I will never hide my feelings well.
I will always tell it like it is.
I will never be the cool kid.
I will always feel like the odd one out.
I will never really feel included.
I will always get bored easily.
I will never enjoy jumping through hoops.
I will always take things personally.
I will never have a sense of style.
I will always correct you when I think you are wrong.
I will never be ahead of the gang.
I will always have high expectations.
I will never accept less than I deserve.
I will always like change.
I will never be thick-skinned.
I will always want to learn more.
I will never spend money on myself first.
I will always think it is me you are laughing at or whispering about.
I will always be self conscious.
I will always love with all my heart and soul.
I will always be ME.
I must ask Isabelle to let me take pictures of her too often. Because lately, she keeps wanting to take pictures of me.
And since I have my fabulous Nikon D60 and it’s a little bit heavy (and might or might not be one of my babies) I tell her she has to wait for daddy to get home so he can help.
As soon as Mr. Serious walked in the door last night, Izzy said “I want to take a picture of mommy.” Once he figured out what she meant, they went and got the camera.
Isn’t this one a fabulous picture? Apparently, the door was the focus. And, I only look slightly spooked.
However, I’ve decided that all pictures of me must now be taken from this angle because I feel like my arms look like they lost 10 pounds each!
Then, she wanted one of her sister…so she snapped away.
Then the “pickles.” (Side note, we bought these at the farmer’s market and the first one was delicious…the last three, the skin was horribly bitter. We are talking spit it out, directly into the trashcan bitter…yuck!)
And, Natalie’s cereal. I think this one was definitely composed the best. Slight angle, in focus and hiding her sister:)
I don’t think we’ll be buying Isabelle a camera any time soon! Or, at least she can play with the point and shoot some more!
Looks like a million hundred bucks!
We had family pictures done since Mr. Serious was off. And, while this quality is horrible (I took a picture of the picture using my phone), they really turned out quite well.
And, the hundred bucks? What I spent on our clothes. New clothes make you feel good, right? And, so does a haircut, too. And, if you follow me in
twitter, you’ll know that I actually got my cut for free! Mr. Serious even said he felt like a hundred bucks!
Poor Natalie was terrified of the flashes, so we took what we could get.
Hope everybody has a happy and safe 4th of July.
My name is a quandary to most. Well, I guess I should say the spelling of my name.
When, they hear it or see it, they say “oh, how unique” or “isn’t that pretty” or “wow, two ‘y’s.”
My response “Yeah, my mom hates me!”
Seriously. Every single time I have to spell my name out, I wonder what the heck my mom was thinking (sorry mom, love you, but the spelling? It’s a little crazy!).
Over the phone is the best.
I call any company; the doctor’s office, credit card company, friend to leave a message and this is pretty much how it goes.
Person on the phone: What is your name?
Me: Krystyn Lastname (which is very easy to spell)
POTP: Is that with a ‘c’ or a ‘k.’
Me: option 1 :K. (If I’m feeling snarky, that’s all I give them…it’s a fun game!)
option 2: Let me spell it for you. K-R-Y-S-T-Y-N.
POTP: K-R-I-S-T-Y-N.
Me: No, K-R-Y-S-T-Y-N.
POTP: K-R-Y-S-T-E-N.
Me: No, two ‘y’s, there are two ‘y’s.
POTP: So, it’s K-R-Y-Y-S-T-E-N.
Me: No, not two ‘y’s in a row. There are no vowels. Just ‘y’s in place of the ‘i’ and ‘e.’
POTP: Oh, okay, I get it. K-R-Y-S-T-Y-N. Oh, how unique.
Me: grumbling Yes, yes it is.
If it isn’t important, I just tell them to spell it however they want. After correcting people for 28 twenty-one years, I’m over it!
And for the record…the best mispronunciation of my name? Cry-stein! Yep. And, that was a counselor at my school in high school. That knew me. 4 years! At least she helped me get a rocking scholarship. (A close second is Christine.)
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- I’m a mom….and I love every minute of it.
- I wish I could be a stay-at-home mom.
- I’m married to the most wonderful man, ever!
- I’m a teacher.
- I enjoy living in Georgia.
- I really don’t like shopping (I never find anything good).
- When I do shop, I am a bargain hunter.
- I clip coupons for groceries, but often forget to look through them before going.
- I hate thinking about investments. Matt does it all. I only like no risk savings!
- I like to wear make-up, but I hate taking the time to put it on.
- I’m a t-shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes kind of girl.
- I only have 2 dresses in my closet.
- I have one sister, but I also have a half-sister, a half-brother and a step-brother.
- I don’t like long car trips. I would much rather fly even with the long security lines.
- However, I hate the security people at the airport. They are never nice and even meaner to people with babies that have a million things to carry.
