Random and Odd

ok. not good. probably bad.

  • “No Sheep, No Collies.” I might need to get some Sheep.

    It’s going to rain for the rest of the week. The dogs have spent the last three days at the dog park.  It dawned on Halo that, “Hey, it might be this big, ol’ dorky dog that is getting us all these cool car rides.”  Today she decided she liked him enough to allow him…

  • He’s a organ donor from Hawaii

    It’s been something I have been kicking around for 4 months, but didn’t know how to say it.  It has been three years since we got Halo from a shelter.  It was time to start looking for a friend for her. I have been searching the shelters like a person searches for vacation packages after…

  • I’m a mom.

    Shea stayed home from school today. She had spent the night with Dan last night and when he dropped her off he said, “She didn’t eat breakfast. Said her tummy hurt.” The other day, Alyx stayed home because her allergies were too much for her to handle. I didn’t mind it too much because I…

  • Ugh. Arg. Hmpth!

    After getting the laptop back, I realized there were 2 critical things that didn’t work. AT ALL. My Flickr uploader and my yahoo messenger. It didn’t matter how many times I reinstalled. It didn’t matter how many times I promised it candy. It didn’t matter how many times I cried.  No fix. I had to…

  • “Look Grandma, I’m on the BED!”

    She is finally able to come into the bedroom without having to make eye contact with me and politely asking, “Uh, hey…I was thinking about moving all four of these feet over to the side of the bed. That would require me to use this fuzzy carpet thing. That cool?” Halo, Satan’s very own herding…

  • This reminded me of something funny…

    When my mom went into the ER for a possible stroke and I had an interesting conversation with my sister. She was telling me everything that had happened since early that morning. She told me stories of the crazy people in the ER and how mom looked like she was about to just snap. “Poor…

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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