I'm All Stitched Up...

Ok, so I know this looks gross. This photo was taken just moments after the nurse pulled the staples out... OUCH! I'm surprised that the surgeon didn't cut a straighter line. I mean seriously... couldn't they have used a ruler or something? I would have preferred a straight scar. Oh, well.

this is what my broken kneecap looks like...

It was a dark and stormy night... :) Just kidding.

Here's the real story. It was the evening of August 9th. I decided to freshen up my pillows by throwing them in the washing machine. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.) Moments later... I walked into the kitchen... and OOPS! I slipped on a puddle of water in the floor... and tried to catch myself by landing on my left knee. Apparently, the pillows overloaded the machine... which made it leak all over the floor. Ugh.

LIFE LESSON: Rather than washing old pillows, just throw them away & buy new ones. Even a $100 pillow would be cheap compared to knee surgery. :)

kwotable: part ichi

I find these kwotes to be kwite amusing. I think they may have even inspired me. in fakt, this will be the first in a series of kwote posts. Let's play a game. "Name that Author". Kinda lame for a game title, but u get the idea. Whose words are these? (Also, please post a komment to tell me which of these kwotes you like best.)

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. "

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "

"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. "

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. "

"Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris."

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. "

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. "

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. "

"He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. "

Does Jesus Love Pedro?

I'm perplexed. I can't quite figure out what I think about this, so I'm opening the floor for discussion.

Here's the deal...

Recently, a co-worker of mine told me that he found the funniest t-shirt (ala "VOTE FOR PEDRO") that said, "JESUS LOVES PEDRO". He decided not to buy it because he thought it might be sacrilegious. Enter my dilemma.

Thought #1: Is the shirt itself sacrilegious? His reason for declaring its sacrilege was that the t-shirt wouldn't be appropriate to wear in a bar.

Thought #2: Is it appropriate to wear that shirt into a bar? Why or why not?

Comments welcome. My curiosity awaits satisfaction.

P.S. I will reserve my personal opinions (which have not yet been concretely formed) for a later date.

i'm so glad that K2 has a boyfriend

know why? cuz it puts her in a good mood & she does sweet things for me.

sweet thing #1: she made these chocolate-covered strawberries for me (see big picture). she put them in the fridge with a note that said, "Thank you for always letting me stay with you!" ( see little picture.) you see... Jason lives in springfield... so k2 stays with me most weekends. i'm glad. it's nice to have her around. and not just cuz she makes exquisite strawberries.

sweet thing #2: she cleaned my bathroom. wow. what a chore that was! she even cleaned my rug... which had so much hair on it... yuck... but that's what happens when you have long hair... it falls out when you comb/brush it... and it lands on your bathroom rug. just a part of life.

sweet thing #3: she left a yummy plate of leftovers for me from the meal she cooked for j-man. it was a pork chop, rice, and carrots. yum, yum, and yum.

i'm sure more sweet things will occur. k2's just sweet like that.

hop hop hop

i hop. yep. that's where we went to eat after the branson prom last weekend. since it's easter this weekend, i thought it would be appropriate to talk about hopping. i hopping. so after the prom, we hopped over to the ihop to eat breakfast... including eggs... which is also appropriate to mention at easter. this is a very holiday-appropriate blog entry.

so here are the captions to these pix: K4 is happy cuz she's with Keith. K5 is happy cuz she's with Jerod. K2 is sad because Jason wasn't there. (Jason: you're such a loser! why did you not come to the prom with us? you would've had fun. you missed out, dude.) And the final caption: K3. happy and content. wistfully looking off into the future where she will be happily united with her guy.

mom and dad were there, too. i didn't get pictures of them. i didn't get a picture of me either. oh well.

i think k2 needs her own blog

don't you agree? then she could post stuff like her pix with the senator or whoever it was at CofO.

to xanga or not to xanga... that is the kwestion

so some of my friends have xanga sites, so i thought i would try it out for myself. i built a little site. (if i build it, will he come?) hmmm. not sure if i prefer blogspot or xanga. hmmm. decisions, decisions. i do like the new name for it. i like it that it has the word "yak" in it. kwite appropriate for me, i think. komments welkome. let the debate begin. blogspot or xanga? xanga or blogspot? http://www.xanga.com/kristyakak1

K4's Wedding Album Finally Online!!!

