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Kristen in a red shirt

Self-portrait

Looking down

path in woods

Romance

sun shining through trees.

Sunset

How do you feel about 6:00 am?

November 11, 2021

Grasses covered in morning frost.

Hmm. I would say that my feelings about 6:00 am are generally positive because it’s early in the morning, but not unjustly early. (4:00 am, for example, is an unjustly early time to wake up. I consider that night, not morning!) I love mornings. The fresh start to the day is lovely. And the long…

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A time you were surprised at your reaction

November 10, 2021

Kristen and Mr. FG at Wrigley Field.

Mr. FG is a lifelong Chicago Cubs baseball fan, but when we got married, he’d never been to Wrigley Field. And since we spent the early years of our marriage in a fairly penniless state, we were not about to take a trip there. At one point, though, when we were parents of three kids,…

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The furthest you’ve traveled from home

November 9, 2021

Mr. FG and Kristen at Disney

Other than the U.S., I have been to Canada, though mostly in Ontario, which is not crazy far from the east coast of the United States. The summer after I graduated from high school, though, my family drove to Banff, Canada, which is an insanely long drive. So, that feels like the furthest I’ve traveled…

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The last thing you searched for online

November 8, 2021

Kristen reading outside

Well, I was shopping for clothes, which is pretty unusual for me. I get easily bored/frustrated/overwhelmed by clothes shopping, so I either don’t start, or I give up easily. And that is why I just wear the same type of thing over and over again…jeans + long sleeve tee + hoodie. That’s my cold weather…

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Something I feel uncertain about

November 4, 2021

Kristen looking confused.

I don’t feel like this all the time, but every now and again, I think things like: What if I get my R.N. and then it turns out that I actually hate being a nurse? What if I hate having hours dictated to me after all these years of self-employment? What if I don’t actually…

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Are you good at decision-making?

November 1, 2021

River on a fall morning.

Well, as I so often say: that depends. But generally speaking, I don’t love the prep work required to make a decision, so I try to get to the decision point as quickly as possible. To me, the best decision is a done decision. I don’t usually take forever to choose a menu item, I’m…

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A catch-up

October 29, 2021

Christmas cookie cutter

Today is the last day for October prompts, and since I missed a number this week, I thought I’d do a rapid-fire post; short answers for a bunch of small prompts. Where I want to be in five years Well, I hope to be a nurse by then! And I will probably be an empty-nester….

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Something that makes me feel better

October 26, 2021

A long driveway surrounded by grass.

Going for a walk outside! If I wake up feeling tired, out-of-sorts, and/or anxious, my inclination is to lie in bed and do nothing. But if I make myself get up and go for a walk, I almost always end up feeling better both physically and mentally. I know psychological experts say that physical activity…

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My favorite dessert

October 25, 2021

Apricot sweet rolls cooling on a rack

My favorite desserts almost always have some combo of the following: butter sugar flour chocolate And preferably, the dessert has all four! This excludes a number of sugary things, such as slushees, milkshakes, popsicles, fruity candy, hard candy, gummy candy, Smartees, SweetTarts, and so on. Basically, I would much rather have a brownie than a…

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Your favorite outdoor landscape

October 22, 2021

Kristen standing on a log in the woods.

Boy, I’m not sure! I think there are a number of outdoor landscapes that I enjoy. I think the mountains are beautiful. But I think the same about wooded areas, valleys, lakes, rivers, oceans, and so on. I think I don’t particularly love a brown landscape….southern California is a little too brown for my taste,…

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A menial task I don’t mind doing

October 21, 2021

A basement laundry area.

Laundry! I don’t know for sure why this is, but I have a theory: for the first 2.5 years of my adult life, we lived in a basement apartment, where we had access to the upstairs washer and dryer for one day per week. This was a little challenging with two adults, but exponentially more…

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Something I think people appreciate about me

October 20, 2021

Kristen

Based on feedback both online and in real life: my cheerful nature. I may have written about this before, but when I was a preschooler, no one would have described me as cheerful. My mom, distressed about my life attitude, actually had me memorize verses from Proverbs about cheerful hearts. Ha. Perhaps it’s because of…

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Something I do when I’m sad

October 19, 2021

Kristen as a child, sitting in her uncle's lap.

Uhhhh, I cry. This seems like a pretty obvious answer, but I suppose there are plenty of people out there who don’t cry when they’re sad! On a spectrum that runs from “easy crier” to “hardly ever cries”, I definitely skew a little toward the “easy crier” end of things. This is particularly true if…

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My favorite song right now

October 18, 2021

Taylor Leonhardt's Spotify page.

It’s one by Taylor Leonhardt, called, “Happy or Whatever“. I’d never heard of her until the most recent episode of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, where her song, “The Bridge” was featured as the closing tune. I liked the sound of it, so I looked her up, saw that, “Happy or Whatever” was…

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The last book you read

October 12, 2021

Crying in H-mart, in hard cover.

