I'm sorry

This whole month has gone by and i have not posted. I am sorry. I have no excuses. I will try harder in december. I have a lot of things i'll want to share in december so i should blog more often. However, in december a lot of things are going to change so i don't know how much i'll be able to get on here. I'm vowing to spend more time with my son and my husband (if he gets out) so we'll see.

I'm here

I'm here... I know it's been a bit since I last posted but I haven't had the creative streak in me lately. I have been super down and out. Just not myself. I don't want to post things that are going to be sulky so I don't post.
I have decided that this month, every day I will be posting 30 things in which I am thankful for. So by the end of the month I will have told everyone 900 things that I am thankful for.
Last night I came up with these :

My mom, dad, erich, brian, adam, caleb, jules, damian, and logan. I am thankful for God giving me Jude. I am thankful for my apartment. My car that runs. Being financially stable. I am thankful I have a job. I am thankful for my friends christine, becky, roseanne, and catrina. I am thankful for trials. I am thankful for temptations and the ability to say no to them. I am thankful for Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. I am thankful for having clothes to keep me warm. And a bed I can sleep in. I am thankful for this challenge because it will make me realize all i have to be thankful for. (i lost count... oh 24!) I am thankful for facebook. I am thankful for email. I am thankful for hope. faith. and love. And lastly for today, I am thankful that God forgives sins

Later today, at the end of the day, i will go back through my day and write out more. 30 more to be exact.
Last night as I was trying to sleep I was thinking of all the things, big and little, that I am thankful for and surely i can come up with 870 more. I KNOW I can come up with more than that, but my goal is 900 for the month.

In other news, I am sick again. I never fully got better but now I have the full on cold again. It sucks. I don't know if it's because of the weather changing so drastically around here or working in the school where all the kids share germs with their teachers and each other. It is probably a combination of both.

I think I am going to lay down now. I am home alone and don't know what to do with myself, it's so quiet. I know though, as soon as I say that they will come home and I won't be home alone anymore.
Till next time.

~*~K~*~

Not Well

This bronchitis isn't going away. Well, it may have, but the cough is still there and I am so tired of coughing. This is ridiculous. I never remember to call the Dr. though, otherwise I'm sure i'd have an appointment scheduled. I was supposed to follow up within 2 days, yeah, I suck at that.
I haven't made much of anything since the last post. I haven't felt like it. I went back to work on Monday and didn't want to be there at all. I just wanted to be in bed. I want to sleep till I wake up and this cough is GONE!
Well enough complaining. I think i'm going to veg tonight when Jude goes to bed. Watch some Grey's on my netflix and just relax till I fall asleep.
Oh speaking of Jude, I had him sign his name today. I told him the letters and he did his best. I couldn't post a picture of it because of a special reason, but I will try to remember to take a picture of it tomorrow and post it up here. My little boy is growing up too dang fast.
Anyway, I'm going to go now. Wait till I find my creative muse again and get to making things. I'll write more soon
~*~K~*~

Salad with a Twist

I don't want this blog to turn into a "what I had for dinner" blog, because I want to do more with my creativity than just cook, but because I made this awesomely delicious Salad this evening for dinner i just had to share

So basically, its just a salad. Lettuce. Tomato. Hard boiled egg. Cubed Sharp cheddar AND get this...................... BRATWURST!!! HAHA! who ever thought about putting Bratwursts in a salad?! ME! that's who! I didn't use a dressing or anything because the juices from the tomato, lettuce, and bratwurst made is moist in flavor enough that I didn't need a dressing! Go me!

Enjoy!
~*~K~*~

Toliet Paper Towers

Jude has this new obsession with playing with toliet paper... And by playing with it, I don't mean balling it up and throwing it down the toliet. I mean making castles and towers out of it. Thursday, when I asked him to put the toliet paper away in the cupboard for me, i noticed it was taking him an unusually long amount of time and he had gotten really quiet. This is what I walked into:

Now of course, I could not be mad at him because I love his creative abilities. It stayed like this for quite awhile and then I informed him we had to put it away. He was a very good helper putting it away. He's a great boy, I couldn't ask for anyone better and his imagination is AMAZING!

Enjoy!
~*~K~*~

Dinner Last Night

Last night for dinner I actually cooked!

I made a cucumber, olive, mozzarella, and tomato salad. Some creamy mushroom penne, and Parmesan bread crumb chicken. It tasted delicious underneath all my sickies, so I can only imagine how amazing it would have tasted if I hadn't of been sick. I was just thinking though that the mozzarella didn't really have the full flavor that i was looking for so next time to bring out the taste of the cheese, I may go ahead and use feta.
Anyway, it was really good and I wish that my stomach could have eaten more but it didn't. I don't feel like posting a recipe, but it's pretty self explanatory. If you want to know how I made a particular thing (like if you're just dying to know) email me at goin2merced24@hotmail.com and i'll be totally glad to give it to you. I'm just not feeling too well and my mind is boggled so blogging it isn't gonna happen tonight.

Enjoy!

~*~ K~*~

I'm Baaaack!

So for awhile i've wanted to start being creative again. I was dabbling over at that tumblr place but i didn't like it. It didn't allow me to express my creative take on things as much as I would have liked it too. I am going to start blogging again.
Life
Creativity
Jude
Me
Marriage (or lack there of)
and Everything in Between.
I spend a lot of time on the computer doing the same ole things over and over and quite frankly, my talent deserves to be noticed. So hold tight and enjoy!

Kirsten

REMEMBER in case you forget

Ah Kirsten, this is for your memory purposes only. The email is kirstenbalkom@hotmail.com =)

Moments of Truth Unleashing God's Word One Day at a Time

I got this book before the new year in hopes that I would be able to read it daily. I couldn't really get into so i put it down for awhile; but then i remembered that I am suppose to write a review on it, so I had to pick it back up and read it in it's entirety...
I believe that if you understand the philosophy behind the author's mentioning in this book you will have a better understanding at grasping the lessons being taught in this book. A lot of it was too deep for me. I was first put off by the very first chapter being something i wasn't particularly interested in, so it was hard to keep reading.
When i did pick it back up and start reading more thoroughly, i found that it did become more interesting. This book is definately for someone that understands Big words and philosophical comparisons of religion.
At the bottom of the page there is a footer with mentions about some other book, it would have been nice if there was some kind of clarification of what those footers were actually for (there is only a small blurb in the back of the book about the footers, but it's unclear). Perhaps maybe accompanying the book as a set would help a reader understand what's taking place.
I guess i give it 3 stars.