K4 has been working on her wedding album since... well... since her wedding in august! and she has finally posted her album online. and i love it. and i want everyone to go look at it. so go. go now. go see k4's awesome album. and then you will know. you will know what i know. you will know what napoleon dynamite himself knows... that k4 has "skills": art skills, computer skills, graphic design skills, photoshop skills.

do it: see it: click it: http://www.plumleephoto.com/wedding/kelkei/1.html

snow & sunsets & singers

ok, i've been having the BEST valentine's day & week ever!!!

first, let me start by revising one of my new year's goals. the one about dating twelve guys this year. scratch that! i'm not going on any more dates this year. no dates. none. nada. nicht. (isn't that "no" in german?) so what am i going to do, you might ask? well... i'm going to focus on my relationship with GOD... loving Him... accepting His love... sharing His love... it's gonna be all about GOD. why? because He is truly worthy of love and honor and praise and everything! and lately i've been far too distracted by guys or the lack thereof to truly notice and appreciate that.

usually when you break up just before valentine's day, it's not a good thing... but... this time... i really and truly turned it over to GOD. i gave Him my hopes, my dreams, my "what might have been's"... and in return... He gave me the best valentine's day i've ever had!

for starters... on the day after i "gave it all to GOD"... it snowed! i love snow. it's one of my favorite things. i'm not really a nature-lover, but i do love a snowy landscape! especially sitting in the atrium at work. it's the perfect place to watch it snow. it's like a snowglobe (but in reverse, because the snow is on the outside of the globe, but you get the picture...) so anyway... when i saw the snow... i really felt the presence of GOD... as if He wanted to let me know that He sent the snow for me... as a reminder of His love. GOD knows us in very personal ways. i believe that. He knows what touches our heart because He made our hearts in the first place! :)

then... that night... as i was driving home from work... GOD painted the most beautiful sunset! sunsets are my other favorite thing in nature. and at that moment... i knew... that GOD was there. i knew that GOD would always be there... to love me... day and night... forever! it was the perfect personal expression of love that i needed on that day. and GOD knew it. He always knows it.

so i was beaming inside. filled with love. and i wasn't worried about "suffering" through the "love" holiday with a broken -- no -- "disappointed" heart.

then the big day comes. valentine's day. i was dreading all the flower deliveries that day... sad reminders there were no flowers for me... (wow, that sounds really selfish in retrospect!)... but... GOD changed my heart about that. when i saw flowers coming, i was actually happy. it was so sweet to see how happy the women were when they got their flowers. i actually found myself feeling happy for them... without any twinge of jealousy or bitterness or other selfish feelings. i actually smiled... genuinely!

and then... we had special visitors... a barbershop quartet who came as a "singing valentine" to two of our supervisors at work. (one of whom was jeff r... see photo below.) since i missed their performance, jeff r.'s wife, tracey, brought some of their candy to share with me. well... one of the guys in the quartet heard tracey & said that it was sad for me to miss that on valentine's day... so... they gathered around & sang to me! it was such a special moment! seriously. i always thought i would be embarrassed to death at something like that... but not so! call me a crazy spiritual sap, but i kinda think that GOD sent them to sing to me. i know they were literally sent to sing to jeff r. & jim w. but they sang to me, too. and they didn't have to do that. they weren't getting paid to do that. they just did it. randomly. just because. (but i like to think that GOD put the idea in their minds...)

and so there you have it... my three point sermon on why GOD is the best valentine! snow. sunsets. singers. three simple expressions of a GREAT LOVE!

go ahead... kall me krazy...

K1's New Kar

K2 here, informing you of some news regarding K1...

As most of you know, K1 said goodbye to a dear friend of hers last month after a little car crash. Her Geo Prism that she's had for 9 years was declared "TOTALED". So, she has been in search of the perfect next car... that is until Sunday when she found it. Here's my take on her new ride.

Top 10 Reasons...
Why K1 Shouldn't Have Bought a Purple Kar
10. It will be too tempting to paint a rainbow on the side.
9. People will think she's a Prince fan and her favorite song is "Purple Rain".
8. She'll be asked to be the lead car in the Valentine's Day & Easter parades!
7. Everyone in Springfield will know her as "the girl with the purple car".
6. DMP will ask her to park "in the back".
5. Mary-Kay ladies will be trying to run her off the road with their pink cars.
4. Little kids will mistake it for Barney and will always be trying to hug and kiss it.
3. It's a precursor of her becoming a member of the Red Hat Society when she gets older.
2. None of her guy friends will be caught dead driving it for fear of getting shot.
1. It will clash with half of her wardrobe.

Any other "reasons" I might have missed?

ananamas & the lawyer

i met ananamas again today. i first met him at the fair, then i re-met him when he came to dmp a while back. i didn't blog about it back then, so i will blog about it today... because he came to dmp again today. i actually don't know why he was there. i probably should have asked since i'm the receptionist and all. oops. my bad. nevertheless, it was good to see a fellow blogger-commenter. it was also good to see millsie when she came to dmp later that day. i guess it was blogging-commenting visitor day.

