON TOP of the pan (shocker... our oven is toooo small for the drying rack... so i'm cooking these with the oven semi open.. which is fine with me cause it smells soooooooooo wonderful!) 
cook it 20 minutes... blog
take it out
wait... (for how long? I do not know!!)
and then when its cooler.. in the oven..
you put it in for 6 or so minutes..

and POOF! you should have chips!

SOMEONE CALL THE COPS

 I AM OUT OF CONTROL!!!