5 : Your Siblings

I have two brothers.

Here's Ryan. I call him Rojo (because he has red hair, but it's not so red anymore).

(not beck)

Here's Brandon. We called him Brando. He died September 9, 2007. This is a picture of a collage we put together for his funeral.

Sleeping

Remember how I was looking for a certain sleeping picture when I was talking how I love to sleep? I found it. Someone once told me that my legs look plastic in this picture. Or maybe he asked me if my legs were plastic. I don't remember what he said, but it was weird.

Matt and his Gingerbread/Graham Crackers

My mom likes to make us make gingerbread houses when we're in Texas for Christmas. Matt is usually the most inventive. Here he is making his space needle in 2006.

Here is Matt's sunflower this past Christmas. It fell over right after I took these pictures.

4 : Your Parents

Here's one:

And here's the other:

3 : Your First Love

Well this seems a little awkward.

We met in the fall of '01.

His name was Jason.

He was tall and skinny.

I guess that's kind of my thing.

2 : Meaning behind your blog name

This one's a toughy. My blog name is House of Hobson. My last name is Hobson. Clever, right? Especially since house and Hobson both start with H?

Maybe I need a new blog name. Suggestions?

1: Introduce, recent picture, 15 interesting facts

Ok, hello, my name is Kari. Duh.

This is the most recent picture of me.

Beck has been sick, and man has he been sad. You can tell he's sad and tired because he never lays his head down on your shoulder.

15 interesting facts? This is always hard, and I recently had to write some, so this will different. It'll be more like 15 things that come to my mind.

UNO: I get ingrown toenails a lot. I just dug one out. (Thanks for the technique, Mandeigh!)

TWO: When I was little, I had an ingrown toenail and had to play a soccer game. After the game, I took my sock off, and it was bloody and puss-y.

TRES: Beck just went to sleep without a binky. Hell yeah. (Since he's sick, he has a stuffy nose and can't use it because he can't breathe with it in, so I thought it was perfect timing to take it away. Only five months after I wanted to take it away, but whatev.)

CUATRO: I'm watching a neighbor kid for a little while, and I'm scared that it's going to ruin #tres. 

CINCO: The other day I was thinking, "I'm so glad no one asks me to watch their kids because I just don't know what to do with other people's kids." 

SEIS: But this kid is so good! So I don't mind.

SIETE: When I was younger, I probably babysat like three times. 

OCHO: In high school, I would talk in Spanglish. I'd just throw in any Spanish word I knew.

NUEVE: Yes, I did notice that I wrote TWO instead of DOS. Did you?

DIEZ: Am I spelling these numbers right? I just looked them up, so now they should be.

ONCE: I ♥ nap time.

DOCE: It's funny how you really like your kid, but you also really want a break from him/her for a little while.

TRECE: I got a Polar heart rate monitor that calculates how many calories I've burned. 893 since 9 this morning.
CATORCE: Counting calories sucks.
QUINCE: My scale told me I lost 27 pounds since the other day. I'm gonna call BS.

Switch Up

That challenge was too hard. I'm gonna start a new one. This one has a couple that are repetitive of the last one I did, so I'll either skip or change them. Hopefully I follow through this time!

Day 1 - Introduce, recent picture, 15 interesting facts
Day 2 - Meaning behind your blog name
Day 3 - Your first love
Day 4 - Your parents
Day 5 - Your siblings
Day 6 - A picture of something that makes you happy
Day 7 - Favorite movies
Day 8 - A place you've traveled to
Day 9 - A picture of your friends
Day 10 - Something you're afraid of
Day 11 - Favorite TV shows
Day 12 - What you believe
Day 13 - Goals
Day 14 - A picture you love
Day 15 - Bible verse
Day 16 - Dream House
Day 17 - Something you're looking forward to
Day 18 - Something you regret
Day 19 - Something you miss
Day 20 - Nicknames
Day 21 - Picture of yourself
Day 22 - Favorite city
Day 23 - Favorite vacation
Day 24 - Something you've learned
Day 25 - Put your iPod on shuffle, first 10 songs
Day 26 - Picture of your family
Day 27 - Pets
Day 28 - Something that stresses you out
Day 29 - 3 wishes
Day 30 - A picture

1 : Something you hate about yourself

Something or somethings? I hope this isn't too much of a downer post, but I have no control over the topic, you know!

Let's start with the superficial, shall we?

- boobs. too big.
- stomach. too fat.
- stomach. too stretched.
- face. too fat-prone.
- toes and fingers. too stubby.
- hair. too thin.

And a little deeper...

- I don't have confidence in myself. That's why I'll never have a career. I always thought I'd be a stay-at-home mom because that's just less scary. Luckily I want to raise my own kid, so it works out.
- I'm shy. I think this kind of goes with the above issue.
- I cry easily. Thanks, Mom.
- I'm judgmental.
- I'm not tidy.
- I'm moody.
- I don't admit that I'm wrong.

Here we go again

I have a new list of topics to blog about for another 30 days (thanks Jen!), but if you have any ideas, keep 'em coming.

This list is deeper than the last, and some seem too personal to put on here, but I'll just go with the flow and see how it goes. I'll start tomorrow because I don't feel like it tonight. Maybe some of you should try it, too. Could be interesting.

Day 1 - Something you hate about yourself
Day 2 - Something you love about yourself
Day 3 - Something you have to forgive yourself for
Day 4 - Something you have to forgive someone for
Day 5 - Something you hope to do in your life
Day 6 - Something you hope you never have to do
Day 7 - Someone who has made your life worth living
Day 8 - Someone who made your life hell, or treated you like shit
Day 9 - Someone you didn't want to let go, but just drifted
Day 10 - Someone you need to let go, or wish you didn't know
Day 11 - Something people seem to compliment you the most on
Day 12 - Something you never get compliments on
Day 13 - A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough ass days. (write a letter.)
Day 14 - A hero that has let you down
Day 15 - Something or someone you couldn't live without, because you've tried living without it.
Day 16 - Someone or something you definitely could live without
Day 17 - A book you've read that changed your views on something
Day 18 - Your views on gay marriage
Day 19 - What do you think of religion? Or what do you think of politics?
Day 20 - Your views on drugs and alcohol
Day 21 - (scenario) Your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. What do you do?
Day 22 - Something you wish you hadn't done in your life
Day 23 - Something you wish you had done in your life
Day 24 - Make a playlist to someone, and explain why you chose all the songs. (Just post the titles and artists and letter)
Day 25 - The reason you believe you're still alive today
Day 26 - Have you ever thought about giving up on life? If so, when and why?
Day 27 - What's the best thing going for you right now?
Day 28 - What if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant, what would you do?
Day 29 - Something you hope to change about yourself. And why.
Day 30 - A letter to yourself, tell yourself everything you love about yourself

Help

I liked that 30 day challenge because it gave me the topics to write about. I need another one of those. Any ideas?

I'm having issues

Now's it's up to 16 days and 20 hours. This isn't going to work. Stacy, we need to talk.

17 days and 4 hours...