was that i wish i had things to say and a long story to tell about the 30 hour travel day and the four different airports and the seven foot australian and the sight of stuart hugging his mother for the first time.
but the thing is, here i am, and it feels like a whole second family, and family is precious, and right now there is a glass of wine and a warm island night and two men, a father and a son, drinking whiskey together and talking about the cricket and a mother-in-law who can put foot long fishes in the tiniest space in a freezer for which she has my eternal respect and two parents to call and say hello to, one in brasil and one in rhode island, and the thing about all this is, family is more precious than blogging.
sorry, guys. give me a few more days.
what i wanted to say
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My dear it sounds like you have the right things in perspective. Enjoy this time. When you get back, shoot me an email so I can have your email address. I came across your name on a photographer’s CV. She is in our show this fall.
Long time no “read”!
I’m hoping for my own trans-Atlantic family soon. Enjoy your island!
Too cute, have fun!
Krissa-
Have a wonderful trip!
Three things.
1) I love how you always defend Texas. I’m slowly but surely starting to love this city a whole lot more (finding a job definitely helped), but I like reading those little blurbs that you sometimes throw in. I get to visit home in two weeks, which makes me very, very happy.
2) Thank you for defending long-distance love and proving naysayers false. My boyfriend and I are long-distance and very, very serious about each other. I always hate the “so how are y’all doing? That’s gotta suck/has to be so hard/Why don’t you just find a guy in New York?” comments. So thank you, and thank you Stuart, for showing the world exactly why this is so worth it!
3) I was reading your archives and noticed that you got your own place right out of college. How hard was that to do? Like I said, I just got my first job, and like every other New Yorker, I’m trying to find a rent-stabilized apartment on my own (at least until next August, when my boyfriend moves up here). What kind of resources did you use?
That’s it, sorry this was a long comment
Traci
yellowcupcake@gmail.com
Hey, Have fun in old blighty! I just got back from Manchester for a family re-union and wedding. Much wine and whisky was also consumed, must just be the English way. And the cricket…. I was obsessed. Here’s to England finally winning the Ashes!
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Have fun, eat lots of decent chocolate while you have the chance,
Tina
Take your time. We’ll be waiting
I tell it to remember me, but does it ever remember me? NO! NEVER!
I digress.
Enjoy England, Stuart in England, Stuart’s English family, et al. I like your website – and the personality you convey through this medium – too much to NOT be back.
Besides, you just said sorry to a bunch of people you don’t know because you haven’t catered to our needs WHILE YOU’RE ON VACATION. That’s worth at least 500 points.
For goodness sake, I thought we’d reached the heights of self loving long ago on this blog. But no…
‘sorry, guys. give me a few more days.’
Do you think your loving public, god bless their foolish heads, cannot cope without your words? Don’t be so silly
Hi Krissa,
, I have stumbled across this site today (17th Aug in sunny London, England) while googling various old friends from uni one of which has a similar name to your site…and I found this gem…I probably would have clicked back and forgotten this site but I came across the phrase about you dancing to neil Diamond in the kitchen…
It must be fate that I found this site (I am aware that I sound like a complete sap)
Yesterday I was feeling useless generally until Mum came home and we put Neil Diamond on “I am I said”, my all time favourite… and we danced about laughing about with me mimicking neil…
Then laughing I randomly scrolled down to see you talking about tiny dancer,, another complete favourite song of mine (In my third year of university me and my friend made up actions to the words)
Anyway, that’s it really, I’m sure there are loads of wierd things happening in this wierd old world but this wierd event has made my day, I’m going to go for a walk round the block have a rolled ciggie and feel happy!
Thank you! jenny xxx
Sal, what a totally unneccesary, not to mention MEAN, thing to say.
Krissa is addressing her friends, people who care about her.
Self-loving? Any healthy person is self-loving and self-appreciating.
Krissa has self-esteem, healthy self-worth.
If you had the same, you would not feel compelled to denigrate her, now would you?
Sal – grow up
I’m sorry, but I think Sal is right. There are obviously many things about this blog that are compelling and smart. Why else would those of us with criticisms of it keep reading? However, it is often extremely self-congratulatory and comes off as a true vanity project. Against which there are no rules. But we are allowed to cringe at it just the same. I must admit – when I read Sal’s comment, I thought: Finally, someone said it.
Here’s a thought: if y’all think it’s so self-congratulatory and whatever, STOP READING. I find Krissa entertaining, therefore I read her blog. I find Stephanie Klein to be obnoxious, and though I read her blog religiously for quite some time, I have since stopped.
It’s not hard. I’m sure our darling K would be more than willing to give up a few hits on here if the critics would move on.
Had to comment, just have to put my 2 cents worth in. I too enjoy this blog very much for many reasons, but most of all the absolute appreciation and enthusiasm. It rubs off and that’s nice.
I take it to be considerate that Krissa says to give her a few days. Otherwise, everyone is checking and checking for entries – she’s saved her readers the effort.
First, Krissa, I’m sorry you’re going to come back from your beautiful vacation to mean-spirited comments.
Second, I’d argue that Sal and Ladybird are one and the same.
Third, EVERYONE comes from a different place, a different space in their lives. Krissa is an ever-changing being, as are we all. I would suggest that you misunderstand her knaive, trusting, sharing personality for self-loving – a “vanity project”. Maybe you comment in an effort to speed the ‘jading’ process, but don’t worry, young grasshopper – she’ll become jaded and guarded soon enough. Until then, Krissa, continue to be open and lovely and honest to the core of your heart. Your cyber-friends enjoy you that way.
Can’t the girl go on vacation w/o people ripping her blog apart?
I’m sorry if people thought I was ripping the blog apart. I thought my comment was very fair, and also that it explained why I read despite myself – because it’s smart and compelling. These are compliments. Constructive criticism shouldn’t be rejected so quickly – widening the scope of the lens past one’s self can put talents to infinitely better use.
I question how constructive your criticism will be. If you’d offered an alternative way for Krissa to blog, assuming she’d asked for an alternative or for some feedback…now that sounds like constructive criticism.
“…widening the scope of the lens past one’s self can put talents to infinitely better use.”
Is it possible that you are not personally widening the scope of the lens past your own self? It seems that you’d be able to accept and appreciate Krissa in her entirety – as different from what you consider ‘right’ or ‘normal’ or ‘the way to be’ as that may be – without feeling the need to judge her differences as negative. She doesn’t need to change. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the ‘voice’ she has on her blog…nothing. It’s not the voice you’d have. But until she asks for your help refining her ‘voice’, telling her what’s wrong with her ‘voice’ is mean-spirited and contrary to constructive.
Or, at least, that’s my view – in defense of the currently unavailable.
QOB – Misspelling ‘naive’ and ending sentences with prepositions since 1975.
I don’t know who ladybird is, so we aren’t one and the same. It is possible people have the same idea you know.
You guys are all adorable. Those who criticize, feel free to do so without being insulting and anonymous. Those who defend, you’re sweet and wonderful and I do have a thick enough skin to take the negative comments with a grain of salt.
I’m sorry it sounded vain to say “give me a few more days,” but I meant it in th context of, “I’d sort of said I’d surely blog on vacation but, uh, actually, it looks like I might not.”