• Best weekend this year! During the day I found the best recipe for chicken wings and allowed Lester to execute it.  He altered it a little to add a little more flavor. He nailed it! It was so good. While it was cooking he brought the music out and made me a bachelor vase from…

  • When you’re not a step mom anymore

    I thought of something funny earlier this morning and it was something my step daughter, Marina had done many years ago. My instinct was to text her and get a good giggle out of her, but the hour was too early and I would have to wait. Later that morning I was retelling the story…

  • Motivation…

    I am excited to announce that we have 7 more people joining us on our “Climbing Mt. Lassen” trip in August.  Because of this invitation these people have gotten out and started walking! This brings our total up to over 30 people climbing! All because my sister said, “I’ve lived here my whole life and…

  • Hiking off a cold

    Hiking off a cold, originally uploaded by Suddenly Single. I couldn’t take it anymore. If I didn’t get out of the house I was going to start killing people. The ex was asleep at 9 when I called him and told him to be ready in a half hour. He was still asleep at 10…

  • Wonderful World of Me.

    I shouldn’t be at work. I’m sick., originally uploaded by Suddenly Single. Tuesday marked one of the best nights of the year so far. Wednesday marked, what I believed, the worst day of the year so far. I couldn’t breath. My eyeballs hurts. Then Thursday came. It was worse than Wednesday. It was Wednesday on…

  • Sweet Baby Bear…

    Mini Me, originally uploaded by Random and Odd. I only see it every now and again, how much my daughter looks like me. I saw this picture and it almost made me cry. Kara in a pink wig…she looks like me.

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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