Observations at the dentist office

Today I had to go to the dentist. Not exactly the most exciting way to spend your Monday, but It had to be done. And honestly (Oh man, am I celebrating or what?) I don't like dentists, offices or anything that goes on inside there. There's way to much pain and not enough fun. And stuffy assistants? No Thanks.

First of all, there's the issue of personal space. Dentist have a way of getting in your personal space bubble. They lay machines on your chest and stick hands in your mouth and basically ruin the experience that was never meant to be enjoyed. They tilt you back so far you are positive your are going to fall into a big head over heels heap at their feet. Then they stick a light an inch from your face and talk.....like it's no biggie.

Then, the gloves. Have you noticed how smelly those are? They smell badly of plastic latex with a little powder-ish stuff mixed in. And then they go about 1 inch from your nose. And with nothing to do other than count sheep or look up your dentists nose, you have to resign to the gloves. The stinky gloves. I once went to a dentist who had scented gloves. OH MY. They were amazing. They were grapey and goodey and smelled just like kids medicine. (By the way, that's a good thing.)

And finally (although I could go on) speaking to your hygienist. I never understand which degree of conversation I should go for. Are we swapping stories like lifelong friends, or should we be exchanging civil pleasantries like newly introduced people? Should we be talking about the weather, my schooling habits, your kids who's pictures are plastered all over? People who fluently speak hygienist amaze me. I kind of wish I could learn that language, but on the other hand, I don't go to the dentist enough to put it to good use. I should just learn French. That's way more practical.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for understanding my pain. Thank you for going through this with me.

Getting your teeth cleaned can be a very hard thing to go through alone. I'm so glad you are here.

Sincerely,
And I came home and read about barbies....

CATCHING FLIES.

Zippers are essential to life and pants. Without them, we would be seeing way to much of London and France and it would not be pleasant. But, unfortunately, I may or may not unintentionally give random citizens a view of my London and France simply because I forgot to zip my pants. (As we just learned, I forget some essential things!)  Now, I'm not an idiot (although you may wonder) But if my pants have other contraptions up top, like the double clip thing or a button inside, they're the ones to blame. I get so busy working on those guys I forget my trusty zipper has been left naked and unzipped. To Much info? Moving on...

I now share a rest stop story. For those of you that don't travel by car cross country, rest stops are exciting places. People who have been sitting in a car for 8 hours straight, stand up, and become alive. They sometimes do abnormal things. Things get weird in the car for that long, and eventually, you've just gotta let it out. So anyway, here I am in Kansas. I walked out of the bathroom, and there are 2 men sitting on a bench by the sidewalk. At first, they seem normal. But not so. They were a typical case of Rest Stop Weirdos. So I walk by and they start belting "SHE'LL BE CATCHING FLIES.....SHE'LL BE CATCHING FLIES." I was officially creeped out, so I retreated to the car. When I told Mom and Dad, they both started laughing and told me to check my zipper. Sure enough, it was open. Not only had I once again left my zipper open, but had walked past everyone at the rest stop AND had grown men not so casually sing about it. And in Kansas, word travels fast. There is not much to talk about other than cows and corn, so if someone leaves their zipper open, they're the talk of the town. I'm sure they mayor heard about it. And maybe if the corn and cows were not doing anything exciting that day, the governor heard too. You never know in Kansas.

My advice? Check your zippers twice. You do not want to be the laughing stock of a rest stop. EVER.

Sincerely,
Be a Zipper Nazi. You'll thank yourself later.

I wish I was a blond

(This is from Friday's Celebration, I've been meaning to post it for the past few days, but every time I tried, something came up. Enjoy!)

I like story's! I love listening to people tell stories and I do enjoy telling them myself. There are certain people who I always ask the same question so they always tell me the same story. They are filling my need for stories and don't even know it! And you do the same thing sometimes too, admit it. I also hate repeating myself multiple times when telling my great adventures. Seriously, if I'm telling you this story, you should be listening.

