5 Things that my material possessions reveal about me

1. I really, really like to read

2. I have an incredibly eclectic taste in music

3. Sweats = expandable!

4. No one comes to our house to Trick or Treat :(

5. Someone likes to bike and someone took the time to restore a '67 Camero. (Neither of these are me)

5 material things that reveal a lot about who you are

1. Your book collection

2. What's on your ipod

3. Your clothes (Sad, but true. My clothes say , "Sweats are really what's most comfy these days")

4. The type of candy you hand out on Halloween

5. What's in your garage

5 Things on my nightstand

1. A Butterfinger Wrapper

2. A pen that doesn't work

3. An empty bottle of water

4. A hair tie

5. A pile of papers

5 Reasons my neighbors are the best in the world

1. The weeded our poor little garden this summer about 3 times. (And yesterday just turned it under for us)

2. She's a nurse practitioner and has come over at all hours to watch/take care of one of the three of us.

3. They have 3 daughters and lots of advice!

4. They have loaned us pretty much everything in their shed.

5. They didn't care when I smashed their mailbox with my car. heh heh (We replaced it anyway)

5 Books on my nightstand

1. The Glass Castle

2. A girl named Zippy

3. The Monster at the End of this Book

4. A Collection of Robert Frost Poetry

5. Bible (cue angelic ahhhhs)

5 Good Movies for Halloween

1. Charlie Brown and The Great Pumpkin

2. The Ring

3. That Mickey Mouse cartoon where he dances with skeletons

4. Scream

5. Frankenstein

5 crappy things you hated getting in your treat bag as a kid

1. Those little carmel - peanut butter things that come in orange or black wrappers. Seriously - ick!

2. Corn Balls

3. Homemade anything

4. Tootsie Rolls

5. Pencils (Yes, I actually had a lady in my neighborhood who gave us pencils every year. They probably weren't even number 2 pencils!)

5 Movies I Really Want to See

1. Into the Wild

2. Love in the time of Cholera

3. Martian Child

4. Darjeeling Limited

5. Elizabeth: The Golden Age

5 Things I Have Been for Halloween

1. A Hippie

2. A Princess

3. A Fairy

4. Dr. Frankenstein (Frankenstein wasn't the monster he was the Doctor!!)

5. Caesar (Ok so that was for an Ides of March party but I still got to dress up so it counts!)

5 Things my daugher will eat that I won't

1. Peas

2. Beets

3. White Beans

4. Any form of pureed meat


5. Styrofoam

5 Things that are cute when they're little

1. St. bernards

2. Goats

3. Pigs

4. Pumpkins

5. Baby Bumps

5 Jobs My Husband Must Do

It was in the pre-nup ;) I kid!

1. All spider/bug killing

2. All Toilet Plunging

3. All Trash Taking Out (ok so I do this on occasion)

4. All fixing of things broken

5. All disposal of animal remnants left in our yard by the dogs/ and or birds that got electrocuted on the telephone wire

5 perfumes for women that I love!

1. Happy for Women
Classic, but just a great scent!

2. Lolita Lempicka
My bff Jenn turned me on to this scent. It's slightly (slightly really) floral and a hint of licorice. I LOVE THIS!!

3. Gap's Pink
Cheap and smells yum-o

4. Bath and Body - Orange Ginger
Do you remember the smell of Moist Towlettes that your mom would give you to wipe off your hands? That's what this smells like!

5. Cotton Candy
This is the cheapest of the perfumes that I love. I think I buy mine at Walgreens - but whenever I wear it, everyone asks me what I'm wearing because I smell so good!! It really does smell like Cotton Candy!

5 words I really like

1. Juxtapose

2. Ergo

3. Serendipitous

4. Soiree

5. Verisimilitude

5 Things I miss from the 80s

1. Neon

2. Slap Wraps

3. Leggings (I guess those are back in sytle now though)

4. Full House

5. Cabbage Patch Kids

5 songs on my ipod/computer that I can't stop listening to right now. :)

1. You are the New Day - Kings Singers
"Thoughts occur that this night might stay yesterday"

2. The Candyman - Sammy Davis Jr
"Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream"

3. Dust in the Wind - Kansas
"All your money won't another minute buy."

4. Gracie - Ben Folds
"Some day you're gonna wanna go. I hope we taught you everything you need to know Grace Girl."

5. Taylor, the latte boy
"Hello my name is Kristen, and thank you for the extra foam."

5 Books I Have Recently Read That I Would Like to Recommend

1. Memory Keeper's Daughter
A doctor's wife delivers twins but one has Down's Sybdrome, so he gives her to the nurse to take to an institution. She takes the baby and raises her as her own instead.


2. The Secret Life of Bees
I know this was like Oprah's book 10 years ago or something but I'm just getting to it.
A white girl runs away from home with her black nanny. Her father is abusive and her mother is dead. She ends up in Tiburon, South Carolina helping a group of sisters, all named after months, tending bee hives and making honey whilest learing about her past.

3. Midwives
I picked this up for 50 cents for ONE reason. It said on the back cover that if you have a worn copy of To Kill a Mockingbird than this book was for you.
A midwife is caught delivering a baby in the worst blizzard the town has ever seen. The pregnant mother is in duress and suffers an aneurysm. The midwife performs a C-section on the dead mother and saves the baby. She is then put on trial by the state, stating she killed the mother when she perform med the C-section.

4. Into Thin Air
By the author of "Into the Wild" another fantastic book and now a movie that I am dying to see!
Jon Krackaur chronicles the true story of the horrible climbing season of 1996 on Mt. Everest. 12 people ended up losing their lives that year.

5. Under the Banner of Heaven - A True story of Violent Faith
This is also by Krackaur. It is the true recount of 2 brothers who are fanatical fundamentalist Mormons. They kill their other brother's wife and her young baby, all in the name of their faith.

5 Things for strangers to know whilest around my baby. (Or any baby that isn't yours)

1. DON'T TOUCH

2. Don't give out advice. You don't know me, my circumstances, or my baby!

3. Don't get up in my baby's face and breathe on her - giving her your nasty germs.

4. Don't assume my baby is a boy just because she's not in pink and doesn't have any hair. Purple is a girly colour too!

5. DON'T TOUCH

5 things attending Ball State's "Air Jam" that showed me I'm not cool anymore

* I went to Ball State's "Air Jam" with Steve the other night. It's a variety show in which the Greeks and Dorms do silly skits and lip sync to music.


1. I thought "Timberland" was a shoe

2. It was too loud!

3. I kept thinking, "Where do they get their energy?"

4. I didn't bring a glowstick.

5. The only song I knew the words/motions to was "Thriller."

5 Things my daughter would like to play with instead of her (expensive) toys

1. Dog bowls. (Hands down winner)

2. A Sharpie

3. Plastic Bags

4. My (expensive) kitchen utensils

5. Butter Tub lids

*note* Just because she likes to play with these things doesn't meant I do. I wouldn't want someone to send CPS to my house for negligence.

5 People I want to give shoutouts to

1. My H.S. English Teacher - Mr. Hamrick - for inspiring this idea and not minding that I (really) ran with it.

2. My HUBBY - for being an amazing person in general. (And for giving me a footrub last night!)

3. My former student Em - for being an inspiring teacher. I couldn't be more proud!

4. My bff Kendra. just 'cause

5. My Mentor - Becky - For continuing to inspire me in everything

5 reasons I started (yet) another blog

1. I think it's a fun idea

2. I miss writing

3. It's easy

4. I like blogging

5. One more way for me to share my (amazing) opinion!