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My name is Kristine. I am a 33 36 year old Aries. I live in California
with my fantastic boyfriend fiancee husband.
Between the two of us we have 5 kids, 1 dog 2 dogs, 8, 9 11 14 digital cameras...but only one two4 computers.

Friday, August 12, 2005

SPF On the road'
Why do I always wait for the last second to get my shit together? Oh wait, I already mentioned I do that. Stuff Portrait Friday this week is 'on the road'. I was excited about this because I love where I live. I didn't until awhile back when my depression and anxiety decided that I didn't need to pay attention that little bill that kept coming in the mail that said, 'mortgage payment'. There is something about getting a phone call and the words 'forclosure' to shock your system into action. It was then, when I was walking around the school my kids go to that I realized that because I was letting myself hide from my problems I was going to lose everything I was taking for granted. I'm doing better now. Since then I have only been late on my mortgage payment like 4 times (Shut up. I know. bad. i'm horrible. shoot me. I hate anxiety.) *footnote hiding in the middle* I'm not allowed to ask you to click my Google Adsense link. So don't go clicking that Adsense link unless you are totally interested in whatever it is showing you. Don't do it. Don't click it, cause i'm only about 200 clicks away from that lens. And I have also added another stress on the pile: My Ride. Everyone, meet Morrison. My Van. It doubles for a love seat and purse rack. One Mile Away: Coming down into my part of town The reason I love where I live: Alyx's Teacher Shea's Teacher Kara and Marina's Teacher Each one of these teachers love their students. We have one of the best schools in California and I wouldn't give that up for anything. This is where my friends live. This is where my kid's friends live. This is where we all live happily ever after.
Happy Friday Everyone. Have a great weekend!!

link | posted by Random and Odd at 8/12/2005 12:09:00 AM

65 Comments:

Blogger Kristan commented at 8/12/2005 01:19:00 AM~  

Great pictures, I love seeing where other people live.

I played for the first time this week too!

Blogger kimmyk commented at 8/12/2005 02:44:00 AM~  

Great pictures Kristine. I can't find my camera-I let my daughter take it to practice-it's in her room, but...my daughters room looks like your daughters room. MMmmhmmm..

Have a great weekend!

Blogger -xtessa- commented at 8/12/2005 02:49:00 AM~  

hi kristine! i played again...

Blogger mrtl commented at 8/12/2005 04:35:00 AM~  

Lovely pictures!

Blogger Renee commented at 8/12/2005 04:36:00 AM~  

I played!!

I think my next car will be a mini-van. As much as i love my car. We have too much crap to haul around!lol

Great pics and it's so great you like the kid's teachers. That's always a plus!:-)

Blogger Kami commented at 8/12/2005 05:02:00 AM~  

Ah, fabby pictures!! Are your kids back in school out there yet?

I played!

Blogger WILLIAM commented at 8/12/2005 05:06:00 AM~  

Cool Pics. In the last one..Are you holding a pipe?

Blogger Cindy commented at 8/12/2005 05:07:00 AM~  

TGIF!!!

Great pictures! As a teacher, I *love* that your kids' teachers are your favorite thing about where you live. That's awesome.

I played!

Blogger Cindy commented at 8/12/2005 05:08:00 AM~  

William...that's the armrest of her friend's (the one in the pink shirt) chair. LOL, it does look like a pipe, though.

Blogger Bente commented at 8/12/2005 05:13:00 AM~  

I played this week.

It sounds like you're in a great spot! I love all your reasons for loving where you live.

Blogger Mainline Mom commented at 8/12/2005 05:27:00 AM~  

Great pics! I played!

Blogger Mama Duck commented at 8/12/2005 05:37:00 AM~  

Cool pictures and wow, a van named Morrison? Oh wait, I just got that!

Bwaaaaahahahah! Funny, sister.

I played over at The Kept Woman!

Blogger Bucky Four-Eyes commented at 8/12/2005 05:41:00 AM~  

OBVIOUSLY, Kristine is showin' us her crack pipe. It's all part of why she loves where she lives - easy access to rock.

Van Morrison. I must be on crack, too, 'cause that's damn funny!

Blogger madmanan commented at 8/12/2005 05:44:00 AM~  

nice!

i kinda played, i never got a chance to take pics of the second 2, so i just showed a whole buncha pics of my ride :)

Blogger Vajana commented at 8/12/2005 05:50:00 AM~  

kristine great pictures. Looks like you have the American dream.

