Valentines Day dinner! at our favorite place. He didn’t take his winter coat off the whole time (but it’s so cold here)
Chris said he knows I’m drunk because my CHEEKS get red and I start BOUNCING, so I can’t hide it
Book title announcement. Preorders open on February 21 at 11am! www.kristinbeale.com (but i’ll post about it again you know I will)
𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧: A new book coming out this year! If you liked Greater Things (you did), 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞. If you haven’t read Greater Things yet, I’m selling them for $𝟓 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 until this book’s release. (buy it on 𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞.𝐜𝐨𝐦)
I love some pictures so much that I stare at them, just STARE at them. These are my favorite people on earth and I can’t believe I’m losing one of them (she’s just moving away, not dying.) (also because I haven’t posted a picture in a while. reminder how big my smile is these days)
Chris and I read the manual for my dishwasher (derr) because he claims none of the dishes were getting clean. EXCITING NEWS it said “liquid detergent doesn’t work” and I’ve been using liquid for the past 3 years. The exciting part is that we switched to powder and things are cleaner now, but that also means me and my dinner guests have been eating off dirty dishes for 3 years. very cute
another discovery: I’ve been putting my clothes detergent in the wrong spot, too, so I haven’t worn a clean piece of clothing or eaten off a clean dish for three years. Thank God for his able body and also my immune system
we added another camera in our house + I gave Chris access to the camera I already had, so now he has opportunity to turn it on and watch me while he’s at work. (it’s so fun) but I can literally never look ugly anymore.
today I look like a SCIENTIST and he caught me on camera so, on the flip side, I can look however I want as long as I don’t care (I don’t). this is a fun game
Whenever I call Achilles a “lip licker” so BOLTS away from me. It’s like I’m stirring up past trauma
The most fun thing right now is (since it’s casual conversation that we’re getting married) to add/remove people from our wedding invitation/wedding party lists. Like “Should we still invite him to the wedding?” and “NOPE.” I’m thirsty for this power (THIRSTY)
Chris and I read the manual for my dishwasher (derr) because he claims none of the dishes were getting clean. EXCITING NEWS it said “liquid detergent doesn’t work” and I’ve been using liquid for the past 3 years. The exciting part is that we switched to powder and things are cleaner now, but that also means me and my dinner guests have been eating off dirty dishes for 3 years. very cute
Sometimes (often, lately) I love Chris so much that I don’t know what to do except say “I love you” but that doesn’t seem strong enough so I get overwhelmed and today my EYES WATERED because i didn’t know what to say and felt overwhelmed. Hahaha who am I now
Two third place medals (for two weapons) at my second North America Cup (for fencing), and I keep falling in love with my opponents
Now that I’m home with Chris, I’ve cried:
When we sat at our seats in church
When he held my hand while we prayed
When he bought me Panera for breakfast
When we finished eating and drank our tea
and when we went grocery shopping and he said “you won’t like this, Kristin.”
All my cries are because I love him so much. I turned into butter (so soft)
I used to have in-house competitions with myself how ugly I can be after a shower, before bed. Now that Chris [unofficially but basically] lives with me, I’m doing things like straightening hair hair before bed(?) and putting on mascara before bed(??). But then I got a stye in my eye so I learned my lesson about mascara
I got my shower so hot (tapped out at 117 degrees - the locker room shower has a thermometer), it crossed my mind that I might actually burn my hair off.
My word for 2020 is: BOUNDARIES. starting with the girl who wants to have “tv show-watching parties” with me every week. I plan on telling her no if/when I respond to that text.
it’s like I FEAR confrontation, so there are still things I need to work on.
in the Lyft ride, we go from Laffy Taffy song (D4L) , to 2 songs gospel music, to Buy You A Drink (T Pain). This guy claimed to not speak English when he yelled at me on the phone, but now …?
Me and Mom playing I Spy on the beach:
I spy an under-boob
I spy cellulitis
I spy a butt crack
I spy a woman that looks like a man
I spy A cups
My New Years resolution is to be more PRESENT, allow myself to be bored. Usually I just pick up my phone and entertain myself with it, but I’m going to be bored this year! Maybe I’ll start seeing cool things