That being said, I have a lot of stories I could tell you. I could tell you about my vaulting at sports, or my wonderful driving experience, how many times I've talked to people who are talking to someone else but I though they were talking to me. I have a great story for zipper day, but as for today? Well I don't really know which one to start with.

Today in the car Mom and I were discussing how Tricia (a girl who's my age) is doing calculus and I'm still in preschool. (i mean seriously, What is calculus anyway? Scoff if you like but I really don't know.) we continue on and then I say "I'm still in the one plus one is three stage." I said that with a straight face. It was not a joke. And 2.5 seconds later I was checking the roots of my hair to make sure they weren't  blond. Just kidding, but I wish they were. It might give me a little excuse for my inability to do math, especially while joking.

And to clear things up, I do know 1+1=2. I just forgot. And if I forgot that, then you can pretty much imagine all the other things I forget.

Three cheers for story's, simple math and embarrassing moments. Now if you'll excuse me, I'd like to go get my math book. And dye my hair.

Happy {Fri} Day:: 4/27

Yay, I'm back with my Happy {Fri} Day! Maybe I'm the only one cheering, but who cares. I am so excited for this weekend because I actually get to relax! Now, nothing really was stopping me from relaxing before, except for myself. I was so worried about homework, but now I have none at all. Are you getting the feeling that I'm really thrilled?

I really want to get myself back into celebrating, so I'm making it a goal to celebrate the first 16 days of May. My favorite memories from last summer are all the celebrating, I intend to relive it as best I can.

Happy Weekend! What things are you looking forward to this weekend? XOXO, Kryn

Slurpee Happiness

 (This post does not have much to do with slurpee's.)

I am so happy! Having our final class be today is just so amazing! I stress really bad with homework. On Friday I start worrying because I only have 4 days left till class and It was just obnoxious. But now - no more deadlines, no more early mornings (not really true, but i like to think so.), basically its all good now. Oh, and I got to have soda. Major woot. I think the last time I had it was July. It was so nice of our teacher to bring us all Slurpee. And Coke ones at that! And now, I have so much free time. I have a feeling my time will be spent taking pictures, messing with Sophie and hopefully sewing. And don't worry, I will do a celebration soon! I've been meaning to celebrate all week. (Oh, Happy World Penguin day!)

What things are making you happy today? Hope your day was just as great!

For the love of floral

I have always adored all things floral. I know I would feel ashamed if I ever stopped liking them.  I just think things floral are just so pretty! I cant really help how I feel about them. They are girly and sweet and everything perfect. I can stop now, because I'm just going to keep going on and on...so anyway, here are some adorable florals perfect for spring.

(From Zara, Kate Spade, and Anthropology.)

A much needed update

Wow, do I win the lame blogger award or what? And sadly, this is definitely not the first time I've been eligible. My week consider of free McDonalds breakfast (which was glorious) testing, giving a speech (and forgetting my camera) and topping of off getting really sick. Oh the joy. My week was actually really great, so don't think that's why I didn't get around to posting (or making) a Happy {Fri} Day post. The reason was that yesterday I was just to sick to get my rear in gear ( that always make me laugh. Proves I am a cheese ball.) and whip something up.

So since I'm lazy... How about a highs and lows?

Highs:
Blue ribbon for our speech
Egg Mcmuffin
You light up my life for the piano
Bridesmaids marathon

Lows:
Being sick
Bad Monk
Missing 2nd to last sports

With that being said, I'm going to gonnna stuff my face with cheese its. Amen.

Happy {Fri}Day:: 4/13

 

This week I've been studying up for testing. I'm actually kind of excited. I was always the "I wanna go to school" homeschooler, mostly because I wanted to have a locker and ride a bus. (and the tissues. Of course.)  So testing is sort of my  yearly little schoolish adventure. And in case you were wondering, I do get giddy when riding buses. It's the deprived homechooler in me.