I'd love to hang out and drink with those lot of guys. Mmm hmm.

I will play in about an hour. Gotta do some runnin' first.

Blogger ieatcrayonz commented at 8/12/2005 06:03:00 AM~  

I love the stuff portait day graphic! It's awesome.

Wow, I'm hoping that my daughter also has teachers that not only love teaching students, but love each one individually as well.

When I first read that Morrison doubles as a loveseat, somehow I thought it said there was "lovin' in the backseat." Go mom.

I played, too.

Blogger Lucky Lum commented at 8/12/2005 06:40:00 AM~  

Wow, terrific pictures and reasons for loving where you live.
I played too.

Blogger Tee commented at 8/12/2005 06:44:00 AM~  

Wow, I'm not comment number 72 or something? LOL.

I played today :)

For the 1 mile away shot - what did you do? Like stop the van in the middle of traffic??? The angle looks like you're in the lane... ??? LOL. Anything for the right shot ;)

Anonymous Sharkey commented at 8/12/2005 06:57:00 AM~  

I'm with Crayonz--the SPF graphic is awesome! And the kids' teachers . . . you can tell they're great just from seeing these pics of them in action. What a difference teachers make!

I played!

Blogger SoozieQ commented at 8/12/2005 07:14:00 AM~  

I thought the same thing William did...or if it's not a pipe, I thought maybe it was a Kazoo!

Great pics as usual!

Oh and I played...

Anonymous lawbrat commented at 8/12/2005 07:18:00 AM~  

I love the view you posted! I'm going to play, but not until later I think.

Blogger TBG commented at 8/12/2005 07:30:00 AM~  

Great pics. The one mile from your house is beautiful. I played this week.

Blogger Lori commented at 8/12/2005 07:40:00 AM~  

I can completely relate to the schools. We have great schools here too. It's one of the reasons we stay here even though houses are super freaking expensive.

I played!

Blogger Girl From Ipanema commented at 8/12/2005 08:19:00 AM~  

Awesome pictures!

Wow, good to see Kara alive and out of the hospital ;)

Blogger Leesa commented at 8/12/2005 08:31:00 AM~  

I played!
It must be a great thing to have teachers like that :)

Anonymous Anonymous commented at 8/12/2005 08:31:00 AM~  

I played!! I'll have to come later and see what everyone posted! Time to make the pancakes!!

Amy
inherentpassion.com

(post thing is a little screwed up so I put my info in here!)

Blogger Darlene commented at 8/12/2005 08:32:00 AM~  

I played for the first time today!!

Blogger ThoughtsGalore commented at 8/12/2005 08:47:00 AM~  

I played sweetie! Love your one mile drive and your friends. It's wonderful you have great friends near you!
XOXO
Christie
I played at wonderfulworldofchristie

Blogger Tatted commented at 8/12/2005 09:04:00 AM~  

Also playing for the first time today...

:)

Blogger littlefeet commented at 8/12/2005 09:07:00 AM~  

awesome pics!!!

and i am posted...

peace...

Anonymous Anonymous commented at 8/12/2005 09:30:00 AM~  

Kristine i emailed you at your gmail account in your sidebar!:-)

Blogger Renee commented at 8/12/2005 09:30:00 AM~  

opps that was me that emailed you Kristine!lol

Blogger Easy commented at 8/12/2005 09:35:00 AM~  

First time player here.

I love this blog, and look forward to more of these!

Blogger Sue commented at 8/12/2005 10:15:00 AM~  

We played - and now we are off to AZ!!! love love love to our blogger friends.

Blogger SierraBella commented at 8/12/2005 10:27:00 AM~  

I played this week!

Van Morrison- *heh heh heh*

I totally recognize the street in your one mile away photo, it's right by my sister-in-law's home!

Blogger The Merry Widow commented at 8/12/2005 10:52:00 AM~  

OK, now we ALL wanna live where you live. How many forts can you hold in your living room?

Blogger lily commented at 8/12/2005 10:53:00 AM~  

I love your photos. I've been somewhat of a slacker lately, but I did play this week! I loved your topic, I'm thinking that maybe the "last minute" works for you! ;)

Anonymous MrsDoF commented at 8/12/2005 11:13:00 AM~  

You have beautiful places and people where you live.
I loved this subject! And I got some exercise while I was taking pictures.
They are finally up, so I come check 'em out.