- I am not a shoe person, either. I love how they look, but hate how they feel.
- I’m a member of an online mommy forum. We’ve been together since we were pregnant.
- We named our daughter while we were in Las Vegas before we knew I was pregnant.
- I enjoy working out and wish I did it more, but not as much as I enjoy spending time with my daughter.
- I love it when my daughter cuddles me.
- I’ve been attending church for over 3 years after a break during college.
- I was a good student all through school (although I did talk a lot).
- I love taking pictures.
- I wish I were better at taking them.
- I have a cat.
- I’m not a big fan of dogs (except Allie of course).
- I like organization, but I wish somebody else would do it for me.
- I wish I had a maid.
- I hate cleaning floors (mopping and sweeping).
- I don’t mind doing laundry, but I’m not a fan of actually putting the clean clothes up.
- I do enjoy putting my daughter’s clothes up (I’m funny).
- I am very sarcastic most of the time.
- My hubby doesn’t like my sarcasm.
- I nursed my daughter for a little over a year.
- I love to scrapbook.
- We have an area in our bonus room dedicated to scrapbooking.
- I’ve only done Izzy’s first week of life in her scrapbook.
- I use the family blog as a “baby book” for her….I never bought a real one.
- I love making homemade cards.
- I don’t mind cooking, it’s the planning that I don’t care for.
- And the cleaning of dishes.
- Matt and I share chores, he does the dishes and I do the laundry.
- I mowed the lawn (front and back) with a non-self-propelled lawnmower a week before my due date because I was “done” being pregnant.
- I love TLC and the Discovery Channel.
- My favorite show is Myth Busters (I know, I’m a dork!)
- I’m addicted to blogging and reading other people’s blogs.
- I’m learning HTML code as I go.
- I used to have my belly button pierced. I took it out right after my 12 week OB appointment.
- I have three regular piercings in each ear and one in my cartilage in my left ear.
- I don’t have any tattoos.
- I’ve been certified to teach aerobics for 4 years.
- I love making stuff on Paint Shop Pro even though I’m not that good at it.
- I have a picture of my hubby and me on my desk from prom (way back in 1999).
- Matt and I have been together since January 31, 1998….10 years in a couple months.
- Matt and I have been married for almost 4 years.
- We moved to Atlanta so I could get my PhD in chemistry.
- I left Georgia Tech mid-PhD and decided to get my MS in chemistry.
- I have enough frequent flier miles for a free ticket, but I want to use it to go somewhere other than Houston.
- I wish I got pedicures more often, but once again, I’m too cheap to do it all the time (think of all the diapers I could buy!!)
- I always end up with the crazy parents during parent-teacher conferences.
- Many people would consider me anal-retentive.
- I really like math and algebra.
- 99.9% of the time I use my credit card for purchases.
- I have always paid my credit card balance every month.
- Besides student loans and my house, I am debt free.
- We just bought our first house in June 2007.
- I liked how my nursing bras fit better than my regular bras.
- I really enjoy a good margarita…
- and I craved them during my pregnancy (but didn’t have one).
- I love scented candles and don’t really care for the decorative one if they don’t smell.
- I have to use unscented soap or else I break out in a rash.
- I learned the hard way that you can’t get lime juice on your hand and then go in the sun (without getting huge, painful blisters).
- I used to have avocados, but now I love them.
- I don’t like olives of any kind. They all taste like plastic to me.
- I’ve never owned a brand new car.
- I’ve had the tailpipe or muffler break on all of my previous cars.
- I hardly ever had cash on me.
- We don’t have a babysitter, but we have awesome friends and family that have allowed us to go on a couple dates.
- I had a pacifier until I was 3. Apparently, I spoke very well with it in.
- I used to barefoot ski, and slalom water ski every weekend.
- I was pretty good at fishing, too.
- People ask if my sister and I are twins.
- People ask if my mother and I are sisters.
- I had the first great-grand-baby and grand-baby on all sides of both of our families.
- I really enjoy just staying home and hanging out.
- I really don’t like History or English classes.
- I’m a gadget person. I have a PDA and an MP3 player, but I never use the PDA and the MP3 player’s battery is dead.
- I bring my lunch almost every day to work.
- I’m not a big soda drinker, but when I do, I prefer a root beer (non-caffeinated).
- Caffeine gives me the jitters really bad.
- I just recently got a ticket for “improper use of the center lane.”
- I always wear my seat belt (I don’t understand people that don’t).
- I have no tolerance for people who drink and then drive.
- I’ve never smoked a cigarette, EVER!
- I’ve never done drugs, EVER!
- I hate how pain killers make me feel.
- Sometimes, I really like my hand writing, and sometimes I hate it.
- I wish I could fix the gap in my front teeth.
- I don’t like analogies.
- I never acquired a taste for coffee or beer.