And one last thing is that I hate this time of year! Everything is ending the same week, and I'm going to have absolutely nothing to do. On second thought, it sounds kind of amazing. I think I could get used to being a lazy person. And by saying that I totally mean I'm not.... I think Ray Comfort would call me a liar. Happy Friday! What things made your week great?
 

B&WPD

 (That stands for black and white punk dilemma. I thought you'd like to know that.)

I'm having a dilemma. I can never decide if I like black and white photos. Sometimes I love it. But with all the fancy stuff you can do now with photography, it seems kind of a waste to make it black and white. I'm un decided. But anyway , for some reason, I always make pictures of Sophie black and white. I think its because she practically  is  black and white - so I don't need to fix much when I change the color. Do you prefer color or black and white? xoxo, Kryn

The Shade of Lemonade

Lately, I have been loving all colors bright and happy. In other words: Lemon. I know, I usually hate Lemon (and all shades of yellow) but very now and then I go through yellow/lemonade loving spurt. I never like butter yellow though. I hate it. But anyway, I love shades of lemonade. As I've been telling you throughout this entire post.  Lemonade just makes yellow sound pretty, and pretty yellow is like sunshine and sunshine is happiness. Right? Right.

I'm glad we've cleared that up.

Lemon overload? Never. What colors are you loving? xoxo...kryn

Birds?

 It's draw a bird day.  When I was compiling my list, I thought I might as well add this one and give it a shot. Well, I did. And at the same time, I didn't. I didn't really draw birds. I drew morphed little penguin/thumb creatures with mustaches and carrots for noses and crescent moons for wings. And no bird like qualities what so ever. Apparently I missed the bird part of the day. I should have just thrown the whole idea out and gone with draw an alien day.

You'll see what I mean...

#1: Italian/potato inspired bird
#2: Straight necked
#3 Rubber Duck (ducks are birds right??)
#4 Midget Birdie
#5 Could be Pinocchio's pet 
#6 Semi Bird like
# 7 Artistic Failure

So there you have it. And let me tell you, I really wish I could draw! I'm not completely sure how I'll get through life not being able to illustrate the littlest things. I think I'm going to have to rely on my ability to blab to get me through my adult life. Or my superior eavesdropping skills. Both are highly sought after. Or so I'm Told.

How did your draw a bird day festivities go? xoxo...Kryn

UPDATE: Well, apparently I don't count well because I forgot to define #6. And that was the most bird like of all my drawings.

Easters Past

Every year, Easter brings back many, many, memories. For some reason, I always remember me sitting on the stairs yelling at mom about hard boiled eggs. I remember weird things. Another Easter I had a sleepover, another one I FINALLY had age appropriate clothing. I always remember the egg dying and the ham eating and church going too. But this Easter (this as in, that I was so little that I didn't know that when I sang I sounded like a frog,) was by far the most memorable. And by this I also mean about 10 years ago.

 Rewind to when I was a little, cute girl. Rewind a little past before Easter to Palm Sunday. Then, you come to this: 

None of us really know why or actually what went down that Palm Sunday. But yes, basically, My best friend was hitting me in the face with a palm branch. On Sunday. In front of the entire church. I think its where I got my gift of multi tasking. I was trying to sing, remain looking cute and figure out why she was hitting me (as I was doing in the picture #1) I vividly remember me begging her to stop. But apparently she never heard me. She continued to whop me on the face throughout Jesus Loves me or whatever we were singing. Oh and get a load of my authentic Jerusalem Garb. It's just awesome.

So that is my #1 Easter memory. I think it will always top all others because it is really quite funny. What is your favorite Easter memory?

The real thing about Easter

Happy Easter Everyone! As much as I love all the Easter foof (Peeps, Easter Dresses, Egg Hunts, yada yada.) The basic fact of the day is that Jesus is risen. And that is totally the best part. How many other days of the year do we celebrate our savior, creator and our salvation? Not nearly as many as we should. So stop gorging yourself on candy for a second (although I encourage it.) and have a wonderful Easter celebrating what matters most - Jesus. And PS: Enjoy your ham if you are a pig predator.

