Oh the Power of Lightning

Well let's hope that is the truth....but being that I make it a practice to not wear a lightning rod on my head, I am hoping that it is definitely the truth!

So I thought I would take this time to give you a little history behind my story.  My life today is a typical mom/wife life.  I get up, go to the gym, go to work, come home, play with boys, cook dinner, go to bed.  Boring...but it is what it is and I love it.   But life wasn't always so calm.  On my 18th birthday I was walking to class (we had an outdoor open campus) and I was truck by lightning.  Yes, you heard that right...kapow...struck.  I fell like a broomstick smack down onto my face.  I knocked two front teeth out...one I supposedly swallowed and the other I inhaled.  I was rushed (almost air lifted but the ambulance got there first) to the ER where I had tubes put in every orifice imaginable.  I was put into an induced coma and was in the hospital for two weeks-ish.  I had a major surgery to remove the tooth from my right lung and have a scar to prove it.  I was out of commission for quite a while - but hey, I lived to tell the tale.  I went on to get a scholarship to play college volleyball and thank goodness the lightning didn't affect my brain capacity.  Sometimes I have memory issues...but hey, who doesn't??  Wait, what was I talking about??????????

Anyway, life went on and every September 7th I remember that my family got a call saying I was being rushed to the hospital and that they should come quickly because no one knew just how bad off I really was.   I don't get too freaked out about lightning storms any longer, unless the lightning is close or streaking straight down.  Then I will sit in my car for hours until the storm passes.  Literally hours.  Sorry babe, I am in my car, in the driveway, two feet away from the door...but there is no way in HELL that I am getting out right now!

So that is my history and the past is in the past.  I will at all times avoid wearing a lightning rod on my head.  But I WILL...one day...get a tattoo of lightning.  Just need to find an artistic person to draw something for me!  Know anyone???

BE A GIANT~~~~~Kristin

Let's Start This Off With a Bang!

I am hoping that this is the first of many many posts to come.  I have been thinking about starting a new blog for a while now...and many things have transpired that prompted me to buck up and begin.  To start with...I am a mom and wife with a full time job.  Do I wish I could stay at home?  Well hell yes.  Is that going to happen?  Maybe when I am 80.  Why then?  Because it is probably going to take me that long to finish paying my student loans off!  For all of you out there who have student loans...yes they suck and yes they take FOREVER to pay back.  Don't get me wrong, I love my job as a Physician Assistant.  I get to help people every day.  I get to see them grow...and eventually take out student loans themselves.  Was it worth it?  Sure, why not.  But are there much better things I could be doing with my money?  Again...well hell yes.  One day...one day...

So, this blog will be about many different things....my life...my horribly failed Pinterest and DIY projects...my life as a tall, somewhat thin girl who cannot find clothes that fit well...my thoughts on a clothing line (yeah right, I have no artistic ability whatsoever)...and well just about anything else in between.  If you hang with me long enough...maybe, just maybe I will celebrate paying that LAST student loan off!  

So cheers to you...cheers to me...and cheers to maybe one day Ellen seeing my blog...hey, a girl can dream, right???  And as the picture above shows...my weather is the same as yours...so don't ask.

Live your life to the fullest...be a giant!

Kristin