Random and Odd

ok. not good. probably bad.

  • Totally Brain-Dead

    I was looking for a neighbor on MySpace because she mentioned that ‘oh, you should add me.’ and instead of doing the simple thing like, oh…asking her last name, email address or her screen name, I decided that spending WAY too much time trying to find someone instead of calling her and just ASKING one…

  • SPF: Youth

    How many weekends were spent at the mall searching for JUST the right pair of jeans? Many. Not that I could afford them, but I searched. As a parent of teenagers, I don’t understand how more gun accidents didn’t happen in our home. DID YOU PLAY?

  • putting on my stride rites

    Ever watch a movie and then afterward you’re all like, I want to be that, him, her, that life? Right now. I am Holly Kennedy from P.S. I Love You. I’ve been on this weird movie kick. In the last 7 years I can count how many times I’ve wanted to go to Hollywood Video…

  • I still wish they would create a monitor that has scratch and sniff!

    SPF REMINDER: June 20 -Youth. A child isn’t actually needed at all for this picture. Capture something that means ‘youth’ to you. Mine, hands down are roller skates. I can still smell the cotton candy and feel the butterflies in my stomach thinking about the ’snowball dance’ Wouldn’t it so bad ass if they had…

  • Missing Her. Sort of.

    Alyx is in Redding for a week visiting my mom and sister.  She called me after the first two days and I was almost certain that I would never see my daughter again. She went into an obscene amount of detail on everything that Auntie Kathy has been feeding her.  She is sort of picky…

  • Sometimes to keep it together, you have to leave it alone

    Alright, I’m ready to talk. It’s not too hard to figure out the combination of not eating, listening to The Commodores on repeat and chain smoking.  Marital problems. For those of you that have been reading from day one know that the river that Shaun and I float on is not always smooth sailing.  In…

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Why I Started My Personal Blog

I started Random and Odd back in 2002 or so because it was all the rage and my mom and sister were perpetually online either playing games or finding recipes.
I decided that I wanted to be able to write what I was going through as a parent and keep them updated on what the girls were saying or doing. It started out just a way for me to vent, rant or laugh about life.
It turned into more when other people outside of my mom and sister started reading it and through the years it was just a place for Stuff Portrait Fridays, meeting other people blogging and making those people friends. It was a place to put down a photo I took that I was proud of and then it was a place to talk about the traveling I was doing. Now it’s just a dumping ground of bullshit that is swirling in my head.

I want to get back to writing, taking photos and traveling and doing a complete redo of R & 0 was needed to document.
Enjoy the minimalist look.

Kristine

Photographer & Writer