For My Missed Monday Post--The Barn

Dad gave me a stall in the barn to do with as I pleased.What could an eight-year old little girl possibly want to do with a barn stall you ask? Well, let me tell you. An eight-year old little girl and her friend from next door could clean out said stall and turn it into a two-story play room.Treasures with no known history were found in that stall. License plates from states outside of Texas with dates on them older than dirt itself--we nailed them to the walls, cleared out the useless junk, created a desk from old milk crates, added support beams...

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Back from Vacation

I'm a slacker, I know, I know.Wait, no I'm not. I was on vacation, that's why I've missed two of my life story and multiple random blog posts about whatever's on my mind. Don't worry I will make up for it . . . soon. Let me get through this pile of missed work on my desk, and catch up with all my e-mails and I swear I will get back to blogging.Before I go, let me paint a picture. Imagine waking up when you feel like it, rested, relaxed, happy. Now get dressed, go outside and walk through the warm morning air to the white, sandy beach. Waves rolling...

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A Morning to Remember

This morning's blog post was going to be witty, fun and entertaining, but while driving along my fifty mile commute into Washington, D.C. plans changed."All roads leading to and around the Pentagon have been shutdown due to a suspicous package--more details to come later," said the radio announcer.My first instinct was to flee, but I was trapped. A prisoner in the wonderful HOV lanes, surrounded on all sides by guardrails. My hitchhikers and I were only a few miles from the Pentagon when traffic came to a complete stop and there we sat, vulnerable...

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Where's The Delete Button?

Have you ever had one of those days where you'd like to rewind and start over? Yeah, me too, but today was not one of those days. Today was a day I'd like to delete from memory, never to have to worry about again.I don't recommend dwelling on negatives in life because it does absolutely no good, however, I'm about to make an exception.When my alarm went off at 5:30 this morning my head was already throbbing. That should have been indication to stay home, but no, good employee Krystal got up, got dressed and drove to work. Only the headache was...

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Public School?

Homeschool ended. My parents did something wrong. As a child I was surprised by this realization, but as an adult I understand we all do things wrong. Technicalities and a general lack of fight in my mom and dad landed my brother and I in public school.No big deal, right?Wrong.Kris and I “grew up” in the city and these people knew it. From the way we walked to the way we talked.“Go back to Illi'noise’ you damn yankee!”The deep-rooted hatred behind the insult didn’t register until I was much older, but the insult itself . . . that hurt. Imagine...

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Awesome Blog

Do you ever find yourself saying the same word over and over? I do."Hey, Krystal, I just won a new car," someone says to me.Guess what I say in return . . . I said guess.You got it! The title says it all. Awesome.Yes, that's right awesome is my catch word for everything. I've only discovered this during the last couple weeks, but now I hear it coming out of my mouth at least six times a day. My facebook posts, my twitter feeds . . . awesome is everywhere.Tonight on the way to my four year-old daughter's dance recital rehearsal--boy that's a mouthful--she...

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Morning Commute

This morning my commute was longer than normal, but I felt like I was only in the car for a few minutes.If you've read my About Me then you know I pick up strangers on a daily basis. Today my strangers were fun, exciting and kept my thoughts from spiraling out of control into worlds full of dark, mysterious things.Hey, I miss those dark, mysterious things. I need to think about them. My books wouldn't come to life without monsters who go bump in the night, but every now and then it's nice to connect with the real world on my fifty mile drive.Don't...

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Quick Update

So much to do, so little time. Something I keep as my AIM status message, and Gmail chat status, and--you get the point, right?Between Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, critting and writing itself my head is spinning. How does everyone juggle all things associated with the writing world? Hmm?I have friends who do all those things with six kids, others with four . . . you know who you are. Geesh. How do YOU GUYS do it?Well, even though I have a million things to keep me busy--including three kids--the last two days have been productive. If you keep up...

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Good Times

Yips and howls from the coyote’s late night hunting parties made my dreams terrifying. I don’t know why I was afraid of the animals; it’s not like they showed anything more than curiosity toward us, and they visited on only a few occasions, but for some reason the four legged mangy creatures were my biggest fear—well them and spiders.Fortunately, our day time routines were coyote free. My brother and I would spend most of the morning with our mom. She quit her paper pushing job to home school us when we moved to our seventeen-acre Christmas tree...

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