Adventures of a Shockingly Average 30-Something

Why am I speechless?  What has left me without words to describe it?  This video of  ten-year-old   Connie Talbot .  (If any members of Connie's official forum are reading this -- Hi! :) It's Kim!) If you haven't seen the above video yet, stop reading this right now and watch it, ok?  Then you can read the rest of this, if you want to.  I'm not forcing you to, but it would be really nice if you did. :) And before you ask, yes, she really is just 10 years old.  You may have heard of Connie when she was six years old, when she captured hearts all around the world with her phenomenal "pitch perfect" (according to Simon Cowell, none the less!) version of "Over The Rainbow" (from The Wizard of Oz) on her audition for Britain's Got Talent .  Any article you read about Connie will tell you that she finished in second place on her season of BGT, so I'll just skip that detail and let you read it in every other article. Aside from Someone Li...

Why the heck do I spend so much of my time trying to  label myself?  What's it really matter, anyway?  Screw labels.  I'm just me.

He's a superhero, ready to take flight to somewhere and save the world.   Or, you know, to jump into my arms as soon as I put the camera down.

It's Friday, March 18th, and I'll give you one guess as to what that means!  (No, I'm not about to start singing " Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday .")  It's Nathan's 4th birthday! I wasn't sure if I'd see him or not today (I never know when he'll be downstairs), so I gave him his present yesterday.  He didn't want it because it was clothes ( I'm  so done with clothes, Kimberly! ), and then I disappointed him again because " um, there's no money in this card. "  I didn't know what to say back, so I just laughed.  I think that was the first time I was actually really annoyed with him.  And I don't know what bothered me more: that he didn't say thank you, or that he expected there to be money in the card.  Heck, I'm not even related to him and I still spent more on him than some of his family members did.  I know, I know, it's not about what you spend.  But it's like... I didn't have to g...

I texted Candis's mom earlier, asking her to tell Candis happy birthday for me.  She texted me back a few minutes later, saying that she was going to call because when she told Candis that I had said happy birthday, she (Candis) wanted to talk to me.  Apparently, she misses me.  I always worry that the kids will forget about me.  I guess I do have to realize that I'm not always going to be in their lives.  This fall, when I go away to college, I'll be away from them a lot more than I ever have been (since I met them, anyway).  And I know that, downstairs, they're looking for a bigger apartment.  And if they move, who knows when I'll see them again?  My one neighbor, she said that she'd send me pictures of the kids and stuff while I'm away, and I really appreciate that.  And Nathan is learning to write his ABC's, so I can write him letters and stuff...  I hate thinking about leaving them.  Ok, so anyway, phone call from Candis. Me: Hi Candis! Candis: HIII...

Candis is two years old today!  I wish she was still here in New York instead of Ohio.  I know her grandma and other family up here would've had a party for her, and I would've gone to it... I mean, she'll have a birthday party with her family in Ohio, obviously.  I just wish it was here instead.  But whatever, can't change that, I guess.  Time has gone by fast; I can't believe her and her mom have been gone for almost a month already (I think it'll be a month this Monday). Anyway, I just want to say: Happy birthday, baby girl.  I miss you soooooo much.  There's not a day that goes by that I don't miss you, that I don't hope you're safe and happy and ok.  Sometimes I watch the Surprised Kitty video just because you loved it so much.  Nathan misses you too, and so does Trisha.  Trisha talks about you all the time, and always asks about you.  I really hope you and mommy are happy in Ohio and that things are better than they were here.  You're s...

I LOVE THIS SONG.  That is all. :) ♥♥♥

I miss the days when everything was really simple.  I mean, yeah right now, right this very minute, I don't have anything to really stress over.  Well, except for my group's presentation about Thailand in Intercultural Communications on Monday.  But I'm actually not too worried about that.  I'm kinda looking forward to it. But I miss the people I used to be friends with.  I miss Leah.  I miss Darius.  I miss Jessica.  I miss Cecilia's brother, James.  It's not that we're not still friends... because really, we are.  I think.  But we used to be so much closer.  We used to be better friends.  Now, it's the occasional "hey, how are you?" on facebook.  Now, it's not even a text message.  And I hate that.  I want things to be how they used to. It's not like I don't have friends now.  Because I do.  And I really love the friends I have now; I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world and I don't know what I'd do or where I...