I just finished Crying in H Mart, a memoir by Michelle Zauner, which mainly focuses on her relationship with her Korean mom. This summer, it seemed like I saw this book everywhere, so I put it on hold at the library, and it has taken until now for my copy to come in. Luckily, I…

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Something I like about this time of year

October 8, 2021

fall morning sunshine

Ooh, it’s nice I got this prompt in October because this, to me, is one of the best months of the year! What do I like about October? The weather! October is a month where we often don’t need to run either heat or air-conditioning. The summer humidity is not around as much, but you…

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Something I love to do in the evenings

October 6, 2021

ikea bedroom

I read this one and smiled at the first thing that came to mind: go to bed. I just really like to go to bed. I have never, ever been a night owl, even in my teen years. (A shocking truth: I went to bed at 9:00 pm and got up at 5:00 a.m. for…

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Something you can really, truly enjoy

October 4, 2021

fall morning sunshine

A little while back, reader Kristin commented on a post here and said she wished she was a person who could go through life really enjoying things; she said she thinks she’s too uptight to be very good at that. Kristin and I are virtual twins in a country mouse/city mouse way, so I resonated…

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Something that sparks my interest

September 30, 2021

stack of books.

I really love personal stories. As you probably know, I’ve been on a medical memoir reading binge for the last few months. Memoirs in general really scratch my “personal story” itch, of course, because memoirs ARE a personal story! But inside these medical memoirs, my favorite parts are the patient stories. I love to read…

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Something I want my future self to remember

September 29, 2021

annoyed Kristen

I don’t know if this is a universal experience, but it’s pretty consistent for me: when I am feeling really mad or really sad/discouraged, at that moment, I find myself thinking that I will feel this way forever. Like, “I will never calm down from this. I will never feel ok.” I feel pretty silly…

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A purchase I wish I hadn’t made

September 28, 2021

Kristen's townhouse kitchen

I can’t think of a whole lotta things I’ve bought that I’ve regretted. This is probably because I tend to think very long and hard before I buy something (sometimes too long and hard!) If you had asked me this about ten years ago, I might have said, “this house”. We sold and bought at…

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Something I have doubts about

September 27, 2021

Black Oxygen pills

I don’t know if “doubt” is the right word, because I feel nearly 100% sure about this. So, there is a company I recently heard of, called Black Oxygen Organics. It’s an MLM-style company, and basically, they sell glorified dirt. Their products are made from “fulvic acid-rich mud”, found somewhere in Canada. They say, among…

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Something I know I’m capable of

September 24, 2021

Kristen with a shelter cat

This is probably because of the family I grew up in, but I generally think that I am capable of almost anything I put my mind to. I don’t think my parents said this in so many words, but it was sort of in the air in my childhood home; this idea that with effort,…

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My soul food

September 23, 2021

morning light

When I first read this prompt, I took it to be asking, “What feeds your soul?” Then I wondered if it was instead referring to actual food; but since soul food is a particular Southern cuisine, I discarded that idea. So, what feeds my soul? faith encouragement from other Christians reminders of truth from fellow…

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A source of my inspiration

September 22, 2021

A white desk by a window.

I do not even know where to go with this prompt; the options are endless! For starters, my inspiration for what? And even if I choose a “what”, then there are multiple sources of inspiration for that “what”. Maybe I’ll start with something more specific: what’s a source of my inspiration for blogging? The dictionary…

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Something that always makes you laugh

September 21, 2021

Gray kitten with white whiskers, in Sonia's arms.

Hmm. How about a bulleted list? some typos/grammar issues (like when people write “viola” instead of “voila”. It makes the sentence so funny! Or when a sign says something like: We sell “fresh” food. Taking the quotation marks literally makes the sign humorous.) really bad singing really bad instrumental music (like some of those middle…

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My morning routine

September 20, 2021

fall morning sunshine

There are exceptions, of course. But generally speaking, I read a devotional out loud to Mr. FG (New Morning Mercies). I do not pay attention that well when someone reads to me, so it works better if I’m the reader. Then one of us prays (we alternate days). After that, we either go for a…

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Something that makes me feel alive

September 17, 2021

Kristen with stillborn baby

Helping people. No matter which personality profile I use (Enneagram, Myers-Briggs, etc.), I always end up in a category that likes to be a helper. Sometimes my personality type is actually called “The Helper”. I’m not a take-charge-and-lead type of person (too much responsibility!) but I do get a lot of joy out of being…

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Something I want to be open to

September 16, 2021

Anatomy and Physiology textbook.

As you all know, I’m working on getting my nursing degree, with the thought that I’d probably like to work in the NICU, labor and delivery, or mother and baby care. However! I want to stay open about what type of nursing I will do. I know that it can be hard to find openings…

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Something you wish you could be

September 15, 2021

Monday calendar

I wish that I could be good at being spontaneous. I am really, really, really not good at spontaneity. And this is even more true if the spontaneity is coming at me from someone else. Sometimes, even when it seems like I’m being spontaneous, I’m actually not. For instance, sometimes I “spontaneously” suggest an after-dinner…

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