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Ramblings

Wordless Wednesday: Banana

by Kristi on February 5, 2025


If only I ALWAYS had this perfect of a banana train waiting for me on my kitchen counter. #notsowordlesswednesday

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Sticky Notes, Tattoos, and Personal Growth

by Kristi on February 1, 2025


It’s been a month of moments. I talked about writing more… so here is a weekly journey through January moments – some not so memorable but at least I entertained myself! The first five days of the year were very introspective, quiet, lovely, and a few hard/rewarding parts mixed in. The entire week was a […]

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Prompt: Wish

by Kristi on January 26, 2025


Today’s “Dad Text” from Ang resonated with me more than usual. These texts are so thoughtful. She was missing her dad and signed up for service to text her daily with messages that a dad would send to her daughter. And then she copies them and sends them to me! (And others too, I think.) […]

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Alexinomia

by Kristi on January 25, 2025


I was browsing IG this morning and ran across an article in the Atlantic which immediately made me stop and read. “Why calling loved ones by their name is strangely awkward” OMGosh, YES! Why, Atlantic? I must know. Names are so important. I will make people repeat their names to me three times. I have […]

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LA Fires

by Kristi on January 22, 2025


Today was a satisfying day. I was a little slow and tired. Still fighting a weird not-fever, where my temp just flirts with 100 degrees all day and I can feel the chills in my body and the heaviness of my head. But I popped two Tylenol at 945am and went on my way. S […]

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Flowing into a Red Dress

by Kristi on January 19, 2025


I was a little out of sorts, off-balanced, uneasy. I knew I was stuck but I wanted to power my way through it in another direction assuming that would get me past my thoughts and into another – better – place. It was a good jolt to be asked to think about it from another […]

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Prompt: Relive

by Kristi on January 12, 2025


Describe something you wish you could relive I was scrolling through journal prompts today wanting to take 15m to write. There were so many prompts that were interesting but this one caught my eye. What popped into my mind immediately was the day we cruised with the dolphins. It was a beautiful February day and […]

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Duolingo 2024

by Kristi on January 4, 2025


I want to save this so I can see it next year! Goal is to do 10% more lessons and learning. 2024 stats: 1,676 lessons in French 83,357 XP – Top 1% of all learners 2,749 minutes learning (or 46 hours) 2,054 mistakes in 2024 – Do I care about making less mistakes? Not really. […]

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Reflections 2024

by Kristi on December 30, 2024


So I obsessively recorded my year. I did mean to only do a few pictures a month but I wanted to get it all down. Maybe a resolution will be to do a monthly post this year. Hmm… I know I will come back to this next year and in 5 years and reread it […]

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2024 Recap: July – Dec

by Kristi on December 29, 2024


Continuation from Jan – June. “A pebble that we picked up last July” A few days after we got back in July it was admission day at SDSU! She was so occupied with checking everything, getting her classes, and it was such a fun day. I met such nice parents and had fun conversations and […]

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2024 Recap: Jan – June

by Kristi on December 28, 2024


I’m doing a two-part recap! And then will have my mini-recap and goals… Starting with January “We could leave the Christmas lights up till January” To be fair, I wanted to do one or two pictures per month when I started this post back in March. But… that didn’t work out and now I’m committed. […]

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HBD T

by Kristi on December 21, 2024


For years, Truck has written everyone very long and (rambling) beautiful birthday notes. It is his “thing” and for years I have told myself to write him notes in return. That’s his love language. He loves writing, he loves being written to. Some years I would. For a long time, I simply had no capacity […]

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Will and Harper

by Kristi on September 15, 2024


I read a write-up in the WaPo that Will Ferrell did a documentary with his best friend that sounded fascinating. I really like Will Ferrell and am always interested in supporting the LBGTQ community. Since I don’t tend to watch a lot of TV at home with a short attention span recently, I wanted to […]

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Rest of TTDP Deep Dive – Part 1

by Kristi on September 8, 2024 · 2 comments


Shoving everything else in Part 1 into this post to figure out my rankings! Is that even possible? Oh well. Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)My Boy Only Breaks his Favorite ToysSo Long, LondonFresh Out the SlammerFlorida!!!I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)I Can Do It With a Broken HeartThe Smallest Man Who Ever LivedClara Bow […]

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My other top highlights on TTPD Part 1 are Guilty as Sin, Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me, and the actual named SONG Tortured Poets Department which I feel is overlooked? Let’s start with the only one I made a note of on my first listen which was Little Old Me and I wrote “that […]

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