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A Chronology, If You Will

Dear friends, today I woke up and realized that I have not taken a single picture for weeks. So I decided to make up for it today. I now present to you, the stereo-typical Monday of a Kismint Plink-a-Dink.

**NOTE** These pictures are completely unedited and were shot on auto mode. Thus, they are exceedingly awful at worst and not my finest work at best. Enjoy as my day unfolds before you.

I started today's photo log at breakfast. Naturally, my fine cooking skills produced a feast of quite scrumptious quality

Fed this fellow.

Can't you just see the gratitude?

It's been my experience that panic takes place at about this time on Monday mornings...something about it being eight minutes to departure time.

Wore my Shell Shocked jersey with my pirate boots today. I hope you are proud.

Road trip.

This is what is looks like after I've just defeated the evil evil evil evil evil stairs that mark the way to digi art.

Yes. I know it's a shock. Homeschoolers have to take notes from the board too.

I hope I don't get sued for taking pictures of the innocent.

Note to self: lunch could suspiciously be likened to breakfast.

You know you're under your word count if you're working on NaNo at lunchtime. 

Friends who are awesome and do goofy things with me during lunch hour as I wield a camera. Thank guys, I had a lot of fun today---and seriously, you are brilliant when it comes to photo ideas.

Lit. class: the place of the kiwi walls.

Tramping my way to science. 

  Tramping my way from science.

GOODBYE FRODO!!!! *sniff* 

Yay for home and screechy garage doors.

Today marks a cornerstone for me. It was the first time I single handedly popped my own little bag of greasy microwave popcorn all by my own little self. 

Plus, I tried to make a video documentary of me doing it, but that fizzled and my camera decided not to keep its end of the bargain up.

Guess what this spells!...

...A Merlin marathon COMPLETE WITH POPCORN AND SODA!! 

(Surprise! I've become an overnight fan.)

After I finished season one of BBC's finest, I went over to the young writer's program NaNo website and decided to try to strangle my word count (currently 1,240 behind schedule).

NaNo playlist. 

The lack of variety in artists bothers me not.

After sitting too long with my eyes glazed over trying to conjure up those missing 1,240 words my mum kicked me off the typewrit---err, computer. What else to do but re-read this classic in the November nighttime?

Until of course, the dude came and told me that I needed to shower him with love and attention (and food). 

This picture was weird because I couldn't see a thing when I took it. Flashes are annoying, but fun when I don't care about the quality. 

I usually spend my nights pacing around in the dark. It's just what I do---and how I think.

Sad but true: this is what I think of as a typical Monday night dinner. Cooking just isn't what you'd call a love.

And from there I sat down and blogged about my day. 

Which, ironically, doesn't have a picture to go with it, because the picture is...right here. 

I hope you had a good Monday. And I very much hope the rest of your week will be fine and jolly with lots of chocolate and pretty sunsets (because sunrises are too early in the morning and you deserve to sleep in). 

These are just some of the pictures I took today, so expect to see some more soon at my photography blog! Tell me what you think of my Monday photo log...maybe I'll do another day of the week. 

But until then,

God bless and be inspired,

K-Minty

Yesterday's Headdesk

This minus the fact that I love Revenge of the Sith.

Big Whoopee

NaNo! I'm excited now. I have a cover for the book, and I haven't even written the first word.
FEAST YOUR EYES READERS, FEAST YOUR EYES!!

Coming together this November.

Any guesses on what the plot is? Please feel free to give out inklings & ideas in the comment section. I don't have an outline written out, but I have one in my head. I guess we'll just see where we go when we get there.
Also, I was wondering: Which do you prefer to read: first person or third person? First person is more fun to write, but third person gives me more wiggle room. This is quite a conundrum.

...Oh, by the way, have any of you ever hiked Humphreys Peak (located in Arizona)? If you have, I need your brain. And if you by chance happen to farm pinto beans, I need to have a few words with you.

Last night I made this awesome guy.

I pulled out a bent needle, some cheap thread, and a reeeally old pair of cut up blue jeans that I forgot to throw away years ago and just hand sewed it up around my arm. The best part? It actually zips around my wrist because I was able to keep the zipper and thread it into the rest of the material. Tonight I'm working on the left one. This one is different though, because instead of a zipper, it uses a sting of leather and laces up.

