Kristen Blog

Tough week.  What person in their right mind would be sad about NOT having to work 20 extra hours and keep up with classwork?    You guys...I'm starting to think I'm not in my right mind!!  😱  I mean, I know I stink at closing doors...you should have seen when I tried it once.  Stiff...awkward...indefinitive.  Ok????  It was just terrible!!  And I especially CANNOT close doors when it involves people, because I just love so much my heart aches.  I don't like saying goodbye...even when it is for a short time. But I'm not just sad.  I'm scared.  I'm terrified about how I am going to cope when I leave this role behind.  I have loved this role.  I have hated it at times, but I have loved it.  How much more needed could I have felt this year?  And feeling necessary, needed...wanted...loved...that's ALWAYS been my biggest heart issue.  I have surely felt needed this year, all around the block.  Will...

In case you think you've ever had a bad week...just multiply it by about a hundred thousand million, and you will begin to inch your way closer to mine.  Uh...meh...gud.  😒 Seriously, though.  It was bad.  Did you ever have to walk up to your Goliath physique neighbor and say, "Hi, my name is Kristen, and apparently my daughter was riding your (bleep) and really (bleeped) you off!"  Because you yell at her every time she drives by your house, and now she is really scared to even get in her car?  Nope?!!!  Well...welcome to Kristen Shanna...And Everything Else. Because that's what it is really starting to feel like.  Everything else.  Everyone else.  Everyone else's problem just kind of tends to land on...MEH. Did you ever have to go to your kid's school and go into the principal's office, which is MUCH LESS SCARY when you DIDN'T DO IT?  Just sayin', 1994..., Did you ever have to say to your kid's principal, "I just want to ...