10 things {the punk}

 For the fun of it, I thought I'd switch it up and do 10 things about Sophie. Yes, I know she is only a lowly canine, but she really is an interesting specimen.

1. She is very impatient and vocal.
2. Her recent favorite pastime is lizard chasing.
3. A delicious treat to her is a paper towel.
4. My bed is her bed.
5. Besides my bed, she naps in the sun, near me, or on a beanbag (she looks hilarious!)
6. Sophie is scared of the vacuum.
7. She has run away once. It was a very bad day.
8. When she wants to get out of my room in the morning, she hops on my bed and starts licking my face.
9. She has an over abundant love for strangers.
10. She ignores cats.

Ended with a bang there didn't we? Cats arn't quite as exciting as Sophie. I'm sorry, but it's true. And a bonus point is that Sophie has been sprayed with perfume before. And I can't exactley plead innocent here. I'm just showing love....right? Absolutely! I think.

Happy {Fri}Day:: 4/6

Hi lovelies!
I don't know why, but today seems like the perfect Friday. I think it's because I am wearing a dress, had my most favorite muffins eva, and the big brother has friends here which means I can use my household famous spying skills. I finally got my room clean, lots of homework is finished and I am making progress on my map world torture map.

I'm am dreaming of summer big time! Do you have any big summer plans? I'm doing swim team, maybe volleyball camp and hopefully babysitting, bowling and lots and lots of Popsicle eating. When you have orange cream Popsicles, you know it's summer. I've also decided that I need to build arm muscles because at the moment, I have zero. I can't even pretend to do a push up. A girl one. I know I'm way to young to use the "I'm old " excuse, but I'm going to either a.) get some muscle or b.) find good excuses. I think A will work better in the long run, but it will be tough. (And I reserve the right to take back everything I've said about building arm muscles. I'm kind of lazy, sheesh.)

April Goals

I decided to try monthly goals simply to keep me busy. I love being busy and when I have stuff mapped out I am much more productive than when I freestyle. Basically, there will be only personal goals, but if I had a business or did anything else awesome, there would be other categories.

Personal Goals:
Clean the Pie Safe
Run more (work out, whatever.)
Practice drawing
Spend more time reading/studying the bible
Memorize verses
Finish my polka dot dress
10 minute pick up in my room each day
Take the puppies out every morning, no complaining
Get up earlier
Make French toast.

Um,'I've been wanting French toast? See the top part of this post to understand why French toast makes it on my personal goal list. And if I clean the pie safe, it might just be a miracle. And you might just hear about it.

Are you setting goals? What do you hope to accomplish this month? xoxo...kryn

April is Awesome

 I am so excited for April!! I don't really know why, but I am. I think it might be because school ends and because summer is almost here. I know I just got over telling you how magical spring is and blah blah, but am already ready for summer. I'll probably be sharing the glories of fall in July. My internal calendar is only slightly odd. Did you know that in the summer I am addicted to orange cream Popsicle's? Well one summer some friends cam to visit us and we ate orange cream Popsicle. ALL the time (and watched return of the jedi 8 times!), so now it just seems like something you should always eat in summer.

  And every one knows, today is April fools. I, personally, don't get the all the excitement. I mean, if you have a great joke to play one someone, awesome. But if not, you spend the entire day thinking up lame punk ideas that fail. It's kind of a sad day for the rest of us because we wish we could all think up something cool. So generally, I don't participate in April Fools Day Festivities. Although one time I played a great joke on Kj. I tied a rubber band around the sprayer (for lack of a better term) on the sink and so when he went to wash his hands he got sprayed all over. It was fantastic. Until he pointed it at me and I got soaked
Are you punking anyone today? please tell me, I think I should plan for next year to make up for all the years I' have not participated.  Xoxo, Kryn

PS: Click the picture (okay, words) to go to and see This months celebrations!