and tonight i re-met a lawyer friend-of-a-friend's-friend. perfect timing actually. earlier today i was asking fswalker if he had any friends who were lawyers. he didn't. you see, i may need a lawyer's advice/help with the insurance claim for my totalled car. it's been two weeks and nothing! nada! nichts! and since i'm not well-known for my aggressive ability to pursuade others (namely insurance companies) it might be time to get reinforcements (namely a lawyer). so, although i didn't formally pray for God to send a lawyer friend to me, i did wish it would happen. and i even remembered meeting a lawyer who was the friend of my friend's friend at the star wars premiere this summer. (fs & movie buff, do you remember kipp & the two guys that came with her? well, that's who i'm talking about...) but he had gone to the army or something, and i had lost his card & didn't know how to reach him or even if he could be reached. he could be in iraq or timbuktu. but no! guess where he was tonight!?!? he was eating at maria's downtown! and so was i! so voila! there was the lawyer & just when i needed him. i think maybe God answered my quasi-prayer. yep, i'm pretty sure that's what happened. why else would i have remembered him today... then seen him tonight? the timing is too weird. or as i like to say... "it's not odd, it's GOD!" ok, so that's korny. but it's true. and now i have someone to give me advice about the insurance krap. thanks, God. i know it was You. thanks for taking care of me... yet again. that song is right. you are an Awesome God. ok, now i'm sounding really korny, so i'm going to bed.

tomorrow jen's bro gets married. i'll take pix and blog them.

wow. my blog posts are as random & spontaneous & scatterbrained as i am. aren't they? yep.

thank you, dad!

millsie brought to my attention that i left out a very important person in my list of thanks... MY DAD! ok, so i feel like hilary swank at the oscars when she forgot to thank her husband. yikes. i owe many, many, many thanks to my dad. he has done SO MUCH for me... especially since i've moved out on my own. most recently, he bought a brand new washer and dryer for me. brand new! he also bought dryer sheets & detergent to go with. and although he had sessions scheduled on my moving day, he came to springfield anyway... even after a long day of work. my dad, my sweet dad... who i forgot to thank. since he came later, i forgot to include him. when i was replaying the moving scenes in my mind (remembering who carried what, etc...) i didn't see him... so that makes sense, right?! hope so. i love you, dad. and i didn't forget you. i just... i don't know. my heart and my brain are not necessarily connected. it's possible to be close to my heart and absent from my brain. and vice-versa. i think. wow, i'm sounding like a ditz now. but that's ok because dad loves me anyway. he likes to tease me about being "blonde at heart". lol. i know he's right. he knows me & he loves me. he knows i'm a ditz. but i'm his ditz, so that's ok. i love you, dad. and a belated thanks for helping me move... again... for the fifth time in two years...

moving & movie nite

so... this post is for millsie. when i read ur last komment, i remembered that i had forgotten to post a BIG THANK YOU for helping me move. ur a good friend. and someday when u move (like maybe when u go to kollege or when u get ur first apartment) i will be there for you. and i will make fun of YOU when u stumble klumsily and bruise your body on your mis-shapen kountertop. (as soon as i locate the kord thingy for downloading pix from my kamera to my laptop, i will post a pic of the aforementioned kountertop. then u all will know that it is not I who am KLUMSY... but the kountertop maker people who are KRAZY!)

side note... i'm watching CSI: NY and they are investigating at a dance studio. awesome! i love choreography! i wish i kould dance. i wanna take dance lessons. i really do. it's such a beautiful thing.

anyway... i wish to formally and publikly thank the following people for their help with this fifth and final (hopefully!) move of mine...

• Thank you, Mom!
• Thank you, Aunt Lou!
• Thank you, Cory!
• Thank you, Matt!
• Thank you, Aunt Jerrie!
• Thank you, Jessica!
• Thank you, Millsie!
• Thank you, hot neighbor guy!

and an honorable mention to the following dtbloggers (see also www.downtownblogs.com) for their technikal and electronikal (or is it electronik?) assistance...

• Thank you, FS Walker!
• Thank you, Movie Buff!

ok, let's talk about movie nite. if we start watching my movie collection alphabetically, it would be Anna and the King (vhs) or Annie (dvd). or we could rent something new. suggestions? also, which nite is best? i'm guessing fri or sat? wanna pick a weekend? not this weekend though. i'm going to a wedding... which i will blog about next time.

too much new

new year. new apartment. new roommate. new car. (yawn) i'm tired. i'll go into more details about the "news" later. isn't that funny? the plural of new is news. ha. i'm such a nerd.

new year's resolutions vs. goals... i prefer goals. why? because there is no deadline. i will not have failed if i haven't accomplished these things by 12/31/06. they are just goals. things to aim for. a direction in which to go.

so here we go. 4 K1 2 do... in no particular order...

• Buy a red couch to match my red chair
• Volunteer at the crisis pregnancy center
• Be in NY with friends (and/or serious boyfriend) to watch the ball drop in 2010
• Date 12 different guys in 2006 (this goal has a deadline)
• Wear size 2. Go to gym twice a week.
• Get tivo
• Host game nights & movie nights
• Watch a movie in the theater at least once a month
• Go to Little Theater & Hammons Hall to watch fun stuff
• Cook actual meals (other than pasta)
• Keep the apartment clean & tidy
• Sleep. that sounds really good right now. i'm tired. no more goals. i'll think about that tomorrow. after all... tomorrow is another day...