'nywaze, that's what's up.

Back at ya later,
K-Minty

Hedgehogs Be Praised

For the second time in bloggerworld, I have been tagged! Seriously, is being tagged not the best feeling ever? =D

John the hedgehog from Banana's Aren't Good was nice enough to grant me the glee of being tagged! Here were his eleven questions:

1. You don't like bananas, right?

They are sometimes squishy and gross. Besides, I don't like monkeys.

 2. Do you want to build a snow man with me?

Oh ever so much! It doesn't snow here. =(

 3. Do you like movies with sand in them? I do. Jack's friend does too and that is how I saw the movie with sand in it.

I am not a beach person.

 4. Will you see the movie with the boy named Jack Frost in it?

If you buy the ticket.

 5. Will you read the books before the movie?

Serious doubts.

 6. Do you like books?

They smell nice.

 7. Do you have someone like Jack to read them to you?

No. But sometimes the ghosts in the closet come out and listen.

 8. Do you have a boring big brother like I do?

In all fairness, he does not bore me that much.

 9. Do you like cold chocolate or hot chocolate more?

Hot chocolate season is short-lived here. Cold is the way to go.

 10. Is your birthday the same day as my birthday?

Negative.

 11. Do you want to put candles on your tree?

I do not think my tree would like me if I did that. I read books in her leaves, and I have a desk made out of plywood up in her branches. However, candles are not to her liking.

Someday I will live in a treehouse.

And here are my questions:

1. Are you okay with bats?
2. If I asked you to check out a book called "Lasagna for Breakfast" at the nearest library, what would your first thought be?
3. Something on your "bucket list"?
4. Is it cheesy to say gesundheit?
5. Are monkeys cute or creepy?
6. First guy's name that comes to your head?
7. If you were to break your arm tomorrow, how would you do it?
8. Best shoes to dance in?
9. Would you recognize any Beatles's songs if one randomly played on the radio?
10. Something that's bugging you now is...?
11. The last video you played on YouTube was...?

And now: THE TAG-EES!

Ely @ www.quillquizzer.blogspot.com

Lauricia @ www.giveitsomestyle.blogspot.com

E-Jai @ www.divingintochaos.blogspot.com

Leauphaun @ www.thelifeofleauphaun.weebly.com

Reg @ www.monsterchinchilla.blogspot.com 

Isabelle @ www.singing4life-isabelle.blogspot.com 

Alosia @ www.thecastleintheskies.blogspot.com

Once again, thank you John the hedgehog! You are a good hedgehog friend, and I look forward to hearing more from you.

God bless!

K-Minty

"The Time I Kill is Killing Me"

There are a few things that we as humans don't seem to have figured out yet. For example, why do we complain about time flying, yet at the same time, when asked how our day went, we moan:

"SLOOOOOOOWLY.",

Punctuated with exasperation. It just doesn't make sense to me. Shouldn't a slow day be a blessing? If time is such a short, fleeting element, wouldn't it be right to revel in it? There's that saying about sitting back, breathing, and letting it all go. Well that sounds nice, but if you let it all go, you may not have anything left by the time you wake up. There are certain things that anchor you to what matters. Things like Hope. And Hope is important. The minute you let him go, you will realize that you need a bigger road map. Lucky for us as believers---we always have hope!

And that, as Gandalf said, is a comforting thought.

          1 Corinthians 7:29-31

²⁹ What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not; ³⁰ those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; ³¹ those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

           Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

There is a time for everything,

    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

² 

    a time to be born and a time to die,

    a time to plant and a time to uproot,

³ 

    a time to kill and a time to heal,

    a time to tear down and a time to build,

⁴ 

    a time to weep and a time to laugh,

    a time to mourn and a time to dance,

⁵ 

    a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

⁶ 

    a time to search and a time to give up,

    a time to keep and a time to throw away,

⁷ 

    a time to tear and a time to mend,

    a time to be silent and a time to speak,

⁸ 

    a time to love and a time to hate,

    a time for war and a time for peace.

James 4:14

¹⁴ yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Elucidation.2

Plot twist: Sometimes you have to lose multiple times to win.