Blogger Random and Odd commented at 8/12/2005 11:14:00 AM~  


I have gotten to all the blogs to this point! Yay.
Wow...So many cool pictures today. I love the little towns and the view of Hong Kong and Australia! Wow!

WaWa seems to a popular favorite place. I guess I'm going to have to go to PA to check it out.

OMG...that totally looks like a pipe in my mouth!! Nope, it's just the arm of the chair. I think I was about to shovel some kettle corn in my mouth at that moment!!

Blogger Charlotte commented at 8/12/2005 11:36:00 AM~  

Finally got to play this week. As usual Kristine...great pics.

Blogger Debby commented at 8/12/2005 11:44:00 AM~  

I'll play this weekend...
Great pics, i'll have to put it on my blog.

Blogger Vajana commented at 8/12/2005 11:59:00 AM~  

Finally I played!!

Now I have to go back and go to everyone's blog today and comment!!!

Love this Kristine!

Blogger Torrie commented at 8/12/2005 12:00:00 PM~  

Ahhh! I didn't have time to play, again!
I promise to make it up to you by taking lots of pictures when I'm on vacation.

Blogger Mrs. Dr. Dave commented at 8/12/2005 12:04:00 PM~  

I played!!! Crazy...I ended my post the same way you did and I hadn't seen yours first!

Blogger Kelly commented at 8/12/2005 12:43:00 PM~  

I played - enjoy!

Blogger Foxy Drama Queen commented at 8/12/2005 01:23:00 PM~  

I've been on a sabbatical for two weeks, but I played this week!

Blogger Big Heavy commented at 8/12/2005 01:44:00 PM~  

i played because i still think kristine's hot.

Anonymous spoiled-grrl commented at 8/12/2005 02:47:00 PM~  

Your pictures are great! I played for the first time......

Blogger Sandy commented at 8/12/2005 03:55:00 PM~  

Hey Kristine! Man, your pics are so VIVID. How much better can it get with that new lens?? Well, click click, I'll do it anyhow!
I played SPF this week!!

Blogger Heather/SHTEZQ commented at 8/12/2005 05:00:00 PM~  

I love your blog found you through spilt milk thanks and i will do my ride,1mile, and reason this weekend.

Blogger KGrams commented at 8/12/2005 07:44:00 PM~  

Great pics as always, Wonderful teachers are a true blessing. I know it's late, but I played!

Blogger MMC commented at 8/12/2005 07:55:00 PM~  

Yep, I'm last, but I played.
Great pics Kristine. Don't forget your mortgage payment.....

Anonymous Chelsea commented at 8/12/2005 08:24:00 PM~  

I LOVE where we live, Everyone here is awesome! I am in one of those pictures lol.

Blogger Julee commented at 8/12/2005 08:33:00 PM~  

I finally decided to join in the fun and play too

Anonymous kalki commented at 8/12/2005 08:44:00 PM~  

I played! Which you already know, but I'm just saying.

Blogger Aurora commented at 8/12/2005 09:12:00 PM~  

I played!!!!

Blogger Oliver commented at 8/12/2005 09:49:00 PM~  

I'm embarrassingly late, but mine is finally posted.

Blogger Charlotte in Pa commented at 8/13/2005 06:43:00 AM~  

Van Morrison. That's too funny, sister! It's too bad you used Kara for your daughter, because that's a great name for a van... of course, it's better if you spell it with a "C".

Blogger Nina commented at 8/13/2005 10:08:00 AM~  

Well a day late, but I did play for the first time this week. It great that you love your kids teachers that makes life easier. You live in a beautiful place.

Blogger Dy commented at 8/13/2005 10:11:00 AM~  

Finally got the pics up today! I love the fact that all the things you love about where you live have nothing to do with location or real estate.

Anonymous mimi commented at 8/13/2005 01:11:00 PM~  

I played... a little late, but you know, that's me.

Blogger little sister commented at 8/14/2005 09:13:00 AM~  

your van, Morrison...still cracks me up!

Looks like a lot of love in da 'hood de Kristine :D Kara looks so much like the Fonz!

I played...I might have overplayed, but when you talk about getting around my neighborhood, that's the most fun a bloggette can have without Stoli on the rocks with 3 olives!

Blogger Madam Grizzle commented at 8/15/2005 01:28:00 PM~  

I am going to give this a try!

It sounds like fun!!

What a neat idea.

Blogger Madam Grizzle commented at 8/15/2005 01:28:00 PM~  

I am going to give this a try!

It sounds like fun!!

What a neat idea.

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