100th POST!!!!

What a wonderful day to have my 100th post!

I thought about doing a 100 things type list to celebrate my 100th post but I don't know what I would do it on. Maybe I should have thought about an appropriate way to celebrate my 100th post. On a side note: I saw V-Show this weekend. My brother was incredible and killed his solo. If I can find a youtube video of it I will post it later :)
I have decided to do a "Top 100 'Top 100 lists'" list. (figure that one out... haha) These are in not particular order, just in the order I think of them!

100) Top 100 Ways to Cut Wedding Costs
99) Say I Love You in 100 Languages
98) 100 Ways to Save the Environment
97) 100 Ways to "Customize" A T-Shirt (a plain t-shirt counts as one bringing the total to 100)
96) Top 100 April Fools Day Pranks
95) Top 100 Billboard Songs of All Times
94) AAA's Top 100 Vacation Destinations of 2007 (For all you LTers, Virgina Beach is in there!)
93) 100 Ways to Save Money in College
92) 100 Ways You Should be Using Facebook in Your Classroom
91) 100 Ways to Annoy People
90) 100 Ways to Propose
89) 100 Ways to Celebrate Christmas
88) 100 Ways to Waste Time
87) 100 Ways to Use a Paper Clip
86) 100 Ways to Use Duct Tape
85) TIME Magazine All-Time Top 100 (books, movies, albums, gadgets and shows)
84) Top 100 Least Influential People of 2010
83) 100 Ways to Cook an Egg
82) 100 Ramen Recipes for College Students
81) 100 Questions to Get to Know Someone Better
80) The Bottom 100: The Worst Players in the History of the NFL
79) 100 Things to do Before You Die
78) Top 100 Miniclip.com Games
77) 100 Kind of Stupid Jokes
76) 100 Best Companies to Work For (Fortune Magazine)
75) 100 Most Popular Baby Names of 2010
74) The Man's Essential Library-- Top 100 Books
73) 100 Websites You Should Know and Use According to TED.com
72) 100 Incredible Talks from the World's Top Thinkers
71) 100 Worst Movies
70) 100 Most Annoying Things
69) 100 Moments that Changed the World
68) 100 Greatest TV Moments
67) A Random Person's 100 Reasons to Smile

66) 100 Coolest Cars

65) Another 100 Coolest Cars List

64) 100 Best Places to Hike

63) World's 100 Tallest Buildings

62) Top 100 One Liners
61) 100 (I hope) Dumb Laws in the U.S.
60) Top 100 US Liberals and Conservatives
59) Top 100 Most Followed Tweeters
58) Top 100 Places to Live According to Money Magazine
57) Top 100 Places to Live According to RelocateAmerica.com
56) 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From
55) Top 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language
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As you can see, I never finished this...and never will. I think this shows you more about my life than actually waiting to post this till I finish... The post date and time are the date and time I was intending to post this...

Trees

It has been over a week since I started my Facebook fast and I already see a huge difference in my reliance on the internet for entertainment. I am much more productive and assertive when it comes to homework and just in general less distracted. I think I might extend my Facebook fast until after Spring Break. That would be a full month!

I was re-reading my posts from the past year and a half and I realized that A) I will remember those things forever and B) This is just a good way to get the thoughts out of my head

It's funny how easily discouraged I am and how easily I can fall into old habits and feelings. I recently have been having a really hard time with trusting God with other people's lives. It freaks me out to be honest. I know trust God with my life but yesterday I had to put the people who I have been praying for back in God's hands. I have felt like I am not doing enough to help others find Christ, to help others experience ultimate joy and fulfillment in knowing Him. As I prayed about this, God continually told me, "Kristin, there is nothing you can do that will make people love me. I am pursuing them with all I have just like I pursued you. Trust me.". Man, it is so hard to trust God sometimes, especially with the people you love. I definitely needed a reminder.

On a lighter note, I have a bone to pick with ISU. There is this tree that is "supposedly" native to Illinois on campus. It is called a Ginko Tree.

