This blog is brought to you by your old friend Christin: I grew up in Texarkana but I'm over twenty and not married. I'm a New St. Andrews graduate but I'm not a teacher. I live in West Monroe but I'm not a redneck. I work at a bank but I don't have any money. I was born in Louisiana, but I'll always be a Texan. I am a riddle: a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
Thursday
For My Next Move...
I've got a new blog! Since this one is nothing but dysfunctional, come see my new one here.
Wednesday
As Good As It Gets
Some things just can't be improved upon. Take an umbrella, for example: you can get a big one, a medium one, or a small one in your choice of color. Those are your choices and those are the only choices you need. However, if someone could come up with a procedure to close the umbrella, get in the car, and get the umbrella into the car without getting water all over the driver and the car, I would call that person a genius and give him a dollar.
Another Quote for Another Day
"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known." - Garrison Keillor
How true.
Tuesday
If you hit refresh enough, my comments will probably show up. Enetation is having some issues, which are (hopefully) being dealt with. I don't want to change comment systems again because I don't want to loose all my comments.
I've got to stop having fun. It makes it so tough to get up in the morning.
Quote of the Day
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." - Bill Cosby
Four Degrees of Separation
She's my brother's wife's brother's wife. She's the mother of two very cute kids (Wrenn and Eli). She's the wife of Patrick, who invented Triangulate!, the game that's sweeping the nation. She's Shannon. She's blogging. You should go see her.
Monday
Blogger hates me
My blog broke. I didn't change anything on it, it just stopped working. I'm trying to fix it, but I don't really know what I'm doing. Hopefully, I'll get it fixed soon. If you have anything to tell me in the meantime, you can e-mail me at sarahchristin@hotmail.com
I turned eleven in 1990. Wow. I remember thinking the 90's were going to be the greatest decade ever. I especailly remember thinking the fashions of the 90's, unlike those of the 80's, were timeless. While I've never been on the cutting edge of fashion, I've always known what was in style. I thought I would look back at pictures from those years and be proud that I lived through such a classic fashion period.
I was wrong.
I watched a movie from 1994 and the clothes and the hair just cracked me up. What were we thinking? (I'm guilty of at least 25 of these trends.)
It's hard to believe clothes will be so easy to date when I'm wearing them, but I'm sure I'll look back ten years from now and wonder why I dressed so funny in 2003.
Friday
Words cannot express how much I love having someone else wash my hair. Someday, when I'm rich *evil grin*, I'm going to have someone wash my hair for me everyday.
My dad sent me some quotes this morning, one of which reminded me of something funny. When I was a freshman in college, we had to do impromptu speeches in rhetoric class. We were given a quote and then had about 30 seconds to begin speaking on it. I like to think I'm better at giving speeches now than I was then, but man, I was really bad at it then. I doubt anyone else who was in that class remembers my speech, but it certainly made an impression on me. I had made very few speeches before and I was relatively shy (or at least self-conscious) so the thought of making up a speech on the spot terrified me. Here's the quote I was assigned:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein)
I got up there, read my quote, and proceeded to do a stand-up comedy routine on human stupidity which included many examples I had encountered in my seventeen years of life. I don't know why I remember that speech more than any others I gave in that class, but the fear of the impromptu speech certainly made an impression on me, which was, I guess, the idea behind the assignment.
I am, quite possibly, the worst video game player of all time. I don't know why, but for some reason, I'm just plain bad at them. Maybe it's because I'm a girl. Maybe it's because I've usually opted to watch instead of play. Maybe it's because I just don't care enough to learn how to play any better. Maybe it's because everyone I play against has played a lot more. I don't know what the deal is. I guess it's just one of life's mysteries.
Thursday
I'm an aunt again!
Well, I'm a psuedo-aunt anyway. Emma Elizabeth McIntosh was born to Jonathan and Annie yesterday. I can't wait to meet her!
Wednesday
Quote of the Day
"To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than." - Oscar Holmolka
Tuesday
Triangulate!
Patrick recently told me about a new game he came up with called Triangulate!. Inspired by the phrase, "a little bit country, a little bit rock n roll," the idea of the game is to identify three facets of your personality. You can use 3 movies, 3 musical genres, 3 songs, 3 authors, 3 cars, 3 occupations, etc. to try to shows different sides of who you are. For example, I would say I'm one part banker, one part interior designer, and one part English teacher. Of course, these three things don't entirely define who I am, but they give you some idea of what I think about myself. This game is more difficult than you might think. It's tough to come up with different things that define your personality. It might be little easier to identify aspects of someone else...you can play it that way too. I believe this game is intended to be a roadtrip game...it can take a while to come up with three songs that tell who you are. It can also be a blog game or a party game. Think about it. You'll like it.
I hear that Patrick is already working on Triangulate 2!. Maybe it'll be a board game. Milton Bradley is going to be all over this!
Go ahead, try it. Define yourself.**
**Don't you think "define yourself" would be a good slogan for this game? I just came up with that. Maybe "identify yourself" would be better.
