Here in Idaho

Archive for July, 2008

One of the funnest parts of Facebook is providing status updates. Some people take it a bit too far. Here are a few of my least popular/overly informative facebook status updates.
Kristi is:
having suicidal thoughts
on her way to the potty.
murderous.
shoplifting.
having an affair with your significant other.
on fire.
amputating her left leg [...]

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I feel like such a loser with this loser barely there blog. I know what you’re thinking if you read Here in Idaho regularly: “Why am I reading Here in Idaho regularly? This is clearly a waste of my precious time. And don’t give me your excuses, Kristi from Here in [...]

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No. I didn’t get my invite to the star-studded and utterly glamorous premiere of The Dark Knight (no thanks to you, Christian Bale. Looks like I should have sent all my hundreds of 3:10 to Yuma fan art to Russell Crowe.) So I haven’t actually seen the movie in a theater yet. [...]

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First of all, say the words ‘invention camp’ and tell me you don’t just pee yourself with the excitement and promise those words hold. Seriously. The fact that my son did not actually create some sort of teleportation device last week has left me mildly disappointed. I had that much hope for [...]

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I’m struggling with this revision* I’ve got to do. S-t-r-u-g-g-l-i-n-g. Last week I realized that I wasn’t accomplishing what I thought I was accomplishing, which was creating enough danger and tension in my story to compel the reader to keep going. I imagined a reader getting to the third chapter and [...]

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You know I’m a sucker for ANTM. Also, BNTM, ANTM but the A is for Australia, and Project Runway. Except that I exempt Project Runway for reality tv trashing because Project Runway features genuinely talented people who do fantastical things with scissors and fabric and also candy wrappers. And Project Runway [...]

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