Kristen’s blog

Who would you like to kiss under the mistletoe?
Submitted by EmmyAngua.

There's not a specific person that I would like to kiss under the mistletoe; however, I just think it would be cool to be in a situation with mistletoe where you could potentially get caught under it with someone and have to kiss. I've never really been in a situation with mistletoe. I guess we could hang it here at home, but there's not that many people that come through the door that would really be good kissing prospects, haha. So, I actually don't have a specific person, but it would be a fun situation! Yay for Christmas and merriment and fun! :)

What's on your holiday wish list?

I would like a boyfriend please. I am anxiously awaiting the opening of The Boyfriend Store at Logan Town Centre. I'm not sure when it will come though.

Also, I would like to be happy and find my direction in life.

It's a short list this year, and I'm sure it's easy to fulfill, haha!

What would the title of your autobiography be?
Submitted by princesskasren.

My "Otto"biography! :)

What do you collect?

I collect pressed pennies from places that I've visited (and some that I haven't because people are nice and get them for me! :) ). They are a cheap souvenir, so it's not bad to get them all the time, and they don't take up much space, but it's neat to look at them and remember all the places that I've been.

I used to collect teddy bears, and maybe it's coming back because I seem to have a lot of graduation bears wearing little hats that people have given me!

I also suppose I've started to collect black lab stuff because I have numerous stuffed black labs of varying sizes and a bobble-head black lab too!

I think you could also say I collect pictures because I love to take them and look at them and remember fun times!

And I have a book where I get all the state quarters and put them on a map. My grandma got that for me, so I guess I collect those too!

Wow, I'm cool, haha.

What's your motto?

1. Embrace rejection.
2. If you don't try, you won't get anything.
3. It never hurts to ask.
4. "I get knocked down, but I get up again; you're never gonna keep me down." Tubthumping by Chumbawumba.
5. Laugh a lot.
6. Happiness is the most important thing.
7. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
8. Forgive.
9. "Have you trials and tribulations? Oh, what needless pain we bear. All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer." What a Friend We Have in Jesus, hymn.
10. Smile.
11. "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Phillipians 4:13

What time period would you have lived in, if you could have lived at any time?

I'm gonna write about this later and save the question so I can edit it tomorrow or sometime, cause this is a good one! :)

Ok, I'm finally editing this because I have a day off from Ethan Allen, and I shouldn't wait any longer doing nothing, haha.

All right, well, if I could have lived at any time, I always thought I would want to live in the 1770s during the time of the American Revolution because that is my favorite part of history. I would love to have been around all of the influential men who built our country. I would love to have met the Founding Fathers. However, there was no indoor bathrooms, and other concerns of that nature.

So now, I have switched, I think. Now I want to live at the turn of the century or early 1900s because women got to wear big, pretty dresses and go to parties and that sort of thing. After just watching "Titanic", I decided that it would be fun to dress like Rose. And to have all those fancy dinners and such (assuming I'm rich) with proper table manners and gentlemen looking out for you all the time. I also think I would like to wear a corset, just for like a minute though to see how it feels. I would just like to try it for a while, not wear it everyday. So, I'd sort of like to be in "Pirates of the Caribbean" time, which I think is around the same time. That would be cool to be all pretty and prim and proper for awhile. Just for awhile mind you. Then, in other movie references, I just watched "Meet Me in St. Louis" over the weekend, and that was set in the early 1900s, and they had fun parties where you get all dressed up and invite boys over, but you behave all proper and fancy and stuff. And I'd like to have parties where you just sing and dance with your friends and everyone knows how the do the dances whether it be waltzing or square dancing. It would just be neat to live in a time when everyone just knew how to dance and behave.

However, living now is fine too. I wouldn't really want to live my whole life back then since there were limited opportunities for women (although maybe that would make life and decision making easier). However, I would definitely like to visit and spend a day or two in those time periods.

How many places have you lived in your life?

I have lived 4 places in my life. I was born in Carlisle, PA, and we lived on North College Street in, I think, a blue house until I was like 2 1/2 or 3. Then we moved to Newville, PA which is near Carlisle. We lived there in a tanish, I think, house until I was 5. The August before I started kindergarten we moved to Mom and Dad's hometown of Altoona. Well, Mom's from Tyrone; Dad's from Bellwood. I went to Bellwood schools, but our address is Altoona. We lived in a tan rancher which we bought from my aunt and was diagonal from my grandparents. The greatgrandparents were across the backyard. Then when they died, my uncle moved across the backyard. After that, Grandma moved in with my aunt, and my uncle now lives in her house and his daughter lives in the other house. It's a family affair. In August 2004 we moved up the hill to our current house which we had built since we thought a road might come through and take our other house. This house is red brick on the front with big arch windows and an arched front porch. It has white siding on the rest of it. It is a great house, and I love it here. Who knows how many other places I will live in?!

If you could only save one thing in a house fire (thing, not person), what would it be and why?
Submitted by donnunn.

Let's just preface this by saying that the house catching on fire has been one of my biggest fears ever since I was little and saw some TV show with a kid in a yellow raincoat who's apartment burnt down. It might have been "Webster". So, anyway, I've had a lot of time to think about this.

When I was little I planned out saving my little pound puppy, Patty, who was my best friend. Now I don't know where Patty is, and while it would be good to save Hippo and my other stuffed animals, the one thing that I would save is photo albums. If it was only one or a bunch, I would try to grab as many as I can. Those treasured memories that are captured forever cannot be rebought after a fire. Although you can still remember, you can't get back your baby pictures or pictures of the fam together at holidays. So, that is the thing I would save.

I would also like to have a big safe made out of fire-proof stuff that I could hide all my treasured possessions in to safeguard against fire. When I was younger I planned exactly what I'd put in there, but I don't remember now. I hope that all this planning is for nothing though and that this is a purely hypothetical question and situation. Because goodness knows I don't want the house to burn down. Especially not our nice new one. But our smoke alarms are really stinkin' loud and annoying, so I'm sure we'll be alerted if anything should ever happen.

What time period would you have lived in, if you could have lived at any time?

I'm gonna write about this later and save the question so I can edit it tomorrow or sometime, cause this is a good one! :)

What was the last game you played?

I played a game today called "go to work". I haven't played it in over a year. It was an all right game, but it's going to take some getting used to, haha!!

Ok, really, in all actuality, the last game I played was BINGO with Mike at Tyrone Community Picnic day. It was fun even though I get scared to win and have had previous embarrassing experiences with Bingo. It was fun because Mike actually won - yay!! (and the crowd goes wild!!) There were many people there and we used rice to cover our cards.

Prior to that, I played family games a weekend or so ago with the fam including Scrabble, Hoopla, and Bowlman. They are really fun games, except Scrabble has too much down time for me while people are thinking. I like to hurry it along. However, for Father's Day I got Dad an official Scrabble players' dictionary, so that was cool to use the last time. Hoopla is always fun, and I'm very excited I purchased it to introduce to the fam. It was so fun playing during the school year with Sarah and Becky that I just had to have it for my very own! Bowlman is a game that Lauren taught us that involves writing names of famous people on slips of paper and then putting them in a bowl, and then you have teams and one person gives clues to who's on the piece of paper, but they can't say any proper names. It's a fun time.