• Flashbacks…

    When I was younger I had a friend who had to go to the hospital. The story was a dramatic and scary one that for many years would haunt me. My friend had been outside playing and being a boy he had probably been running, jumping and making a fool of himself when all the…

  • Next week SPF: spice..this week…WEAPONS!

    Something Mean Looking: On our Honeymoon, Shaun found this stick. He said, “Lookie Honey…look what I found!” I thought he had lost his mind until he told me it would make the perfect  “beat the children Sunday” stick!  I was all excited.  I couldn’t wait to show the kids when we got home.   They laughed…

  • i don’t like angela, let it be known now.

    ** SPF this week: Click Here ** My friend, ‘Cita invited me over to catch up on season 3 of Project Runway. Now, honestly I am not a big fan of this show. I have watched the final shows from past seasons with ‘Cita because when this woman gets into a show, she drags everyone…

  • Shaun here, performing a public service. I saw the new Miami Vice at a sneak preview last night. No real spoilers here, just my general thoughts on the film.First of all, there’s no white blazers. No teal shirts. No alligator on a houseboat. No Phil Collins cameo. What is there from the original show, you…

  • licking the bottom of the Xanax bottle…

    Shaun told me today, “Don’t let her get you down.” There is a lot in that statement. A lump formed in my throat and I almost cried. I realized later that those were words I never heard from my ex. During my first marriage and having to deal with CAB, after every phone call we…

  • Remembering Why I am Here…

    I wrote my step-son a message on MySpace today to let him know that he should delete me off his list. It was one of those things I didn’t want, but I knew that if his mom knew that I was still on his list and she got nosey and went looking she would see…

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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