Random and Odd

ok. not good. probably bad.

  • I should’ve asked you questions. I should’ve asked you how to be.

    It’s the end of the year and it’s usually time to reflect, but I spend countless hours in therapy doing just that and I am ready to look forward. I had an anxiety attack in the dentist’s chair on Friday and it shook me as It’s been about 6 months since I had one that…

  • The last 13th of the year

    I had a relapse this weekend. I could feel it coming on Saturday, but I had obligations and I wanted to be sure to make them so I powered through.  I got home early and started to feel the chills and fever start in. By late Saturday night I was back in the throes of…

  • 4am is my nemesis

    Every morning at 4 am I wake up and all the bullshit of my life wakes me up and screams in my face. I’ve been up since 4 and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t go back to sleep because my anxiety decided it was time to catch up on all the things…

  • Conversations while solo decorating.

    I debated if I should put up a tree this year.  The cost of one was just stupid, my kids aren’t making it for Christmas and it just seemed like a waste of money. My friend who doesn’t put up their tree anymore gave me theirs, The box would now sit in my living room…

  • Well, I landed myself in the hospital. It’s not because I did something stupid, but because it’s heredity and now I need to change my lifestyle. I have quit smoking, drinking soda and my diet is now completely changed.  It was the wake up call I needed for the change I have been wanting for…

  • “I can’t face reinvention. I haven’t met the new me yet”

    Been digging deep recently. I missed my Monday meeting because I was coming back from visiting my sister. It was one of those awesome trips where I got to visit with my family.  We got my mother’s headstone put in.   It was a great weekend. The hard part was on Tuesday when I just got…

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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