I mean, let's be honest, those are some sweet looking leaves. The problem with this tree is that it smells super bad ALL THE TIME! The "berries" that drop off fall all the time and when they split open, they let off a putrid smell that has been described as puke mixed with dog poop. The geniuses that put this tree in the arboretum (where it does belong) put the tree one of the most traveled spots on the quad. I mean, they could have stuck it in the corner or put it right in the middle of the quad where no one goes but nope, they stuck it right where everyone would walk and step on the berries to release the awful smell that is contained.

I also just learned that only the female trees' berries give off a foul odor. Maybe they should have looked into that and gotten a male tree. Also, people eat those nasty berries, I guess they are a delicacy in Asian countries.

"I love ginkgo nuts. They have a nutty, ever-so-slightly bittersweet flavor and a punchy-soft texture reminiscent of jelly beans that is, in my experience, quite unmatched by other nuts. They're also beautiful to look at — tiny egg-shaped beads that are a pale yellow when raw and take on a translucent, golden-green glow when cooked"-Random Food Blog

Don't know how I feel about that...


Well, have a great day everyone.

Reset

I am exhausted.


And I have never been so happy in my life to say so. It's only 12:35am and I feel like I have been awake till 6am. I haven't been tired in so long and it's finally here! Hopefully this will totally reset my biological clock so I can have a life similar to the rest of the waking world.

I wish I was a better dancer. We were talking about dancing at the Rivera's after American Idol was over and I just want to be able to bust a move and have people be like, Yea! She's got it! That would be awesome.

It's gorgeous out right now. I want to go on a walk so desperately but no one will go with me and I can barely keep my eyes open while writing this. That being said, I'm off for some prayer time and then sleep it is.

A Breath of Fresh Air

That's how I feel about blogging. Why do I not do this more often?

I have decided to not use Facebook for 2 weeks. I started yesterday. I changed my password so that I would have to actually think about signing in instead of it being so automatic. Even in one day, I feel like I have gotten so much of my life back and I am realizing just how much time I spend on Facebook. Yesterday, I felt like every time I had a minute of down time, my brain was like "GO ON FACEBOOK!" It was ridiculous. For example, I am currently sitting in my Sociology class where I should be paying attention and I automatically went to the Facebook homepage when I signed on the internet. Didn't use it but I went on it. I also realized just how good of a tool that Facebook can be. I told two of my friends that I would post a link to an awesome opportunity to teach English around the world on their Facebook wall. I promised this before I decided to do my Facebook fast so I made KK post the links on their wall. I literally stay in contact with people I would never see again! If there was no Facebook, I could count on one hand the people that I would actually talk and keep tabs on. Crazy. I think Facebook will also be useful as I start to head out of the country for a little while so that people can easily keeps tabs on me and make sure that I am still alive haha.

As I sit here today on the lovely 40 degree day of February 14th, I am feeling a little different. Today is Valentine's Day. A Hallmark holiday in which the goal seems to be making sure that people in relationships have at least one day of the year they feel loved and those without are made to feel like they are missing out big time. My question is, who actually likes this holiday? I always felt iffy about it, even if I was in a relationship. Well, either way. I still don't know how I feel about it.

Today, as I walked to my 8am a little late because I woke up so late. I noticed things I really never notice. The melting snow was just SO beautiful to me. Normally I hate when the snow melts because it just looks dirty and gross but today was different. Seeing God's beauty in the melting of the snow has been incredible. I have noticed the pools water forming around the still partially green grass underneath the ever-shrinking snow. I have noticed the birds singing in the mornings announcing their arrival and the following of Spring. I have noticed the patterns of the snow and ice that are forming as the snow melts. I have noticed the way the wind causes the pools of water to ripple as it blows a warmer breeze than the past few weeks. Spring is coming, hopefully sooner than later.

I have also noticed, as I step back into blogging (hopefully for the long run), my desire to be profound, as if someone will actually read and remember me someday. I'll be quoted in one of those "Greatest Quotes" lists that people will read for centuries to come. But I have to do something significant in my life I suppose. That would prove difficult in this sea of significance that runs on popularity, social status, and being "different".

And now I'm going to just post this so I don't try and think of something profound to say...